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I think dying from COVID is the least scary part. The long COVID is way more common in my area. People stay ill for longer or lose fitness. We have one acquaint

by spockz 5y ago

I think dying from COVID is the least scary part. The long COVID is way more common in my area. People stay ill for longer or lose fitness. We have one acquaintance that now has issues finding the right words. Personally I lost a few points of eye sight in just the three weeks. (Coincidentally we measured just before I got ill.) other friends just are tired quickly all the time. So I think preventing all that loss of quality of life is also worthwhile.

nradov 5y ago
How do you propose to prevent it? The virus will be around forever and everyone will occasionally be exposed. https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646 https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646 https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immunity-not-possible-astrazeneca-developer-2021-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...
- spockz 5y ago
  I’m not sure we can completely prevent it. But maybe we can keep a significant portion of the population unaffected while the strains decrease is lethality and effect. Whether that is a net benefit over the economic consequences of lockdowns and secondary effects of that I don’t know. I wouldn’t even know how to begin answering that question.
dukeofdoom 5y ago
I assume increasing poverty in the world would also count in that equation. I was just watching a travel show today, and the guy said Cuba went from 4 million visitors/year to almost none this year. Can you imagine how much poverty that loss of tourism income brings to an already poor population. And poverty quickly translates to increased excess mortality.
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rajup 5y ago
This is absurd. You lost eyesight and you think it's because of "long covid"?
- spockz 5y ago
  I admit that the statements could have been sharper but I don’t directly relate losing eyesight to long covid. I’m just trying to say that there are other effects than death which seem more likely and impactful for longer for youthful people as they are more likely to get one of the other effects than they are likely to die from COVID. In this case my eye care provider has seen more cases where patients lost eye sight after covid. Typically this amount of loss of eyesight is not observed over a single period of three weeks.
- sjg007 5y ago
  It's a thing as is erectile dysfunction.

by spockz 5y ago

nradov 5y ago

How do you propose to prevent it? The virus will be around forever and everyone will occasionally be exposed. https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646 https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646 https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immunity-not-possible-astrazeneca-developer-2021-8 https://www.businessinsider.com/delta-variant-made-herd-immu...

spockz 5y ago
I’m not sure we can completely prevent it. But maybe we can keep a significant portion of the population unaffected while the strains decrease is lethality and effect. Whether that is a net benefit over the economic consequences of lockdowns and secondary effects of that I don’t know. I wouldn’t even know how to begin answering that question.

dukeofdoom 5y ago

I assume increasing poverty in the world would also count in that equation. I was just watching a travel show today, and the guy said Cuba went from 4 million visitors/year to almost none this year. Can you imagine how much poverty that loss of tourism income brings to an already poor population. And poverty quickly translates to increased excess mortality.

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rajup 5y ago

This is absurd. You lost eyesight and you think it's because of "long covid"?

spockz 5y ago
I admit that the statements could have been sharper but I don’t directly relate losing eyesight to long covid. I’m just trying to say that there are other effects than death which seem more likely and impactful for longer for youthful people as they are more likely to get one of the other effects than they are likely to die from COVID. In this case my eye care provider has seen more cases where patients lost eye sight after covid. Typically this amount of loss of eyesight is not observed over a single period of three weeks.
sjg007 5y ago
It's a thing as is erectile dysfunction.