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Who here still wears a mask? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I wear one every day with only a few exceptions (lab work for university where it’s impractical and I’m only around a few people anyway). I have seen the effects of long Covid on my loved ones, and i want nothing to do with that. Still haven’t caught COVID this far in, and while I think my vaccinations have been effective it makes me uncomfortable that we aren’t continuing to boost and that most people haven’t had a fresh vaccine in a few years at this point. Waning efficacy is a real thing and many never got boosted at all

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

    Yeah, like, there are plenty of people out there with long COVID. I have relatives with it. I have coworkers who are on leave because of it. About 5% of the US seems to have activity-limiting long COVID at any given time: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/pulse/long-covid.htm

    Shit's bad.

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

    Yowzers! I assumed 5%was "has ever experienced long COVID" or it would be heavily weighted toward older people or something. No, the numbers are a lot more evenly spread than I would've guessed, and the National average for CURRENTLY experiencing long COVID is like 6% or something... Wow...

    It surprises me because I can't think of anybody I know that complains of symptoms of long COVID, and I'm 38. It's s not like my friends and family are all young , fit people who are too stubborn to show weakness. This data kinda shocks me.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I think that people are really hesitant to talk about when they're having a hard time, never mind admit that they might be lumped into the 'disabled' bucket.

    We're, uh, not great about how we treat people w/disabilities in our society. Having something that is 'supposed to happen to other people' happen to you is rough.

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