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> It slowly dawns on the population that a great many of us have had a few decades slashed off of our lifespan by the after-effects of a disease A few decades?
by dude187 5y ago
> It slowly dawns on the population that a great many of us have had a few decades slashed off of our lifespan by the after-effects of a disease
A few decades? Do you have a citation on that?
- HappySweeney 5y agoYou can't cite a self-made prediction.
- dude187 5y agoWell I guess I was assuming the prediction was the realization, not the claim for harm. I predict the opposite, that the vast overreaction taken by much of the world will become to apparent to deny. Yet we'll be in too deep for most to admit it.
- mikewarot 5y agoThe phenomenon of Long Covid - leaving people with symptoms that doctor's write off as anxiety due to its novelty. Eventually we're going to learn a whole new level of stuff about how the body and immune system work as a result of studying it, but the awareness has to come first, and it's against narrative for both mainstreams to talk about it.
- dude187 5y agoSo your prediction is that long covid slashes decades off of life expectancy?
- mikewarot 5y agoYes, it certainly feels like it. Leading to the prediction. If you look through all the reasonable predictions made in the 2020 predictions threads for the coming decade, there were only 3 mentions of pandemic, none of them close to being on point, and that had actually already started. Thus, if you want to actually have a chance of predicting things, you have to go out on a limb.
- dude187 5y agoI predict we'll get more and more evidence that "long covid" isn't as real as people think it is.
- muzani 5y agoI don't necessarily think it's long covid but also the damage that comes from being brought back from near death. The stats cover deaths and recovered, but rarely show "not fully recovered".
- foobarbaz33 5y agoSome young people get heart damage from covid. Where the blood doesn't circulate properly afterwards and stays stuck in the heart where it can harden. For the unlucky a serous heart issue brought by covid could shorten life span by decades Some people still have not had their sense of smell or brain fog clear. People who experience these side effects have their brain literally shrink in size. These symptoms are real. Whether these symptoms lead to early death is speculation. But the calling them not real is as much denial as saying Covid itself is not real.
- TechBro8615 5y agoHow do you differentiate between long covid and a bunch of hypochondriacs? If you haven't noticed, people love to feel fear and anxiety.