This is fantastic, please make more posts like this.
It’s amazing that I had to wait 22 months to see this- I first started looking in July 2020. This sort of analysis should have been available to the public back before the virus was still in Wuhan. Instead, we got years of vague news articles that divulge as little new information as possible, and people started trusting major news outlets more than before.
We should also be skeptical of anyone who reiterates vague claims that a mild case can’truin your life forever. We no longer live in the kind of world where things just turn out ok in the end.
I’m confused by your use of “no longer” above. I don’t believe we have ever lived in such a world., even before covid. We live in such a world to less of an extent now than we did before. Covid is one more thing that sometimes doesn’t turn out ok in the end. But there are many other such thing, including many other diseases.
This is fantastic, please make more posts like this.
It’s amazing that I had to wait 22 months to see this- I first started looking in July 2020. This sort of analysis should have been available to the public back before the virus was still in Wuhan. Instead, we got years of vague news articles that divulge as little new information as possible, and people started trusting major news outlets more than before.
We should also be skeptical of anyone who reiterates vague claims that a mild case can’t ruin your life forever. We no longer live in the kind of world where things just turn out ok in the end.
I’m confused by your use of “no longer” above. I don’t believe we have ever lived in such a world., even before covid. We live in such a world to less of an extent now than we did before. Covid is one more thing that sometimes doesn’t turn out ok in the end. But there are many other such thing, including many other diseases.
Compared to several decades ago, living conditions have improved. But the world is much, much more dangerous and harmful now than it was three years ago, e.g. potentially 50% of mild Covid cases permanently increase fatigue.
I agree that living conditions are better today than several decades ago and worse today than 3 years ago.
That being said, I have seen a lot of mixed evidence and arguments about long covid and haven’t figured out how to best think about it.