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The haunting brain science of long Covid

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Re: The haunting brain science of long Covid

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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?

Psychiatrist* /s

Re: The haunting brain science of long Covid

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A 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.

Are you completely sure that's due to Long COVID? Because that sounds like an extremely common story of drug addiction: someone turns their normal life, complete with career and family and a white picket fence, into homelessness and relying on petty theft to survive. It's incredible (in a bad way) how quickly fentanyl can ruin people's lives.

Re: The haunting brain science of long Covid

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post #17
post #6

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

Instead of betting we can take simple precautions, individually. This is not a sport

Re: The haunting brain science of long Covid

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A 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.

That sounds like depression possibly due to the pandemic or other compounding life circumstances, not long COVID.

Re: The haunting brain science of long Covid

#36

A 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.

Crippling fatigue is a pretty common long covid ailment. One belief is it stems from a previous ebv (mono) infection. Has he been tested for that? Been to any of the Long Covid clinics?

Re: The haunting brain science of long Covid

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We should also consider the effects of repeat infections and how they might contribute to long Covid. The hope is that ongoing repeat infections are 'mostly harmless' as our bodies are primed to deal with the virus. However it will be a while before we can be sure.

One 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.

Re: The haunting brain science of long Covid

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Even for the people who didn't get vaccinated?

It’s common for anti-vax people to believe that mRNA vaccines “shed” into the rest of the population despite that not being a thing. There’s no mental gymnastics they aren’t capable of.

Re: The haunting brain science of long Covid

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post #17
post #6

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

let’s define “shutting down” properly, and I might take this bet.

Re: The haunting brain science of long Covid

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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…

If everyone had to wear an N95 mask we'd need to permanently shut down the entire bar & restaurant industry, given that the masks are obviously not doing anything when people take them down to eat and drink. That would be millions of people out of work, tens of millions more permanently without the enjoyment of eating or drinking out, etc. I don't mean to sound curt, but society is simply not willing to accept that, sorry. We could lower the speed limit to 15 miles an hour for the entire country, including on highways, and that would save a ton of lives, right? We as a society are just not willing to accept that level of inconvenience.

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

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