Peter Lederman in Second Bout With COVID-19

Millercarbon - I want to applaud you for being as active here as you are. Each night I get a summary of what has been posted here. When I have time, I skim through a subject that interests me, and often times, I see your name with a long, well thought out post, again, and again. 

In fact, you have posted just shy of 10k times here, in just 2.5 years. Assuming you're not a hypocrite and you read what others suggest you read (as you do to them) I'm going to guess that it takes you, on average, 20 minutes per post. Or, about 200k minutes, or 3,333 hours in all, or in 2.5 years, about 111 hours per month. 

This is all a build up to ask you - what exactly, are you an expert in? 

In just this post, you know more than virologists, geneticists, clinicians, statisticians, cardiovascular experts, pulmonologists and others. In other posts, you write and claim that, if they had years to devote to learning a subject (such as electric engineering) you could so easily teach them, then and only then, they could learn something. 

So I ask again, what are you a subject matter expert in? Because I know a lot of subject matter experts who don't have even the 10th of the time you do, to dedicate to a forum. 

Dr. Desch, MnMark, ediver, and Lewm... thank you all for your professional, expert, opinions. I am NOT a virologist, MD, clinician, et all, But, I listen to experts! My own experience - I had covid - it was not that bad when I did. I did loose taste and smell. I was fatigued. My nose was stuffy. But, I would compare it to a sinus infection. For others, it's fatal. I was lucky. My first shot sucked and that's actually when I had the worst vaccine side effects, the second shot was a breeze. (Both times, my arm felt like I had been hit by a 100 mph baseball. The shots were nothing - ZERO pain - but for a few days after, each time, my arm was killing me. But overall, I was fine! And, I would rather have that than covid again) That is my anecdotal experience. Others, as with all people, will be different. 

I don't know if any of you were on the front lines, but our country tends to applaud fire and police. But the truth is, Doctors, experts, are the real heros in this country. A cop might save 1 or 2 people in the course of his / her career, a doctor, saves thousands in that same time. Keep your chins up - and please know, you're very appreciated.