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September 21 20, 11:37 am
The last effects of this are scary. My cousin had it about a month ago. She was sick for about four days, like really sick, then she snapped out of it pretty quickly. She was good a few days then all the sudden her heart started racing and she was really light headed. She went to ER and got her settled down. Well flash forward to now, tomorrow she will be getting a pacemaker. She's 38, a runner, in great health prior to coronavirus. Her cardiologist says she is the third younger person he has seen with heart issues after having the virus. All of them were healthy prior. That's obviously anecdotal but it seems like something.
You hit on it, man. I mentioned it upthread, but the long-term effects are what we need to start shifting the focus to now that there are a significant sample size of patients to study. That's not to say we shouldn't keep working on a vaccine/treatments, but the medical researchers can and should be getting to work on this. They just couldn't in the beginning, because they needed to base their work on a diverse and complete data set. That's got to exist by now.

And their work is going to help guide the medical community's post-case treatment and monitoring going forward.

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Anectodal info: my son is a TA at Oregon State and just texted us that they've tested 1.5% of the student body in the three days students could be back and have found 26 positives for Corona. Impressive.

Shows how little testing is being done out there.

Sigh...

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My dad's half sister(my half aunt?) And her husband both have symptoms and tested positive. They are in their mid-80s. I am worried about them. They live in the west St. Louis suburbs.

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So I have been watching a riveting accounting seminar for the last day and a half. Today, the first speaker was from or affiliated with the IBI or some nonsense like that (business intelligence I think). He said that business intelligence pointed to a problem in Wuhan in November, when output from that area was going down noticeably. He then said that truck drivers were refusing to go to that area. Truck drivers there are for the most part independent I guess and can pick and choose where and when they do routes. Apparently, they were refusing to go there because people were getting sick.

He also said that the 250,000 number for the infections related to the bike rally was basically using statistics however you want. He said that he read the study and the 'cone' of possibility (he compared it to a weather forecast of hurricanes) was from 260,000 to a few hundred. The media chose to go with the 260,000.

Just a couple of things that stood out to me. I think I'll pay attention to this guy and stop listening to the government or the media.

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is that sarcasm? hard to tell. anyways. business intelligence. o my [expletive] god. is he accredited by Trump University school of business intelligence? At least the speaker has one principle down pat "know thy audience".

260k cases from Sturgis...who knows? who cares? can't prove it. seems snowflakey to be upset by some guesstimates.

Was having the LARPing sausage party a good idea this year? - is probably a more relavant question, if only the guy from business intelligence would "think outside the box"**

with all this businsss intelligence, why is this person shilling CPE? [expletive] could have hedged all this data for billions$.
**sorry that corporate speak is dated.

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Newsweek:

Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Linked to More Than 260,000 Coronavirus Cases, Economists Estimate

People:

More Than 260,000 Coronavirus Cases Could Be Linked to Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, Researchers Say

The Daily Mail:

Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is responsible for 260,000 new cases of coronavirus and will cost $12.2 billion in health care to treat those whose infections can be tied back to the South Dakota event, new study claims

U.S. News and World Report

Report: Sturgis Motorcycle Rally May Have Caused Over 250,000 Coronavirus Cases

Yahoo.com

More Than 260,000 Coronavirus Cases Could Be Linked to Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, Researchers Say

Barron's

US Biker Rally May Have Led To 260,000 New Covid-19 Cases: Study

That's 2 pages of Google search results. It was posted here too. If it is snowflakey to get irritated that the 'news' blindly reported this and blamed SD, and their evil governor, than I'm snowflakey.

If it did cause 250,000 or even 50,000 I would be on board. But there is no proof that they are even close, a month and a half later.

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i dunno, seems like those headlines have a lot of "could", "may" "claims" which are important delineations, which at the time, would have been fair.

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True, but the average person reads them and thinks, 'Oh my God!'

I'm in ND now, but had people talking about how the rally led to over 250,000 cases. Not might have, did.

I don't believe much, so I actually read the report after I heard about it. I'm guessing most people don't do that. I used to not believe anything on the internet without proof. Now I don't believe anything anywhere without proof.

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Interesting read on covid effects the brain
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/ ... -the-brain

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