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So your prediction is that long covid slashes decades off of life expectancy?

• mikewarot 5y ago
  Yes, 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 ago
    I predict we'll get more and more evidence that "long covid" isn't as real as people think it is.
    • muzani 5y ago
      I 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 ago
      Some 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 ago
    How do you differentiate between long covid and a bunch of hypochondriacs? If you haven't noticed, people love to feel fear and anxiety.