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At a certain point these articles have blended into the background “this thing is bad for you” noise. We’ve all had COVID at this point. Either we will or we wo

At a certain point these articles have blended into the background “this thing is bad for you” noise. We’ve all had COVID at this point. Either we will or we won’t have complications down the line. I don’t care to worry about it anymore.

osigurdson 4y ago
There is nothing wrong with this comment other than "all" should instead be "most.
azinman2 4y ago
I haven't had COVID at this point, and information like this helps me understand how much I should be trying to continue this conservative lifestyle that's let me avoid it thus far. It's helpful to know what the complications are, because not only can people better understand the potential source of issues, it helps direct research & attention to where it's needed for treatment.
- sprior 4y ago
  Same situation as you and totally agreed.
- rootusrootus 4y ago
  Given that many people don't have any symptoms, how do you know that you haven't had it? The latest wave seemed to be very thorough at infecting every last person.
  - kitsunesoba 4y ago
    If one has been working remotely, gotten everything delivered, and not spent any time out and about since January it's reasonable to assume that they never caught it. Little to no contact with outsiders means little to no chance of contracting it.
    - deleted 4y ago
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    - ramesh31 4y ago
      Good lord are people still doing that? I understand if you’re immunocompromised. But get over it. We have the shots. It’s just a flu now for healthy people.
      - freeone3000 4y ago
        I think this article, and the other "background noise", are evidence that it is a severe disease with lifelong consequences. Maybe the flu is as well! But these measures work for both.
        timr 4y ago
        This article tells you nothing useful in terms of evaluating your own personal risk. They recruited people with symptoms, in order to see if they could explain the symptoms. It tells you nothing about the risk to any random person of experiencing the same symptoms. For all you know, you could have faced the exact same risk from myriad other viruses every year of your life before 2020; we simply never looked. Regardless, you're going to get Covid. It is inevitable. It isn't going away. You can get it when you're younger and healthier, or you can get it when you're older and sicker. The only truly tragic difference is how many years of your life you might give up trying to hide from it in the meantime.
        trention 4y ago
        >Regardless, you're going to get Covid. It is inevitable. It isn't going away. You can get it when you're younger and healthier, or you can get it when you're older and sicker. You know you're full of sh*t when you still treat covid as a one-time infection when it's perfectly clear that it will reinfect you at best on a biyearly basis.
        timr 4y ago
  - azinman2 4y ago
    I can’t be absolutely certain, but I’m high risk so it’s unlikely to be asymptomatic. I also haven’t dined indoor or anything of the like. Been extra careful. It would be very surprising if I had.
- rosywoozlechan 4y ago
  I've been avoiding people since this all began. I haven't gotten it yet. I'm in very good health, very fit and lean, but I keep seeing people I know are more fit than I am get sick, like Dr. Mike Israetel just recently got symptomatic covid again. Not many people are as fit as he is. I honestly think the only reason I haven't gotten sick yet is because I largely avoid people. Going to keep avoiding it until people stop getting sick from it.
  - christkv 4y ago
    Well it’s endemic so it will never go away just join the generic group of cold viruses
- yourusername 4y ago
  >I haven't had COVID at this point, and information like this helps me understand how much I should be trying to continue this conservative lifestyle that's let me avoid it thus far. Is it your conservative lifestyle? I haven't been taking any precautions and i haven't had covid yet either.
  - quickthrower2 4y ago
    I didn’t get it for a long time until it went gangbusters through this area and you’d pretty much need the agoraphobic lifestyle to avoid getting it.
GolDDranks 4y ago
I haven't had it, and I certainly don't want it, reading these articles.
- nradov 4y ago
  The virus isn't going away so you're going to get it whether you want it or not. Unless you avoid all human contact, which is obviously worse and more unhealthy than any respiratory virus.
  - GolDDranks 4y ago
    In the meanwhile, a vaccine targeting BA.4 and BA.5 is being approved at these moments where I live. If I manage to avoid an infection for some another months and get the jab, I guess I'll be fine for the time being.
  - cma 4y ago
    The metaverse gets facetracking next month.
  - nishs 4y ago
    The absolutes in this comment show heavy bias.
  - nishs 4y ago
    > Unless you avoid all human contact […] Here comes the straw man. Secondly, the original comment was likely talking about doing their best* to avoid infection. Doing one’s best but failing is an acceptable outcome. Even if one fails, being infected once is better than being infected twice. In general, for covid, being infected as few times as possible is a good thing and a worthwhile goal. -- *For some people, doing their best might even include doing some relatively unsafe activities on a whim occasionally. Being so doesn’t make them hypocrites.
    - nradov 4y ago
      There's no point in trying when failure is inevitable.
qbasic_forever 4y ago
You sound like you're suicidal or suffering severe depression if you have that little care for your own life or future.
- osigurdson 4y ago
  That is quite the logical jump. OP might just prefer not to worry about it anymore, which honestly seems to be the case for most people these days. Two years is a long time to be ultra-careful about everything.
  - qbasic_forever 4y ago
    What they're espousing is pure nihilism, AKA "if I die, I die". It's not a good attitude with a novel virus that has killed over a million folks in America so far! It's not hard to take simple mitigations like mask wearing to prevent catching it or prevent getting reinfected over and over from it.
    - nradov 4y ago
      What a silly comment. Regular people obviously aren't going to spend the rest of their lives wearing masks (which aren't even completely effective anyway). You're likely to get infected (or reinfected) no matter what you do.
      - qbasic_forever 4y ago
    - ramesh31 4y ago
      > What they're espousing is pure nihilism, AKA "if I die, I die". It's not a good attitude with a novel virus that has killed over a million folks in America so far! It’s not nihilistic. It’s realistic. The virus is no longer “novel”. And its’ only danger was its novelty. We are vaccinated now. Life can resume. Unless you want to spend your life also worrying about polio, measels, HPV, and whatever else we’ve beaten and learned to live with.

