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Everyone operating normally since then, my kids play a lot of sports at a high level. I coach, exercise, etc, while not in my best shape ever, it’s mostly cause of limited time.
No vaccines, won’t ever get them.
I had a single dose of Pfizer from about 3 months before. I never got a second dose. Kids all breezed through it.
The first month afterward required a lot of pushing and experimenting to get my body to respond to working out. Stuff like walking for extended periods of time was easy, but anything that got my HR into Zone 3 and above was taxing. After that month, things got progressively easier.
I also made a lot of other changes: diet improved tremendously, I lost 30+ pounds, and I feel like a completely different person now than before.
The only other people I know personally who got long covid had gotten 2 doses but had other issues like being overweight or having a horrible diet.
> We demonstrate an absence of association between symptom burden and radiographic or biochemical abnormality. We suggest that the phenomenon of Long-COVID may not be directly attributable to the effect of SARS-CoV-2, but rather the neuropsychiatric insults may play a greater role in its aetiology.
There was a similar phenomenon after 9-11 and gulf war:
> Similar post-traumatic syndromes, such as Gulf War Illness and post-9/11 syndrome, describe the occurrence of both physical and psychological symptoms in a similar pattern to what is being observed in Long-COVID.
https://sci-hub.st/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33569660/
"Breathlessness, palpitations and confusion or difficulty concentrating" seem to be the primary symptoms according to NYTimes but I'm curious if they've found any 'radiographic or biochemical abnormality' in this case... or whether that even matters. COVID was obviously a very serious and traumatic occurrence, especially for people who got a severe case.
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.
What’s exactly your point unless you’re trying to say that your anecdote is better than theirs? Have you considered that it may just be your survivor bias talking and just maybe you are just plan lucky?
I’ve lost family members covid! Have friends who did too.
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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.
Almost nobody wears seatbelts in India and 99.9999% of them do not get into accidents or die when they do. What’s exactly your point unless you’re trying to say that your anecdote is better than theirs? Have you considered that it may just be your survivor bias talking and just maybe you are just plan lucky? I’ve lost family members covid! Have friends who did too.
That's a problem.
For whatever it's worth, though...the fact that dozens of people I know have had it and are fine isn't "luck".
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.
Calling bullshit.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01589-z
Anybody who lost their sense of taste or smell took months to recover that. Loss of smell or taste is almost 50% for Covid prior to Omicron. Even with Omicron, it's about 20%.
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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.
A lot of people are, in fact, amplifying things that scare them (or things that trigger emotions). All I've done here is share an equivalent, balancing anecdote.
Your original comment - sharing your own anecdote - would’ve been better without the second paragraph.
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'm sorry to hear about your issues and hope you get to feeling better. 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 caug…