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.
A study where subjects were intentionally infected? Please tell me you have a link to that study
Echoing the other comment, I’d also like a link to the study if you have it on hand.
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.
I lived in conservative California and we know my spouse’s veteran identifiers were the only reason we didn’t get hassled. Then we went back in a rental car and we were harassed by a small dick truck.
Thank god we live in the Bay Area now, masking is still common and I see it all the time.
I don’t understand what the fucking big deal is.
Oh right, your freedumbs
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.
As someone with cystic fibrosis who has to fly to Texas in a few weeks…great.
I might just be unlucky tbh. I hope you’re experience traveling to Texas goes well!
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.
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.
When it became known that covid was neuro invasive, I got even more mad at the short sighted responses of ‘herd immunity’ and ‘saving the economy’.
I bet that we see a huge spike in mental degenerative diseases with our generation.
I’ve had every recommended booster, got it from my dentist in July 2023 and spent a solid week in bed with what rivaled the worst flu I’d ever had. Actual flu, not “it’s just the flu, bro” bullshit.
This was followed by a month of a wet racking cough and very congested lungs. I have no idea how much the vaccines and boosters reduced the severity of lessened any long covid, but I got my booster last year (months later) and will be doing so again very soon this year.
Why the hell would anyone want this virus?
Amazingly my coworker who has escaped it says she wants it to get it over with. I sort of understand the waiting for the other shoe to drop feeling, but I’d rather never have had it. I got it on a trip on the way back from Mexico when I was wearing an N95 the whole time.
There’s nothing to “get over with.” She can continue to get it after having it before, and every time makes the potential risks higher. I’ve managed to avoid it so far (as far as I know,) but I know my luck will run out eventually. Just hoping to get it as few times as possible.
Due to my OCD I’m almost a hikikomori and I got the virus. I don’t know how. I work from home and I don’t go to parties or things like that.
My granddaughter is in the same camp. Fully vaccinated for everything else you’d expect, but completely bought into the repackaged HPV vaccine hysteria that got grafted onto the Covid vaccines. So she’s had it 5 times, including one that she describes as ‘that time I almost died’.
Also, she’s a teacher. At a religious school that obviously doesn’t require that particular vaccine.
What the ever loving fuck is wrong with people.
Well thankfully my coworker is as vaccinated as I am (she asks me every six months if she should get the new version and I say yes), and she’s not foolish about it at all. I guess it just feels like the inevitable if you haven’t had it 4-1/2 years into this.
I cannot imagine the brain damage your granddaughter must have from five bouts of COVID. Wow. Disinformation is a terrible thing.
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.
In particular virulent infections. See Epstein-Barr for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epstein–Barr_virus
