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Yeah, part of the consensus as far as I know is that the best way to avoid long covid is to basically be a absolute couch potato for a month post infection. whi

• GuB-42 4y ago
  It is the first time I hear this and it can explain things. Do you have references? One oddity I noticed is that among the people I know, the fittest and most physically active had the worst "mild" covid, which surprised me since it is well known that physical activity is good for immunity (up to a point). They tend to feel like shit for a week or two, and take weeks to months to get back to their pre-covid levels. I attributed it to some kind of bias: when you are lifting weights for instance, you can easily measure your fitness level by noting how much you are able to lift, a measure that couch potatoes don't have and therefore don't notice their weakness. But if you are saying that making efforts just after infection negatively and significantly affects recovery, that could be an explanation. Also, there are so many articles along the lines of "I used to run marathons, now, with long covid, I can barely walk". It is rarely about "normal" people (in the US, that would be couch potatoes). Again I believe these cases are selected because the before/after contrast makes a better point, but again, "don't exercise after infection" could be an explanation.