And even though COVID is still spreading widely, daily life has returned to normal for most people, even during this summer’s wave of infections. On Wednesday, Noah Lyles competed in his Olympic race despite a symptomatic COVID infection and won a bronze medal.

lmao yea you can run so there’s definitely no damage occurring from a covid infection

morons

Always blows my mind that people act like covid is no big deal. Still masking in public, doing everything I can to avoid catching it. Caught it after 3 years when my mom brought it into the home. Didn’t realize I had it till the long covid symptom hit: I can’t eat without having to cough. That’s the best way I can describe it. It’s annoying on the best days and causes vomiting on the worst (the amount of coughing causes the vomiting).

Fuck covid and all of the people acting like it’s no big deal. Normal is never coming back for me. I’m just another person fallen through the cracks of a life heavily impacted by covid (and the shit ass US healthcare system to various degrees).

I think i got that kind of long covid in 2020 (horrible painful coughs non stop that caused me to vomit on a couple occasions) it lasted for 7(?) months 5 of which were inside after the lockdown with no contact to anyone (some LC remains but the coughs are gone). I assume it was covid but it would require me getting covid in december 2019 which i cant prove. Good luck with it, it fucking sucks.

You caught the original Fort Detrick strain before it jumped to China

You caught the original Fort Detrick strain

more and more people are realizing this! It’s a very big situation!

https://imgur.com/a/CRwan3n

I’m about a year in on the coughs. Rarely I’ll have days without it, but yeah. Assume it’s long covid but no real way to prove it other than that I’m a shut in who doesn’t smoke or anything. Get my shots and all but it only takes one time. Be safe out there.

“I certainly hope that this is not our new normal for COVID,” says Samuel Scarpino, who studies infectious diseases at Northeastern University in Boston. “I had it a few weeks ago, and just about everybody that I know has had it. It would be a real bummer if we’re in this situation where we’ve got COVID [in summer], and then we get into the fall with RSV, and then we have influenza and then it’s basically year-round respiratory infection risk.”

it would be a real ‘bummer’ of a situation something bad is happening around us but you know… that’s just ‘the way of the world’, we kinda just woke up in this situation and everyone is surprised, how did it get like this, totally caught us off guard

Wouldn’t surprise me, either, if more diseases sprout up as global warming gets worse. Mammals aren’t the only things that will migrate, viruses and bacteria will as well. Algae blooms in water have caused problems all over the place making water sources drying up even worse. So we’ll have year-round respiratory illnesses with stomach illnesses and antibiotic resistant bacteria to go with them as a treat!

“That means, essentially, that COVID is here to stay in predictable ways.”

Yes. It will kill tons of people every single year and cook the brains of others, while any future pandemics will be impossible to actually defeat because libs and chuds will point at it and say that trying to actually stop a pandemic from spreading never works. Fuck you capitalism.