I think I have delta
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Quote:6ix, there is book about you called The Psychology of Pandemics.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
DT's maladies are about as legit as Second's cowboy business.
Why are you humoring him?
Wondering why society went off-kilter during the pandemic? It was all predicted in this book
By Danny Westneat
Seattle Times columnist
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/mental-health/wondering-why-
society-went-off-kilter-during-the-pandemic-it-was-all-predicted-in-this-book/
When I wrote last week about how northern Idaho was surging with COVID cases, to the point that hospitals had triggered a plan to ration medical care, I got a slew of correspondence from people there saying: No we aren’t.
“We don’t have any outbreaks here,” one insisted. “I know a few people working in Kootenai Health, the largest hospital in the area, and they are not busy at all. They are actually overstaffed in the ER.”
Wrote another: “I am in Coeur d’Alene and serve hundreds of customers and I’ve heard of nobody that’s been hospitalized, or who has even got COVID. I am disgusted at the inaccuracy of your article.”
Said a third: “More fearmongering by the media about our so-called ‘pandemic.’”
I wrote back to these Idahoans, attaching an alert from Kootenai Health itself, the main hospital in their own town, Coeur d’Alene. It’s entitled “Kootenai Health implements crisis standards of care as COVID-19 cases soar.” It details how the hospital is so jammed it converted its conference room into an overflow field clinic for COVID patients.
One of the Idahoans wrote back, not to say he may have misjudged the situation, but to instead accuse the hospital of now being part of my conspiracy: “My initial thought on reading this is the hospital may be falsely reporting to get more COVID funding. I will dig into it.”
Is this normal? More than a year and a half into our pandemic odyssey, I find this ongoing behavior to be the most baffling part of the story — that there remains a group of citizens, not sure how large, who refuse to acknowledge that a major health event is even happening. Or if it is, that it’s a big deal.
We’re approaching 700,000 dead in the U.S., and yet every day I still get feedback from readers who insist it’s all overblown. Or that it’s no worse than the flu. (I long ago stopped responding to the flu comparison people, but if I did, I would note that it takes 20 years for the flu to kill this many people.)
This past week, the entire state of Idaho has moved to crisis standards of care, in which resources are stretched so thin that patients may be treated based on who has the best chances of survival. Still, that news, which seems alarming enough to me, isn’t necessarily getting through. I’ve noticed that hospitals increasingly are inviting reporters directly into the ICU wards, in a maddening bid to try to convince the public, after all these months, that the pandemic even exists.
But it turns out this denial behavior is not only normal, it was totally foreseeable, according to Steven Taylor, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C.
Taylor would know because he predicted it. He wrote a remarkable little book back in 2019 called “The Psychology of Pandemics.” Its premise is that pandemics are “not simply events in which some harmful microbe ‘goes viral,’” but rather are mass psychological phenomena about the behaviors, attitudes and emotions of people.
The book came out pre-COVID and yet predicts every trend and trope we’ve been living for 19 months now: the hoarding of supplies like toilet paper at the start; the rapid spread of “unfounded rumors and fake news”; the backlash against masks and vaccines; the rise and acceptance of conspiracy theories; and the division of society into people who “dutifully conform to the advice of health authorities” — sometimes compulsively so — and those who “engage in seemingly self-defeating behaviors such as refusing to get vaccinated.”
He has no crystal ball, he says, it’s just that all
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, there is book about you called The Psychology of Pandemics.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
DT's maladies are about as legit as Second's cowboy business.
Why are you humoring him?
Nah.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Does this mean you were in hospital twice? And escaped a NY hospital without them killing you, twice? Was it the same hospital, or different?
Your lucky stars seemed to be aligned.
I would love to hear updates on how your heart is progressing, as well as other problems.
Do you now think you had only covid, or something esle as well?
I used to have4 myself connected to heart monitor (for work), and was a bit surprised how often my heart skipped beats, the most I saw was 4 beats skipped. Less than 4 skipped beats, never sensed it in a physiological way.
I hope you get better.
After this 3rd time of covid, I had a very hard time getting my appetite back - still don't fully. But i just started forcing myself to eat more foods, bigger quantities, and variety. Remeber to get some yogurt in to kick start all that gut biotics that like4ly suffered. I found Sunkist soda and A&W Cream soda, in the plastic bottles with caps, worked like magic to help me keep food down. And jello with fruit in it.
Sorry, haven't been online. spent three days unable to move, I'm semi moving again. I was in the hospital five times. The system has completely fallen apart. They don't even try anymore for the most part, corporate money mills, finally I ended up at a small hospital that was basically a corridor. I'm on beta blockers now.
The multiple time covid thing worries me, like there are really seven bioweapons roaming about. I think I had covid plus a secondary infection, which might have been a second covid, could have been any respiratory illness, and then a massive drug reaction to the dexamethasone. I'm worried about the post covid ace2 deficiency. I read a decent article that suggests ibuprofen upregulates ace2, considering it, but I have a horrible reaction to all drugs atm, they send my pulse through the roof. my first attempt at ibuprofen send it to 140. I might keep trying though, it looks solid. Also humorous possibility that advil cures the effects of a bioweapon 20 years in the making. I just kind of want that to be true
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ctm2.371
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Ibuprofen causes kidneys to retain sodium and water, and therefore raises blood pressure. People sometimes have blood pressure crises from ibuprofen, where bp is up in the range of 200+/150+.
I suggest that you treat the disease that you have without creating symptoms that you don't need.
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
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DT, it sounds like the hospitals have a revolving door. 
I pretty much agree with Signy, don't take things that give you a bad reaction.
Yanno you'd THINK since humans have such consistent DNA we'd be like Dewey rats, uniform in our characteristics. But while we share the same basic DNA with each other, we all have our own variations, and then on top of it our own epigenetic fillips. So what might be good in theory for the average DNA seems to not work very well in your particular system. As they say, listen to your body.
Other than that, thanks for coming by! 
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So you've gone to the hospital 5 times and they didn't kill you.
That's good news.
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Hospitals have a revolving door. And they didn't kill me. Some of them tried. one was good. 3 sucked. Anyway, still alive. As of this writing. Had some really close calls.
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Quote:Glad to hear you survivied them.
Originally posted by DREAMTROVE:
Hospitals have a revolving door. And they didn't kill me. Some of them tried. one was good. 3 sucked. Anyway, still alive. As of this writing. Had some really close calls.
Were they 5 different places? And the good one was a clinic type thing?
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Originally posted by DREAMTROVE:
Hospitals have a revolving door. And they didn't kill me. Some of them tried. one was good. 3 sucked. Anyway, still alive. As of this writing. Had some really close calls.
I'd tell you that nobody is trying to kill you, but I guess it all depends on what you signed.
Kiki and Sigs were just discussing a study the other day where they murdered dozens of people in the name of Science, but it's okay because they signed the reams of legalese that were required before they entered the study.
21% of Americans are functionally illiterate, meaning that outside of being able to read and write their own name, the only thing they might be good for is reading Hop On Pop to their kids at night.
Now ask yourself if you think the people who died in that study were murdered or not.
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P.S. I long for the days where I had to give people shit for complaining about the "unfair" terms that they were stuck under when they had a shit ton more bottles of purified water sent to their house than they'd ever drink when they got that "free" dispenser.
Now, if you're not careful, they'll just kill you because you signed on the dotted line.
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