Agree. I’m saying it’s not sad (in Loomer’s case for sure). Not even a little bit. In her specific case, I can’t muster any sadness. It’s just not there.
Shocking that the lab leak theory was pushed by racist sinophobic republican operatives. Shocking!
obv, but the media just being stenographers for anonymous Republican politicos is just inexcusable.
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We report you decide
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02269-2
havent read the study but this is interesting, having a genetic component would make sense why some people seem to be so severely affected and others not at all
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So does this mean we’re able to, or will be able to, search our DNA sequencing from like 23 and Me and see if we’re prone to Long COVID?
Edit: it appears the answer is yes. Of course there’s the caveat that this is a preprint, etc, etc.
I’m in the clear on these! Looks like that means about a 38% lower risk of Long COVID.
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yes, you could, and likely facebook/google + whoever else inevitably gets their hands on your genetic data for advertising purposes
Party on, Garth!
I don’t put a ton of faith in any GWAS, because even in the best case, they are only tuned to find the simplest answers, and biology is seldom so simple.
Yea I was thinking how could this study be valuable if we still dont know the mechanism for long covid?
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And we’re bringing measles back through the power of sheer idiocy, another big W for humanity.
I, umm, wouldn’t put a whole lot of stock in that yet.
Lol, the UK is like the slightly more deplorable version of already deplorable America. That really sucks for people with infants who are too young to have completed their primary series.
Laugh every time I go through customs in Europe and see Brits in the non-EU line.
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Sucks for humanity if we least some horrible mutant strain of measles get loose, like zero chance social distancing will ever work against measles. It’s game over if a super lethal strain ever pops up.
I don’t think it really mutates a lot. The same vaccines have been working against it for decades. It’s been loose in the wild this whole time too, just not previously in first world (lol, if you can call the UK that anymore) nations.
That’s true but it’s still a really bad idea to give measles unlimited freerolls at figuring something out.
No argument from me. Too bad the UK seems determined to try.
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