osigurdson 4y ago

There is nothing wrong with this comment other than "all" should instead be "most.

azinman2 4y ago

I haven't had COVID at this point, and information like this helps me understand how much I should be trying to continue this conservative lifestyle that's let me avoid it thus far. It's helpful to know what the complications are, because not only can people better understand the potential source of issues, it helps direct research & attention to where it's needed for treatment.

sprior 4y ago
Same situation as you and totally agreed.
rootusrootus 4y ago
Given that many people don't have any symptoms, how do you know that you haven't had it? The latest wave seemed to be very thorough at infecting every last person.
- kitsunesoba 4y ago
  If one has been working remotely, gotten everything delivered, and not spent any time out and about since January it's reasonable to assume that they never caught it. Little to no contact with outsiders means little to no chance of contracting it.
  - deleted 4y ago
    [deleted]
  - ramesh31 4y ago
    Good lord are people still doing that? I understand if you’re immunocompromised. But get over it. We have the shots. It’s just a flu now for healthy people.
    - freeone3000 4y ago
      I think this article, and the other "background noise", are evidence that it is a severe disease with lifelong consequences. Maybe the flu is as well! But these measures work for both.
      - timr 4y ago
        This article tells you nothing useful in terms of evaluating your own personal risk. They recruited people with symptoms, in order to see if they could explain the symptoms. It tells you nothing about the risk to any random person of experiencing the same symptoms. For all you know, you could have faced the exact same risk from myriad other viruses every year of your life before 2020; we simply never looked. Regardless, you're going to get Covid. It is inevitable. It isn't going away. You can get it when you're younger and healthier, or you can get it when you're older and sicker. The only truly tragic difference is how many years of your life you might give up trying to hide from it in the meantime.
        trention 4y ago
        >Regardless, you're going to get Covid. It is inevitable. It isn't going away. You can get it when you're younger and healthier, or you can get it when you're older and sicker. You know you're full of sh*t when you still treat covid as a one-time infection when it's perfectly clear that it will reinfect you at best on a biyearly basis.
        timr 4y ago
- azinman2 4y ago
  I can’t be absolutely certain, but I’m high risk so it’s unlikely to be asymptomatic. I also haven’t dined indoor or anything of the like. Been extra careful. It would be very surprising if I had.
rosywoozlechan 4y ago
I've been avoiding people since this all began. I haven't gotten it yet. I'm in very good health, very fit and lean, but I keep seeing people I know are more fit than I am get sick, like Dr. Mike Israetel just recently got symptomatic covid again. Not many people are as fit as he is. I honestly think the only reason I haven't gotten sick yet is because I largely avoid people. Going to keep avoiding it until people stop getting sick from it.
- christkv 4y ago
  Well it’s endemic so it will never go away just join the generic group of cold viruses
yourusername 4y ago
>I haven't had COVID at this point, and information like this helps me understand how much I should be trying to continue this conservative lifestyle that's let me avoid it thus far. Is it your conservative lifestyle? I haven't been taking any precautions and i haven't had covid yet either.
- quickthrower2 4y ago
  I didn’t get it for a long time until it went gangbusters through this area and you’d pretty much need the agoraphobic lifestyle to avoid getting it.

GolDDranks 4y ago

I haven't had it, and I certainly don't want it, reading these articles.

nradov 4y ago
The virus isn't going away so you're going to get it whether you want it or not. Unless you avoid all human contact, which is obviously worse and more unhealthy than any respiratory virus.
- GolDDranks 4y ago
  In the meanwhile, a vaccine targeting BA.4 and BA.5 is being approved at these moments where I live. If I manage to avoid an infection for some another months and get the jab, I guess I'll be fine for the time being.
- cma 4y ago
  The metaverse gets facetracking next month.
- nishs 4y ago
  The absolutes in this comment show heavy bias.
- nishs 4y ago
  > Unless you avoid all human contact […] Here comes the straw man. Secondly, the original comment was likely talking about doing their best* to avoid infection. Doing one’s best but failing is an acceptable outcome. Even if one fails, being infected once is better than being infected twice. In general, for covid, being infected as few times as possible is a good thing and a worthwhile goal. -- *For some people, doing their best might even include doing some relatively unsafe activities on a whim occasionally. Being so doesn’t make them hypocrites.
  - nradov 4y ago
    There's no point in trying when failure is inevitable.

qbasic_forever 4y ago

You sound like you're suicidal or suffering severe depression if you have that little care for your own life or future.

osigurdson 4y ago
That is quite the logical jump. OP might just prefer not to worry about it anymore, which honestly seems to be the case for most people these days. Two years is a long time to be ultra-careful about everything.
- qbasic_forever 4y ago
  What they're espousing is pure nihilism, AKA "if I die, I die". It's not a good attitude with a novel virus that has killed over a million folks in America so far! It's not hard to take simple mitigations like mask wearing to prevent catching it or prevent getting reinfected over and over from it.
  - nradov 4y ago
    What a silly comment. Regular people obviously aren't going to spend the rest of their lives wearing masks (which aren't even completely effective anyway). You're likely to get infected (or reinfected) no matter what you do.
    - qbasic_forever 4y ago
  - ramesh31 4y ago
    > What they're espousing is pure nihilism, AKA "if I die, I die". It's not a good attitude with a novel virus that has killed over a million folks in America so far! It’s not nihilistic. It’s realistic. The virus is no longer “novel”. And its’ only danger was its novelty. We are vaccinated now. Life can resume. Unless you want to spend your life also worrying about polio, measels, HPV, and whatever else we’ve beaten and learned to live with.