kinda like EVERYTHING causes gloBULL warming... feh
Posted on 07/01/2021 8:23:05 AM PDT by Enlightened1
A SAGE government adviser has said that fatigue, headache, sore throat and diarrhoea should be added to the list of COVID symptoms, prompting concerns that this will artificially inflate case numbers.
The London Times reports: “Including fatigue, headache, sore throat and diarrhoea on the official list of Covid symptoms would pick up a third more cases of the virus, Calum Semple, a member of the Scientific advisory group for emergencies (Sage), said.”
“As older people are vaccinated, proportionally more younger people are having the disease and they have a different group of symptoms,” Semple asserted, adding, “By extending the symptom list, we think we’ll pick up about a third more cases.”
By including symptoms that are common for other illnesses such as flu, if a third more cases are suddenly ‘discovered, SAGE can then attempt to fan the flames of hysteria by claiming the country is experiencing another “wave” of COVID infections.
Calling the idea “mission creep,” commentator Maajid Nawaz suggested that adding more symptoms to the list is an excuse to artificially boost case numbers, which will then be used to argue for further lockdowns in the winter.
Nawaz posted a Twitter thread in which he explained how including new symptoms would be “misleadingly unhelpful” and that COVID numbers are already being inflated because three times more people are being tested compared to December.
“We are NOT finding more covid positives. All we are doing is testing far more people (3x more people) to get the equivalent result,” wrote Nawaz, pointing out that hospitalization numbers remain low.
Some experts have previously warned that flu cases were already being falsely counted as COVID cases in order to boost figures, with epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski cautioning that, “Influenza has been renamed COVID-19 in large part.”
What about clammy hands?
What about feeling “icky”?
Diagnosis: You have COVID. Most likely the Delta variant, the deadliest of them all!!!!!!!!
CoupFlu was NEVER about public health.
What about flat feet and hairy palms?
Icky?
That’s the Iota Variant.
😱
How about fedupedness?
The Phi Variant and the Eta Pi Variant.
Oooooh. Deadly.
Weekend at Hunter's
Postnasal drip?
It’s Sniffles-19!
Everybody run!
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Did Joe plagiarize that from the disclaimer at the end of a drug commercial?
> fatigue, headache, sore throat and diarrhoea
So basically being over 50.
So, COVID has the same symptoms as old age?
Midriff bulge. The Blahs. Housitosis. The Frizzies. Iron-poor tired blood.
kinda like EVERYTHING causes gloBULL warming... feh
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Lol! This reminds me of that radio segment Floridiots in the news . They need to add a Covidiots now.
It is O.K. to list any known symptom of something as a possible symptom, but true diagnosis have a specific illness has to go beyond mere symptoms, whatever they are, and in the case of a virus or bacteria a specific infectious test is required. So many symptoms are common to so many different things they do not, by themselves, specify/indicate any specific illness.
I do have an 85 year old cousin who did get the Wuhan Virus last fall and his own symptom, and only ill feeling, was three days of diarrhea. A two day stay in the hospital restoring fluids, then home and no other symptoms or illness. His wife (same age) got the bug at the same time and had three days of a bad cold; that was all. Now they have their natural immunity built up.
War time flashbacks, ear mites, snoring, sweaty hugs, projectile burping, hydrophobia, non genital warts, hirsutism, awkward dancing, echolalia, anal leakage, insurrection lasting more than four hours, permanent loss of eyebrows and hyena laughter. Just to name a few...
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