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Type O is good. Type A is not good. I'm type O but the benefit, while welcome, is not so much as to change my behavior at all. Being type O doesn't make someone impervious. Type O reduces the chances of being so sick as to need a ventilator, but that doesn't mean there won't be consequences. That's something else that the Chinese reported a few months ago that's now being confirmed in the rest of the world. Even after someone recovers, they may not fully recover. There can be permanent damage. Even for the lucky that are asymptomatic, they may still have permanent organ damage. They may not notice it now, but they may a few years down the road. The more and more we learn about covid. The worse and worse it gets. Covid is not a respiratory illness. It's a whole body illness that's spread through the respiratory system. To paraphrase Peter Piot, it effects every cell in the body.
FWIW, my doctor just called back with my blood type test results. I'm Type-O positive.
I'm the same. Roughly half the population is Type O. It's the most common blood type. Unfortunately Type A is the second most common.I've known my blood type since elementary school. We tested for it ourselves. This was decades ago before there were relatively painless spring loaded lancets. To a fourth grader, we used what looked like a little spear to poke ourselves.
My mom told me about doing that in school when she was a kid! It's mind-boggling now to think of a school being so cavalier about letting all the kids cut themselves and then potentially bleed on each other/the whole classroom.
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login I'm so sorry that happened to you! People can really be horrible. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login I'm sorry you and your mom were targeted as well. What is wrong with people!?!
Two things 1.) Some people react badly during a crisis/pandemic and 2.) We have a leader who doesn't lead by example. That's what's wrong with people!
I had someone harass, threaten and discriminate against me on our Los Angeles public transit today. They got up out of their seat, walked towards me and screamed about “why am I spreading the virus” and to “bring it back to your country”. The entire time I’m “Jedi Mind Tricking” and hoping he stops his nonsense and hatred and walks back to his seat.
Fast forward to now and that part is easy compared to seeing all the resistance and noncompliance with masks and distancing and not gathering in large groups. Or else the anti Asian/Chinese rhetoric or the “covid is a hoax” rhetoric. I really could not have envisioned that coping mentally with all this would be the greatest challenge.
brand4d2, I’m sorry you experienced that. I’m half Vietnamese and my mother is Vietnamese and I worry for her when she goes out. I feel I have to guard her 24/7. A couple of weeks ago, I took her to a Vietnamese market and from a distance a white woman who looks like she hasn’t showered in over a month was yelling “YOU DON’T BELONG HERE.” I kept my mother a safe distance from her, but had she gotten close to us, I think there’s a good chance either one of us would end up in jail.
Sorry you got confronted with the reality of public transportation. It seems to be a magnet for crazies of all races. I grew up in New York and had to put up with them on occasion. Sometimes I watch videos of public transportation shouting matches and fist fights on YouTube.
You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login How awful! Please be careful and thank you for taking care of the patients. I read an article in Time magazine about this issue today. You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login