This only briefly links to me/cfs. Does anyone have any studies linking me/cfs and Covid behavior? I don’t understand why we’re treating long Covid differently than me/cfs, which has much of the same symptoms and also often occurs after a viral infection like the flu.
The haunting brain science of long Covid
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#12Why aren't we updating the mRNA vaccines to better combat the new variants? Wasn't the initial thinking that we'd all get an updated shot once or twice a year?
We did. It's called the "bivalent" booster. We have paxlovid and the omicron variants are much milder than the previous strains.
I had simply missed the news, apologies.
EU: https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ecdc-ema-statement-booster... (sep 2022)
Haven't been offered this, though.
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#13And yet people look at me like I have two heads when I explain that I’m still actively making every effort to avoid getting Covid. The long term brain damage is going to be a massive impact on companies who are forcing RTO and causing their employees to deal with repeat exposures to Covid from co-workers.
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Why are you demanding empathy when you yourself deprive empathy for the people you’re demanding from (calling them “acting like a punch of anxious and feaf pansies”)? This looks like plain hypocrisy.
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#14A friend from college got long covid. In two years he lost the job, the GF, and the house. Went from being a buff, agile jujitsu black belt to shuffling along like an old drunk. In some sort of cruel irony he got crippling fatigue and insomnia at the same time. Can barely think clearly enough to write a simple email.
Long covid is not a pretty thing to see.
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#15And yet people look at me like I have two heads when I explain that I’m still actively making every effort to avoid getting Covid. The long term brain damage is going to be a massive impact on companies who are forcing RTO and causing their employees to deal with repeat exposures to Covid from co-workers.
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Just wear an n95 mask. All of that is still possible with masks. They even have clear ones now.
If you don’t want to wear a mask, just do all of that outdoors, or keep an indoor space very well ventilated with fresh air from outdoors
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#16I've been saying this since the exact start of the pandemic. I already have brain issues and I simply do not want to roll the dice that are very much not in my favor. If I get covid and I live I pretty much know that the rest of my life is more fucked than it already is. But everybody's walking around the grocery store without masks on. Nobody gives to fucks about anybody else anymore. So here I am, still purposefull…
I mean, there's the possibility that they ran their risk assessment and just overwhelmingly came to a different conclusion then you did. It's hard to take long covid seriously when there isn't even an agreed upon scientific definition of what it even is.
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#17Covid is the crisis we keep ignoring, and there is no chance it wont come back to bite
If there were a prediction market for Covid shutting the world down again I would bet against you all day
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#18I've been saying this since the exact start of the pandemic. I already have brain issues and I simply do not want to roll the dice that are very much not in my favor. If I get covid and I live I pretty much know that the rest of my life is more fucked than it already is. But everybody's walking around the grocery store without masks on. Nobody gives to fucks about anybody else anymore. So here I am, still purposefull…
Is your current level of isolation something that your doctor has recommended?
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#19I've been saying this since the exact start of the pandemic. I already have brain issues and I simply do not want to roll the dice that are very much not in my favor. If I get covid and I live I pretty much know that the rest of my life is more fucked than it already is. But everybody's walking around the grocery store without masks on. Nobody gives to fucks about anybody else anymore. So here I am, still purposefull…
I’m in the exact same spot. I’ve been trying to get back on medication for ADHD for the first time since childhood solely because I’m scared I’m not going to be able to experience mental clarity ever again if I get COVID. It’s impossible to talk to anyone about anxieties like that now because everyone has already determined that they got COVID and everything was fine, so therefore, I should stop trying.
Some part of me would love that, but like you said, I just can’t let go. Impulsivity be damned.
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