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> 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 i

> 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 ago
especially 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 ago
Australian 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 ago
  https://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 ago
    What 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 ago
      Oz probably has the means to produce vaccine and speed up roll out if the situation gets worse there.
fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - 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.

Tarsul 5y ago

especially 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 ago

Australian 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 ago
https://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 ago
  What 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 ago
    Oz probably has the means to produce vaccine and speed up roll out if the situation gets worse there.

fossuser 5y ago

Yeah - 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.