I'm beginning to wonder if frequent flyers will be more affected by vex effects.
Considering great replacement things, it would also serve well to see vex rates by country, as this will potentially accelerate population changes.
I am so disheartened to think of the consequences of this vex. The future pains, fears, and sorrow of so many.
Why legs and lungs? A recent post about a football player with clots also had them there, too from what I recall.
While I didn't partake in vexing, I still am curious if someone could self-diagnose these clots before having a heart attack. Presumably luck is involved, at least with respect to the clot location.
Parent had to go into the hospital recently, complaining of back-pain, so we took her in for a checkup.
Once they got the results, they basically told her 'You need to go to the emergency room, NOW'. Thankfully, despite the fact that she had, y'know, a fucking blood clot that was migrating toward her lungs, she was overall rather healthy, so made it out okay.
The thing is... what causes most blood clots? Just sitting around. Alot. They form 'naturally' in the leg and then migrate elsewhere. Every last doctor she talked too basically said 'Start exercising and you won't have this problem'. She's basically sitting around on her ass all day long, doing nothing but reading and watching TV.
That's what it takes to cause blood clots. Sitting on your ass 24/7, almost. You really shouldn't be seeing in the people that are getting it unless they've got something REALLY exotic going on in the background.
And before you ask, no, she never got the vex. All my immediate family are purebloods.
You'd be surprised how sedentary you have to be before DVT becomes a real issue. Even if you just flex your legs every so often, that's usually enough. The people who get them from sitting around all day are the type to fuse with their couch all day, only moving when absolutely necessary. They also generally have terrible blood flow to begin with.
I wouldn't be surprise that after a year of being locked in our homes, there was a spike in blood clots just from people not moving around enough. Especially since exercise was an arrestable offense.
Just in case we forgot how retarded everyone got for 3 years.
No more than old or sedentary people I don't think. The whole "airplanes cause DVTs" thing was a misinterpretation of the facts. Transcontinental flights in coach, yes. Big DVT risk. Two hour flights, not so much.
Almost every country is pretty close to each other except all of Africa, which is next to zero. That could just be because it's impossible to get medicine into most of that shithole without a warlord stealing it though.
I'm 50/50. After being told over and over by the establishment that I'm plague-ridden scum who deserves to die for not getting the vax, I'm having a very hard time caring.
Almost all pathological clots form in the legs. The legs are big, highly vascularized, and have relatively large veins that lend themselves to the formation of larger clots. As for lungs, all blood in your body goes through your lungs every minute. It's mostly just probability. Your heart gets about the same amount of traffic, but it's large enough that any clot that forms outside of it can generally get through it without causing much of an issue.
DVTs can be diagnosed once they get big enough: they cause swelling and redness in the affected area due to blood not draining properly. However, a DVT that's too small to cause symptoms is still big enough to kill you, so it's less about noticing symptoms and more about not doing things that give you DVTs in the first place. Exercise, don't smoke, stay in shape, and don't take experimental drugs that were rushed out without first going through proper clinical trials.
Several thoughts come to mind.
Parent had to go into the hospital recently, complaining of back-pain, so we took her in for a checkup.
Once they got the results, they basically told her 'You need to go to the emergency room, NOW'. Thankfully, despite the fact that she had, y'know, a fucking blood clot that was migrating toward her lungs, she was overall rather healthy, so made it out okay.
The thing is... what causes most blood clots? Just sitting around. Alot. They form 'naturally' in the leg and then migrate elsewhere. Every last doctor she talked too basically said 'Start exercising and you won't have this problem'. She's basically sitting around on her ass all day long, doing nothing but reading and watching TV.
That's what it takes to cause blood clots. Sitting on your ass 24/7, almost. You really shouldn't be seeing in the people that are getting it unless they've got something REALLY exotic going on in the background.
And before you ask, no, she never got the vex. All my immediate family are purebloods.
Yup. Gotta keep the blood and other things moving and flowing to keep things from getting clogged up.
This actually is a frightening reminder though.
You'd be surprised how sedentary you have to be before DVT becomes a real issue. Even if you just flex your legs every so often, that's usually enough. The people who get them from sitting around all day are the type to fuse with their couch all day, only moving when absolutely necessary. They also generally have terrible blood flow to begin with.
I know two people in my extended family who almost died due to clots; both had sedentary habits (one retired, one had a desk job).
That motivated me to get off my ass more often than I already do (I already hiked 5+ miles on weekends in agreeable weather) and do more cardio.
I wouldn't be surprise that after a year of being locked in our homes, there was a spike in blood clots just from people not moving around enough. Especially since exercise was an arrestable offense.
Just in case we forgot how retarded everyone got for 3 years.
No more than old or sedentary people I don't think. The whole "airplanes cause DVTs" thing was a misinterpretation of the facts. Transcontinental flights in coach, yes. Big DVT risk. Two hour flights, not so much.
Almost every country is pretty close to each other except all of Africa, which is next to zero. That could just be because it's impossible to get medicine into most of that shithole without a warlord stealing it though.
I'm 50/50. After being told over and over by the establishment that I'm plague-ridden scum who deserves to die for not getting the vax, I'm having a very hard time caring.
Almost all pathological clots form in the legs. The legs are big, highly vascularized, and have relatively large veins that lend themselves to the formation of larger clots. As for lungs, all blood in your body goes through your lungs every minute. It's mostly just probability. Your heart gets about the same amount of traffic, but it's large enough that any clot that forms outside of it can generally get through it without causing much of an issue.
DVTs can be diagnosed once they get big enough: they cause swelling and redness in the affected area due to blood not draining properly. However, a DVT that's too small to cause symptoms is still big enough to kill you, so it's less about noticing symptoms and more about not doing things that give you DVTs in the first place. Exercise, don't smoke, stay in shape, and don't take experimental drugs that were rushed out without first going through proper clinical trials.
Most countries required you get an injection to even get on a plane, so yes: there's a correlation there.