COVID Isn’t a Cold. It’s Cigarettes All Over Again
It’s binding to your ACE2 receptors. Those are everywhere, your heart, your brain, your kidneys, your liver, your gut, your reproductive organs. Literally everywhere that matters.
You know what else binds to receptors everywhere?
Nicotine.
Remember how that worked out? People smoked for decades feeling totally fine. They ran marathons. They had babies. They built careers. Then boom, lung cancer. Heart disease. Emphysema. Strokes. The bill always comes due. It just takes a while.
COVID is running the exact same playbook, except faster.
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I’m not sure I trust a guy who writes that kind of OMG the sky is falling when he calls himself an “IT health professional”. He doesn’t seem to have any medical qualifications whatsoever. He also implies we had a lot of choices or still do with Covid. We don’t. It spread fast, far and wide. And, like all viruses, it will continue to live on no matter what we do.
In one sentence he says, “You had a choice. We all did. We chose comfort. We chose denial. We chose to look away.” Did we? Seems to me governments around the world went bonkers with Covid measures including masks, social distancing, requiring vaccines, etc. Does he think that making all of that mandatory again will help? I’m confused what his point is other than to try and scare people.
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Yeah, I should have put a caveat on that he sounded a bit alarmist 
However, it was just a nod in the direction that people seem to underestimate the long term effects of long Covid. I see that he makes reference to a wider study but I didn’t get to googling for that yet.
I certainly don’t think people should wear masks as standard but they do help if you are the one that’s sick. There has been an increase of people coughing and spluttering on my usual commute the last few weeks, most of whom seem to have forgotten to put their hand over their mouth. Yack.
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An article here about COVID-19 binding to ACE2 but I didn’t find anything about long-term effects
Edit: I doubt catching COVID-19 a couple of times a year would have the same effect on our organs as smoking every day
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Covid is not cigarettes all over again. An element of truth used to propose a ludicrous comparison. I just had my covid booster. I think it is the sensible thing to do. I have had covid twice and have no idea what the long term effects will be. That goes for multiple flu infections and and and. Scare mongering does not help. It took a lot of hard data to convince the majority of the tobacco problem.
I agree. I would also have a booster but I don’t fall into any qualifying risk categories unfortunately (or should that be ‘fortunately’?).
I had Covid just once and appear to have made a full recovery. For me, it was a few days of feeling dog-rough then a few more days coming out the other side of it. I really hope it didn’t mess things up on a cellular level which stores up future problems.
I’d be curious to see whether I still have Covid antibodies. I’m pretty sure I had the original Covid before the nasal test was developed, and have had some variant at least twice since, confirmed with nasal tests. Has anyone here had an antibody test recently?
pure panic making.
This on antibody testing: Antibody (Serology) Testing for COVID-19: Information for Patients and Consumers | FDA
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The body can retain COVID antibodies for several months, with studies showing immune memory in some individuals up to eight months after recovery.
T cells and B cells, which are involved in producing COVID antibodies, stay around longer, but I don’t know if tests for these are reliable and generally available
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I caught the original COVID on new years eve 2019, I still had antibodies 16 months later.
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That’s interesting because my OH went down with it on New Years Eve 2019. He’d not been very well for a few days and at the time I just put it down to him being a bit run down as he’d had a stressful time due to an issue at work with a colleague, the fact his mother had just died and in the run up to her death he was shuttling back and forth to London every other weekend. After 2 days he couldn’t breathe properly and had to see a doctor, he was put on a nebuliser and told he was close to pneumonia.
I was in Chamonix where a lot of British Airways long haul pilots & cabin crew live, they fly into Heathrow to start their trips. Over dinner our host was coughing badly & had been ill for a few days.
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Has anyone seen this documentary?
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Here’s a short summary of the documentary/film:
“Blame” is a 2025 Swiss documentary by Christian Frei that looks at the origins and aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic through the eyes of three scientists who had long studied coronaviruses in bats. It follows Linfa Wang, Zhengli Shi, and Peter Daszak — researchers who warned for years that viruses circulating in wildlife could spark a global outbreak — and shows how, when COVID-19 hit, they were thrust into intense public scrutiny, political blame and conspiracy theories instead of being listened to. The film contrasts the slow, careful work of science with the fast, messy world of politics, media and misinformation, reflecting on how fear and simplistic narratives can overshadow facts and damage trust in science.
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Im proud to say I said no to the vaccine hype.
I don’t really think that that’s anything to be proud of.
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I’m proud to say I took mines as I’d just come out of hospital after a hysterectomy the week before and was worried my immune system might be depleted, I also took the booster. When I was about to start cancer treatment 20 years ago my Oncologist advised me to get a flu jab done because your immune system conks out for about 3 days every time you have chemo, I couldn’t go out or have visitors to my house.
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I’ve been having flu jabs for over 40 years with no ill effects. Had all the COVID jabs and (now) annual boosters. Have also had tetanus and shingles also with no ill effects. If they invent a new vaccine I’ll be first in line.
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