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And 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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Firstly, as of January, 11% of people infected with covid still have symptoms. I'm one of them. Personally I wish I'd been more paranoid, maybe I'd still be able to drink a coke without wanting to vomit from the taste or fuel my car without the smell of gasoline making me dry heave. Secondly, that value is derived from reality, i.e., a world where people did "act like anxious and nervous pansies". They tried to avoid being infected. They tried to avoid infecting other people, especially vulnerable people. Covid killed a million people in the US. How many would it have killed if we hadn't acted like pansies? How many vulnerable people would have died before we could vaccinate them? How many dangerous variants would have evolved with an infection pool twice as large?
With the viral load landing in different places, and different capillaries taking the brunt, various different organs could be damaged. I worry that those ruptures are the cause for most with long covid, as they aren't easily treatable.
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I'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?
How you avoid Covid is a physics question, not a doctor question.
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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.
Where did they demand empathy?
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Covid 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
I'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…
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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.