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and how will this pandemic end then ? how will we get rid of this shit
and how will this pandemic end then ? how will we get rid of this shit
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when will this covid pandemic end ?
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SavannahCatGiannis
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Well, I think once they find a treatment that works, they will end lockdowns. They are closer to that than a vaccine.
I am not hopeful about a vaccine because there have been cases of reinfection, and well, antibodies for other coronaviruses only last for like 2 weeks. The common cold is also caused by a coronavirus, and you can catch another cold 2 weeks after having a cold, because the antibodies from your last cold are gone by that point. That's why kids in school always have colds.
However, other research is promising. I have been following the research they are doing on COVID in cats on Prince Edward Island in Canada. Cats are capable of developing antibodies for coronaviruses that last a lifetime and they are also capable of creating them faster (this is why cats that catch COVID only get mildly sick, unlike humans), that's why the vaccine for feline coronavirus works and if you have a pet cat, the vet probably gave it a shot when it was a kitten. The ACE2 receptors (the proteins in your body that the virus attaches to) in cats are identical to the ACE2 receptors in humans. Once they figure out how cats are able to maintain a level of antibodies sufficient for lifetime immunity, this could help engineer a vaccine that could do that for humans.
PEI was a weird case... very few COVID cases in humans, but is spreading rampantly among domestic cats on the island. But that fluke of nature is leading to promising research, so I guess it's cool.
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But yeah, I had COVID-19 two months ago and so did my cat.
My cat will be immune for the rest of her life. I probably lost my immunity already.
My cat will be immune for the rest of her life. I probably lost my immunity already.
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Side note: Some COVID measures piss me off.
I accidentally burned myself really bad last week and had to go to the emergency room to get it treated. The rule in the hospital right now is patients only, no family of patients.
Anyway, around the same time as I came in, another old lady came in, and she was EXTREMELY sick. She was an immigrant from the Middle East somewhere and could not speak English or French yet so a teenage boy, I’m assuming her grandson, was translating for her... but they made the grandson leave so she was in the hospital alone and couldn’t speak the language.
She was alone and gasping for air and screaming something in Arabic... I don’t know what but she was obviously in medical distress. I’m seeing this lady suffering, in a foreign country nonetheless and nobody was helping her. I tried to because I felt bad but since I cannot speak Arabic it was hard, so I went up to the triage nurse and said “There’s a lady in the waiting room who needs to see a doctor right away, you should probably bump her ahead in the line.”
A nurse came out and took her to a treatment room.
But yeah, I think the patients only rule is a little much. If the family member is wearing a mask, there shouldn’t be a problem.
I accidentally burned myself really bad last week and had to go to the emergency room to get it treated. The rule in the hospital right now is patients only, no family of patients.
Anyway, around the same time as I came in, another old lady came in, and she was EXTREMELY sick. She was an immigrant from the Middle East somewhere and could not speak English or French yet so a teenage boy, I’m assuming her grandson, was translating for her... but they made the grandson leave so she was in the hospital alone and couldn’t speak the language.
She was alone and gasping for air and screaming something in Arabic... I don’t know what but she was obviously in medical distress. I’m seeing this lady suffering, in a foreign country nonetheless and nobody was helping her. I tried to because I felt bad but since I cannot speak Arabic it was hard, so I went up to the triage nurse and said “There’s a lady in the waiting room who needs to see a doctor right away, you should probably bump her ahead in the line.”
A nurse came out and took her to a treatment room.
But yeah, I think the patients only rule is a little much. If the family member is wearing a mask, there shouldn’t be a problem.