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I think this article is correct in the social prediction. Truth of the matter is, I'd rather use masks for the rest of my life and socialize outdoors than have
by blagie 5y ago
I think this article is correct in the social prediction.
Truth of the matter is, I'd rather use masks for the rest of my life and socialize outdoors than have the neurological after-effects of COVID.
My worry is that after omicron, we will see pi, rho, sigma, and tao. Each of those will cause neurological effects in, say, 5% of the population. Depending on how this works, we might see a quarter of the population in moderately bad shape, or 5% of the population in very, very bad shape. Or we might see a variant that lands 100% of the population in bad shape.
Prior to the advent medicine, mankind has dealt with diseases like that before. I'd be very sad if modern gave us a 100 year lull, rather than solving the problem.
- splintercell 5y agoWhat neurological after-effects are you talking about?
- blagie 5y agohttps://sciencebasedmedicine.org/neurological-manifestations-of-covid/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/neurological-manifestations... https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)00555-7/fulltext https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(21)005... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7970685/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7970685/ .... and so on. Acute are things like memory lapses and pretty severe deficits. Those are less common, but do occur. Very common is a small but statistically significant general decline in cognitive function.
- Forge36 5y agoI wonder if this has always been the case for major illness, and the effect/study was too hard to observe.
- NoPie 5y agoMost likely this. It is hard to imagine that covid has disproportional ability to cause lasting side-effects without causing causing severe disease and/or death.
- blagie 5y agoYes, this was the case for many major diseases. It also wasn't hard to observe: * Syphilis could cause madness later in life * Polio could lead to paralysis later in life * Rabies moves up the nervous system very, very slowly, with no symptoms, and suddenly you go crazy, fear water, and die. * Lyme disease causes memory losses and cognitive dysfunction ... and so on. Good thing we managed to fight those off!
- NoPie 5y agoIt doesn't work like that with cold viruses. You get it as a child and then every year with minimum effect. Maybe at the end of your life when your body and immune system is weak it causes severe disease and/or death. The same with covid. Once you get several vaccinations and then maybe you get omicron. And then every year another variant and so on. The risk of severe disease and significant lasting side-effects are very minimal. We should not compare them to the current state when our immunity is far from adjusted.
- blagie 5y agoI see. COVID is now just a cold. Next please. Seriously. Look up the history of infectious diseases. For most of history, we were living with truly debilitating ones. Polio. Smallpox. Measles. Syphilis. The Roman Empire would probably be around if not for the Plaque of Justinian. Heck, look at the impact of disease on IQ in parts of Africa. Yes, it's possible COVID will behave like how you describe. It's equally possible it will knock 5 IQ points off each time it hits you, until we're drooling idiots in our old age. We don't know yet. We do know colds don't cross the blood-brain barrier like COVID.