From: januarybaybee@gmail.com   
      
   Dr. Fauci’s letter to the public   
      
   “Chickenpox is a virus. Lots of people have had it, and probably don't think   
   about it much once the initial illness has passed. But it stays in your body   
   and lives there forever, and maybe when you're older, you have debilitatingly   
   painful outbreaks of    
   shingles. You don't just get over this virus in a few weeks, never to have   
   another health effect. We know this because it's been around for years, and   
   has been studied medically for years.   
      
   Herpes is also a virus. And once someone has it, it stays in your body and   
   lives there forever, and anytime they get a little run down or stressed-out   
   they're going to have an outbreak. Maybe every time you have a big event   
   coming up (school pictures,    
   job interview, big date) you're going to get a cold sore. For the rest of your   
   life. You don't just get over it in a few weeks. We know this because it's   
   been around for years, and been studied medically for years.   
      
   HIV is a virus. It attacks the immune system and makes the carrier far more   
   vulnerable to other illnesses. It has a list of symptoms and negative health   
   impacts that goes on and on. It was decades before viable treatments were   
   developed that allowed    
   people to live with a reasonable quality of life. Once you have it, it lives   
   in your body forever and there is no cure. Over time, that takes a toll on the   
   body, putting people living with HIV at greater risk for health conditions   
   such as cardiovascular    
   disease, kidney disease, diabetes, bone disease, liver disease, cognitive   
   disorders, and some types of cancer. We know this because it has been around   
   for years, and had been studied medically for years.   
      
   Now with COVID-19, we have a novel virus that spreads rapidly and easily. The   
   full spectrum of symptoms and health effects is only just beginning to be   
   cataloged, much less understood. So far the symptoms may include: Fever –   
   Fatigue – Coughing –    
   Pneumonia - chills/Trembling - Acute respiratory distress - Lung damage   
   (potentially permanent) - Loss of taste (a neurological symptom) - Sore throat   
   – Headaches - Difficulty breathing - Mental confusion – Diarrhea - Nausea   
   or vomiting - Loss of    
   appetite - Strokes have also been reported in some people who have COVID-19   
   (even in the relatively young) - Swollen eyes - Blood clots – Seizures -   
   Liver damage - Kidney damage – Rash - COVID toes (weird, right?)   
      
   People testing positive for COVID-19 have been documented to be sick even   
   after 60 days Many people are sick for weeks, get better, and then experience   
   a rapid and sudden flare up and get sick all over again. A man in Seattle was   
   hospitalized for 62 days,   
    and while well enough to be released, still has a long road of recovery ahead   
   of him .   
      
   Then there is MIS-C. Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children is a   
   condition where different body parts can become inflamed, including the heart,   
   lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes, or gastrointestinal organs. Children with   
   MIS-C may have a fever and    
   various symptoms, including abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, neck pain,   
   rash, bloodshot eyes, or feeling extra tired. While rare, it has caused deaths.   
      
   This disease has not been around for years. It has basically been 6 months. No   
   one knows yet the long-term health effects, or how it may present itself years   
   down the road for people who have been exposed. We literally *do not know*   
   what we do not know.   
      
      
   For those in our society who suggest that people being cautious are cowards,   
   or people who refuse to take even the simplest of precautions to protect   
   themselves and those around them, I want to ask, without hyperbole and in all   
   sincerity: How dare you?   
      
   How dare you risk the lives of others so cavalierly. How dare you decide for   
   others that they should welcome exposure as "getting it over with", when   
   literally no one knows who will be the lucky "mild symptoms" case, and who may   
   fall ill and die. Because,   
    while we know that some people are more susceptible to suffering a more   
   serious case, we also know that 20 and 30-year-olds have died, marathon   
   runners and fitness nuts have died, children and infants have died.   
      
   How dare you behave as though you know more than medical experts, when those   
   same experts acknowledge that there is so much we don't yet know, but with   
   what we DO know, are smart enough to be scared of how easily this is spread,   
   and recommend baseline    
   precautions such as:Frequent hand-washing - Physical distancing - Reduced   
   social/public contact or interaction - Mask wearing - Covering your cough or   
   sneeze - Avoiding touching your face - Sanitizing frequently touched surfaces .   
      
   The more things we can all do to mitigate our risk of exposure, the better off   
   we all are, in my opinion. Not only does it flatten the curve and allow health   
   care providers to maintain levels of service that aren't immediately and   
   catastrophically    
   overwhelmed; it also reduces unnecessary suffering and deaths, and buys time   
   for the scientific community to study the virus in order to come to a more   
   full understanding of the breadth of its impacts in both the short and long   
   term.   
      
   I reject the notion that it's "just a virus" and we'll all get it eventually.   
   What a careless, lazy, heartless stance.”   
      
                   - attributed to Dr Fauci, but actually written by Amy Wright   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)