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This disease has completely changed the state of life for everyday America. I used to be able to run easily for miles. Since COVID I can barely get out a few miles a week.
I used to be very active, but seem unable to get back to shape more than one year after lockdown ended and gyms reopened.
I only got a very mild Covid this past January.
I caught OG covid in June of 2020. I've had it once more (Feb of this year). Exposed a third time but tested negative (who knows about these tests). I've had fatigue, tinnitus, and a persistent neck pain since the Feb infection. What I would consider neurological symptoms as well (extremity weakness, vertigo, headaches). I'm pretty young (31). Prior to Feb, I was pretty active. Weight lifting every day, running 2 mil…
I've seen perfectly healthy people—before and after COVID—who literally had their life changed due to a completely random infection or issue. People who went deaf after having a baby or developed T1 diabetes. Some people were "perfectly healthy".
But some people seemed healthy until they weren't. One day, their eating/drinking/smoking habits caught up with them due to age or complications from things they didn't even realize were health problems until it suddenly became an issue.
I am not a doctor... but you mentioned weightlifting... the fatigue and neck pain could be a pinched nerve? Perhaps an injury that manifested itself after a viral infection? Have you seen a physiotherapist? I finally saw one about arm pain and it changed my life.
My wife took three months to recover. I have a friend roughly my age who still hasn't (about four months in). My dad is dead. And people wonder why I don't blow it off. I've yet to get it, and I don't want to.
I'm sorry about your dad, but let's not exaggerate based on personal anecdotes. The stories that get upvoted are the ones that scare people.
My wife took three months to recover. I have a friend roughly my age who still hasn't (about four months in). My dad is dead. And people wonder why I don't blow it off. I've yet to get it, and I don't want to.
I've had it and everyone I know has had it (now in the dozens), including a number of elderly people. Everyone is fine. I recovered in a week, and out of literally dozens of people, I've not met anyone who took longer than that. I'm sorry about your dad, but let's not exaggerate based on personal anecdotes. The stories that get upvoted are the ones that scare people.
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I've had it and everyone I know has had it (now in the dozens), including a number of elderly people. Everyone is fine. I recovered in a week, and out of literally dozens of people, I've not met anyone who took longer than that. I'm sorry about your dad, but let's not exaggerate based on personal anecdotes. The stories that get upvoted are the ones that scare people.
Don't minimize based on it either.
My wife took three months to recover. I have a friend roughly my age who still hasn't (about four months in). My dad is dead. And people wonder why I don't blow it off. I've yet to get it, and I don't want to.
I've had it and everyone I know has had it (now in the dozens), including a number of elderly people. Everyone is fine. I recovered in a week, and out of literally dozens of people, I've not met anyone who took longer than that. I'm sorry about your dad, but let's not exaggerate based on personal anecdotes. The stories that get upvoted are the ones that scare people.
People aren't just upvoting covid porn.
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Don't minimize based on it either.
Providing balance is not "minimizing". Sharing an emotional/fearful anecdote does not lay claim to truth.
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I've had it and everyone I know has had it (now in the dozens), including a number of elderly people. Everyone is fine. I recovered in a week, and out of literally dozens of people, I've not met anyone who took longer than that. I'm sorry about your dad, but let's not exaggerate based on personal anecdotes. The stories that get upvoted are the ones that scare people.
The ones that upvoted are the ones that people relate to? i.e. they've had the same experience. People aren't just upvoting covid porn.
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Providing balance is not "minimizing". Sharing an emotional/fearful anecdote does not lay claim to truth.
You're doing exactly the same thing classichasclass is, but in the opposite direction - and "minimize" seems like a fair antonym of "exaggerate".
This disease has completely changed the state of life for everyday America. I used to be able to run easily for miles. Since COVID I can barely get out a few miles a week.
I wonder if the extended sedentary lifestyle imposed by the lockdowns is also to blame to some degree. I used to be very active, but seem unable to get back to shape more than one year after lockdown ended and gyms reopened. I only got a very mild Covid this past January.
During the lockdowns I was less sedentary than before, since I had more time to take long daily walks and I also did a ton of physical work building a house with the time saved from commuting. Still, after I finally got COVID a few months ago, I've felt more fatigued than normal months after testing negative. Walking up the stairs suddenly got more tiring more often.