According to this article there are now three large scale studies analyzing covid risk, and they all indicate that your risk of negative health consequences goes up every infection.
While this risk starts (relatively) low for most of us, particularly those vaccinated and in younger people or children, there are concerning signs it may not stay low. If each new invasion of our bodies allows this insidious virus a greater chance to cause damage, such small risks will eventually add up to a big one.
Even if you only experience the symptom of the initial infection mildly.
“Each subsequent COVID infection will increase your risk of developing chronic health issues like diabetes, kidney disease, organ failure and even mental health problems,” physician Rambod Rouhbakhsh warned journalist Sara Berg in an American Medical Association podcast earlier this year.
“This dispels the myth that repeated brushes with the virus are mild and you don’t have to worry about it. It is akin to playing Russian roulette.”
Long COVID is defined as a multisystem disease that have a devastating effect on any organ system, with potentially lifelong consequences. Rates of long COVID among people who have contracted SARS-CoV-2 vary controversially between studies and regions, from about 10 percent to a staggering 50 percent of people who’ve had the virus reported as having long term symptoms.
We are basically ignoring the risks and hoping for a science miracle to save us before things get too bad. Same approach we are taking with global warming. What an interesting time to be alive.
I am 100% certain that disability will send me into poverty. Like, if I can’t sell my labour, I’m pretty fucked in this world. It’s why I still mask and take precautions.
for the unvaccinated it also increases their risk of short covid
I don’t think most people are hoping for anything. They’re normalizing and downplaying the pandemic. Collective normalization means the pandemic is over in most people’s minds. “If nobody else cares, why do you?”
If we have something to hope for it’s that the virus attenuates on its own.
Or leftists pulling their heads out of their asses and realizing it’s the same fight we were already supposed to be fighting. Zero Covid is Class Struggle. It’s our bodies being thrown in the refrigerated semi trucks while they live in a literal bubble of filtered air and tested interactions.
That’s what a coherent organized left would do, yeah. But we don’t have one of those and won’t for at least a decade.
I spend about 50% of my non-work time trying to make that a reality and it is slow going, comrade.
Learning this while being one of the only people at the grocery store masking
I literally love you. You are legit favourite person now. I need more people like this around me.
