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X-Ray Shows The Effect Of COVID-19 On The Lungs Compared To A Smoker’s Lungs
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X-Ray Shows The Effect Of COVID-19 On The Lungs Compared To A Smoker’s Lungs

X-Rays Reveal That Post-COVID Lungs Are Far Worse Than The Worst Smoker’s LungsSurgeon Reveals That Even Asymptomatic COVID Cases Can Leave Patients With Severe Lung DamageX-Ray Comparison Revealed That Post-COVID Lungs Can Be Left With More Damage Than Any Type Of Terrible Smoker's LungsX-Ray Shows The Effect Of COVID-19 On The Lungs Compared To A Smoker's LungsThis Surgeon's X-Ray Comparisons Of Post-COVID Lungs To Those Of Heavy Smokers Show How Damaging Even Asymptomatic Cases AreX-Rays Of Post-COVID Lungs Reveal Worse Deterioration Than Terrible Smoker's LungsX-Ray Shows The Effect Of COVID-19 On The Lungs Compared To A Smoker's LungsX-Ray Shows The Effect Of COVID-19 On The Lungs Compared To A Smoker's LungsX-Ray Shows The Effect Of COVID-19 On The Lungs Compared To A Smoker's LungsX-Ray Shows The Effect Of COVID-19 On The Lungs Compared To A Smoker's Lungs
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Even after a whole year of fighting this deadly virus, there’s a devastating amount of things we still have yet to find out about COVID-19 and its long-term effects on a person’s health. However, recently, a doctor from Texas, who’s treated thousands of COVID patients since March, shared some valuable insights on the disease and its consequences after comparing three lung X-rays: one of a healthy patient, one of a smoker, and one of a COVID-19 patient.

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A trauma surgeon from Texas revealed some valuable insights about COVID-19 and its long-term effects after comparing 3 lung X-rays

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Dr. Brittany Bankhead-Kendall, an assistant professor at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, went on Twitter to share that post-COVID lungs look way worse than any type of terrible smoker’s lungs she’s ever seen.

The doctor also posted photos of three lung X-rays—one of a healthy patient, one of a smoker, and one of a COVID-19 patient—to point out the differences.

The lungs of a healthy patient appear to be clear as they have a lot of black space, indicating that a person can inhale a great deal of air

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Looking at the X-ray of a smoker’s lungs, you can notice some haziness indicating scarring and congestion

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The third image shows post-COVID lungs which appear to be almost fully white, meaning the lungs are severely damaged

X-Ray Shows The Effect Of COVID-19 On The Lungs Compared To A Smoker's Lungs

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After her tweet gained a lot of attention and received thousands of responses, the doctor was invited to say a few words during CBS DFW news. “Everyone’s just so worried about the mortality thing and that’s terrible and it’s awful,” Dr. Brittany Bankhead-Kendall pointed out. “But man, and all the survivors and the people who have tested positive this is—it’s going to be a problem.”

As you can tell from the X-ray comparison, post-COVID lungs can look way worse than those of a smoker

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“There are still people who say ‘I’m fine, I don’t have any issues,’ and you pull up their chest X-ray and they absolutely have a bad chest X-ray,” the doctor told CBS DFW. “You’ll either see a lot of that white, dense scarring or you’ll see it throughout the entire lung. And if you’re not feeling problems now, the fact that that’s on your chest X-ray, it sure is indicative of you possibly having problems later on.”

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Turns out, even asymptomatic COVID cases can leave patients with severe lung damage

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Apparently, even asymptomatic patients show a severe chest X-ray 70 to 80 percent of the time. Dr. Bankhead Kendall also adds that if a post-COVID patient is experiencing shortness of breath, they should stay in touch with their primary care doctor.

“There is no long-term implication of a vaccine that could ever be as bad as the long-term implications of COVID”

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Ren Karlej
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

By the idiot brigade. People who persist in thinking this is no worse than flu either haven't bothered to do the reading or don't understand it.

