• Vub@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I’m in Europe and it’s anecdotal but there are SO many acquaintances that are sick with corona right now. Also not particularly mild, some are in bed since 1+ week with bad symptoms. Fuck this virus and fuck the people who don’t care about the well-being of the person next to them.

      • The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I worry that long covid is going to be one of the things that breaks the global economy long-term (likely leading to accelerated automation), if we can’t sort out a therapy for it.

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          Oh, the global economy is going to break regardless. China is physically and economically collapsing right now, and it’s going to have huge knock-on effects

          Meanwhile, we still don’t even have a consensus that long COVID is a thing. I definitely feel slightly foggier long after the fact, it seems to me that it might be less about COVID doing something special - maybe all illnesses chip away at long-term health, and COVID put a lot of people in a state much worse than the flu and got us thinking about it.

          Or maybe COVID has unique mechanisms, but it seems to me there’s an assumption - why do we assume that once we recover, we get all the way better? If anything, I think it might be the opposite - there’s plenty of people in my life who never felt the same after getting an illness, but no one talks about it in a unified enough way to give it a name

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      Also in Europe (Germany) and there have been a lot of people OOO due to illness. So far my family has stayed free of it.

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        there have been a lot of people OOO due to illness

        They died and became ghosts?

    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz
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      I’m in Finland. Haven’t heard a thing about corona from anywhere other than news for the longest time. It’s like it vanished