hank
(hank)
December 5, 2020, 4:57am
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EXCERPT
SARS-CoV-2 enters the brain via nerve cells in the olfactory mucosa, … published in Nature Neuroscience.
For the first time, researchers have been able to produce electron microscope images of intact coronavirus particles inside the olfactory mucosa.
It is now recognized that COVID-19 is not a purely respiratory disease. In addition to affecting the lungs, SARS-CoV-2 can impact the cardiovascular system, the gastrointestinal tract and the central nervous system. More than one in three people with COVID-19 report neurological symptoms such as loss of, or change in, their sense of smell or taste, headaches, fatigue, dizziness, and nausea. In some patients, the disease can even result in stroke or other serious conditions.
Until now, researchers had suspected that these manifestations must be caused by the virus entering and infecting specific cells in the brain. But how does SARS-CoV-2 get there?
This isn’t a first, there are many observations of various kinds of particles being transported from the nasal micosa into the brain.
Take a look at some of these: metal particles nasal brain - Google Search
From the first page of results, this is a good summary:
Aw, Hell, it doesn’t have to be as teenytiny as a virus, either.
A big fat amœba like Nægleria fowleri is pretty easy to catch if you go swimming in infested waters, or sometimes even using a netti pot (ecch).
Get tainted water up your nose, the big fat amorphous blobs dig in, float their way into your brainium.
71k5
(71k5)
December 5, 2020, 6:48am
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FYI
IPAK 2019 Vaxxed/Unvaxxed Study just released.
” IPAK 2019 Vaxxed vs Unvaxxed Study”:https://informedchoicewa.org/education/its-here-the-vaxxed-vs-unvaxxed-study/
That so-called study is not credible, and it’s source is a well-known anti-vaccine organization. No further comment, per administrator request.
https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-ingredients/aluminum
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7144200/
sb56637
December 5, 2020, 2:59pm
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Hi everyone, as mentioned, I definitely don’t want to promote or defend either of the two sides on the vaccine argument, and I’m sure everyone already has their own opinion. But please avoid the subject on this forum.
Joshk
(Joshk)
December 5, 2020, 3:16pm
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It appears what that “IPAK 2019 Vaxxed vs Unvaxxed Study” actually discovered was that parents that skip vaccinations also skip doctors visits.
hank
(hank)
December 5, 2020, 5:57pm
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This page was cited in the NPR article I linked above.
It explains the little dip and rise seen on the charts around Thanksgiving, which caused VP Pence to tell the CDC things were improving .
https://covidtracking.com/blog/daily-covid-19-data-is-about-to-get-weird [Written around Thanksgiving Day]
EXCERPT
all three metrics will flatten out or drop, probably for several days. This decrease will make it look like things are getting better at the national level. Then, in the week following the holiday, our test, case, and death numbers will spike, which will look like a confirmation that Thanksgiving is causing outbreaks to worsen. But neither of these expected movements in the data will necessarily mean anything about the state of the pandemic itself. Holidays, like weekends, cause testing and reporting to go down and then, a few days later, to “catch up.” So the data we see early next week will reflect not only actual increases in cases, test, and deaths, but also the potentially very large backlog from the holiday.
Further down on that long page, this:
… The actual case increases from Thanksgiving exposures—people who got COVID-19 during the holiday weekend—probably won’t start showing up in the data until the second week of December. Succeeding waves of infections from holiday gatherings will roll in for weeks. From what we’ve seen so far, the virus can spread with remarkable speed, but there are delays at every step in tracing and reporting its spread: It takes time to get tested, time to get and report a result, time to trace close contacts—and to start the process over again with a new circle of exposures.
Consider the now infamous Millinocket, Maine wedding superspreading event this summer: The day after the wedding, the “index case” wedding guest developed COVID-19 symptoms, according to reporting from the Los Angeles Times and a CDC report—though this person wouldn’t receive the results of their PCR test until six days after the wedding. Three days later, a worker at a long-term-care facility who hadn’t attended the wedding, but whose child had, began showing symptoms. The test for the LTC worker didn’t come back until 11 days after the wedding, by which time they had worked multiple days in the facility while ill. …
bushmaster
(bushmaster)
December 5, 2020, 6:10pm
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So……we got that to look forward to……
71k5
(71k5)
December 5, 2020, 11:52pm
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FYI
Tested Positive?? Be Sure to Ask This Question!
Excerpt:
“The lockdowns are based on surging “cases” which are based on positive PCR test results.”
“When it comes to COVID, the presence of viral particles picked up by the PCR technique does not and has not been quantitatively linked to an active “symptomatic” infection. It simply cannot be so, because infection threshold as a result of viral load is different for each patient. It turns out, if you “cycle” over around 25 times, the false positivity of COVID infection starts getting very high.”
And that’s what we call an airtight analysis…
Rexlion
(Rexlion)
December 6, 2020, 4:18am
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It’s really hilarious when people start telling a law school graduate what the law says and doesn’t say. Especially when the law is not applicable to the point being made, that universities have long tended to be bastions of free speech. No one claimed (the straw man argument) that colleges have a legal obligation to be that way. But they have almost always tended to be that way and have even trumpeted their free speech practices as an ideal; but when the things the students recently were saying didn’t fit the P.C. viewpoint, Johns Hopkins U. showed some hypocrisy.
On another note, today I read a good article in Imprimis by Dr. Jay Bhattacharya M.D., Prof. of Medicine at Stanford.
A Sensible and Compassionate Anti-COVID Strategy
An brief excerpt:
I should say something in conclusion about the idea of herd immunity, which some people mischaracterize as a strategy of letting people die. First, herd immunity is not a strategy—it is a biological fact that applies to most infectious diseases. Even when we come up with a vaccine, we will be relying on herd immunity as an end-point for this epidemic. The vaccine will help, but herd immunity is what will bring it to an end. And second, our strategy is not to let people die, but to protect the vulnerable. We know the people who are vulnerable, and we know the people who are not vulnerable. To continue to act as if we do not know these things makes no sense.
Rexlion
(Rexlion)
December 6, 2020, 4:14am
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That link was an interesting read. Glad you posted it.
Rexlion
(Rexlion)
December 6, 2020, 4:16am
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djmcconn:
MtnDon, hank, Northern Harrier. Forgive my ineptitude. I cannot figure out how to link a very interesting article. It is a Nov.30 article in Neuroscience News entitled How Covid-19 Reaches The Brain. I think you guys might enjoy.
David
Is there an article explaining how common sense reaches the brain? :laughing: