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No doubt that post-viral fatigue is a thing, but I wonder how much of Long COVID is the collective COVID anxiety and fear that continues to be fomented by all i
by dQw4w9WgXcQ 5y ago
No doubt that post-viral fatigue is a thing, but I wonder how much of Long COVID is the collective COVID anxiety and fear that continues to be fomented by all information sources (news, media, socials, etc). At this point we need to go back to pre-COVID in terms of how much attention it receives. We have vaccines, time to move on, the pandemic is over. Basically COVID needs to take a similar mental profile as the flu, which is that we annoyed everyone about vaccines yearly but other than that it was not nightly news and discussion, with warnings plastered everywhere like it's the Cold War. Even worse you have leaders branding this fear+anxiety-laced behavior as the "new normal"
I think behaving as-if the pandemic is over will do collectively far more for the well-being + psyche of fatigued citizens who have likely felt some measure of hope disappear over the past year. It does no benefit to keep circulating disproportionate levels of information about an uncertain and vague threat when we have the solution in vaccines. At this point "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" as the saying goes.
- ricardobeat 5y ago> the pandemic is over This is surprising to read, guess it depends on where you live? Different countries are still at different stages of the pandemic, and it is most certainly not over for a lot of them, especially with the delta variant causing a third/fourth wave.
- Tarsul 5y agoespecially when talking about UK, it's far from over (no matter what Boris Johnson is telling his people). With 30.000 cases per day and more opening up planned (and the Euro finals tomorrow), more and more people will get covid. Even if the death rate will be low compared to last year, people will get long covid. Probably hundreds of thousands of people. There are already 400k people in UK who suffer for more than 1 year from long covid. [1]https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/01/almost-400000-have-had-long-covid-symptoms-year/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/01/almost-400000-ha...
- dannyw 5y agoAustralian here, in Sydney, we just entered our harshest lockdown days ago. We have achieved more or less zero COVID cases until Delta came. Fully vaccinated rate: 6% Ability for under 40s to get a vaccine: Only if you lie.
- roenxi 5y agohttps://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2021/07/covid-19-vaccine-rollout-update-10-july-2021.pdf https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2021... is a good summary of Australia's vaccine rollout.
- dannyw 5y agoWhat these statistics don't show you: even if you are an eligible <39 year old, the earliest booking you can make now is in october.
- throwaway8689 5y agoOz probably has the means to produce vaccine and speed up roll out if the situation gets worse there.
- fossuser 5y agoYeah - I’m guessing American. The pandemic is over in America (for now), definitely not true for all of the rest of the world though. I do suspect while there are long term complications from particularly bad covid cases (lung damage, etc.) - the OP is probably right that the more generic “long covid” symptoms (fatigue, brain fog, heart rate) sound a lot like physical symptoms of anxiety - I’d expect probably those numbers to go down.
- TheOtherHobbes 5y agoThat's not a position the huge majority of doctors and scientists agree with. Why should anyone believe you instead of them?
- dQw4w9WgXcQ 5y agoAre we saying vaccines are not the solution?
- Ensorceled 5y agoThe majority of the world is not vaccinated. Hell, in some US states the majority is not vaccinated.
- wussboy 5y agoI think you’re talking past each other. Is the virus still with us (your point)? Yes. Do we have a potent and effective vaccine which, for vaccinated persons means the virus is no longer a threat (the other person’s point)? Yes.
- hanniabu 5y agoStill not enough vaccinated for herd immunity. And considering the effectiveness of the vaccine drops from ~95% to ~65% 6 months after (around more for a majority of people) then it's looking further from all clear.
- rhino369 5y agoWe were vaccinated enough for heard immunity from the original variants. That’s why infections were cratering even in places with no social distancing rules. Delta variant is probably going to change that. Some parts of the country will have a delta wave. But it’s going to be mostly in vaccinated people with serious infections.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago
- helge9210 5y ago> pandemic is over This is but true in a sense that pandemic never started.