Off Topic Coronavirus

Condolences to your family, mate.

 

So sad to hear that Peter, my condolences

 

Deepest condolences to all the family.

 

Sorry to hear this Peter.

 

Deepest condolences to you and your wife and family...these are indeed sad times.

 

RIP uncle ernie

 

haven't seen this side effect reported on the bbc

Iran cleric: People who are vaccinated for COVID have ‘become homosexuals’
Iran’s regime has executed 4,000-6,000 gays and lesbians since its 1979 Islamic revolution.
By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL
FEBRUARY 8, 2021 17:21

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An Iranian regime cleric in the holy city of Qom on Tuesday issued a homophobic rant against people vaccinated for COVID-19, claiming that they become gay after receiving the vaccine.

Ayatollah Abbas Tabrizian wrote on his Telegram social-media platform: “Don’t go near those who have had the COVID vaccine. They have become homosexuals.”



The radical Islamist has nearly 210,000 followers on his Telegram account.

Tabrizian has a history of derogatory opinions about Western medicine. Last year, a video showed him burning Harrison’s Manual of Medicine and saying that “Islamic medicine” had made such books “irrelevant,” according to an article on the website of Radio Farda, the Iranian branch of the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty broadcast service.

“Like other clerics in the regime, also Tabrizian relates all the shortages [shortcomings] to sexuality,” Sheina Vojoudi, an Iranian dissident who fled the Islamic Republic of Iran due to repression, told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday. “The clerics in Iran are suffering from lack of knowledge and humanity.”

“Actually, his goal of spreading nonsense is to try to scare people [out] of getting vaccinated, while the leader of the regime and other officials got Pfizer, and they don’t provide it for the people with the excuse that they don’t trust the West,” she said.

According to Peter Tatchell, a LGBTQ+ and human-rights campaigner, “Ayatollah Tabrizian combines scientific ignorance with a crude appeal to homophobia.”




“He’s demonizing both the vaccination program and LGBT+ people without a shred of evidence,” he told the Post. “By seeking to scare the public into not getting vaccinated against COVID-19, he is fueling the pandemic and putting lives at risk. Typical of many Iranian religious and political leaders, his bizarre, irrational claims scapegoat LGBTs and put theological prejudice before scientific knowledge.”

Iran’s regime has executed 4,000 to 6,000 gays and lesbians since the Iranian Revolution in 1979, according to a 2008 British WikiLeaks cable.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javid Zarif justified his regime’s executions of gays in 2019. When questioned why it does this, he said: “Our society has moral principles, and according to these principles we live... These are moral principles regarding the behavior of people in general, and that is because the law is upheld and you abide by laws.”

In 2019, the Post reported that Iran’s rulers publicly hanged a 31-year-old after being found guilty of violating the country’s anti-gay laws.

 

COVID Survivors
Twice as Likely to Suffer From Vaccine Side Effects
By Johanna Garner on February 8, 2021 at 4:00 PM
New data suggests that those who have had COVID are twice as likely to suffer side effects from the Pfizer vaccine.

Coronavirus survivors are twice as likely to develop side effects from the Pfizer/AstraZeneca vaccinethan those who have never had the virus, data from the Zoe COVID-19 Symptom Study App suggests.

COVID survivors may suffer from mild vaccine side effects
Figures from the app show that 33% of those who had previously recovered from coronavirus developed at least one mild side effect from the Pfizer vaccine, such as fatigue or a headache, up to a week after receiving their jab. Meanwhile, out of those who have had the good fortune of never being touched by the virus, only 19% suffered from complications.

The Zoe app revealed that the most common side effect was fatigue (9%) with headaches coming in second at 8% and chills rounding out the top three with 4%. The data also showed that these symptoms were most likely to make themselves known within 48 hours after the jab and very rarely lasted more than three days.

Far from a bad thing
Professor Tim Spector, an epidemiologist at King's College London who leads the Zoe COVID-19 Symptom Study App, explained that the reason why COVID survivors are more likely to develop side effects isn’t anything bad at all. It’s actually indicates that the vaccine is acting as a booster shot rather than a first jab

It is really suggesting that if you have had Covid before your first vaccine it is behaving a bit like the second one — like a booster.

