▲ 645 ▼ New Covid wave has begun and masks should be worn again, scientists warn (www.independent.co.uk) submitted 3 years ago by CollisionResistance@lemm.ee to c/world@lemmy.world 310 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FoxAndKitten@lemmy.world 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] FoxAndKitten@lemmy.world 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FoxAndKitten@lemmy.world 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 permalink fedilink source parent