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It’s almost impressive how many horrible outcomes people are able to hand-wave away under the pretense of “that happens to other people, not me”
I’m chronically ill. Trust me, you do not want to become chronically ill in the process of “living your life”. It will be the last time you “live your life” without being in complete and utter misery forever. Simple pleasures like “laying down” are a fucking nightmare for me. I rarely have the energy to cook or clean after work. Fees pile up as everything costs way more money if there’s even a small step you can’t easily do yourself (like picking up groceries).
Take this seriously, everyone, I’m begging you. I’m like one chronic condition from no longer being able to work, thus being discarded by this evil country. You don’t want to be like me.
Nope, autoimmune diseases. I’ve been a hermit for 3 years.
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You’re not alone. The disabled community has been screaming this whole time, “hey you don’t want a large swath of your populace to suddenly be disabled. It really sucks.” And it’s just like no one cares.
I had Lyme disease and still felt terrible for a long time after antibiotics. Feeling “wrong” and like you are never going to “return to normal” again is truly fucking horrible. You feel trapped in your own body. Thankfully I slowly improved, but I can’t agree enough.
I’m literally the most covid paranoid person I know in real life. But I need to point out that she’s a fiction writer, and she’s not directly citing any science articles.
Yes, long covid is bad. My partner has it. Yes as fuck we should be masking, testing, and distancimg. But she may be going a bit too far.
I’m a biologist and she’s correct about how covid affects endothelial tissue. IMO, it’s 50:50 that (she’s going just the right distance):(she’s not going far enough)
sorry, I’m posting my hardest. I’m supposed to be documenting some protocols at work but instead I’m splitting my time between being here and getting banned from participating in r/news for dunking on climate deniers
There’s also no telling what the long term consequences will be until they happen. Polio can cause symptoms 20 years later, what if there’s some post polio syndrome? And anecdotally i’ve heard from a nurse who says she’s had tons of post- covid patients show up months after recovery and their lungs are full of clots
I think it’s very valid. Long covid is absolute shit and DOES happen after vaccination. Maybe it’s a positive perspective from someone outside the scientific community.
Sorry it’s a bit knee jerk from me. These days I’ve become VERY jaded against randos spouting medical opinions. In the worst case, this is much better than nearly all of those.
This makes me understand the need for China’s 0 Covid policy. I already understood, but I thought it was more like a large number of people being inconvenienced to save a number of people which is proportionately small but absolutely large from death. For whatever reason I’d heard about how awful it is for everyone else and even experienced long Covid symptoms and it just never clicked.
A few nights a go I was riding my bike past the local library, and glanced inside to see an entire fucking fundraising gala of some sort. There was a fancy dress party going on, everyone in formal wear and eating from big tables of snacks. There had to be two hundred people, and not a single one of them was wearing a mask.
I just stared as I rolled past, mouth agape as a feeling of impending doom washed over me.
