A new study reveals that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein remains in brain-protective tissues and skull bone marrow for years after infection, potentially driving long COVID's neurological symptoms.
What gets me is ‘just a cold’ is still fucking terrifying when it’s new and highly transmissible.
Remember Zika virus? It causes ‘just a cold’. Barely an inconvenience! …unless you’re pregnant, then your baby is fucked!.
Imagine if covid turned out to be a teratogen like that.
Imagine if there wasn’t even a cold - you get it, carry it, spread it, all with no symptoms; then anyone who spent any time around you who gets pregnant pops out a microcephalic baby. Dude, humanity might not recover from that.
It iS JuSt a cOlD
A far worse possibility is that it is “just a cold”, but the common coronaviruses that cause the common cold may not be as harmless as we thought.
It took me way too long to realize that you didn’t type “coid”…
L biame iong covld
What gets me is ‘just a cold’ is still fucking terrifying when it’s new and highly transmissible.
Remember Zika virus? It causes ‘just a cold’. Barely an inconvenience! …unless you’re pregnant, then your baby is fucked!.
Imagine if covid turned out to be a teratogen like that.
Imagine if there wasn’t even a cold - you get it, carry it, spread it, all with no symptoms; then anyone who spent any time around you who gets pregnant pops out a microcephalic baby. Dude, humanity might not recover from that.
Microbastards are terrifying.
Wait, your guys covid didnt magically go away by easter?