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My memory is rusty on all of this, but I had in the back of my head (perhaps wrongly) that circulation of IgG diminished, and that the maintenance of the capacity to produce more retreated into the lymph nodes. But I will concede that may be a different process I am thinking about. :emoji_smirk:

IgG doesn’t last forever, so surely after it has broken down there will be no more made if the infection is somehow hidden from the immune system. I guess its durability is the question here.

This!

Hmmmmm.... I won’t deny the gut affects the brain (edit to add: & visa versa) but I’m not so sure that giving psychological therapies can help long term gut conditions. Sure, “butterflies in the tummy” before an important event can be managed with calming techniques, but in my view, it’s...

N.Ireland now making masks mandatory. I’ve been sewing masks for the Big Community Sew, and they’ve been handed out to groups in need over the last weeks. I may need to sew some more now. Image from Facebook.

Good video! :) (Except where he implies that post-COVID cognitive difficulties are the result of mental health issues after being ill. Meh.)

I thought so too. More on this Twitter thread (Also copied to the mask thread)

https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1286362342717095937

Moved from the coronovirus spread and control thread. Interesting article suggesting mask wearers may have less severe infection, if they catch COVID. “That’s the argument Dr. Monica Gandhi, UC San Francisco professor of medicine and medical director of the HIV Clinic at Zuckerberg San...

Tears in my eyes watching this! The book is excellent - so well written, especially when dealing with such an incredibly difficult issue. I listen to a lot of audiobooks, and this audiobook stands out as one of the most memorable books I have listened to. Such humour & love, in such trying...

I’ve been making masks again for #TheBigCommunitySew And did a video, as folk in the FB group I’m in were asking. (6 minutes)

Mask wearing now to be encouraged. Boris Johnson seen shopping wearing a mask. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53365062

The headline suggests mask wearing protects the wearer, but the article seemed less clear. Population data wouldn’t give detail on individual protection, if most people wore masks.

Yes. A friend on FB posted this. We both wondered at that too. She says she will ask about choice of comparators. Cancer and heart deaths also missing.

Fascinating graphic here on various global causes of death for 2020. Shows the rise of COVID, but the order of other causes (esp suicide & Parkinson’s) wasn’t what I expected. https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/2944635/?fbclid=IwAR1LhWSGhs4DVRIOheZDtEE8WvKHATiEfBQ6Dg7aajqBvAD-mEvx5S8nlng

Should have said - Good points @chrisb .... I know I didn’t really answer those points, but just went off on my own deconditioning ramble. I agree though, the logic that ME is caused by deconditioning simply doesn’t hold up.

Some personal thoughts regarding deconditioning: Getting fit when healthy is achievable with a little motivation and effort: EG When I was a healthy (but unfit) school-gate mum, a group of us decided to do the Belfast/Dublin maracycle (200 miles over 2 days). Our first trial run out was...

Oh... maybe that word “swab” shouldn’t be in my post.... it was the cotton bud on a long stick, it gets wiped over back of throat, then after that stuffed up each nostril in turn and twirled around a set number of times. So yes, nose and throat all done on the same cotton bud.