I hear alot of discussion happening about whether or not Covid will likely kill or hospitalize you, which would seem highly unlikely if unvaccinated and young with no preexisting conditions. However, how likely is it for young adults and teens to acquire long covid symptoms such as brain fog, decreased lung capacity, erectile dysfunction, ongoing fatigue, organ damage, etc? How does the risk increase/decrease with age? How severe do these symptoms tend to be and how long lasting?
I also know a girl who is 25 who lost her sense of taste and smell due to covid to regain it months later but heavily altered. She now finds meat to taste and smell horrible despite loving to eat it earlier. What would cause this and how likely is this to occur? I don't want covid to turn me into a vegan.
I am not worried about dying but I dont really want to suffer brain damage and destroy my smell/taste. But, if you can get covid even with a vaccine, do vaccines even protect against these and are their own risks outweighed by the potential of Long Covid symptoms?
Hope to hear from you anons as I look into this too tonight.

I need a stats anon to help a brother out. If you look at the data of between covid contraction, hospitalization, and deaths combined with the age distribution of the hospitalizations.
A. Is it looking as if more people are getting it but less of a percent of those testing positive are having to go to the hospital due to it mainly being the younger and vaccinated getting it
B. Does it seems like less people are dying this time around as a percentage in the hospital than prior case spikes?
C. Do the deaths seem to be effecting younger people worse than before with these new varriants?
- Daily new cases
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendsdeaths
- Daily new hospital admissions
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#new-hospital-admissions
- Daily new deaths
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases
- Age distribution of the hospitalized
https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/covidnet/COVID19_5.html

How did America fuck this up so badly?

zinc deficiency is bad for covid but zinc seems to enable the binding of prion protein

sarscov2 has a weird prion domain
the spike proteins are prion oroteins if they're in the wrong place

should we be targeting zinc/copper ratios or deficiency?

What causes air to move around with the globe?
Is it the jetstream?
what about the southern hemisphere?

It's over.
My career is over.
A few months ago a classmate contacted me through whastapp during a final exam (I had already submitted mine through email) she wanted a copy of my answers because she didn't have enough time to study. I'm a charitative soul so I sent her the word file with my answers. there were about 20mins left, so she had plenty of time to rewrite all the answers.
But she didn't.
She simply attached the file I sent her to an email and sent it to the professors. She didn't rewrite anything. My name was still on the file.
I realized this 2 minutes later when she said "thanks, just sent it" and I asked her how did she manage to rewrite it so fast. apparently, she was under the impression that I had already rewritten everything for her. She cussed at me then blocked me.

Less than a week later I got an email from the faculty notifying me that I was being placed on academic probation and removed from all my courses and that an Acamedic Tribunal would evaluate my case and determine what punishment to apply. In the end I wasn't expelled, but a note about academic fraud was added to my transcript, making my degree pointless. No masters program anywhere in the world will accept such a transcript. Same with most employers. I had no choice to drop out.

I'm now starting over at a different University.
3 years of my life flushed down the drain.

I love science and meth

Hi.
I need an opinion on my song. It is about finding a starting point to go forward with oneself, and about making a life philosophy out of science.

Just to clarify:

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle - precludes: predicting the future and the existence of a so-called Laplece's demon
Triangulation - an approach in science to use different research methods to see a certain problem from different angles to maximize objectivity

Will post the rest in a next post.

Why can't energy be created or destroyed? It makes sense that it can only be transferred and can't be whisked out of thin air, but why is this?

Common examples are perpetual motion machines, which rely on being more than 100% efficient (and therefore producing energy) by being entirely frictionless and doing no work on the system. 4nvtp

Why do organs end up a certain size? For example, two individuals of the same height and weight can have livers that vary widely in size.

It probably has to do with different types of growth hormone secretion during developing years and eventually tissues stop responding to these signals, but through what mechanism does the body know when to stop growing certain organs? Why doesn't the liver, for example, not just grow forever? What mechanism tells the body "yep, this organ is fully developed, make it stop growing"?

I've not found an answer to this question, is the answer actually known?