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Della Greymane
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Relatively healthy 48 year old, I caught the virus the first week of December. Ended up in the hospital but discharged right before Christmas, and I am still at home on O2 full time. More than 5 min without O2 has my sats in the low 80s. Doc thinks it may be February before I can ditch the cannula

Ren Karlej
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Feel for you Della - really hope you recover fully and as soon as possible.

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Leo Domitrix
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. This. Granted, some post-COvid patients recover better than others ------ no complete picture who/what/why ----- but post-Covid lungs as a rule are horrible. We were brought in to see an autopsy to show us. And I'd seen healthy and smoekr lungs on autopsy in the past. So.... Scarring from smoking is bad. post-Covid lungs remind me of black lung, minus the black. Just.... destroyed. MASK UP AND STAY SAFE PLEASE!

Aksa
Community Member
3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My father died after 2 weeks in the hospital. The fight was hard, he received medications and even plasma from a healer. His condition, after a slight improvement, suddenly deteriorated significantly and he died. Alone, scared, he just suffocated. He was a healthy 60-year-old who allowed sports. It is not a light disease, someone will get over it and someone will get the hardest, but you never know how you will get it. Take care of yourself and others. Dying alone and in fear is terrifying.

Mimi777
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m so sorry you lost your father. I can’t imagine. And you’re exactly right.

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Claire
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In case anyone was wondering, PTX is pneumothorax, which is air inside the thoracic cavity but outside the lung.

PaulV
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And PMH is past medical history. Doc says "no other," meaning no other contributory diseases, lung or otherwise, that may explain this CoVid lung picture; i.e., the lung effect here is all CoVid. Tachy means tachycardia, increased heart rate as the heart attempts to compensate for lower oxygen delivery. Desat means desaturation, lowered oxygen saturation of the blood. The medical picture speaks as one, as the doctors hope it would from a diagnostic standpoint.

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deanna woods
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My father has already had problems with fluid in his lungs and has had to be on oxygen before, so that's why my family does everything we can to protect him from this very deadly virus. Coronavirus is very real and should be taken very seriously. Going to a restaurant, to a bar, or to the movies is not that important right now and it is certainly not worth it.

Kim
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In November I watched a patient fall ill. The day after he could barely breath, his lungs were filled with fluids and mucus and he died at day two. He didn’t even live to get the COVID test result back. This disease is no game. 😷

Cori
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My good friend is still on oxygen after having covid last summer. Docs have no idea when or IF she will ever come off it.

Katinka Min
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a mild case ten months ago. The shortness of breath has finallly improved last month but I still have the feeling my lungs are not back ot normal. And who knows if there are any other side effects like a thrombosis sitting around somewhere.

Colin Mochrie At Its Finest
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one pisses me off....I spent my life away from smoke inhalation (weed, fire, cigarettes) and if I get covid, screw it-my lungs would be f u ck ed.

Iapetos
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

May the covidiots face the consequences to their wrongdoings, all by themselves without harming anyone else.

Rainbow Panda
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To those who still don’t believe it, just wear a mask. You don’t die from wearing one. Honestly, people wear masks way longer than you, so suck it up and wear one. 😷

Tom Hardeveld
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

exactly. If people (without any lung condition ofcourse) claim they "cant breath wit a mask on", ask them how surgeons wear them during 8 hour operations and hold their breath for that long. In my line of work I wear them for hours on end and sometimes even forget tot take them off in the carride home

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Tom Hardeveld
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still meet people in shops (workers AND customers) who refuse to wear a mask of use them as chin-diapers. I alsways ask employees to put one on before helping me, causing a lot of eyerolls. Then I tell them: "I want to play a game. It's called: How many loved ones did you get to bring to the graveyard due to Covid? I'll start! 3! " Trust me, that shuts them up every time. I wish I was joking about that number

John Topper
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I work with covid-19 patients as well, and this is a major complicating factor. People only see the direct death result as a number, but there is no way to account for people who have severe deficits after recovering, and who will eventually die from it. That damage is going to remain, and the patient is going to be a massive amount more likely to contact pneumonia or another lung disease, and vastly more likely to die from it. These are all deaths that happen because of covid, but are attributed to something else. The indirect death toll will likely be much higher than the direct toll.

