"PS: unsubscribe from this substack, you lunatic." Hahahaha. Spot on. I'm still amazed by people who've had covid and still wear masks. What the hell? I blame the CDC and PH for continuing to deny or minimize the protection from previous infection. They clearly don't see the studies.
Yes!! This is spot on!! My son tested positive last Sunday and his doctor told us to make sure to isolate him in his room and avoid exposure to him - he is a twin and shares his room with his twin - so we did not follow his doctor’s orders - we went on with life as usual, and guess what? No one else got symptoms and he had a cough for couple of days, felt blah for one day, and then was perfectly fine! It’s amazing to me that these doctors we trusted all of our lives are getting things so wrong these days… kind of makes it hard to know who we can trust and who we should not… thank you, Dr. Prasad, for always being so knowledgeable and willing to share your wisdom!
I have long told my patients to just go on as they would have gone on with a cold for the past decades. Many will listen. Some will not.
I had two patients back to back last Friday that tested positive. I told them both just to rest when they felt sick (as they always would have) and all would be well. One went elsewhere and got Paxlovid although I told him it was not worth the risk/expense/time. Three days later, both felt just fine.
One was thrilled he skipped the Paxlovid. The other thought it had saved him. When I pointed out the confirmation bias, I got the usual shrug. It will take a long time, but well written pieces like this help. Thanks Vinay.
My wife brought it home from a group trip to NYC. I didn't wear a mask, but did start a prophylactic regimen of Ivermectin, Quercetin, Zinc, and Melatonin. I had one bad day, but have recovered for the most part testing fairly positive after the fifth day.
Amen VP!! This may be your best most direct post yet! This needs to be shared by all that follow! Perhaps it will reach another MD who is seeing especially young healthy patients every day for yearly checkups…and might stop and say… Wait …yeah why WOULDN’T I tell my patient something similar to this?! Why haven’t I been saying this?! Especially to the parents of kids & educate them properly on risk/benefit, and especially those college students!! I am not an MD… But I have been saying this for months and months and months but I tend to use early 2019 as my comparison… Why in February 2019 wasn’t everybody masking? I mean it was respiratory season… Why didn’t anybody think of it?! Why didn’t I have to wear my mask to the doctors office for a regular check up in January 2019? I mean the flu was running rampant amongst many other things… Were they complacent? Did they not care about me?! Stupidity! And of course all the other continued things that still happened in 2022… Why when one toddler was out sick didn’t all the other toddlers in the class have to stay home… Why?! I hope those in policy positions sooner or later begin to ask themselves these questions or have a good conscience and say… We simply can’t do anything like this anymore especially when fall hits and cases rise… As they will… Time to wake up.
I live with my parents, who are 70+ years old. They have gotten three shots. When I caught covid in January, I made sure to go into the kitchen and restroom at different times, set up an air purifier in the place I would be the most, and wore a mask when going through common areas. But I didn't get a hotel room for a week, and my parents were pretty calm about the whole thing. We can exercise caution without acting like crazy germaphobes.
One of my coworkers (a teacher) "makes" his students (all adults) wear masks even though the mandate is over. He wears an n95 outdoors and teaches behind plexiglass. If I were a germaphobe like him, I would've bought two air purifiers as well, but I've realized that many people who claim to be very concerned about covid don't actually put their money where their mouth is. So many people still wear cloth or surgical masks. If you're that concerned, go buy kf94s or kn95s.
Had a family get-together recently. Someone talked about a recent wedding where the groomsman wasn't "allowed" to attend because he wasn't vaccinated. This was the family requiring vaccinations, not the city or the venue. Nuts. What was sad is the family friend agreed with this decision. Unfortunately, so many people still think an individual not getting a vaccine puts others at risk. I mean ... were wedding attendees being required to mask as well? Bride and groom? If they weren't, then prohibiting unvaccinated people to attend is hypocritical and illogical.
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Paid to subscribe just so I could ask this question, so I'd love a response from anyone on this thread. I desperately want to get on board with Dr. Prasad's perspective here, but I remain fearful of long covid. I keep thinking back to the litany of studies that show damage the the brain, lungs, and other organs, as well as elevated risk for cardiac events. Why are folks so confident that this research is nothing to worry about? I understand that all viruses carry long-term risks, but the research seems to suggest to me that the risk is much higher with covid. Please tell me why I'm wrong so I can go back to living life!
Glad to see you've arrived to the "Get away from me you lunatics" point. I was at the stage where I was desperate to see people shed their masks - until now. Now I am happy they oblige me by announcing their cowardice and tyranny. I want to know who they are.
This is so tricky. I know of families that all had Covid at the same time, and I know a family where the kids caught it (at strictly masked school, and they hadn’t been anywhere else), then months later the mom caught it, then a few weeks later the dad caught it. I don’t know that they took any precautions at home. I’ve read tweets to the effect of, “omg I caught Covid and I didn’t want my partner to catch it, so we wore n95s except when sleeping, and we slept in separate rooms, and we opened all the windows in the dead of winter, and we had 3 Corsi-Rosenthal boxes going at all times, and behold, my partner was spared! And I made sure I got a PCR test when I was done, so that my case would be recorded.” I haven’t yet been sick, and I feel guilty about not wearing masks (I despise them) so I avoid most indoor places, and wear masks sometimes out of guilt (I know this is irrational, but I’m trying to hedge my bets, here). I don’t believe masks are nearly all they’re cracked up to be, but my friends and colleagues mostly have the mask religion, so I feel…..a bit awkward…..for a Democrat…..and we live in the world of Red Church and Blue Church.
Voice of sanity.
