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Why for goodness sakes would I ever take a COVID test again much less because I have the sniffles. It's a contagious disease much like the flu. It's part of lif

• nikolay 3y ago
  Why? Because it's not the flu! You don't have to die immediately from COVID-19 - you can die 2-3 years later from a heart attack, a stroke, kidney failure, and God knows what else. SARS-CoV-2 infects cells in various organs and tissues unlike the influenza virus. It damages your immune system, which could lead to cancer, autoimmune disease, and so on. There's no long-flu, but there's long covid, which is affecting more and more people. I have long covid and it's no joke - massive hair loss, palpitations up to several per minute, poor sleep, headaches, etc. I had no symptoms when I had covid back in April. In fact, I did a few PCR and antibody tests, and they were all negative, but I caught I had it when I did a antibody tests for the entire family. Then I realize what those problems were caused by! 99.9% of people do no test, do no do antibody tests, and worse of all - do not care. Suddenly they say "oh, I suddenly got a heart problem." Yeah, suddenly. Not! Every reinfection accumulates damage. Again and again, this is not the flu and stop comparing it only because it has respiratory symptoms! Many, many, many other diseases have flu-like symptoms! It's the long-term damage that's important, not if you die immediately or not!