• Overspark@feddit.nl
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    10 months ago

    I’ve had it for a couple of months now. Sure, it sucks, and I can’t work currently, but I’d much rather have this than die though. This will pass (almost everyone gets better in a couple of years max), death is rather final. Also, don’t kid yourself about the people that had COVID but don’t experience long covid. Many of them have permanent changes to their body too, they just don’t know it.

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      10 months ago

      I’ve had minor asthma my entire life, but didn’t used to really get asthma attacks. After getting COVID though I get them no problem. That was almost two years ago I was sick less than a week. Jogging, biking, sex, playing tag with the cats, need to grab my inhaler now.

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      10 months ago

      My hypothesis is that when Covid started, the experts weren’t really sure of the long term effects, and they were preparing for the worst.

      It’s bad enough as it is that I’m happy to wear a mask when appropriate.

      • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        10 months ago

        More like as more people got sick, the worse side effects they found. At first, they didn’t think there were any real long-term side effects. Then people started having the heart and lung issues, brain fog, hell, they even found permanent COVID damage in guys’ testicles, causing infertility.

        Even now, we don’t know the effects it’ll have had when we look back 10 years after the fact and make the connections between increases in conditions and COVID.