This virus behaves differently in our bodies than cold and flu—and can do major long-term damage.
  • BrightCandle@lemmy.world
    44·
    2 months ago

    The recent study where they intentional infected a bunch of paid volunteers and tracked what happened over the next year is really concerning. All of them have lasting brain damage and none of them can tell this occurred. The Long Covid studies are struggling to find healthy controls because there are a lot of people now walking around with the metabolic and vascular problems that are found in Long Covid but appear asymptomatic. This virus is doing a lot of damage and everyone is one infection away from their life being destroyed by Long Covid.

    The studying I am referring to https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(24)00421-8/fulltext

    Bare in mind it’s one in 400k such studies showing the damage of Covid it’s no outlier it’s just really dumb.

  • NerdyPopRocks@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 months ago

    I wear masks in the airplane and in airports still, and in places like Utah or Texas, people get extremely passive aggressive towards me when I do. I have had flight attendants pretend not to hear me and get angry that I have my mask up, random elderly strangers tisk at me when they pass by, just so much general hassle and passive seething for something that has nothing to do with them. It’s terrifying how much people seem to hate me just for not wanting to get sick.

    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 months ago

      Yes I’ve heard people in conservative states will hassle you. I actually got yelled at for it on a bus last week by a guy in a Fuck Trudeau shirt, who I ignored. But the US conservatives are really scary people.

    • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
      31·
      2 months ago

      In defense of flight attendants, I had a super rough go of understanding anyone during Covid. I tend to read lips to an extent which I never really noticed until everyone was wearing a mask. Sometimes I have a bit of an auditory processing delay, and I was supplementing it by reading lips.

      • NerdyPopRocks@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Yea that makes sense. In this case most of the flight attendants had no trouble hearing me, except for one guy who really makes a big show of it. He’s often on the route between the cities I fly too so it wasn’t even a one time thing. Ive seen him a few times and he always does this specifically.

    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
      10·
      2 months ago

      I still mask everywhere and will have my ninth vaccine next month. I’ve been lucky to only have one mild case that was basically a stuffy nose. I feel very fortunate, and I take it really seriously.

      • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
        4·
        2 months ago

        The only 2 things I’ve had that were worse than the last time I had COVID:

        • Pneumonia when I was 15, so sick I had to be carried to the washroom.
        • Whooping cough earlier this year, coughing so much I couldn’t sleep, couldn’t walk more than 3 or 4 meters in a go
        • sverit@lemmy.ml
          4·
          2 months ago

          I had the real influenza which was a bit worse, but I wasn’t vaccinated 3 times against that. Covid gave me over 6 months of loss of smell, that was terrible.

          • SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml
            3·
            2 months ago

            If you have easy access to a booster… fuckin do it!
            I was sick as a dog for 3 weeks, started being symptomatic late Feb, was well enough to work again by mid March…had a persistent cough until early June, and due to health monitoring at work my lung capacity and strength has been verified as having gone down about 5%. It’s almost October and I still have a bit of a cough, not all the time like right after the worst of it, but if it’s cold, or humid, or I’ve been lying down for a few hours(say around 2am)…

            Anyway, definitely get a booster if you can.

            • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.worldOP
              4·
              2 months ago

              I’ll ask my GP. I do not fool around with getting vaccines as needed, that’s for sure. I just don’t know what the policy is.

              Would I be a bad person if I fibbed to public health to get an Mpox vaccine by telling them I have multiple sex partners? I don’t but I would like one because it’s spread by touch.

  • maniii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    112·
    2 months ago

    Almost all illnesses are worth avoiding. Take for example, malaria. Dengue has 4-variants which can kill if you’ve already got any one of others the first time. COVID still hasnt been fully researched yet.