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?
The haunting brain science of long Covid
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#32A 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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#35A 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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#36A 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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#37One analogy I heard was that effectively we've brought back indoor smoking. Of course you can avoid indoor smoking by not using public transport, not going to the office, not socialising indoors, wearing a mask when shopping. However many can't/won't, and so will suffer the as yet not fully understood effects.
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#40I'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…
Seeing as you'd like to make everyone else wear masks, could you rig up a closed-circuit gas or oxygen mask for yourself when you go to the grocery store? That way you're literally not breathing the same air as others, and it'd be literally impossible to get Covid. If your response is 'it's inconvenient for me to wear a gas mask and oxygen tank'- well, that's how the rest of us feel about permanent masking