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[–] Iraglassceiling@hexbear.net 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Death is not the only negative outcome from Covid infection. When you consider the literature on Covid causing grey matter loss, prion disease, chronic vasculitis, cardiac disease, autoimmune disease, etc, you could argue death is actually one of the preferred outcomes.

Immunity isn’t an on/off switch and the virus is mutating to escape immune detection. It seems like you do not have a solid grasp on the kinetics of vaccine and viral immunity, is there a question I can answer for you or would you like some resources that might help improve your comprehension?

[–] andthenthreemore@startrek.website 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

prion disease,

Jesus. Please tell me that's an extremely rare result. Because that is genuinely fucking terrifying.

[–] Iraglassceiling@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10047479/#:~:text=Current%20work%20suggests%20that%20there,prion%20disease%2C%20i.e.%2C%20neurodegeneration.

Yeah it’s fully terrifying.

I’m extra freaked that now Covid is endemic in the deer populations because Cervid Wasting Disease is also endemic and I’m afraid they will interact somehow…

[–] Shortstack@reddthat.com 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Welp, guess masks are forever now between wildfire smoke and spontaneous prion generation risk. Jfc

[–] Iraglassceiling@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What’s really cool is that prion disease incubation period can be years 🙃

[–] silent_water@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

this is fucking terrifying

[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Iraglassceiling@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago

spoiler: a giant emoji (maybe)

spoilercovid-cool

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jesus fuck. : |

I could have gone the rest of my life without knowing that.

[–] Iraglassceiling@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

If you really want to scare yourself go read about FIP, which is what happens to cats when they get repeatedly infected with coronavirus.