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getting long covid sounds worse than the loneliness tbh
I'm not sure that's true. Chronic loneliness is likely a much greater risk to your health than getting a harmful version of covid by going outside and interacting with people.
depends. if your quality of life is already poor due to health issues, long covid could easily result in you never being able to leave your house again
being lonely is awful, but let's not downplay the disease that has killed literally tens of millions of people and crippled countless others
Edit: also stating that there are things riskier than exposing yourself to covid doesn't minimize it. How many deaths of despair have occurred worldwide over that same period?
i'm gonna go ahead and disagree that loneliness is even likely a "much greater risk to your health" than covid tbh, unless you have some compelling information to share
i'm not really trying to start a fight but i do think making claims like that is downplaying the seriousness of covid
Again, it's pretty weird that you interpret this claim as downplaying the seriousness of covid. The health risks of loneliness and isolation are very well established, and they're generally considered very significant.
This is a good recent meta-analysis on the topic
If that's not your bag, this is a readable interview in Harvard Review by a researcher in the topic
This is the CDC on the subject
To suggest one thing is a greater risk than another is not to say either of them are not significant risks. I'm just saying if your solution to covid is to completely isolate yourself socially you may be introducing more risk than you would introduce by spending time socially with other humans.
other than having someone who cares about her, that youtube lady PhysicsGirl has it worse than I do. more mildly, some people in discords have talked about getting fucked up with chronic fatigue.
I may be dying slowly but at least it's slow enough that i don't always notice. not like i have money to do anything regular anyway.
I'm not sure what your point is? I didn't say there is no health risk from covid, I'm just saying there's also a health risk of socially isolating yourself to avoid the potential of exposure to covid. There may not be a "safe" option available.
why not both?