Coronavirus: How dangerous a threat?

[jmdirt]

I had the Tadej version: tired and sniffles one day (dirt ride in the AM), in bed one day with 100 temp, tired and sniffles one day, a little 'off' for a few days (but still dirt rides). I dodged it for over fours years, but my wife brought it back from NOLA with her.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

I had the Tadej version: tired and sniffles one day (dirt ride in the AM), in bed one day with 100 temp, tired and sniffles one day, a little 'off' for a few days (but still dirt rides). I dodged it for over fours years, but my wife brought it back from NOLA with her.

It's good you only had a mild version and I think it's pretty much inevitable we'll all get it at some point no matter how much we try to protect ourselves. (I lasted 3.5 years before my brother brought covid to me from Texas over the holidays last year.) At least now we know what we're dealing with though and we know what to do if we do catch it.

 

[Unchained]

It's good you only had a mild version and I think it's pretty much inevitable we'll all get it at some point no matter how much we try to protect ourselves. (I lasted 3.5 years before my brother brought covid to me from Texas over the holidays last year.) At least now we know what we're dealing with though and we know what to do if we do catch it.

It's a pretty hard sell to say anything positive about Covid but the therapeutics and diagnostics are absolutely outstanding, variety of fast inexpensive tests, tons of quality information at the disposal of public and healthcare professionals.
You can get the virus and in just these few short years, everyone involved knows what to do and minimal danger.
Sort of strange how everything has shaken out once you remove political hysteria and just plain BS, get out of the way of science and medical pros. Inconvenient for sure but most people are back on their feet fast because of all the diagnostic tools in place!!

 

[Unchained]

Orange County flu cases surge to levels "worse than COVID," doctor says

As Southern California recovers from the wildfires, it's seeing the worst flu season in years with cases surging across the region and nation.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[Unchained]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/13/health/blood-testing-veterinarians-bird-flu/index.html

And for all outside US, we have egg shortages nationwide, in my area eggs are $12usd a dozen, stores limiting single purchase to 24 eggs per customer

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Orange County flu cases surge to levels "worse than COVID," doctor says

As Southern California recovers from the wildfires, it's seeing the worst flu season in years with cases surging across the region and nation.

www.cbsnews.com

I had the misfortune of having to take my dad to the ER a couple of times recently for something other than the flu and the waiting room was just swamped with sick people each time. Also been hearing from local healthcare professionals that this is a particularly nasty flu season, at least he and I got the flu shot last fall while we didn't get around to a Covid booster because they were constantly out.

Covid, flu, common cold - doesn't matter, it's back to wearing masks and lots of hand washing when mingling with the general public.

 

[Unchained]

I had the misfortune of having to take my dad to the ER a couple of times recently for something other than the flu and the waiting room was just swamped with sick people each time. Also been hearing from local healthcare professionals that this is a particularly nasty flu season, at least he and I got the flu shot last fall while we didn't get around to a Covid booster because they were constantly out.

Covid, flu, common cold - doesn't matter, it's back to wearing masks and lots of hand washing when mingling with the general public.

It should be alarm bells going off worldwide with US leading the world with Covid deaths, more flu related deaths than any country that keeps track and now a bird flu causing cross contamination even into pets and people and United States doing dramatic, almost draconian reductions in personnel and money spent on all infectious diseases, questions now if anyone is currently working on issues of influenza, Covid or bird flu strains that have infected most of the country. We all better hope that some kind of hybrid is not festering in a massive country, and modern farming and animal husbandry techniques, were it spreads through mass populations, hundreds of thousands at a time.. Don't know what bird flu, human flu mash up looks like, don't want to know..

Long Island farm forced to euthanize more than 100,000 ducks after bird flu detected

A farm in Long Island, New York, is being forced to euthanize its flock of more than 100,000 ducks after health officials detected cases of bird flu.

abcnews.go.com

 

[movingtarget]

Australia having issues in nursing homes with low vaccination rates which beggars belief after what happened previously. Also issues with bird flu in some states re the egg shortage and prices and also rising rates of RSV. People have dropped their guard with Covid even though the majority of deaths are in the elderly age group. The latest strains don't seem to be any worse thankfully.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

It should be alarm bells going off worldwide with US leading the world with Covid deaths, more flu related deaths than any country that keeps track and now a bird flu causing cross contamination even into pets and people and United States doing dramatic, almost draconian reductions in personnel and money spent on all infectious diseases, questions now if anyone is currently working on issues of influenza, Covid or bird flu strains that have infected most of the country. We all better hope that some kind of hybrid is not festering in a massive country, and modern farming and animal husbandry techniques, were it spreads through mass populations, hundreds of thousands at a time.. Don't know what bird flu, human flu mash up looks like, don't want to know..

Long Island farm forced to euthanize more than 100,000 ducks after bird flu detected

A farm in Long Island, New York, is being forced to euthanize its flock of more than 100,000 ducks after health officials detected cases of bird flu.

abcnews.go.com

Sad for the duckies, I guess since they were going to be eaten anyway or were going to be used for their down it doesn't make that much difference to them. (It certainly does to the duck farm owners though, loss of business and work for the farm workers.)

On that note we're also experiencing an egg shortage and rationing in Eugene... I eat a lot of eggs because I'm ovo-vegetarian, but I've found suitable substitutes. There are liquid egg substitutes that don't taste too bad scrambled and that can be used in recipes for cooking, and they sell packages of already peeled, hardboiled eggs that cost exactly the same as raw, fresh eggs, and there appear to be no shortages of them yet. So for now it's not the end of the world egg-wise if you don't mind experimenting a bit.