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Anecdote, sure but I've had COVID 3 times so far across at least two strains (Delta, Omicron and maybe a newer mutation of Omicron) and no, no long term symptom

Anecdote, sure but I've had COVID 3 times so far across at least two strains (Delta, Omicron and maybe a newer mutation of Omicron) and no, no long term symptoms that I can identify. Likewise for at LEAST a couple dozen friends and acquaintances of mine. I'm sure that long COVID does exist, but I hesitate to give so many claims credence when they could easily also be the result of ambiguous things like general hypochondria, misatribution and sickness fetishism, all three of which absolutely exist too.

squidsoup 4y ago
It astounds me that someone could read this beautiful elegiac piece of writing and respond with something so completely devoid of empathy.
- helloworld11 4y ago
  I didn't deny that long covid exists and I don't claim this writer is lying, but sentimentality aside, like I said above, all of the possible alternative causes exist too and why deny them for the sake of being polite?
- ikiris 4y ago
  Its kind of amazing how much you can tell about a person sometimes from one sentence.
- ck2 4y ago
  Something I wasn't expecting in all the comments on this post is the steady drone of denial, that long-covid might not be real, I came back the next day and sure enough it's all over the thread. Blows my mind that in this day and age people are still doing the "didn't happen to me, or I imagine I had/got over it in a week, so isn't a real problem for anyone else" I'd expect it on facebook/twitter but not on HN where the average coder/hacker is a bit more educated. But maybe the problem is lack of world experience, not grasping the massive difference in genetics between people, the different kinds of environment exposure. Definitely not wishing it on anyone but wow are people in for a surprise if it happens to them, then they'll "get it" but it will be too late. It's probably why the long-covid forums are full of suicides and suicidal declarations, they trivialized it until it happened to them and then feel boxed in to their own egos.
cjbgkagh 4y ago
It turns out that with enough data it’s pretty easy to disambiguate and do attribution properly. There is plenty of good research that has been done on long covid. Long covid was obviously going to happen because it is similar to MERS and we knew that MERS caused ME/CFS in a decent percentage of those who got it.
_hcuq 4y ago
“A couple dozen friends and acquaintances”. Very good research there, pal. You really are an expert in the field.

squidsoup 4y ago

It astounds me that someone could read this beautiful elegiac piece of writing and respond with something so completely devoid of empathy.

helloworld11 4y ago
I didn't deny that long covid exists and I don't claim this writer is lying, but sentimentality aside, like I said above, all of the possible alternative causes exist too and why deny them for the sake of being polite?
ikiris 4y ago
Its kind of amazing how much you can tell about a person sometimes from one sentence.
ck2 4y ago
Something I wasn't expecting in all the comments on this post is the steady drone of denial, that long-covid might not be real, I came back the next day and sure enough it's all over the thread. Blows my mind that in this day and age people are still doing the "didn't happen to me, or I imagine I had/got over it in a week, so isn't a real problem for anyone else" I'd expect it on facebook/twitter but not on HN where the average coder/hacker is a bit more educated. But maybe the problem is lack of world experience, not grasping the massive difference in genetics between people, the different kinds of environment exposure. Definitely not wishing it on anyone but wow are people in for a surprise if it happens to them, then they'll "get it" but it will be too late. It's probably why the long-covid forums are full of suicides and suicidal declarations, they trivialized it until it happened to them and then feel boxed in to their own egos.

cjbgkagh 4y ago

It turns out that with enough data it’s pretty easy to disambiguate and do attribution properly. There is plenty of good research that has been done on long covid. Long covid was obviously going to happen because it is similar to MERS and we knew that MERS caused ME/CFS in a decent percentage of those who got it.

_hcuq 4y ago

“A couple dozen friends and acquaintances”. Very good research there, pal. You really are an expert in the field.