"PS: unsubscribe from this substack, you lunatic." Hahahaha. Spot on. I'm still amazed by people who've had covid and still wear masks. What the hell? I blame the CDC and PH for continuing to deny or minimize the protection from previous infection. They clearly don't see the studies.
Love this! The GOAT voice of COVID!
Yes!! This is spot on!! My son tested positive last Sunday and his doctor told us to make sure to isolate him in his room and avoid exposure to him - he is a twin and shares his room with his twin - so we did not follow his doctor’s orders - we went on with life as usual, and guess what? No one else got symptoms and he had a cough for couple of days, felt blah for one day, and then was perfectly fine! It’s amazing to me that these doctors we trusted all of our lives are getting things so wrong these days… kind of makes it hard to know who we can trust and who we should not… thank you, Dr. Prasad, for always being so knowledgeable and willing to share your wisdom!
I have long told my patients to just go on as they would have gone on with a cold for the past decades. Many will listen. Some will not.
I had two patients back to back last Friday that tested positive. I told them both just to rest when they felt sick (as they always would have) and all would be well. One went elsewhere and got Paxlovid although I told him it was not worth the risk/expense/time. Three days later, both felt just fine.
One was thrilled he skipped the Paxlovid. The other thought it had saved him. When I pointed out the confirmation bias, I got the usual shrug. It will take a long time, but well written pieces like this help. Thanks Vinay.
My wife brought it home from a group trip to NYC. I didn't wear a mask, but did start a prophylactic regimen of Ivermectin, Quercetin, Zinc, and Melatonin. I had one bad day, but have recovered for the most part testing fairly positive after the fifth day.
Amen VP!! This may be your best most direct post yet! This needs to be shared by all that follow! Perhaps it will reach another MD who is seeing especially young healthy patients every day for yearly checkups…and might stop and say… Wait …yeah why WOULDN’T I tell my patient something similar to this?! Why haven’t I been saying this?! Especially to the parents of kids & educate them properly on risk/benefit, and especially those college students!! I am not an MD… But I have been saying this for months and months and months but I tend to use early 2019 as my comparison… Why in February 2019 wasn’t everybody masking? I mean it was respiratory season… Why didn’t anybody think of it?! Why didn’t I have to wear my mask to the doctors office for a regular check up in January 2019? I mean the flu was running rampant amongst many other things… Were they complacent? Did they not care about me?! Stupidity! And of course all the other continued things that still happened in 2022… Why when one toddler was out sick didn’t all the other toddlers in the class have to stay home… Why?! I hope those in policy positions sooner or later begin to ask themselves these questions or have a good conscience and say… We simply can’t do anything like this anymore especially when fall hits and cases rise… As they will… Time to wake up.
I live with my parents, who are 70+ years old. They have gotten three shots. When I caught covid in January, I made sure to go into the kitchen and restroom at different times, set up an air purifier in the place I would be the most, and wore a mask when going through common areas. But I didn't get a hotel room for a week, and my parents were pretty calm about the whole thing. We can exercise caution without acting like crazy germaphobes.
One of my coworkers (a teacher) "makes" his students (all adults) wear masks even though the mandate is over. He wears an n95 outdoors and teaches behind plexiglass. If I were a germaphobe like him, I would've bought two air purifiers as well, but I've realized that many people who claim to be very concerned about covid don't actually put their money where their mouth is. So many people still wear cloth or surgical masks. If you're that concerned, go buy kf94s or kn95s.
Had a family get-together recently. Someone talked about a recent wedding where the groomsman wasn't "allowed" to attend because he wasn't vaccinated. This was the family requiring vaccinations, not the city or the venue. Nuts. What was sad is the family friend agreed with this decision. Unfortunately, so many people still think an individual not getting a vaccine puts others at risk. I mean ... were wedding attendees being required to mask as well? Bride and groom? If they weren't, then prohibiting unvaccinated people to attend is hypocritical and illogical.
Lunatic is the perfect way to describe the people who just refuse to move on. What are they waiting for?
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Paid to subscribe just so I could ask this question, so I'd love a response from anyone on this thread. I desperately want to get on board with Dr. Prasad's perspective here, but I remain fearful of long covid. I keep thinking back to the litany of studies that show damage the the brain, lungs, and other organs, as well as elevated risk for cardiac events. Why are folks so confident that this research is nothing to worry about? I understand that all viruses carry long-term risks, but the research seems to suggest to me that the risk is much higher with covid. Please tell me why I'm wrong so I can go back to living life!
Glad to see you've arrived to the "Get away from me you lunatics" point. I was at the stage where I was desperate to see people shed their masks - until now. Now I am happy they oblige me by announcing their cowardice and tyranny. I want to know who they are.
This is so tricky. I know of families that all had Covid at the same time, and I know a family where the kids caught it (at strictly masked school, and they hadn’t been anywhere else), then months later the mom caught it, then a few weeks later the dad caught it. I don’t know that they took any precautions at home. I’ve read tweets to the effect of, “omg I caught Covid and I didn’t want my partner to catch it, so we wore n95s except when sleeping, and we slept in separate rooms, and we opened all the windows in the dead of winter, and we had 3 Corsi-Rosenthal boxes going at all times, and behold, my partner was spared! And I made sure I got a PCR test when I was done, so that my case would be recorded.” I haven’t yet been sick, and I feel guilty about not wearing masks (I despise them) so I avoid most indoor places, and wear masks sometimes out of guilt (I know this is irrational, but I’m trying to hedge my bets, here). I don’t believe masks are nearly all they’re cracked up to be, but my friends and colleagues mostly have the mask religion, so I feel…..a bit awkward…..for a Democrat…..and we live in the world of Red Church and Blue Church.
Best post yet. Well done!
Amen! 👏👏👏