Myxomatosis
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Almost ONE YEAR post Covid. No wonder it's still a rough go. I refuse to go to the doctor because I got sick there.

Odette Greyling
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This, this is why I stay in my flat and do not go to meet the family. And why I cross the street if someone is not wearing a mask. (It is mandatory here in Spain) People might laugh at me, but that's fine. This virus is terrifying. More terrible long term effects are added as time goes on. And still people won't wear masks and meet secretely in groups, or, openly, with no regard to other people's lives or health and apparently not even caring about their own lives or future health.

okpkpkp
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In December 2019 my little brother was admitted to a southwest Florida hospital with pneumonia symptoms. 8 days in the hospital with 5 days in intensive care he was finally released. Much, much later he was tested and now has the COVID-19 antibodies. He was sicker than ever and thought he'd die. He is 49 and his lungs are now toast.

Sarah Luna
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How do you fake a virus? I've survived COVID but I'm not a success story. My permanent damage is not respiratory, it is neurological. And permanent means permanent, there's no reversing the damage.

abby smink
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

X-ray many covid patients in the ER, in addition to the routine x-rays we do on the Covid unit every day, and yes, they 100% look like that. Or worse.

Becky D
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was diagnosed with severe COPD and emphysema at 48. I had LVRS (lung volume reduction surgery) a year later, which I am forever grateful for because it actually led me to www .multivitamincare .org . I have read some of their stories online before using their natural herbal formula. I had a very hard time breathing then, and even more so at night, it was so bad I couldn't sleep. I get up with a tight chest that feels blocked and can’t breathe well at all,I was excused from normal life responsibilities but natural herbs from multivitamincare org really helped a but sometimes I think is God prodigy that I was able to treat my Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease but multivitamin care herbal formula has a big impact on my recovery because my heart condition has been fully reversed . They do things for me, and were too happy to comply with their service. This is an equitable way to get off your COPD emphysema .

E. Rangel
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just buried my uncle yes he was 81 yrs old and last yr roofed his house by himself no ailments, no diseases nothing wrong but covid never let him go.

Brendan Boudreaux
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I want to preface this by saying that I totally believe in COVID and all the repercussions, and think it is ridiculous that people dont take it seariously, but I own an x-ray engineering company and I don't think that 3rd picture looks the way it does bc of covid. you can see multiple artifacts in the shot as well as likely an incorrect SID (basically, it just looks like a bad shot). and I'm not sure about the last photo either, because it looks like a Catheter shot on maybe a C-arm or Cath room. Whether these shots are real or not, please take covid seriously. Also want to say, I could be wrong because im on the engineering side and not a radiologist, but those last two shots just look off to me.

Ronel du Plessis
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not only the damage done to the lungs. My twin sister had Covid Sept 2020. A week ago she had a mild heart attack all because of the damage done by this virus.

lara
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hmm mask mandates: From Western Journal: Globally speaking, however, it seems we should be counting our lucky stars. In late December, Amnesty International published a 29-page report about the use of brutal force in 60 countries to enforce COVID mandates. The report, which noted that “The pandemic has been used frequently as a pretext to introduce laws and policies that violate international law and roll back human rights,” details dozens of cases of governments mistreating, and in some cases even torturing or killing, people all over the world.

Pascal Schläpfer
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3 years ago

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I'm pro vaccines, and pro preventative measures. However, I'm also against misinformation. The Covid Patient has scoliosis to a quite bad degree. This is either an elderly person, or a person with quite bad other conditions. This is comparing apples and oranges, and just shows how opinionated the entire issue is.

