Funny thought for the evening:
What if Covid-19 was actually just chemical poisoning with a non desiccating paraquat derivative, or bleomycin?
Hahaha.
Goodnight.
Paraquat ingestion has a delayed toxicity of pulmonary fibrosis and ARDS. Time course for onset is days after exposure (ingestion), and seen in victims that survive the immediate gastrointestinal toxicity. Overdose with paraquat has associated fever, other “flu like” symptoms. Renal toxicity seen in both covid and paraquat. There is no reversal agent or cure for the progressive ARDS seen following paraquat poisoning. In my experience, nothing we do stops progression of ARDS in COVID-19 pneumonia.
Spitballing here. I do not believe Covid-19 a contagion, or I certainly would have had it by now.