Since 2020, the condition known as long COVID-19 has become a widespread disability affecting the health and quality of life of millions of people across the globe and costing economies billions of dollars in reduced productivity of employees and an overall drop in the work force.
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“Just another flu” is what everyone now feels, not because there’s ever been a clear argument for that status, but because everyone got tired of being worried and by universal acquiescence decided it’s so. But these studies show everyone just keeps rolling the dice on long COVID every time they get sick.
And I get it. It’s like driving more carefully after getting in an accident. It’s hard to feel the urgency of what a lifelong chronic disability means until you’re close enough to touch it, and then it might be too late. I’m also tired of being worried. I just guess the virus didn’t get that memo…
A flu, opposed to a common cold can absolutely give you long term health impacts, similar to what is described as long COVID.
A flu is also very much deadly for vulnerable groups, especially elderly people.
Let’s face it though. COVID is just the first of many pandemics we will see in the near future. The factors that favor pandemics are every increasing. Destruction and encroachment of natural land forces animals into contact with humans. Higher temperatures make it easier for airborne viruses to spread and survive. Dealing with extreme temperatures, pollution and stress lowers humans immune abilities. Ever increasing population densities make the spread of diseases easier.
But we will continue at best with treating the symptoms, or not even that, with measures like lockdowns or mask mandates. But the root causes of the pandemics will not be treated, as those require to change the economic system and way of life away from capitalism.
Anti-vaxxers and other pro-virus people have blood on their hands, and should be treated accordingly.
I still think these effects come from the vaccine, not the virus.
It would be interesting to see data showing if unvaccinated people got long covid symptoms. But since society decided to try and force vaccinations on everyone, I think it’s going to be hard to see such data.
First paragraph of the article
when the omicron family of variants predominated, that rate declined to 7.7% among unvaccinated adults and 3.5% of vaccinated adults
I’m sorry but reading one paragraph requires minimal effort. You can not realistically expect that.
Read the article?
Why is he going to start reading anything NOW when there’s been so many rejected chances?
You are the fuckin problem
Vaccines*
There was more than one, but none of them were unusual in composition.
Long COVID is the permanent health proplems which people can suffer after recovering from COVID. It was noticed in people who survived infection even before any of the vaccines were developed.
So how the fuck can it be caused by the vaccine?! Not to mention studies show that being vaccinated REDUCES the severity of COVID, in terms of both temporary and permanent effects!
People who aren’t vaccinated get hit HARDER by long COVID, not spared the condition entirely. The immune system reacts to the disease and vaccine in exactly the same way. Surviving COVID unvaccinated doesn’t somehow mean your body beats the disease off “more properly”.
It means the opposite, the disease gets more time to do more damage against a less prepared immune system.
Even the “Pfizer admits myocarditis side effect” thing that made the rounds on social media last year, was a known side effect that someone tried to make seem like it had been kept secret or covered up, and only “officially” admitted to last year. In reality it has been on the list of potential side effects since 2021. It’s extremely rare, and suffering actual COVID has a far greater chance of causing the same complication.
Looks like you haven’t done a lot of research. That’s okay! There are many, many recorded cases of long COVID that existed long before the first vaccine was even available. Like between March 2020 and March 2021. If that changes your thought.
Feeling crazy optimistic today, eh? Spoiler - it won’t change it.
Optimism is my coping strategy this year! Everything is gonna be okay!
I agree. Everything is going to be okay!
Literally 1984
Do you think it’s going to be hard to see the data because you won’t look at it?
The only unvaccinated person I know is dead. So I guess he doesn’t care.
Well, he didn’t get any long term effects of COVID, besides death of course.
Okay, well, they don’t.
Long Covid has existed for longer than the vaccines have.
I still think these effects come from the vaccine, not the virus, based on my complete lack of knowledge and/or willful ignorance of the subject.
I’m ignoring the data showing whether unvaccinated people got long covid symptoms. But since society decided to try and force vaccinations on everyone, and I didn’t like that, I’m going to continue to tell everyone vaccines are bad because that’s the narrative I want to push.
You’re ignoring data so hard you didn’t even read the article you’re here commenting on lmao
Yeah, it makes so much more sense that doctors, institutions and (enemy) governments conspired to… what? Poison people?
Way more plausible than a new virus causing a autoimmune condition already observed to be triggered by other viruses for centuries.AGREED! There was ZERO cases of Long Covid until AFTER people EVENTUALLY started getting the JAB!
sssshhhhhh. silence.
is there a housing crisis? so shut up and enjoy the next wave of dumb people die. sounds cruel? isnt! it is nature at its best.
also is there a leopardsatemayface on lemmy for this already?
Dumb people aren’t the only ones dying. They’re infecting everyone else.
while true this applies to EVERYTHING. no safetybelt in a car? damn…innocent ppl aswell.
luckily humans have a choice for safetybelts, vaxxing and so many other things. so it is kinda acting like a baby if you demand “full info on covid for everyone, mandatory masks and so on”. covid was 2020… humans had enough time to educate themselves on the consequences aswell as realize from the first wave there’ll people dumb like a trump n9 matter how hard the facts.