Rosie Hamilton
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hmm... NHS has this to say about scoliosis: It can affect people of any age, from babies to adults, but most often starts in children aged 10 to 15. Scoliosis can improve with treatment, but it is not usually a sign of anything serious and treatment is not always needed if it's mild. /// This person could have had the problem from a child and could be any age right now. Doesn't mean either that they had any other health conditions that would make covid a more serious disease for them. I'm also not saying that you are wrong - just that it isn't conclusive.

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Davor Jelacic
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3 years ago

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Tip if anyone wants, even though "experts" say no need to wash groceries, take a kitchen wash cloth (those spongy rag thingies that always stink after 3 days) and mix a 2-3 % bleach mix and wipe down everything except fruits and veggies. For that, go to a pharmacy and ask for a chlorium hypochloride (Salad cleaning solution) and mix as indicaded. My logic is even though the virus needs to penetrate the lungs, what if the food takes a wrong turn? And having infected groceries in your fridge contaminating everything would drive me crazy.

David Retsler
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is no such thing as "chlorium hypochloride." Are you trying to say "sodium hypochlorite"? Regular household bleach is chlorine based sodium hypochlorite so maybe that's what you mean? Either way, I can't take this kind of advice from someone who can't be clear with their recommendation. Even more so when harmful chemicals are involved.

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lara
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3 years ago

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New article on China's contribution to Covid 19: https://www.foxnews.com/world/chinese-ice-cream-contaminated-covid-19

mollison
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yeah i'll just go grab my parents out of the ground and let them know that they can stop faking it

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TexasWoman
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3 years ago

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Most people are faking it and a good portion also suffers from other medical problems, so their death isn't always because of COVID. Also, what's the point of wearing masks because no matter if you wear one or not, people are still getting the virus.

Lola DM
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Guess I'm gonna ask my dad to stop faking it and come out his funeral urn.

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Ren Karlej
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

By the idiot brigade. People who persist in thinking this is no worse than flu either haven't bothered to do the reading or don't understand it.

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Della Greymane
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Relatively healthy 48 year old, I caught the virus the first week of December. Ended up in the hospital but discharged right before Christmas, and I am still at home on O2 full time. More than 5 min without O2 has my sats in the low 80s. Doc thinks it may be February before I can ditch the cannula

Ren Karlej
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Feel for you Della - really hope you recover fully and as soon as possible.

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Leo Domitrix
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yep. This. Granted, some post-COvid patients recover better than others ------ no complete picture who/what/why ----- but post-Covid lungs as a rule are horrible. We were brought in to see an autopsy to show us. And I'd seen healthy and smoekr lungs on autopsy in the past. So.... Scarring from smoking is bad. post-Covid lungs remind me of black lung, minus the black. Just.... destroyed. MASK UP AND STAY SAFE PLEASE!

Aksa
Community Member
3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My father died after 2 weeks in the hospital. The fight was hard, he received medications and even plasma from a healer. His condition, after a slight improvement, suddenly deteriorated significantly and he died. Alone, scared, he just suffocated. He was a healthy 60-year-old who allowed sports. It is not a light disease, someone will get over it and someone will get the hardest, but you never know how you will get it. Take care of yourself and others. Dying alone and in fear is terrifying.

Mimi777
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m so sorry you lost your father. I can’t imagine. And you’re exactly right.

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Claire
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In case anyone was wondering, PTX is pneumothorax, which is air inside the thoracic cavity but outside the lung.

PaulV
Community Member
3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And PMH is past medical history. Doc says "no other," meaning no other contributory diseases, lung or otherwise, that may explain this CoVid lung picture; i.e., the lung effect here is all CoVid. Tachy means tachycardia, increased heart rate as the heart attempts to compensate for lower oxygen delivery. Desat means desaturation, lowered oxygen saturation of the blood. The medical picture speaks as one, as the doctors hope it would from a diagnostic standpoint.

