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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Happened during the Great influenza, but they didn't discover the link with viral Parkinson's until much later. Now researchers know to look out for this sort of thing. (Source: my great grandmother had Parkinson's that was attributed to her bout of influenza during 1918.)

https://massivesci.com/articles/viral-parkinsonism-parkinsons-disease-motor-neuron-substantia-nigra-spanish-flu-weev/
Epidemiologists have determined that Spanish Influenza survivors have a 2-3x higher risk of developing Parkinson's Disease, now termed Viral Parkinsonism, compared to those who did not come into contact with the virus.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4684089/
Given the recent paper by Jang et al. on “A Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Influenza Virus” which reported a novel animal model of parkinsonism, we aimed to perform a complete historical review of the 20th and 21st century literature on parkinsonism and neurological manifestations of influenza.

Not scare tactics, this is basically common knowledge..[/quote]

The studies on Parkinson's disease and relationship to influenza, avian flu, Hep C etc are pretty compelling.  My sister is a scientist in the UK and says, other than risk of death based on any underlying conditions and personal vulnerability, this is the main reason you should avoid COVID.  The neurological effects, anosmia, etc. seem to be key indicators of such a connection, which are not seen with other common corona viruses.    I once had a strep throat diagnosis which I treated immediately with antibiotics, but ultimately developed into acute rheumatic disease--so i know first hand that a common illness can have surprising and long term effects well after the initial symptoms resolve.

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Yes, that has been my main reason for avoiding it as well.  I am so tired of the endless threads on here of people saying "your risk is low", "it's just a cold", "after I got it I realized it was no big deal and why did I waste time living in fear" yada yada, when you know these people are not looking at any of the research, and are likely the first to dismiss it because they are ready to be over the pandemic.  My biggest area of concern is what is going to happen next week with Omicron infecting more kids than ever.  Already, 1 in 10 kids in America have had Covid.  After Omicron, that will likely be much larger. If all these kids get Lewy Bodies, how does that manifest in the coming decades?  [/quote]

I’m with you. I think there’s basically a division between people who are willing to delay gratification and those who simply cannot. I’m not a gambler in any aspect of my life and certainly not with my health and that of my family. I am able to carve out and retain the things that are meaningful to me and leave the rest. Basically you are a grasshopper or an ant. [/quote]

Your kid will catch it, if not next week then next month or next year or five years, but they will catch it [/quote]

+1.  It’s unavoidable at this point.  Your whole family will have it sooner or later. [/quote]

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