COVID-19 virus is evolving to get better at becoming airborne, new study shows

[conuly]

FFS, can't we get a damn break?

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[lauradi7dw]

"significant but only modest source control"

Is that a snippy remark about statistical significance?

[sabotabby]

This is why I have zero hope for the future.

[conuly]

Climate change and the creeping rise of the far right around the world is why I have no hope for the future. Ironically, if covid kills off enough of the far right, my hope for the future might stabilize.

[librarygeek]

COVID-19 can cause male infertility and erectile dysfunction that Viagra type drugs can't affect. Italian and Spanish medical sources were reporting on that, during the Italian surge in 2020.

Ivermectin has now been shown to also cause male infertility in 85% of the males trying to self-medicate with it here in the USA.

My fully vaccinated teenager is taking a fierce joy in these facts, while also being bitter about how much of their life is going to be affected by climate change and the far right.

I still remember the ventilator tube being removed after my own heart surgery in August 2017. I... Still can't wish anyone else THAT experience, even to die like that. Those who are dying of a sudden COVID caused myocardial infarction have been granted the only mercy that the unvaccinated may get, now. It's just after the High Holy Days for me, I can't wish someone else the long drawn out pain of an ICU death, no matter how much damage their own choices did to the environment or to more opportunities for COVID to mutate and kill even my vaccinated self or vaccinated family members.

[sixbeforelunch]

Ivermectin has now been shown to also cause male infertility in 85% of the males trying to self-medicate with it here in the USA.

Do you have a source on that? I went looking and only found this.

[thewayne]

Granted, I don't have time to read the article this morning - driving back to New Mexico today. Airborne particulates is its biggest threat vector, so while I can see this increasing the threat a bit, I don't see it changing much except for the problem of loose masks, which have always been a "protect you from me" thing really.

We need to change our cleaning technique in the library for the flu, though, if it gets bad. The cleaning solutions we're using recommend spraying the surfaces and letting them air-dry. We have four private study rooms that see a lot of use, I think we need to do a good spraying and see how long it takes the tables to dry.

[mtbc]

Snopes also wasn't impressed: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ivermectin-sterility-in-men/

[wpadmirer]

Well, fuck. I'm still wearing a mask at boxing and in the rock gym. I wear a really good thick, 3 layered mask that fits very well. I reserve these masks for when I'm working out and in the doctor's office.

[siderea]

No?

[siderea]

Ivermectin has now been shown to also cause male infertility in 85% of the males trying to self-medicate with it here in the USA.

No. It was shown to reduce fertility of sheep in Africa.

Debunked here: Stop Saying Ivermectin Causes Sterility (& Other Liberal Misinfo).

[sabotabby]

Same. They all think they're going to Heaven or Valhalla or whatever anyway.

[librarygeek]

Thanks for jumping on this. I thought it plausible because of the next part, and my teen was pretty happy with it. Failed on library science while preparing for Yom Kippur.

I do know, that having a preexisting cardiac condition, that when I had a flat tapeworm (my marine biologist husband cheerfully identified as a marine type and blamed my sushi habit), my doctors would *not* authorize the human dewormer medications, because of the high chance of cardiac damage side effects, so infertility like COVID-19 damage in small vessels was definitely plausible.

Instead, before a different surgery I needed done, they needed me to do a specific lower GI barium scan to confirm I was clear of worms before treatment of the endometrial hyperplasia and polyps removed. I was clear, that tasted terrible, I had my surgery, and then the open heart surgery about 10 months later.

And if I get facts wrong in that, blame the anoxia bouts before my open heart surgery (8/2017) and then the deep anesthesia for the heart-lung machine. I'm trying not to panic at all the people talking about ventilators for COVID, and not double checking always. I can't emotionally handle most of the references.

[silveradept]

The link shortener is not resolving for me at this moment, unfortunately.

Related to the headline, though, that seems like a logical mutation, given how effective it already is at infection by getting and staying airborne.

And I'll sum up in this sentence the paragraphs I might write at someone else about the necessity of infection control measures to be followed wherever possible, even if it costs employers money and we have to insist the rich give up some tiny fraction of their hoard to make sure they have enough workers to make them more profits in the end.

[frandroid]

This is a study that looked at the difference between the original COVID-19 virus and the Alpha variant. Not even looking at Delta. So basically it's fairly behind the times even if it just got published. This isn't saying that Delta isn't getting worse.

[archangelbeth]

I mean, reducing by 50% is significant! But also only modest, because it's still in coin-flip territory in the human brain.