Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Martin Kulldorff Interview: OPPOSING the Vax Mandate Got Me FIRED from Harvard" video.

Dr. Pierre Kory was just on Tucker Carlson. He strongly disagrees, and says long COVID compares to vaccine injury. When I was in high-school and college, with people in their late teens and twenties, a serious viral illness -- mononucleosis, food-borne hepatitis, pneumonia, meningitis -- took from 6 months to a full year for the patient to be back to 100% normal, as though they had never been sick. These were people in their prime, not middle-aged people with chronic conditions. Why would COVID be any different?
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Not only that, but when I was in high-school and college, with people in their late teens and twenties, a serious viral illness -- mononucleosis, food-borne hepatitis, pneumonia, meningitis -- took from 6 months to a full year for the patient to be back to 100% normal, as though they had never been sick. These were people in their prime, not middle-aged people with chronic conditions. The WHO doesn't even consider diagnosing "long COVID" before twelve weeks. This is very common. When I was a kid, my father called it "post-influenza weakness" and told me to exercise or walk a little bit more each day. He was right. If you want to make someone really sick, tell them you don't believe "it's a thing." They'll feel worse in a matter of minutes. You might get a fever spike out of them, too.
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He TAUGHT at Harvard. Looks like you missed a whole lot of what was said, huh?
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@norman_5623 Actually, coming down with the flu and surviving it means that you are immune to that particular strain A doctor will not know in advance whether you are immune to the current strain, or whether the quadrivalient vaccine offered that year will give good protection against the circulating strains, absent extensive and unnecessary testing. In any case, you're not a doctor and you claim to know about the flu, and you claim to know that doctors know about these things. Dunning-Kruger strikes again?
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There is overlap.
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@malachia908 Ha. I remember well. Two weeks may be enough to drop most restrictions except contact sports (look up the spleen in these illnesses), but it is by no means a full recovery. I had a friend who accused everyone of faking illness until she developed hepatitis during a trip to Central America, and was still nauseated and occasionally tired nearly 12 months later.
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@utah_koidragon7117 You're "willing to bet . . . " Why? Do you have some vested interest here? I'm not betting. I'm listening to what the so-called "heterodox" doctors have to say. Most suspect the vaccines play a role in these problems, contrary to what we've been told. A novel virus that very likely originated in a lab, in the course of research the purpose of which has never been made entirely clear to the public, is causing post-viral syndromes. But that sounds farfetched to you. I think we've lucked out, all in all. (Do some some people milk it? Does a bear, etc.?)
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@malachia908 That's not what I'm talking about. Of course most people do not develop a full-blown post-viral syndrome, for any of the diseases I mentioned. But dragging around for months, not yet yourself, and fighting to get your full energy back -- especially if you got sick in the dead of winter -- isn't unheard-of. In fact, it was the usual. More sleep, a better diet, and progressive exercise were recommended, and no drama. Don't tell me it wasn't real. We are disagreeing about semantics ("long COVID"), and how it should be treated. Now I'm remembering even more people I knew with pneumonia who experienced this issue. One was initially misdiagnosed, and ultimately had to take off a semester from doctoral studies at U of Chicago. Heavy-duty. She did complete it, of course, but she really had a scare and was tired for a long time. Same thing happened to a woman I knew who was in the army. Please. A severe chest cold with a fever can take two weeks to get back on track. Maybe people just don't tell you about it? They know what you'll say. 😂
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@malachia908 Fun fact: the CDC is already talking about "long COVID" after 6 weeks. The World Health Organization doesn't consider the possibility until months after the acute disease. Feeling kind-of crummy and not like yourself for six months is within the limit of what can be expected.
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