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You're right, I'm making a lot of assumptions. OP asked each person for their opinion, not a crystal ball with 100% accuracy, I gave mine. That said, I've been

You're right, I'm making a lot of assumptions. OP asked each person for their opinion, not a crystal ball with 100% accuracy, I gave mine. That said, I've been a reluctant member of the disability community for several decades, and I can also state that ME/CFS has a heckuva lot of overlap with Long Covid. The disabled community has called a lot of the things that have happened this entire pandemic, while 'experts' have gotten a lot of things wrong. I'm telling you what all the disabled people, who have been right this entire time, are saying: a lot of businesses are on the verge of collapse, because of long covid and other covid-related reasons (like, getting burned out from getting covid 3 times a year). Go to a subreddit for nurses and see how things really are. Go to a subreddit for teachers. Our hospitals are going to collapse, I predict in a few years, if we don't change course. Our schools are going to buckle under this strain. How functional is an economy with a 36 hour wait to get in the ER and terrible educational options? What happens when all the flight attendants, teachers, nurses, doctors, bus drivers, waiters, cooks, and so on either get too sick or too burnt out and quit en masse? That's why I'm saying it's not just "a recession," it's that plus...a whole lot of other huge economic issues. I understand if you think this makes me sound alarmist. But, FYI, when I lived in NYC and I warned that our laissez faire attitude to the air at Ground Zero was going to give thousands of people cancer, I was also called alarmist. As Sarah Kendzior says, it's a sin to be right too early.

t0bia_s 4y ago
"Go to a subreddit for nurses and see how things really are. Go to a subreddit for teachers." Go out, in real life and you'll see that it is not that bad as media, full of emotions and sensations, told you.
- Arete314159 4y ago
  FYI, telling a disabled person to get out more is not a great look. That said, the places I do get out to -- medical facilities -- are the places I've been talking about. In the red state I used to live in, I saw tons of unmasked or poorly-masked healthcare workers, many of whom had had covid. In the blue state I now live in, healthcare facilities are understaffed, and it's only getting worse. I repeat: if the question is about how to profit (or at least not lose) in the upcoming economic climate, one way to do that is to understand that healthcare, transit, education, and other in-person workforces will be severely stressed. I don't know how to make money on that, but at least you have the full picture.
  - t0bia_s 4y ago
    Where are you living? Sorry about that, but disabled or not, it doesn't change whats going on in real life. What is wrong with unmasked healthcare workers?
    - Arete314159 4y ago
      The latest studies show that being vaccinated only reduces the risk of Long Covid by something like 20%. So while the vaccine is good for reducing acute sequelae -- much less hospitalization -- it's not doing that much for the folks who have a seemingly mild case, feel fine after a couple weeks, go back to work....and then 3 months down the line they start feeling awful. Brain scans of folks with Long Covid are showing brain shrinkage. PET scans are showing many areas of the brain affected. The only prevention for Long Covid is not getting Covid, and that's still mostly achieved the old-fashioned way with a combination of high-quality masks, ventilation, and air fitration. The Texas Infectious Disease clinic has been using elastomeric respirators for years with their TB patients -- that's honestly the standard all healthcare workers should be using right now.
      - t0bia_s 4y ago
        You shouldn't apply collective rules for everyone. For most people, covid is no threat. If you are in risk group, I'm sure that you can individually make arrangements about masking, etc. Btw, long covid could be a consequence of lock-downs and interruption of social contacts that we never had in history. Anxiety, reduction of movement, less working, increased consumption of fear spreading news and amount of time a front of screen... But sure, you can blame virus if you want. Or experimental vaccines.

t0bia_s 4y ago

"Go to a subreddit for nurses and see how things really are. Go to a subreddit for teachers." Go out, in real life and you'll see that it is not that bad as media, full of emotions and sensations, told you.

Arete314159 4y ago
FYI, telling a disabled person to get out more is not a great look. That said, the places I do get out to -- medical facilities -- are the places I've been talking about. In the red state I used to live in, I saw tons of unmasked or poorly-masked healthcare workers, many of whom had had covid. In the blue state I now live in, healthcare facilities are understaffed, and it's only getting worse. I repeat: if the question is about how to profit (or at least not lose) in the upcoming economic climate, one way to do that is to understand that healthcare, transit, education, and other in-person workforces will be severely stressed. I don't know how to make money on that, but at least you have the full picture.
- t0bia_s 4y ago
  Where are you living? Sorry about that, but disabled or not, it doesn't change whats going on in real life. What is wrong with unmasked healthcare workers?
  - Arete314159 4y ago
    The latest studies show that being vaccinated only reduces the risk of Long Covid by something like 20%. So while the vaccine is good for reducing acute sequelae -- much less hospitalization -- it's not doing that much for the folks who have a seemingly mild case, feel fine after a couple weeks, go back to work....and then 3 months down the line they start feeling awful. Brain scans of folks with Long Covid are showing brain shrinkage. PET scans are showing many areas of the brain affected. The only prevention for Long Covid is not getting Covid, and that's still mostly achieved the old-fashioned way with a combination of high-quality masks, ventilation, and air fitration. The Texas Infectious Disease clinic has been using elastomeric respirators for years with their TB patients -- that's honestly the standard all healthcare workers should be using right now.
    - t0bia_s 4y ago
      You shouldn't apply collective rules for everyone. For most people, covid is no threat. If you are in risk group, I'm sure that you can individually make arrangements about masking, etc. Btw, long covid could be a consequence of lock-downs and interruption of social contacts that we never had in history. Anxiety, reduction of movement, less working, increased consumption of fear spreading news and amount of time a front of screen... But sure, you can blame virus if you want. Or experimental vaccines.