Key Takeaways
Millions of Americans might be out of work due to Long COVID
About 14% of working-age people with Long COVID hadn’t returned to their jobs within three months
People with five or more symptoms were more than twice as likely to be out of work
So cool that covid is just being treated as an unstoppable force we just have to live with, and demands of universal healthcare have been shit canned among mainstream discourse because what's called "the left" in the Burger Reich wanted to go back to brunch.
Well she might have genocidal policies on Gaza, Iran, China, North Korea, the entire Global South, and the planet itself vis a vis Climate Change, but surely Kamala Harris has a good response to covid's impact on people domestically, right?
“Given the millions of people who have had COVID-19 in the United States and the millions of people that report prolonged symptoms, this is not a small problem,” said Venkatesh. “So, it does require big interventions.”
don't stop now! who will step up to carry out these big interventions, and how will they look like, it's the constantly missing second half of the article, or are we always just going to be stuck in the 'raising awareness' stage
"Liberals don't believe in politics anymore, only bearing witness to suffering."
If a public health person ever says that we need to develop interventions, you already know that they are going to do fuck all except maybe make a "mHealth mobile app" that just gives you information that already exists on the CDC website
: “Listen kiddo, I crunched some numbers and I realized a healthy population would be BaD fOr ThE eCoNoMy! How could shareholders make some extra bucks if we don’t do a mass disabling event!? Do you really want to hurt the economy, kiddo? Besides, a more physically vulnerable livestock ensures a lower chance of revolution, and then I’ll lose my omelette I made by breaking a few eggs! Don’t be so naive, kiddo. It’s just business, don’t take it so personally!”
I tested positive for the first time a month ago now and still have a persistent cough if I do even the lightest amount of exercise. I luckily work from home, but if that wasn't the case, there's no way anybody would want me in an office or that I'd be able to stock shelves for more than a few minutes before having a fit.
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Sadly, as someone who's forced to work in-person, I can assure you that nobody cares if somebody else in the office has a persistent cough. COVID being over is more important to them than basic self-preservation.
My father developed lung fibrosis and went from going on several mile walks to being winded after a block, but blames his time in the army being exposed to asbestos and all sorts of other shit 40 years ago, and not going back to normal immediately after the vaccination campaign.
To most people vaccines solved the problem forever and so any new health issues can't be covid.
Trying to warn them that while the vaccines helped greatly, the virus is so infectious and mutating so quickly that it will still be causing an enormous amount of problems for everyone is nearly impossible.
I’ve had maybe one normal shit since getting COVID a year ago
Covid can infect the gut and stay there after it's cleared from the rest of the body, and/or disrupt its functionong and otherwise fuck up your gut microbiome. Research suggests this disruption might be causing a lot of long covid issues.
If you have a doctor talk to them first, but you might want to look into probiotics: https://www.healthline.com/health/covid-and-probiotics
Sigh
I’m a neuroscientist and at my last job I mostly did gut research. Also my mom has been a big advocate of probiotics for like, a decade.
Why did trying probiotics not click in my brain. Why am I this stupid?
Multiple ongoing pandemics, the crushing weight of capitalism, and the overwhelming responsibility of being ridiculously good looking?
I recently took 1 probiotic pill a day for like 60 days.
I don't think it made any difference. But maybe I needed 2 pills daily or a different probiotic or something.
I don't think increasing the dose would matter, but you might have needed to take it for longer. I had to go on probiotics once after a course of antibiotics and it was like 6 months of gradual improvement before I was back to normal.
My sense of smell has been like 10% of what it used to be since 2020 :(. Ive felt like I've been missing something, and I only really noticed what it was a few months ago.
Some people have had luck regaining their sense of smell after doing shrooms a few times. Might be worth looking into.
My taste is fucked. Can't drink coffee anymore because it take so bitter
I hope you someday recover from that. i know what you mean, but my tastes thankfully came back after a month or two.
So cool that this is incredibly common and normalized. Cool cool cool.