The Zoe app previously conducted a study of people of all ages who in total, had 40,000 jabs between them. Out of all participants, 37% had pain or swelling near the injection site after the first dose, which increased to 45% after the second dose. A further 14% of people also reported experiencing a mild side effect within a week of getting their first dose compared to 22% after the second jab. This suggests that the second dose of the coronavirus vaccine (or first for COVID survivors) is successful in prompting a stronger immune response. Spector elaborated:

People already had an immune response and they are getting an even bigger booster so that their immunity is going to be stronger. I am expecting once we analyse and get a bit more of the data we are going to show that this group who previously had COVID, maybe six months before, have an even bigger protection, even bigger than the 53 per cent after that single dose.
Spector believes that given more research, people who have already had coronavirus may only need one vaccine as opposed to two, which could ‘potentially save around 10 million vaccines or at least it could be delayed maybe several months more.’


But even so, more research is needed and surviving COVID is no reason to reject a vaccine, especially when new strains are constantly on the move. Vaccines still increase the chances of a stronger immune response, and it’s safe to say most of us would much rather have a headache than coronavirus

 

It’s a decent article, except for the headline which gives the opposite message to the text. Where’s it from?

 

Keep up Kiwi. That's what the anti-vaxxers and assorted loony conspiracy theorists have been saying for years so that the likes of Bill Gates and others can control us and make us depend on them at great cost. It probably explains why there is such reluctance to contemplate the idea.

 

Yeah, I thought the same when I read the headline...

https://www.gentside.co.uk/news/cov...suffer-from-vaccine-side-effects_art6771.html

 

from the same site
be careful out there

A Painful, Persistent Erection Could Be a Side Effect of COVID-19
By Lindsay Wilson on October 14, 2020 at 5:01 AM
erection lasting longer than four hours, just like one 62-year-old patient at the Centre Hospitalier de Versailles in Le Chesnay, France, could be a telltale sign of something larger. Before experiencing this, he had also developed the usual COVID-19 symptoms(fever, cough, severe breathing difficulties), before testing positive for SARS-CoV2. However, according to an analysis published by doctors in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine in June, there could be a connection between the two conditions.

Problems with blood circulation
A prolonged erection without sexual stimulation is known as priapism. This is considered a medical emergency because the organ cannot handle being erect for this long. It can lead to tissue damage and other irreversible consequences for the penis and its functionality. The patient was placed on an artificial respirator, sedated and fortunately, he was not in pain. Nursing staff first tried to ease his erection with an ice pack but were not successful.

Finally, blood tests revealed he had dark blood clots, symptomatic of so-called ischemic or low-flow priapism. Because it is being blocked by something, the blood is unable to flow and so cannot return to the lungs. This phenomenon can be particularly serious because it can cause the blood to stop flowing completely in the penis. As a result, doctors injected him with ethylephrine, a drug that stimulates the sympathetic nerves and relaxes the blood vessels.

Immune system and blood clots
Finally, after fourteen days, the patient was able to return home with no complications. But why did he develop blood clots when he had no prior history before he contracted COVID-19? As it turns out, and as has been previously observed in other patients, the coronavirus can cause coagulum and clots to form in the leg veins in particular (phlebitis) but also in the lungs (pulmonary embolism). But this is the first time that it has been detected in the penis.

According to Bruce Y. Lee, a health journalist for Forbes, there are three possible reasons that the coronavirus could cause blood clots:

• Because it can cause blood hyper-viscosity. To fight infection, the immunes system produces more white blood cells which consequently make the blood thicker and stickier, making blood circulation more difficult as a result;
• Because it can cause blood hyper-coagulability. Again, the chemicals produced by the immune system can encourage the blood to clot;
• Because it can cause endothelial dysfunction. The endothelium is the layer of cells that line your blood vessels and the damage this causes can also encourage blood clots to form.

It is therefore likely that COVID-19 caused this man’s unfortunate erection problem. Researchers state:

Although the arguments supporting a casual link between COVID-19 and priapism are very strong in our case, reports of further cases would strengthen the evidence.

 

Peter: Sorry to be so late to add this but my deepest condolences to you and all the members of your family

 

Condolences to your family for their loss Peter.

 

Sorry to hear your news Peter. Take care pal

 

Peter, please accept my condolences.

 

Really encouraging data now coming through on the vaccines, confirming that 1 dose gives very good protection for up to 12 weeks and effective in both young and old.
Lots of the early worries are being dismissed by the data, which is fantastic news for everyone.

 

13k new cases, shouldn't these numbers be getting lower by now?

 

It was 60k only couple of weeks back, so it is progress but slow as they predicted

 

Agree and still an 800 average daily death rate. If the lockdown and restrictions were respected we wouldn't be having these numbers.