Best_Vacation_EVER!
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- May 30, 2005
I don't consider this a rant. This is my point with all those that declare COVID has a low mortality rate, and testing=more positive cases. The lingering effects are something that need to be talked about and understood. And, as the disease is so new, we don't have all the information on it yet. Part of the problem is that a majority of people today don't remember things like the results of outbreaks of diseases like polio in the 40's/50's. Those who didn't die were scarred for life. Or, measles, which ended up causing heart problems. Until we have a viable and effective vaccine, the best recourse, in my opinion, is to do our best not to get COVID. (so....limit contact, wear your mask , distance yourself, wash, wash and wash like the kidlets in the schools) there! got it back on topic
Very true. My mom was one of the kids who had polio and didn't die from it. There were several kids from the street she lived on who weren't so lucky -- either dying or being placed in iron-lung machines. My mom recovered, finished school, graduated from university and had a normal life. But there is something called post-polio syndrome that is pretty well documented... for my mom it kicked in at some point when she was in her late forties - weakness, breathing difficulties, etc.... this is something viruses can do -- who knows how Covid-19 will behave.
Also certain viruses remain dormant in the body and can re-activate --- Covid-19 hasn't been around long enough to know whether it will be one of those. For those of us who've had chicken pox as kids -- when that virus re-activates many years down the road it causes Shingles. Will Covid-19 do the same?
Not getting Covid-19 really is the smartest option --- so we'll wear our masks, social distance, wash our hands, and sanitize things regularly.