point 3 is the big hitter, it’s insane to me that nobody considers long term side effects of covid in these conversations
I’m pretty sure 99% of people have no idea how viruses/the immune system function at even a basic high school biology level, and I’m pretty sure that includes 99% of actual doctors and nurses at this point based on the attitudes I’ve seen.
I have been to a real, licensed doctor’s office that had a Jesus Guiding the Surgeon print framed in a subwait area. The last hospital I spent time in had Joel Osteen on the waiting area TVs and mostly antimask nurses.
The US medical system is the worst value in the world and it’s getting rapidly worse
TBF that painting is fucking hilarious. I love all the memes, too.
“BRO wtf don’t take that out! I just put that tumor in there!”
The long term effects we already know about are horrifying, and I’m starting to see people on twitter posting studies that say it’s cumulative.
A highly virulent virus that can evade immunity and damage any part of the body with ACE2 receptors is bad and will absolutely accumulate damage. Every time you get infected it’s roll of the dice as to how much damage it does before your immune system can stop it. Hopefully with vaccines and antivirals that damage is insignificant.
