Coronavirus Epidemic, Part 2

[DubiousDan]

My wife is 65 and just got her second vaccine Thursday. My elderly parents live with us and they got their second shot last week.
I'm "only" 58 and don't qualify for getting one yet.

My wife is 57 and she got one last week. Keep checking, they're coming around.

 

[kbaxter60]

I haven't gotten the vaccine, no problem here either.

The wife and I had Covid back in November. We feel blessed to be included in the 99.5% of survivors.

 

[dsgrey]

Well if they wanted us to implement social distancing outside our pod, this dang snow and power outage is doing that.

 

[striker55]

Looks like influenza hasn't been a big thing this year possibly because of masks. Or maybe people who got it didn't want anyone to know to be confused with covid-19.

 

[RoadRunner]

 

[bbbass]

Nope, not gonna do it!

You probably will, someday.

Dad was in the nursing home, sent to die with liver cancer. I had wanted to hospice him at his apt, but found out they wouldn't let me administer his morphine unless I was there 24/7 to monitor him. Couldn't do that, had to work. Sooooo, he had an "accident" because the stupid place put chairs and O2 bottles between him and the head, and he always had to go bad when it was time. Tripped on the bottles and made a mess. Talk about no dignity left. And they made him wear a diaper after that. Good thing he didn't live much longer!!!

 

[bbbass]

China assures its citizens they won't waddle 'like penguins' following coronavirus anal swabs

I gave my ex an anal schrantz and she waddled like a duck for a few days after....




TMI???

 

[RoadRunner]

 

[Texas42]

Wait, J&J? I thought that used the old-school dead virus method?

The Johnson and Johnson vaccine uses an adenovirus to inject dna into your cells, which produce the spike proteins, which causes the immune response.

Again, still cool. Every viral infection you gets will “alters your dna” of the cells they infect. VIrus can’t reproduce otherwise. All the various COVID vaccines will “alter your DNA” less than the actual COVID-19 virus will.

How the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Works (Published 2022)

An adenovirus helps prime the immune system to fight the coronavirus.

www.nytimes.com

 

[DubiousDan]

Was supposed to get the second covid shot today. It was delayed until next Sat. due to weather.

 

[bbbass]

The Johnson and Johnson vaccine uses an adenovirus to inject dna into your cells, which produce the spike proteins, which causes the immune response.

Again, still cool. Every viral infection you gets will “alters your dna” of the cells they infect. VIrus can’t reproduce otherwise. All the various COVID vaccines will “alter your DNA” less than the actual COVID-19 virus will.

How the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Works (Published 2022)

An adenovirus helps prime the immune system to fight the coronavirus.

www.nytimes.com

Yes and no.

My understanding is that viruses do inject their genome into specific cells their external proteins/spikes are "keyed" for.... Covid primarily infects respiratory cells.

Do they "alter" your DNA.... well, no. Of course not. Not as a whole. If that were possible, the Aryans would have been able to create the race of blond haired blue eyed muscled speedsters they desire. But actual gene therapy is a reality used to treat certain genetic diseases by targeting specific cells in a similar way to how other viruses target cells.

Do viruses alter the DNA of the cells they infect.... sort of, but not the cell's original DNA. What they do, and each type of virus uses diff methods, is command the cytoplasm, proteins, etc inside the cell to produce copies of themselves, creating extra DNA/RNA. Does this alter the DNA of the cell? Not unless you consider the new DNA/RNA to belong to the cell. But even then, once viral load is achieved, the cell sheds the new viral DNA/RNA thru lyctic process or budding. The lytic process destroys the cell, and the body gets rid of them, so once again, no it doesn't change your native DNA. The new virus particles (DNA or RNA) go on to infect other cells. Enough lyctic damage to your lungs and other organs, and you die.

It is worth noting that Coronavirus SARS II is a single strand RNA virus. These reproduce themselves in the cell's cytoplasm.

FWIW: https://www.bioexplorer.net/how-do-viruses-reproduce.html/

 

[bbbass]

Had my first Moderna vaccine at the VA Clinic today. My health is just too bad to chance what would happen if I got infected. Have to balance the possible outcomes. And I need to be here to care for my demented wife.

Sooooo, in about 4-6 weeks, I will be sterile, according to some, and no longer able to impregnate my wife. Not that it would be possible anyway, not cool to go after those with dementia, and there is a vestigial arm growing from my tummy which would make getting close hard to achieve.

I'm really looking forward to being able to see behind myself, with this new eye growing in the back of my head. But sleeping on my back may prove difficult.

In a few months, if you see me staggering/shuffling and shouting "brains, BRAINS!!", please aim for the head...

 

[45tex]

Got first shot in December and the second January 7. Made no difference in anything. A shot can't fix paranoia. The medical types don't trust their shots.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Sooooo, in about 4-6 weeks, I will be sterile, according to some, and no longer able to impregnate my wife. Not that it would be possible anyway, not cool to go after those with dementia, and there is a vestigial arm growing from my tummy which would make getting close hard to achieve.

I'm really looking forward to being able to see behind myself, with this new eye growing in the back of my head. But sleeping on my back my prove difficult.

In a few months, if you see me staggering/shuffling and shouting "brains, BRAINS!!", please aim for the head...

Of course, that opens all new possibilities....

 

[bbbass]

Of course, that opens all new possibilities....

GIRLFRIEND!!!!!







j/k

 

[kbaxter60]

Was supposed to get the second covid shot today. It was delayed until next Sat. due to weather.

Did you get Pfizer? Did you hear that they have found that the first shot makes one 85% safe? They have a bigger data set now, it seems.

 

[DubiousDan]

Did you get Pfizer? Did you hear that they have found that the first shot makes one 85% safe? They have a bigger data set now, it seems.

I got the Moderna. The wife got the Phizer

 

[toddnjoyce]

Did you get Pfizer? Did you hear that they have found that the first shot makes one 85% safe? They have a bigger data set now, it seems.

A different data set, apparently and part of the blinded trials. I know a few people who signed up for the new trial after initial FDA approval where it seems this was one of the options that was being provided. The study hasn’t been unblinded yet, but the rumor is after unblinding, everyone who just got one will be able to get the second.

 

[Texas45]

Did you get Pfizer? Did you hear that they have found that the first shot makes one 85% safe? They have a bigger data set now, it seems.

I feel 100% safe without any vaccine for the kung fu flu.


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[DubiousDan]

I feel 100% safe without any vaccine for the kung fu flu.


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Good for you. I hope you don't get covid but if you do I hope it's a mild case. If you get it and it's a more severe case I hope you survive and the odds are good that you will. If you survive I hope none of your organ systems are not permanently damaged like has happened to many of those who have survived. Imagine being 30 or 40 with lungs so badly scared they look worse than the lungs of someone in their 70s with emphysema, or having a heart so badly damaged you get placed on a transplant waiting list.

The lung of a woman in her 20s who "survived" covid but needed a double lung transplant to really survive.

I wish you luck