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deanna woods
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My father has already had problems with fluid in his lungs and has had to be on oxygen before, so that's why my family does everything we can to protect him from this very deadly virus. Coronavirus is very real and should be taken very seriously. Going to a restaurant, to a bar, or to the movies is not that important right now and it is certainly not worth it.

Kim
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In November I watched a patient fall ill. The day after he could barely breath, his lungs were filled with fluids and mucus and he died at day two. He didn’t even live to get the COVID test result back. This disease is no game. 😷

Cori
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My good friend is still on oxygen after having covid last summer. Docs have no idea when or IF she will ever come off it.

Katinka Min
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had a mild case ten months ago. The shortness of breath has finallly improved last month but I still have the feeling my lungs are not back ot normal. And who knows if there are any other side effects like a thrombosis sitting around somewhere.

Colin Mochrie At Its Finest
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one pisses me off....I spent my life away from smoke inhalation (weed, fire, cigarettes) and if I get covid, screw it-my lungs would be f u ck ed.

Iapetos
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

May the covidiots face the consequences to their wrongdoings, all by themselves without harming anyone else.

Rainbow Panda
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To those who still don’t believe it, just wear a mask. You don’t die from wearing one. Honestly, people wear masks way longer than you, so suck it up and wear one. 😷

Tom Hardeveld
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

exactly. If people (without any lung condition ofcourse) claim they "cant breath wit a mask on", ask them how surgeons wear them during 8 hour operations and hold their breath for that long. In my line of work I wear them for hours on end and sometimes even forget tot take them off in the carride home

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Tom Hardeveld
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I still meet people in shops (workers AND customers) who refuse to wear a mask of use them as chin-diapers. I alsways ask employees to put one on before helping me, causing a lot of eyerolls. Then I tell them: "I want to play a game. It's called: How many loved ones did you get to bring to the graveyard due to Covid? I'll start! 3! " Trust me, that shuts them up every time. I wish I was joking about that number

John Topper
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I work with covid-19 patients as well, and this is a major complicating factor. People only see the direct death result as a number, but there is no way to account for people who have severe deficits after recovering, and who will eventually die from it. That damage is going to remain, and the patient is going to be a massive amount more likely to contact pneumonia or another lung disease, and vastly more likely to die from it. These are all deaths that happen because of covid, but are attributed to something else. The indirect death toll will likely be much higher than the direct toll.

Myxomatosis
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Almost ONE YEAR post Covid. No wonder it's still a rough go. I refuse to go to the doctor because I got sick there.

Odette Greyling
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This, this is why I stay in my flat and do not go to meet the family. And why I cross the street if someone is not wearing a mask. (It is mandatory here in Spain) People might laugh at me, but that's fine. This virus is terrifying. More terrible long term effects are added as time goes on. And still people won't wear masks and meet secretely in groups, or, openly, with no regard to other people's lives or health and apparently not even caring about their own lives or future health.

okpkpkp
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In December 2019 my little brother was admitted to a southwest Florida hospital with pneumonia symptoms. 8 days in the hospital with 5 days in intensive care he was finally released. Much, much later he was tested and now has the COVID-19 antibodies. He was sicker than ever and thought he'd die. He is 49 and his lungs are now toast.

Sarah Luna
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

How do you fake a virus? I've survived COVID but I'm not a success story. My permanent damage is not respiratory, it is neurological. And permanent means permanent, there's no reversing the damage.

abby smink
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

X-ray many covid patients in the ER, in addition to the routine x-rays we do on the Covid unit every day, and yes, they 100% look like that. Or worse.

