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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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(Score: 4, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Monday October 12 2020, @05:12PM (1 child)
Mental disability is in many ways the most difficult of all to accommodate. If your brain is "in sync" with the bulk of society, the bulk of society can relate and help you overcome missing legs, or a dysfunctional arm, or blindness, or whatever.
When your brain works differently, the first (most common) thing you do is expend tremendous effort in attempting to hide the difference - make it less noticeable, or undetectable to as many people as possible. People who fail to achieve that threshold of undetectability then "get help" which ranges from a padded cell up through all kinds of other generally useless accommodations - useless because the people designing and implementing them usually have no clue what's really happening / what would really help the most, if at all.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 12 2020, @07:58PM
> When your brain works differently, the first (most common) thing you do is expend tremendous effort in attempting to hide the difference
Another option--become an artist. Of course this assumes that "differently" doesn't mean "damaged".