Devil’s advocate:
We still have quite some way to go before we fully understand long COVID and the lowered levels of long COVID could simply correlate with lowered levels of COVID related hysteria.
Before you downvote, I’m not saying long COVID isn’t a real phenomena, I’m saying that correlation doesn’t always equal causation.
Me sitting over here like 🙋🏼♀️I had all my shots and still haven’t had COVID
Let’s see if that changes though with upcoming travel an a tolerance break. 😬😷
This is probably preaching to the choir, but long covid is pretty nasty stuff. If you are able to regularly get vaccinated against covid and the vaccines are also effective at lowering risk of long covid, then get vaccinated.
I’m traumatized after seeing the effects of long covid on a family member. The covid infection itself wasn’t great, mind you, but the after effects have been awful.
It’s been 2 long and difficult years since the initial covid infection. There was a point when things were on the right trajectory in terms of recovery, but if I’m actually being honest with myself, it was false hope. The person I used to know isn’t ever really, fully coming back. It’s traumatic for them because they know they aren’t the same. It’s traumatic for me because I lost the caring, intelligent, thoughtful, loving, empathetic person I used to know while also watching them suffer from delusions, depression, and all manner of issues while fully realizing that something is wrong without knowing what or how to fix/change it.
I keep taking my asthma meds not just for asthma but because they noticeably reduce covid symptoms
The fact of the matter is that there is a 100% fatality rate for the set of people who have had even one mRNA vaccine. There is an identical fatality rate for the set of people who have had zero mRNA vaccines, but that isn’t important.
Also I should mention the timespan for the fatality rate: 150 years, but I won’t.
