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"Ignore your illness, and just keep working" is not a viable course of action, especially not with long-covid, speaking from experience here. In third-world cou

"Ignore your illness, and just keep working" is not a viable course of action, especially not with long-covid, speaking from experience here. In third-world countries without a socialized healthcare, this simply means these people work themselves to death, starve themselves to death, or need to rely on others for their survival. It is an absurd illusion that one can just ignore a serious health issue this way. Or, in language a non-empath like you you would comprehend: the world is better off without your opinion.

trompetenaccoun 2y ago
I live in Kenya and have not heard of a single person who got "long covid", or knows someone who does. It has nothing to do with working oneself to death as you imagine, this is a phenomenon that does not exist outside a certain social bubble. You say you speak from experience. What exactly is your third world experience based on?
- lupusreal 2y ago
  Post-viral fatigue definitely happens in Africa, but only very privileged people with the means to lay around doing nothing will allow it to knock them down so hard they literally don't stand up once in two years. Post-viral fatigue to this degree is a phenomenon of the idle upper class. It doesn't paralyze you, it just makes you tired and miserable. Normal people push through and carry on, because they must.
  - davidt84 2y ago
    Or they die.
    - lupusreal 2y ago
      From long covid? And because they didn't go two years without standing? You can't really believe this. Going outside would not kill her. Choosing to stay in bed for two years has done her far more damage. Staying in bed is worse for you than hard drugs.
      - aucisson_masque 2y ago
        Unless you got cold fever and you're literally too frozen to get outside, or you got your leg broken, there is absolutely no way you wouldn't get out at the very least once a day. I believe it's a mix of depression and lack of will, being hungry and having nothing to eat is the best way to make someone get back on his feet. It happens everyday with the lower class, but people in the top of society don't feel that very often, or even at all.

trompetenaccoun 2y ago

I live in Kenya and have not heard of a single person who got "long covid", or knows someone who does. It has nothing to do with working oneself to death as you imagine, this is a phenomenon that does not exist outside a certain social bubble. You say you speak from experience. What exactly is your third world experience based on?

lupusreal 2y ago
Post-viral fatigue definitely happens in Africa, but only very privileged people with the means to lay around doing nothing will allow it to knock them down so hard they literally don't stand up once in two years. Post-viral fatigue to this degree is a phenomenon of the idle upper class. It doesn't paralyze you, it just makes you tired and miserable. Normal people push through and carry on, because they must.
- davidt84 2y ago
  Or they die.
  - lupusreal 2y ago
    From long covid? And because they didn't go two years without standing? You can't really believe this. Going outside would not kill her. Choosing to stay in bed for two years has done her far more damage. Staying in bed is worse for you than hard drugs.
    - aucisson_masque 2y ago
      Unless you got cold fever and you're literally too frozen to get outside, or you got your leg broken, there is absolutely no way you wouldn't get out at the very least once a day. I believe it's a mix of depression and lack of will, being hungry and having nothing to eat is the best way to make someone get back on his feet. It happens everyday with the lower class, but people in the top of society don't feel that very often, or even at all.