First identified as a driving force behind a major surge in cases across China last month, the NB.1.8.1 variant has been reported in international travelers screened at airports in Washington, Virginia, New York and California. In California, scientists at the Stanford Clinical Virology Laboratory confirmed the state’s first known infection on April 17, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
I know it’s not much but get your flu shot this year. You don’t want to fight them at the same time.
INB4 Secretary Brainworms restricts access to that one, too.
Y’know, I used to think that we’d blow ourselves up or mostly perish in the coming climate disasters… but at this point I believe we’ll be forced to die at the hands of a rampaging preventable disease.
It’s the Four Horsemen. People and nations can handle one, but if they ride together it’s going down.
And not just from COVID, either! The lunatic death-cultists are fucking with everything from pollution controls to food safety inspections to water treatment. Hope you like rivers catching on fire and cholera!
Welcome to the jungle. And I don’t mean “fun and games;” I mean Upton goddamn Sinclair.
Prions
I mean we re-elected the felon rapist who utterly failed the response to the first round of COVID.
So I hope everyone is ready for everything to shut down again and half the businesses you frequent to permanently close their doors.
Americans are stupid. And we’re going to pay the piper for it.
Well that’s half the problem – nothing is going to shut down this time, excess deaths and long-term complications are going bust through the ceiling.
excess deaths and long-term complications are going bust through the ceiling
Nonsense. They won’t allow the collection or release of data this time either. We’re going to have no idea how bad it is until people all around us are dropping.
Yeah … I don’t think America will be doing anything until the stacked rows of body bags reaches about four high … and even then, the decisions they’ll make will be to save the economy first than in human lives
They just started a strong new Return to Office push. Would sure hate to fuck that little plan up.
dude, they’ll just use the bodies to build the wall.
edit - yikes, i just gave myself a chill with that image
Stupid question time. Was this what the people in hospitals were experiencing from covid? I remember people talking about amputating and such. This all sounds similar, but I never knew anyone closely that contracted it to this degree.
Signs and symptoms
The majority of the infected experienced only the typical flu symptoms of sore throat, headache, and fever, especially during the first wave.[199] However, during the second wave, the disease was much more serious, often complicated by bacterial pneumonia, which was often the cause of death.[199] This more serious type would cause heliotrope cyanosis to develop, whereby the skin would first develop two mahogany spots over the cheekbones which would then over a few hours color the entire face blue, followed by black coloration first in the extremities and then the limbs and the torso.[199] Death would follow within hours or days due to the lungs being filled with fluids.[199] Other signs and symptoms reported included spontaneous mouth and nosebleeds, miscarriages for pregnant women, a peculiar smell, teeth and hair falling out, delirium, dizziness, insomnia, loss of hearing or smell, and impaired vision.[199] One observer wrote, “One of the most striking of the complications was hemorrhage from mucous membranes, especially from the nose, stomach, and intestine. Bleeding from the ears and petechial hemorrhages in the skin also occurred”.[200]
The majority of deaths were from bacterial pneumonia,[201][202][203] a common secondary infection associated with influenza. This pneumonia was itself caused by common upper respiratory-tract bacteria, which were able to get into the lungs via the damaged bronchial tubes.[204] The virus also killed people directly by causing massive hemorrhages and edema in the lungs.[203] Modern analysis has shown the virus to be particularly deadly because in animal trials it triggers an overreaction of the body’s immune system (cytokine storm).[79] The strong immune reactions of young adults were postulated to have ravaged the body, whereas the weaker immune reactions of children and middle-aged adults resulted in fewer deaths.[205]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu#Signs_and_symptoms
Your link is about the Spanish Flu, which was the 1918-1920 epidemic. Covid is a different disease altogether.
I know that, but are the symptoms similar? I remember the amputations and the lung issues.
Different symptoms/mechanisms.
Spanish flu killed young healthy adults; the weak and elderly were actually safer. That virus triggered a cytokine storm - an overreaction of the immune system - that slagged the patient’s body as collateral damage, like a twisted game of “stop hitting yourself.” The stronger your immune system, the harder you’d hit yourself.
SARS-CoV-2 followed the normal pattern, and hit the weak and elderly harder. Admittedly, the original strain was a wildcard, and did take down some healthy 30yos at random while others never showed symptoms. It also tended to provoke micro-clots throughout the body, rather than hemorrhages.
Omicron evolved to target the upper airway rather than the lungs, which is the main reason why COVID is so much less lethal these days. I’m not sure how Spanish flu evolved, but I don’t think it was an issue of the tissue it targeted as much as some immune pathway it hijacked.
Thanks for explaining it, that helped. I think it was the amputations and people dying quickly once they hit a certain stage that made it seem similar. I guess if you’re extremities aren’t getting flow for whatever reason, you’ll have amputations and stuff.
despite the apparent symptoms, they are not related:
Spanish Flu was caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus, which is an orthomyxovirus.
COVID-19 was caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which is a coronavirus, a completely different virus family.
