| SvennoJ said: The 7 day average is in decline here as well. So far the weather has been really nice, next the real test comes. More rain, gloomy weather, getting colder. And with the kids in school the colds are upon us again. Our youngest is sick, I'm feeling it as well. Whatever measures against Corona, it's not stopping the common cold. Now I realize how good it was, 'isolating' for 18 months. Never sick, not having to deal with sore throats, headaches and this awfully tired feeling. Early bedtime tonight! |
This evening on Global News here they said that Merck, makers of Ivermectin, are apparently close to having a new pill that you can take daily that supposedly reduces the risk of covid infection by 50%. I know Merk was also working on something they said was having great effect in terms of heavily reducing transmission, so I'd guess it's probably the same thing. Can't help but wonder how close to Ivermectin it might be, just with another name.
Pfizer is also in stage 3 trials I believe of a similar oral treatment to significantly reduce the risk of covid infection.
I'm not sure about whether or not they'll be over the counter or will require prescription, but this should at least put to rest much of the vax vs anti vax controversy. Assuming of course that the vaxed sit back and wait for the legit anti vaxers to get their hands on it first. However based on how TP was handled, this gives me pause. Then again, it wouldn't surprise me to see 'anti oral' become a thing, because why not?
A few days ago I had the oddest symptoms of something. Cough, runny nose, raw sore throat, headache. Happened about 3 hours after returning home from town, where everyone is still masked up inside and nobody seemed obviously sick that I could notice. Either way, all symptoms were not only extremely weak, but each only lasted about 2-3 hours, one overlapping the next, and then nothing. Like a 12 hour cold I guess you could say. I'm going to guess it was likely a (close) strain to something I had prior and my immune system is just a touch weak due to the lack of spreading beyond covid.
Assuming covid fades away, though not completely, the flu and cold will simply replace it again, which will make the situation last longer yet. It's going to take a while for the most scared in society to become somewhat comfortable around anyone showing illness.
