Comments by "Snowbird" (@snowbird6855) on "COVID Global Update" video.

What worries me about getting the virus is the potential of becoming a "long hauler". These are people who have ongoing issues of all sorts that continue for months. And no one even knows if these will eventually disappear or not.
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@MonkeyWrenching If you're a single parent and need to work, or both parents work to afford to put a roof over their heads and food on the table, homeschooling is just not an option. There are also many who really couldn't manage homeschooling as not everyone is well educated themselves. But for some it may work.
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stephen Krik When you're over 60, your body doesn't efficiently convert sunlight into vitamin D. As I said, I get tested yearly and though I'm outside a lot hiking and gardening, traveling south twice a year, and sunning too, , it still wasn't enough. Especially in Canada.
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@drscopeify I guess you missed the point where tests are showing that the asymptomatic are also showing organ damage. And it's all ages experiencing this, not only those who're older or who got quite ill.
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@nomebear So glad you made it! You had one of the early cases where so little was known. Must've made it even more challenging.
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@clifffraser7433 It takes more than being out in the sun for an hour the older you are. I know, I've had my levels monitored for some years now and was surprised to see the drop in some of those tests. Now I just take 5,000 iu daily year round, especially now. I know others who take more. Even my husband takes the gel caps I give him even though he's not at all into natural health as I am.
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@nameremoved4010 YOU are part of the problem. Look at what basket ball player Rudy Gobert has to say these days. Remember him? The one who teased journalists by smearing his hands along the microphone that these people would need to use, taunting them for being fearful. Well as fate would have it, he not only tested positive and infected others due to his PIGHEADEDNESS, he STILL has ongoing issues. There is karma after all. 😉
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@nameremoved4010 I'm not low in vitamin D, I've been monitoring it for years
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@donald8066 If a home is leaking radon gas, long cancer results. There's testing for it.
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S Brown Tim Ower I read about it on the front page of the Newspaper (yup, we still get one), though I had already heard about this phenomena. The article highlighted 3 individuals still coping with the effects; from brain fog, exhaustion, to the feeling of having ants in the toes. That last one was reported by 28 year old NBA player Rudy Gobert. And there are thousands of long haulers, they have a support group in Canada, on Facebook. The article quotes a research letter published this week in JAMA that of 143 people hospitalized with Covid, 87% reported having at least one lingering symptom - fatigue and shortness of breath in particular, but also chest pain, 60 days after onset. Only 12% were completely free of any Covid related symptoms and 44% reported a "worsened quality of life". This virus not only causes acute respiratory distress syndrome, it attacks cells lining the inside of blood vessels in the gut, kidney, heart and brain. Doctors are seeing strokes, brain hemorrhages and diffuse brain injury, kidney failure problems and liver problems. That doesn't sound to me like flu Tim. This is a virus I don't want to get and I don't think it's inevitable that I will as I've never had flu (and never had a flu shot) and I'm 64. I certainly will not take a "warp speed" experimental vaccine either. There's no way any reliable safety data can be gleaned in less than 3-4 years of testing.
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