For privacy reasons, I can't provide many details, but I can say that they're under the NHS in the UK and are in an age range where this virus is more lethal.
One of the things you're not being told is that it appears this can cause kidney damage among other things, because one of their first symptoms was dark urine with a noticeable odor before the onset of loss of smell and taste.
I was originally in the corpus of people who thought this was overblown and grossly exaggerated, but my opinion has been evolving over the last couple of weeks. It's no joke, and while organ damage may not be present in all patients since most might have few symptoms, it's just another possibility in a long line of things this virus can do.
We would greatly appreciate prayers, good thoughts, or well wishes. Whichever you're inclined toward. I'll see if they can get my relative hydroxchloroquine + azithromycin + zinc supplementation, but being as it's the NHS you can imagine what I'm expecting since they already said "stay at home."
If possible, I will supply updates.
Praying for your relative. Please keep us up to data on them.
Will do!
Please keep us updated pede! I have been trying to say this but I get called a chicom shill for entertaining the possibility that this shit is NOT A FLU. Good luck and God bless!
Definitely not a flu, and you're not alone.
I blew this off as uninteresting and likely to cause fewer deaths than the H1N1 outbreak in 2009. God willing, that will still remain true if we can get on top of it with treatments like HCQ, but since it appears our government is unwilling to use this as a prophylactic or early treatment, I'm afraid we're dragging our feet during a time when we could easily stamp this out through application of aggressive treatment.
However, the more I read about this and how it infects cells, the more inclined I am to believe this is absolutely serious. I spoke with someone a while back who thought it was propaganda to call it SARS-CoV-2, but the fact is that it is SARS. It's just a milder form. Most people will do OK if they contract it, but the people who don't do OK have very poor outcomes.
At this point, I don't give two shits about bureaucratic red tape or other regulations for "safety" purposes. We already know the drug profile of things like HCQ in human models because it's been used for a very long time.
WE ABSOLUTELY SHOULD BE USING HCQ AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE IN THE DISEASE PROCESS
This is critical both to reduce viral load, stop the spread, and reduce the number of deaths. I'm convinced at this point that this is our best option. POTUS was right, as usual, and anyone who is standing in his way literally wants people to die.
Apologies for the rant
No man, thank you. Feels like I'm taking crazy pills sometimes, and this is a welcome dose of sanity!
Stay safe and keep talking about it! EARLY TREATMENTS!
Agreed!
I argued with quite a few people on here early in the spread of the virus because I genuinely felt they were concern trolling based on the limited information we had available. In some ways, I feel a bit guilty for this reaction, but whenever there's a worldwide disaster it seems the fearmongers are always out in full force early on spreading misinformation to cause as much panic as possible. It just so happens that like a broken clock, they're occasionally right. But, the truth is always much more nuanced.
What's been disappointing me of late are the people who insist on maintaining their opinions regardless of the changing information we have available. This dogmatic adherence to their notion of "truth" is infuriating, because it's what the left does all too often. That we have people on our side who refuse to reevaluate their opinions on new information is disheartening, to be sure, but I try to remind myself this is human nature. People don't like being wrong.
Regardless, I understand how you feel. It's almost like we're gaslighting ourselves by pretending this virus is "just a flu."
I hope we can hammer on the importance of early treatments and possible prophylactics. My biggest fear is that due to the nature of this virus and how it attacks the body, providing drug-related treatments to patients after the damage has been done is a bit like closing the barn door after the horse was let out. It's better to stop the infection before it takes hold than to try to mitigate it long after the fact.
Why we're not doing this blows my mind.
Shit. Sorry.
Prayers said.
🙏🙏 for a speedy recovery.
Much appreciated, thank you. Her and my mother are very close, and this hits close to home.
That’s cuz it was made in a lab
Can you provide a decade age range, and if your relative had pre-existing conditions, please?
Sending my prayers to your relative.
65-75 and has some pre-existing conditions and prior operations that don't involve heart or lungs to my knowledge.