Becky D
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was diagnosed with severe COPD and emphysema at 48. I had LVRS (lung volume reduction surgery) a year later, which I am forever grateful for because it actually led me to www .multivitamincare .org . I have read some of their stories online before using their natural herbal formula. I had a very hard time breathing then, and even more so at night, it was so bad I couldn't sleep. I get up with a tight chest that feels blocked and can’t breathe well at all,I was excused from normal life responsibilities but natural herbs from multivitamincare org really helped a but sometimes I think is God prodigy that I was able to treat my Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease but multivitamin care herbal formula has a big impact on my recovery because my heart condition has been fully reversed . They do things for me, and were too happy to comply with their service. This is an equitable way to get off your COPD emphysema .

E. Rangel
Community Member
3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Just buried my uncle yes he was 81 yrs old and last yr roofed his house by himself no ailments, no diseases nothing wrong but covid never let him go.

Brendan Boudreaux
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I want to preface this by saying that I totally believe in COVID and all the repercussions, and think it is ridiculous that people dont take it seariously, but I own an x-ray engineering company and I don't think that 3rd picture looks the way it does bc of covid. you can see multiple artifacts in the shot as well as likely an incorrect SID (basically, it just looks like a bad shot). and I'm not sure about the last photo either, because it looks like a Catheter shot on maybe a C-arm or Cath room. Whether these shots are real or not, please take covid seriously. Also want to say, I could be wrong because im on the engineering side and not a radiologist, but those last two shots just look off to me.

Ronel du Plessis
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's not only the damage done to the lungs. My twin sister had Covid Sept 2020. A week ago she had a mild heart attack all because of the damage done by this virus.

lara
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hmm mask mandates: From Western Journal: Globally speaking, however, it seems we should be counting our lucky stars. In late December, Amnesty International published a 29-page report about the use of brutal force in 60 countries to enforce COVID mandates. The report, which noted that “The pandemic has been used frequently as a pretext to introduce laws and policies that violate international law and roll back human rights,” details dozens of cases of governments mistreating, and in some cases even torturing or killing, people all over the world.

Pascal Schläpfer
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3 years ago

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I'm pro vaccines, and pro preventative measures. However, I'm also against misinformation. The Covid Patient has scoliosis to a quite bad degree. This is either an elderly person, or a person with quite bad other conditions. This is comparing apples and oranges, and just shows how opinionated the entire issue is.

Rosie Hamilton
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hmm... NHS has this to say about scoliosis: It can affect people of any age, from babies to adults, but most often starts in children aged 10 to 15. Scoliosis can improve with treatment, but it is not usually a sign of anything serious and treatment is not always needed if it's mild. /// This person could have had the problem from a child and could be any age right now. Doesn't mean either that they had any other health conditions that would make covid a more serious disease for them. I'm also not saying that you are wrong - just that it isn't conclusive.

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Davor Jelacic
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3 years ago

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Tip if anyone wants, even though "experts" say no need to wash groceries, take a kitchen wash cloth (those spongy rag thingies that always stink after 3 days) and mix a 2-3 % bleach mix and wipe down everything except fruits and veggies. For that, go to a pharmacy and ask for a chlorium hypochloride (Salad cleaning solution) and mix as indicaded. My logic is even though the virus needs to penetrate the lungs, what if the food takes a wrong turn? And having infected groceries in your fridge contaminating everything would drive me crazy.

David Retsler
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There is no such thing as "chlorium hypochloride." Are you trying to say "sodium hypochlorite"? Regular household bleach is chlorine based sodium hypochlorite so maybe that's what you mean? Either way, I can't take this kind of advice from someone who can't be clear with their recommendation. Even more so when harmful chemicals are involved.

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lara
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3 years ago

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New article on China's contribution to Covid 19: https://www.foxnews.com/world/chinese-ice-cream-contaminated-covid-19

mollison
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yeah i'll just go grab my parents out of the ground and let them know that they can stop faking it

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TexasWoman
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3 years ago

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Most people are faking it and a good portion also suffers from other medical problems, so their death isn't always because of COVID. Also, what's the point of wearing masks because no matter if you wear one or not, people are still getting the virus.

Lola DM
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Guess I'm gonna ask my dad to stop faking it and come out his funeral urn.

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