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Yes, Covid did cause massive disability. The colloquial term for it is Long Covid. I know at least three people suffering from it —- along a spectrum from sligh

Yes, Covid did cause massive disability. The colloquial term for it is Long Covid. I know at least three people suffering from it —- along a spectrum from slight to severe impairment of daily functioning.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> Covid did cause massive disability. The colloquial term for it is Long Covid I know a previously-healthy guy who got an early variant that went for his pancreas. He now has Type 1 diabetes, a condition one is normally born with and for which there is no cure, just chronic, expensive and time-consuming treatment.
- malfist 2y ago
  How old is he? Type 1 can show up in your 20s-30s, it's not always the case that you're born with it
- RHSeeger 2y ago
  > He now has Type 1 diabetes, a condition one is normally born with Type 1 Diabetes isn't something someone is born with. Rather, it's something that you generally get when young (and, in fact, it used to be called Juvenile Diabetes, vs Adult Onset, which is what Type 2 used to be called), but it can happen later in line, all the way into the 20s (or later, I believe). There is a genetic component, but it's also completely possible to get it with no family history.
  - JumpCrisscross 2y ago
    Didn't realise it was autoimmune. Nevertheless, in his case it was directly caused by Covid attacking the pancreas. That said, he got it in 2020. The virus got milder over successive generations. (Intrinsically and due to broader vaccination and antiviral administration.)
    - RHSeeger 2y ago
      There's actually a couple different "types" of Type 1 Diabetes. For example, you can get it during pregnancy (Gestational Diabetes), etc. So it doesn't surprise me that it's possible to get it from Covid. I seem to recall someone getting it from an injury that damaged the Pancreas enough to prevent it from generating insulin. I don't know if that still "counts" as Type 1; but it certainly has the same effects.
      - JumpCrisscross 2y ago
        > an injury that damaged the Pancreas enough to prevent it from generating insulin. I don't know if that still "counts" as Type 1 It does. Type 1 is fundamentally about an inability to produce insuline. Type 2, an inability to respond to it.
- phil21 2y ago
  > He now has Type 1 diabetes, a condition one is normally born with This is simply untrue. You can be born with it, but it's certainly not the common type of type 1.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago

> Covid did cause massive disability. The colloquial term for it is Long Covid I know a previously-healthy guy who got an early variant that went for his pancreas. He now has Type 1 diabetes, a condition one is normally born with and for which there is no cure, just chronic, expensive and time-consuming treatment.

malfist 2y ago
How old is he? Type 1 can show up in your 20s-30s, it's not always the case that you're born with it
RHSeeger 2y ago
> He now has Type 1 diabetes, a condition one is normally born with Type 1 Diabetes isn't something someone is born with. Rather, it's something that you generally get when young (and, in fact, it used to be called Juvenile Diabetes, vs Adult Onset, which is what Type 2 used to be called), but it can happen later in line, all the way into the 20s (or later, I believe). There is a genetic component, but it's also completely possible to get it with no family history.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  Didn't realise it was autoimmune. Nevertheless, in his case it was directly caused by Covid attacking the pancreas. That said, he got it in 2020. The virus got milder over successive generations. (Intrinsically and due to broader vaccination and antiviral administration.)
  - RHSeeger 2y ago
    There's actually a couple different "types" of Type 1 Diabetes. For example, you can get it during pregnancy (Gestational Diabetes), etc. So it doesn't surprise me that it's possible to get it from Covid. I seem to recall someone getting it from an injury that damaged the Pancreas enough to prevent it from generating insulin. I don't know if that still "counts" as Type 1; but it certainly has the same effects.
    - JumpCrisscross 2y ago
      > an injury that damaged the Pancreas enough to prevent it from generating insulin. I don't know if that still "counts" as Type 1 It does. Type 1 is fundamentally about an inability to produce insuline. Type 2, an inability to respond to it.
phil21 2y ago
> He now has Type 1 diabetes, a condition one is normally born with This is simply untrue. You can be born with it, but it's certainly not the common type of type 1.