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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by hanniabu on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @01:33PM (#24213240)
Lockdown doesn't mean muscle atrophy. You can still do a lot at home even without equipment. Besides, if you want to continue to assume it causes muscle atrophy, then compare a population with muscle atrophy to a population with (likely) permanent organ damage due to a vascular disease (covid).
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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by partyboat1586 on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @01:52PM (#24213534)
Have you got any sources on covid causing vascular disease? I haven't heard about that.
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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by saalweachter on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:48PM (#24214458)
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/distinctive-features#:~:text=Wh....

That's the first article that shows for googling [covid-19 vascular disease].

Basically my understanding of the current understanding is that COVID-19 is better thought of as a disease that can cause blood clots, particularly in several organ systems, particularly in the lungs -- you start getting blood clots in your lungs and consequently can't breathe very well.

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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by partyboat1586 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:27AM (#24221127)
Very interesting. Thank you.
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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by alistairSH on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @02:37PM (#24214268)
Early days yet, but medical professionals are seeing cases of myocarditis that appears to follow COVID. Whether or not this leads to ling-term damage is unknown, but myocarditis isn't generally something you ignore.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/17/opinion/covid-19-heart-di...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertglatter/2020/08/17/covid-...

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Re:Secret gyms and the economics of prohibition by partyboat1586 on Thursday August 20, 2020 @04:36AM (#24221190)
Wow, sounds pretty serious. I experienced some of those symptoms in March after a particularly bad respiratory infection. Perhaps it's time to get an antibody test.
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