Pray for Emma Bates - She might have Covid-19

Agree on #1, although u probably mean scarring.

#2 symptoms are not exclusive to covid and could apply to flu, common cold, etc

I won't deny NBA players are privileged, however public health officers do something called contact tracing. there was at least one positive player (index patient) with it and thus it made sense to test several players, think about it, index patient touches that ball, his face, his mucous, touches the ball and passes it all around; you are talking about potentially 20-30 players having direct contact from one person. THEN, each team traveled and played another team thus exposing 30-60 more players.

regular people do not necessarily need to get tested. if you are sick and can manage your symptoms with over the counter meds, do that. going out to the doctor to get tested exposes you to truly sick people and it will be THERE that you will catch something.

getting a positive test DOES NOT make a difference. if a young person with mild symptoms is positive they will be SENT HOME to recover with Tylenol, cough medication, and told to rest.

TESTING makes NO DIFFERENCE for young people with no chronic conditions.

coronavirus.gov. cdc.gov. those are the sites to get information.

Privilege exists. Deal with it.

Crowd Sorcerer wrote:

What do you know about pulmonary fibrosis? Quick google search says the scarring doesn't go away, but maybe that's not always true?

dunes runner wrote:

Since this is supposedly a new virus, no one would anyone know if there would be scarring, and much less how long how long any damage would last because there hasn't been enough time. Someone's been making up a lot of fake news that is false.

Kvothe wrote:

its been going on since November in China. You'd think if there were serious lung damage we'd hear about it from all those recovered cases.

Exactly, which indicates that there is NO lasting damage, and that covid-19 is no more serious than the common flu.

fisky wrote:

I realize it's not on the CDC's coronavirus page, but the CDC has been behind the power curve on this disease.

I have always been skeptical of their claims, and the current situation is no exception.

With their horrible record, that anyone believes them is quite surprising.

If God let her get CV, then praying isn’t going to do much good, now is it? Seems like he made his mind up already.

here there be retards wrote:

Luckily for Emma, her brave president is defeating the red tape. He’s going to spit on his fingers and he’ll lube that red tape up and smash it into next week. All of this is down to the red tape, which the hero old aged pensioner president will rip a new one.

Red tape 0

Donald Trump 1

Hopefully he can do this before Bernie and Joe kick the bucket!

It seems same people that were calling this a hoax are now experts on the virus.

Keep training hard, get the virus and let me know how it goes.

Tough situation

1. She lowered her immunity by living isolated in Idaho

2. She trashed her immune system by racing the hardest marathon of her life.

3. She visited a COVID-19 disaster site.

praying? wrote:

If God let her get CV, then praying isn’t going to do much good, now is it? Seems like he made his mind up already.

lofl

This is why we are never going to get on top of coronavirus. We are now weeks into this crisis and still are no where even close to having enough test kits to be able to contain outbreaks. We have left it up to state and local health departments to come up with testing protocols to ration testing. That means we will have CA shut down and take the necessary measures to beat back the virus over the next few weeks. Then, some clown from Idaho who is positive, but never got tested, will cross the border into CA and reinfect everyone, starting the whole cycle over again.

AT THESWOOSH wrote:

Tough situation

1. She lowered her immunity by living isolated in Idaho

2. She trashed her immune system by racing the hardest marathon of her life.

3. She visited a COVID-19 disaster site.

One and two have zero effect and is bS (ask a doctor)

#3 is the only one that has any effect

No longer a fan of hers. This is a self attention seeking string of tweets. We have no idea what she may or may not have, and there are people in actually in a dire state right now. These people are not athletes, but their lives are equally as important. She needs to stop these types of tweets.

If she tests positive, then feel free to tweet it up.

not a doc wrote:

I can guarantee you corona virus doesn't leave you with permanently reduced lung capacity. Ya, it might take months to return to normal, but you will, use common sense! This isn't some apocalyptic disease.

I pray for Emma and hope she makes a speedy recovery.

It is weird that people routinely "guarantee" things that they not only have no control over but that they don't have even a cursory understanding of.

I don't wish anyone the virus, but why specifically should we pray for her? Does she suffer from severe illnesses or cancer? Is she part of the "high risk" group were the virus can be deadly?

I'm MUCH more worried about old people (70+) and people who suffer from severe diseases and illnesses such as cancer were getting the coronavirus can be very deadly.

If Bates is a healthy runner, she should have an immune system strong enough to deal with the virus. I'm not worried about getting the virus myself, but I still do anything not to get it not because I fear it for myself but because I don't want to potentially spread it to anyone else.

I just don't understand why exactly, out of 200k cases she gets singled out as special case, when I believe there are people and demographic groups where the infection can be MUCH worse than in a healthy elite runner.

Boulder bro wrote:

AT THESWOOSH wrote:

Tough situation

1. She lowered her immunity by living isolated in Idaho

2. She trashed her immune system by racing the hardest marathon of her life.

3. She visited a COVID-19 disaster site.

One and two have zero effect and is bS (ask a doctor)

#3 is the only one that has any effect

All three are very important.

Did she or her husband go to the doctor?

still here? wrote:

Privilege exists. Deal with it.

What a good slave you are

Houndest dog wrote:

No longer a fan of hers. This is a self attention seeking string of tweets. We have no idea what she may or may not have, and there are people in actually in a dire state right now. These people are not athletes, but their lives are equally as important. She needs to stop these types of tweets.

If she tests positive, then feel free to tweet it up.

If COVID damages her lungs that affects her livelihood, have some compassion for others.

Taking a trip to Spain after the trials wasn't very prudent. I hope she's ok but what a Moran. And then to call attention to having CoVid like symptoms seems awfully self-absorbed.