Can I get a card that says I already had it and I am good to go? I even have the time off work to prove it! I am involved in a study that is measuring antibodies and 6 months later my antibodies are still really high.
Most people are not under a risk, it has 99% survival rate
In my circle, there's a friend who has lost his sense of taste and is immensely depressed about losing the ability to tell the difference between steak and spam.
He can still taste sriracha, but he is nearly suicidal from this (partly regret for taking risky decisions).
Survival isn't the only measure of impact.
if survival isn't the only measure, then the same principle could be applied to suicidal feelings of so-called "non-essential" business owners who lost their livelihoods and years of savings during the lockdowns. One could argue that a sense of taste isn't "essential" either.
I had that (long before covid) sign and it gradually improved as I fixed up my life.
Wishing the best to your friend but I would give him hope.
I have a friend who got recently diagnosed chronic fatigue syndrome and I doubt that's attributable to covid.
I'm very skeptical of long covid claims, I think those are most likely just side effects of the social experiment we just run, socially isolating the entire population and stressing them out for a year.
Constraining society to pander to those who are essentially scared of their own shadow and are clearly suffering from irrational anxiety and borderline paranoia is not acceptable.
It is way past time that those who are scared started to pay the full cost - which means they get to stay out of the way while everybody else gets on with their lives. They cannot be permitted to socialise that cost onto everybody else.
Once we have a vaccine, and in sensible countries public healthcare free at the point of delivery, that is as much insurance as society can offer. If you're still scared after that then, as the young tend to say these days, that is a 'you' problem.
This pandemic is just one more step in the same direction.
I blame education for indoctrinating the last generations and society for forcing parents to overwork and not be present at home to fix this mess.
Prior to COVID-19, we used to be able to acknowledge that we make choices every day that do not maximize the number of healthy and alive people, yet we made them anyway: both on a personal and societal level.
That's because maximizing the number of healthy and alive people is not the only goal of society.
On top of this, a lot of the people who died were already vulnerable, so we will likely see a downtrend on elderly deaths in the next years (all the people who would have died in 1-5 years for other reasons but died now because of covid).
Sure, a lot of people died but I don't think it warranted 2 years of isolation and aggravating the already dire financial position of millennials.
Our goal as a society is not only to ensure most people stay healthy and alive; we could just put everyone in confinement cells for the rest of their life if we wanted that.
I think our goal is to balance that with what people desire are.
I'd happily take a higher chance of dying to live the free life I want.
Therefore, the party line seems to be to dismiss natural immunity.
I think the talking points will change once all 50+ people in the west are vaccinated.
Which is of course possible, but it also raises the specter that "long-haul COVID" is really a mask for (understandable) psychological stress and depression which not-coincidentally coincided with pandemic and lockdowns.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
What evidence do you have these are caused by vitamin-D deficiency? What are the incidence rates and how is it the cause?
Chronic fatigue syndrome is treated primarily with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.
It's absolutely compatible with mental illness, especially considering that our governments just locked up everyone for more than a year.
Not to mention people who develop an immune response but not one robust enough to stop another infection.
If folks think getting Covid or the vaccine is the end of things will be surprised. This isn’t going away in the next 3-4 years.