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> 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 lo
by gopalv 6y ago
> 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.
- ghostwriter 6y ago> He can still taste sriracha, but he is nearly suicidal from this (partly regret for taking risky decisions). 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.
- jokethrowaway 6y agoLosing sense of taste can also be a early sign of depression. 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.