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New Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn (www.independent.co.uk)
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[–] 109 points 3 years ago (4 children)

I’m in Europe and it’s anecdotal but there are SO many acquaintances that are sick with corona right now. Also not particularly mild, some are in bed since 1+ week with bad symptoms. Fuck this virus and fuck the people who don’t care about the well-being of the person next to them.

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I have the first friend that has really bad long-covid now, too. She's visibly weaker and exhausted. Ouff.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I worry that long covid is going to be one of the things that breaks the global economy long-term (likely leading to accelerated automation), if we can't sort out a therapy for it.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Oh, the global economy is going to break regardless. China is physically and economically collapsing right now, and it's going to have huge knock-on effects

    Meanwhile, we still don't even have a consensus that long COVID is a thing. I definitely feel slightly foggier long after the fact, it seems to me that it might be less about COVID doing something special - maybe all illnesses chip away at long-term health, and COVID put a lot of people in a state much worse than the flu and got us thinking about it.

    Or maybe COVID has unique mechanisms, but it seems to me there's an assumption - why do we assume that once we recover, we get all the way better? If anything, I think it might be the opposite - there's plenty of people in my life who never felt the same after getting an illness, but no one talks about it in a unified enough way to give it a name

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