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As someone who has seen multiple people close to me, including my wife, struggle with long covid, I can tell you the answer is simply no. Anecdotal, yes, but th
by Lutger 1y ago
As someone who has seen multiple people close to me, including my wife, struggle with long covid, I can tell you the answer is simply no. Anecdotal, yes, but this shouldn't be an argument.
We are several years in now. These statements are actually pretty hurtful for people who have been through a lot. It's like saying you could beat cancer if you only wanted to, or if you didn't think all those negatives thoughts, you wouldn't be so ill now.
Not only is it suggesting that this misery is in some way 'your own fault', but it also implies that it isn't real, or serious, at least not in the same way other diseases are.
And yes, psychological problems are real too, indeed. But it is not the same. The origin narrative around a disease does in fact matter for people trying to cope with it, and how others see you, for insurance, for politics and medical care. Please be more respectful about it.
- alganet 1y agoPerhaps you are right. I took the vaccines and was pretty lucky to not suffer any major consequences. What I said could be read as offensive and some kind of "your own fault" to laymen. However, that is not the idea. I have psychological issues of my own and I completely understand when someone tries to say "it's all my own fault", so I'm empathetic to your critic.
- Krssst 1y ago> I took the vaccines and was pretty lucky to not suffer any major consequences. Lucky as in 999,990 chances on one million of being safe (myocarditis, see: https://labeling.pfizer.com/showlabeling.aspx?id=19542&format=pdf https://labeling.pfizer.com/showlabeling.aspx?id=19542&forma... ). Long covid is a multi-percent risk by comparison, extremely larger. It's insane how some people seek to blame a few pieces of RNA rather than the virus eating your arteries to reproduce. Medicine should of course be checked for safety but we're way past that. Of course people getting sick from vaccines deserve recognition and help but long covid patients just as much.
- alganet 1y agoI took the vaccines because I trust them. I'm talking about not suffering consequences of the virus because I decided to receive some immunization. However, I was skeptical about mixing different vaccine types, so I took only one kind of it.
- marky1991 1y agoThis sounds like "you shouldn't suggest that long COVID is psychosomatic because doing so makes me or others feel bad" to me. Which part of what you're saying am I misunderstanding?