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This "pandemic" has given me permanent damage to hips, back and knees, without once having COVID, or ever meeting someone who has had COVID, or meeting someone who knows someone who has had COVID. I only know one person that knows a person who had COVID, and that person is on the other side of the planet.

I would much rather have had COVID. COVID lasts some weeks, maybe months with long COVID, I have damage for the rest of my life.

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That’s fortunate. But if we’re playing the anecdote game: I know two relatives who died from it this year, and a young, healthy, person who had a “mild” case and now has weird blood issues, clotting, etc.

> relatives who died from it this year

Any reason why they did not stay home? Wear masks? Keep social distance? Avoid social gatherings?

> This "pandemic" has given me permanent damage to hips, back and knees,

It sounds far more likely that some poor decisions in how you managed your lifestyle and/or ergonomics during the pandemic led to those conditions.

Nobody forced you to work from your couch/bed/floor or whatever it was that caused your unfortunate condition. Ikea and Office Depot remained open nearly everywhere...

That sounds like elitism to me. Who are you to know whether the parent poster could afford extra furniture or if they even had space in their home for it?

> Ikea and Office Depot remained open nearly everywhere...

Ikea chair caused hip damage, I stood for some time which fucked my knees up, then I bought another chair for $ 1000 but damage was already done by IKEA chair, and it did not help much, compensation I had to make for hip caused back injury, then I bought another for $ 1000, still did not help.

No tax deductions, no subsidies, no free cash, nothing.

So I am now unable to work, I am out more than $2000, and I will likely lose my job and be deported now, and I will be in constant pain for hours on the flight back and will be bedridden for the rest of my life.

I would give everything I have to be able to sit at a computer and concentrate for more than 5 minutes again.

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