Hello,
Sorry I keep sounding like a broken record but I have been completely over whelmed because I was called back to work and it’s insane right now. For those reading this will be a long post, so energy drink may be needed.
For those people who think this virus is a joke or it’s like the flu please understand that you don’t die from covid-19. First off the virus is actually sars cov 2 which this is the second of SARS and second of coronavirus which has been around for a long time. When combined it creates or causes novel corona-19. (This isn’t a novel like you read it’s novel because it’s a new virus and we haven’t seen it before. Which also means nobody is immune to this virus. Which also mean anyone and everyone who comes in contact with this will catch the virus. This will cause some kind of symptoms from mild to serious to death. Let’s be certain of definitions mild means you won’t have to be hospitalized which is roughly 80% ish. 20% will be hospitalized and half of those will be in icu. Then those that are in icu probably half to more will be on respirators. Now as of today we have over 300,000 cases, and roughly 10,000 deaths. Let’s do the math here my friends. If 80% have no hospitalization and 20% do, and half of that goes to icu that’s 10%. 10% of 300,000 is 30,000 people who will need respirators (ventilators). How many people think we actually have that many? Well to save time we don’t have that many, and not to mention we have not even hit the peak of this virus so chew on those numbers a little.
So how does this virus kill you? (We will get back to this also). Well this virus is a respiratory disease, so anyone who has a respiratory problem are high risk because this virus attacks the lungs. If one has copd, sleep apnea, asthma lung surgery etc. Now not only that, but it also affects you if you have high blood pressure (trust me it’s related), and other issues, obesity, and the age range use to be 80s etc. Now it doesn’t matter what your age is it will affect you. So if you hear on the news that you can’t catch this if your 20 or 30, or you hear it from work etc, then excuse my language but they are stupid. You can catch it and be contagious and give it to other people.
It’s important to know this virus is airborne, we can breath it in. People say but I’m 6 feet away, doesn’t matter it’s air borne. If you hug, kiss, cuddle, somebody snores next to you, then there is a good chance you will catch this, (why) because it’s airborne and we think it’s droplets. Which is important because if it is aerosolized then the N95 masks really don’t work at all. Plus people can get from contact, plastic, stainless steel etc, it’s still debatable how long it survives, it depends on the surface. So that counter, or that shopping cart, shoes, hand rails can all contain the virus for different amount time, from hours to who knows, we don’t actually know.
Once you inhale breathe this virus in, it’s gonna go down the pathway to your lungs aka trachea. Now peoples lungs are quite big and literally go up to the clavicle and go down to the bottom of your ribs or right above the waist line approx. Anyway lungs have these tiny little air pockets called alveoli and they do your gas exchange. To keep this simple there are two types of cells in the lungs. Type one is the gas exchange where we literally breath in and out. Let’s ask this, how long can people hold their breath? Me I’m like not even 30 seconds lol, if some one ever in high school gave me a swirly (head in toilet), I would not live very long. As Mr Miyagi would say breath in and out very important to always breath. This virus actually targets the type 2 pneumocyte which produces surfactant. What is surfactant well it’s kinda like a gooey fluid that’s in the fluid lining of the alveolar that helps it to collapse and expand. (This helps you breath). Trying to keep this simple lol and it’s hard. Anyway, so this type 2 pneumocyte has a receptor called ace or aka angiotensin converting enzyme. (Remember how I said this was related to high blood pressure). Has any one heard of an ace inhibitor? What this actually does and helps with is regulating blood pressure, (and those with high blood pressure take medication to regulate their blood pressure. Now somehow and I don’t know why and I’m not sure others do but the virus also attacks this ace inhibitor. So it makes its way into this protein and duplicates itself, (like a bunch of times), and cause the cell to die. Now this is one cell out of millions and once it dies it’s going to cause a huge inflammatory response. So naturally your body fights it and sends out a lot of L1 and L6, Alfa etc. One your body mounts a huge immune response is well how actually one dies. So as the body goes to defend itself and take on the virus, the response actually is what kills you. (Now we are wondering virus or immune that kills us right). Now, as these cells die your alveoli now bring in fluid into your lungs. This is bad because it cause pneumonia in your lungs. If my physics is right and we are gravity dependent then the fluid will start and or transfer to the bottom of your lungs. Now my friends this is not good and this is where things get very bad, it’s called consolidation.
The lungs will now fill with fluid, and they will function but as more cells die and more fluid comes in, your lungs get hard and makes it so one can not inhale and exhale. (This is bad), because it can not export the fluids. Now going back to the virus because this attacks the type 2 pneumocytes it destroys the lungs. So let’s say we have a perfect healthly lung and then compare to a (sorry) smokers lung per say. It reduces the alveoli aka air pockets in your lungs.
When this happens, as water fills your lungs, (holding your breath, being under water), now causes ARDS which is acute respiratory disease syndrome. You won’t be able to breath, exchange gases etc, because the lungs have been destroyed.
with this said that how does one go from bad flu symptoms to death. Well the connection between the two simply is pneumonia which then leads to Ards. Since the alveoli are soaked with nasty puss like fluid, the space between them also fills with fluid. Medically this is the interstitial space. You literally can not breath and the muscles around the lungs basically stop do exhaustion. This is wear you would decline in health really fast. It’s literally a super steep sloping decline. This is where I have to say I have to place tubes down your trachea and hook you to a machine (ventilator) so you have oxygen. The numbers are not exact or proven but if we have ten people on ventilators then probably 6 of them will die. This will no go from a lung problem to a massive snow ball effect. Major organs liver, heart and then kidneys will fail. It will be too much for any person to overcome and be healthy again. (Yes anything is possible, but odds are low). We would not even have enough dialysis machines for the small amount of people who have kidney failure.
This is very real my friends, this is not the darn flu. Stay home, quit playing golf, parties, what ever else you do. Wash your hands and just stay home. Bluntly put (sounds so morbid but true), if this happens to you and you develop fluids and ards we can’t save you. Not to mention it’s really frustrating when people still do parties and golf parties and bars etc whatever, and we have to risk our own lives, to try and save you. You may not get to the point where you have to be hospitalized, and those who are, well the odds are not in my favor of catching this, and I do have asthma, I would be one of the people on a ventilator and have a 40% chance of survival. Please take this seriously, you may survive but it’s possible you’re loved ones won’t, or a friend, even a nurse, dr, etc.
Oh and I have new pics of the tank as soon as they will upload.
my post was a tad long. Ops.
