Anonymous #1 17w

You’re telling me vaccines reduced rates but due to aversion to basic public health measures we’re still seeing infections?

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Anonymous #1 17w

Also fun fact SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins are seen in the brains of people who died of things unrelated to cancer and there’s an association btwn spike proteins and tau tangles (Alzheimer’s)

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IIRC that spike was the omicron variant, and summer is always the lowest transmission because people are outside. That spike is still clear in this wastewater data. How do you know hospitals have stopped reporting? Hospitalizations and deaths are significantly easier to track than cases

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Anonymous OP 17w

Do you think its reasonable to think that we would stop seeing infections if measures like masking were universal? How concerned should we be when wastewater levels are currently considered low according to your data?

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Anonymous OP 17w

Is it causal? At what rate? I’m not sure what conclusion you want me to draw

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Even if we’re accepting that lab conditions mirror reality. People cannot wear masks 24/7. Would you have everyone eat/drink in isolation? Wear a mask at home or when they sleep with someone?

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I can’t find anything in that report about changing how hospitalizations or deaths are reported

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Okay but the deaths in may 2024 were incredibly low in comparison to diseases such as the flu or hiv. If you’re saying they were accurate up until that point, covid was much less dangerous than the viruses you’re comparing it against at that time.

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Especially if we take into account excess mortality data, I find it highly unlikely that covid deaths are anywhere near what they were in early 2022 even if reporting has changed as much as you say.

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Anonymous #1 17w

Objectively yes if folks were masking and taking appropriate precautions we would see a MASSIVE drop. I wear a mask and tbh it’s not that difficult I just spent like 12 hours in one on a plane and it was fine.

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Anonymous #1 17w

Big fan of this paper btw

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Anonymous OP 17w

A note about this paper is the controls they used for brains had to be from pre-2019 because there is no way to know who hasn’t been infected.

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The wastewater data did not stay the same if op’s graph is accurate. Thats what I was pointing out with the red line.

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Anonymous OP 17w

What are the practical takeaways from that paper? What additional symptoms can people with covid expect and what is the prevalence of it? Did they find a causal relationship?

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Anonymous #1 17w

go read the paper I told you my main takeaways - spike proteins are seen in the brains of people who died of Covid/had Covid and died of something else and there was a relationship between excess spike proteins and NDD hallmarks

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Anonymous #1 17w

My one criticism of the paper is that too many of the figures are qualitative instead of quantitative, and that it’s definitely a bit more phenomena than mechanism

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