Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

There is no effective vaccine for cognitive dissonance.

 

If you're asking about the symptoms of measles, I can speak from my own experience. I contracted measles during undergrad - 20yrs old and healthy. Fever spiked to 104, which is approaching dangerous level. It was pretty awful. So my symptoms were fever, achy pain, and fatigue.

 

You may find this high level overview from the CDC interesting.

https://www.cdc.gov/measles/downloads/measlesdataandstatsslideset.pdf

 

Yes, expulsive symptoms. My mom said I had a 105 degree fever when I was a toddler. Generally part of the maturation process. And there are indications that childhood fevers in particular are beneficial. Outer manifestation of inner toxins, etc.

 

The classroom 'should be an extension of my home': Millennial teacher charged for 'quarantining' her kid in trunk

 

I regard the CDC as a national embarrassment.

 

I don’t want to be entirely misconstrued here. There is A virus. It’s a mind virus. And there are FAR too many carriers for my comfort.

 

So measles never killed anyone, but you credit sanitation with lowering the measles death rate?

 

I’m just co-opting your thought processes for the sake of argument. Your own chart shows that no one was dying for lack of vaccines. That’s why I asked you if, in the context of a discussion about vaccines, if measles was the hill you were ready to die on.

 

I don't care.

 

Good talk.

 

The DeltaCron is here. I have been saying we would get by far the scariest named variant right before elections, but didn't think it would come this soon. Fauci gonna scare some people with this name and call for nationwide mail in ballots.

 

DeltaCron is not a scary name. It's simply a portmanteau.

People's fascination with Fauci is weird. You and buckeye should start a club.

Also, DeltaCron may be nothing more than lab contamination.

Reported ‘deltacron’ likely not actual variant, virologist says | KXAN Austin

 

Whose word will I be taking? "If your child's temperature reaches 105 degrees Fahrenheit, this is considered a medical emergency and your child needs immediate medical attention, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics." We await your link to show otherwise though.

 

This is new to me. There's speculation that Omicron may be the result of a human-mouse-human infection chain.

"Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing have now found evidence that Omicron may have evolved its large collection of unusual mutations in mice.

They believe that an earlier variant, from the lineage known as B.1.1, jumped from a human into a mouse in mid-2020. Over time, it evolved a range of adaptations to its new host before causing an infection in another human in late 2021.

They identified 45 “point mutations” in the RNA of Omicron that they propose occurred after the variant split from its last known common ancestor in humans."

Did Omicron evolve in mice?

 

“The Cypriot ‘deltacron’ sequences reported by several large media outlets look to be quite clearly contamination — they do not cluster on a phylogenetic tree and have a whole Artic primer sequencing amplicon of omicron in an otherwise delta backbone.”

This is exactly what I said. Duh!!

 

And I’m quite sure that Mom exercised due caution. I am merely echoing a common sentiment that it was a beneficial thing for children to have gotten their fever out of the way early.

 

So human beings have a set number of fevers? Any evidence to back this?

 

Didn’t say they did. On the other hand, do kids have a set number of measles ?

 

You said get "their fever out of the way early." That seems to suggest that everybody gets one.