Its like those people who focus only on GDP per capita ....

But then never focus on Reported Quality Of Life.

Who cares if the GDP Per Capita is like 1 million per a person if over half of the peoppe occupying a region are billionaires?

I met an anti-vax nurse ....

I wouldnt be surprised if there were anti-vax vaccinologists!

I got long covid in 2022 as a healthy athlete. I’ve been bedridden ever since.

As always, diagnoses are simplified medical/social constructs that don’t fully capture the reality.

and it doesn’t help that there’s loads of prejudice against Long COVID in medicine.

Long COVID is actually a medical term. Look it up on the WHO.

But some diagnostic classification systems use “Post-COVID Condition” or “Long-term sequelae of COVID-19”

I check every hour or so... oh, might be my OCD

Well, fuck it. Let them.

Lockdowns didn’t work even when there was global news coverage of a pandemic happenening. What makes you think they would work now?

Fuck off

Hospital beds in my town were full for first time ever. Not enough ventilators as well.

A few times before ? Wtf

Well crap. Sorry too hear. I hope it does go away in time. Long COVID is no joke.

I heard that nicotine might be beneficial. try a nicotine patch.

Hasn't everyone had it at least once by now?

Obviously I'm exaggerating, I have trouble remembering what I've done yesterday though

I thought that was normal. . ?

I heard ivermectin works. Go buy a bunch. /s

That's surprising, considering we have dedicated antivirals for it now. 😲

Why did you post this twice? /s

I watched my great-aunt's funeral on Zoom. She died after thousands of elderly COVID patients were shunted from overcrowded UK hospitals into care homes, passing on their COVID to all the other elderly residents. Our government at the time said to let the "bodies pile high"

So you can take that opinion and stuff it, frankly.

It's been 6 years. It's not that weird. I got it in July of 2022, sometime in 2024, and at the very end of August this year.

Those don’t work very well compared to the vaccines and the people who would most benefit from them refuse to take them anyway.

I’ve heard meth helps. But you have to get it from this one guy I know. You can trust him. He’s a Republican.

This has real “alpha males don’t wipe” energy.

What the internet could be. Makes me smile.

That's not a public health test as it's not reportable. Just lime I can take my own temperature but public health doesn't care. Compare the treatment of COVID to sexually transmitted infections that are reported and contact traced.

Everyone. I want to point out that anyone who says shit like this gets an instant permaban from me. Please report any and all comments like this.

I wear a mask anytime I'm inside with anyone outside my bubble since 2020. Which means I haven't eaten at a restaurant without good outdoor seating in 6 years, which is annoying for my friends.

The covid vaccine is no longer available in my country.

I always said I'd remove the mask when the number of covid infections dropped below 1 case per 1 million people. Now that countries don't track infections, I don't know how to translate that boundary into waste water testing or whatever data we have today.

Same with me, and restaurants. I hang with friends outside, turns out that was mostly a good choice.

Ok, so back to my questions: 1 case of what, per million people over what time frame? There were over a million or more C19 new daily infections during the 4th thru 12th waves of this disease. We are over 500K new daily infections per day and 3.69 million cases per week, and rising on the current, 13th peak. Per the graph on pmc19.com.

According to (https://www.statista.com/statistics/861113/estimated-number-of-flu-cases-us/) each flu season in the US from 2011 t0 2025 had from 9.4 to 51 million cases. Take a look at that graph, especially 21/22 to 24/25. When the numbers start to rise, or as soon as now get your flu vax, and... wash your hands, wear a mask.

My point being there are common diseases, Covid19, Influenza A, Influenza B and others, which will outright kill a person, or give them post acute effects that will kill, or disable.

I'm not worried about getting some short-term, non-chronic infection of influenza or covid. I'm worried about getting long covid. Or giving any of that to someone else who is more immune comprised than myself.

My boundary is 1 person testing positive for covid in one day per 1 million in my region (roughly 100 km or so from my work/home). If we had a few weeks pass were less than 1 person per 1 million people were positive for covid 19 per day, I'd feel the risk was low enough to eat inside a restaurant.

Or to help the immunodeficient, as well as yourself, I guess.

people have since balked mask usage, and vaccinations. i recently spoke to someone and they said "it still exist, you can do that forever"?)

i know people that are more resistant to taking the vaccine then when it was first introduced. what a surprise a bunch of them got the variant last year, and spread it to my family.

Still haven't

I wouldn't say it's just long COVID there's prejudice against. It's a lot of the hidden disorders -ME/CFS, fibromyalgia, POTS, ehlers-danlos syndrome etc etc. I think long COVID has brought more interest and research to some of the other conditions

Hahhaha. If you check my username, you might be inclined to see I agree. :)

You guys aren't injecting bleach? Libtards /s

Please tell me you forgot the /s

The chosen one

Can’t have excess death if we just stop counting ‘taps temple’

Yeah, that why it was first misdiagnosed as a respiratory illness and only months later it was discovered it’s a BLOOD illness.

We should call it the ‘blood flu’ … might make people realize it’s not a simple cold.

I had it only once, when I didn't wear a mask to a work function. In like 22. My wife uses meds that makes her immunocompromised so she's still masking. I'm not but probably should be. I do wear masks on planes and stuff

I think it's already available.. at least at CVS

Jesus have you read any Instagram comments sections? On anything almost, people are absolutely vile to each other. I didn't get it the hostility and name calling is just astounding.

The CDC are handcuffed under the current regime and this will become worse.

I'd call that more just "people getting away with lying" then irony

Still haven't had one with symptoms. Ftfy.

I got the covid brain-fog back in 2023, it took me almost 18 months to recover. It almost felt like I was getting Alzheimers, forgetting names of everyday things.

Just gotta eat more horse paste and drink a little extra bleach.

How does that compare to the normal flu? And did flu related deaths go down?

That could actually work. Meanwhile, the number of people dying of horse paste (what???) and bleach went up, but nobody notices as these numbers are not collected.