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'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering?
For most people, Covid-19 is a brief and mild disease but some are left struggling with symptoms including lasting fatigue, persistent pain and breathlessness for months.
The condition known as "long Covid" is having a debilitating effect on people's lives, and stories of being left exhausted after even a short walk are now common.
So far, the focus has been on saving lives during the pandemic, but there is now a growing recognition that people are facing long-term consequences of a Covid infection.
Yet even basic questions - such as why people get long Covid or whether everyone will fully recover - are riddled with uncertainty.
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'Long Covid': Why are Some People not Recovering?
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words
return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2020, @03:31PM (15 children)
They die because God is punishing them for their wicked promiscuous non-Christian ways. The bill for their sins of the past has come due.
They suffer because they are too weak to resist the evil, the strong survive - you should be projecting strength, don't let the virus scare you, keep you down, get back out there and start spending your money again before the whole house of cards collapses. 200,000 deaths is just noise in the system, hardly more important than a new oil field discovery or drought in the heartland during wheat growing season.
If you cower behind the scientists, wearing your facemasks and hiding in your homes, you will experience more pain and suffering than COVID could ever bring.
/s
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2020, @03:35PM (8 children)
Scientists are *against* lockdowns. The WHO's special envoy on covid-19:
https://twitter.com/spectator/status/1314573157827858434 [twitter.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Monday October 12 2020, @03:47PM
At least in our area, when the schools were 100% remote learning, some teachers made rounds in schoolbuses delivering meals to families that needed them (ironically, often including their own...)
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(Score: 2) by HiThere on Monday October 12 2020, @07:36PM (4 children)
It sounds like by "scientists" you mean economists rather than infectious disease specialists. This is defensible, but is also misleading.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2020, @07:59PM
Doesnt look like an economist to me: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nabarro [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by slinches on Tuesday October 13 2020, @03:46PM (2 children)
Here's the covid-19 pandemic in a nutshell:
Infectious disease expert: We can stop this pandemic if humanity stopped interacting for a couple months. If we do nothing, millions will die.
Economics expert: We can't stop all interactions at once for that long. It would destabilize the economy, collapse the supply chains causing gross food and medical supply and power shortages. Millions will die.
Politicians: Okay, you do one and I'll do the other. That way we each have someone else to blame for the deaths.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday October 13 2020, @05:03PM (1 child)
There *are* ways to handle it without huge death rates. The countries that have been able to do this have a populace that trusts the government. The easy ways are rather totalitarian (see Vietnam). The more difficult ways still require that the populace be willing to trust the government (see Sweden). Note that Sweden has/had a significantly higher death rate than Vietnam, because of errors earlier in the process. (That's what you expect with a more difficult process.)
Or you can be lucky, and depend on excluding it, like New Zealand. But ALL the successful approaches require that those possibly infected not interact in dangerous ways with others. What's required is a populace that's willing to trust the government, and a government that deserves that trust.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by slinches on Tuesday October 13 2020, @05:53PM
You're right. Of course there are better ways to handle it that strike an appropriate balance between health and socio-economic impacts. It would have to evolve over time as new information is learned and could be communicated and would be far more effective if there was a mutual trust between the people and their government. It would also help if the people trusted each other and had a real common bond through their nationality, so that they see each other as neighbors trying to improve their community rather than enemies trying to destroy it.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Joe Desertrat on Monday October 12 2020, @09:41PM (1 child)
Looks more to me that the problem is with economic systems that depend so heavily on a labor force that lives barely above the poverty line with no social safety nets to prevent hardship when a catastrophe strikes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2020, @10:58PM
Yea, if only government was more powerful there would be even more money for when they shut down the economy.
(Score: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Monday October 12 2020, @04:21PM (5 children)
Believe me, I tried being wicked promiscuous in a Christian way, but using only the missionary becomes terrible boring after a short while.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 3, Touché) by choose another one on Monday October 12 2020, @04:50PM (4 children)
I think promiscuity requires using more than one missionary by definition...
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday October 12 2020, @05:09PM (3 children)
Nope, having sex with multiple transient partners is promiscuous by definition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday October 12 2020, @05:25PM
It isn't necessary that all those partners be transient. The widow next door needs loving too!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by choose another one on Monday October 12 2020, @09:28PM (1 child)
> Nope, having sex with multiple transient partners is promiscuous by definition.
Er, that was what I said, or meant to. You said you got bored with one missionary, I said you needed more than one, but maybe forgot to clarify that they don't need to be at the same time.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday October 12 2020, @11:01PM
Eh, I didn't figure out some may not get it's the missionary position that's boring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0