Honestly my Hexbear people won't learn much from this, but this is a good resource to beat libs over the head with.
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Long COVID is an often debilitating illness that occurs in at least 10% of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections.
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At least 65 million individuals worldwide are estimated to have long COVID,
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...[occurs in] 10–12% of vaccinated cases
Yes that's right, 10% of vaccinated cases
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With significant proportions of individuals with long COVID unable to return to work, the scale of newly disabled individuals is contributing to labour shortages.
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Six months after breakthrough infection, increased risks were observed for cardiovascular conditions, coagulation and haematological conditions, death, fatigue, neurological conditions and pulmonary conditions
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A higher prevalence of long Covid has been reported in certain ethnicities, including people with Hispanic or Latino heritage. Socio-economic risk factors include lower income and an inability to adequately rest in the early weeks after developing COVID-19
Rich people don't have to give a fuck about COVID
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Long COVID impacts children of all ages [with symptoms] 2 to 36 times more likely [with children who had COVID]
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Studies looking at immune dysregulation in individuals with long COVID who had mild acute COVID-19 have found T cell alterations, including exhausted T cells [and other immune reductions]
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A long-lasting reduction in vascular density, specifically affecting small capillaries, was found in patients with long COVID compared with controls, 18 months after infection.
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Cardiac MRI studies revealed cardiac impairment in 78% of 100 individuals who had a prior COVID-19 episode
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70% of [long COVID] patients had damage to at least one organ and 29% had multi-organ damage... The organ damage experienced by patients with long COVID appears durable
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... fatigue was found in 32% and cognitive impairment was found in 22% of patients with COVID-19 at 12 weeks after infection. Cognitive impairments in long COVID are debilitating, at the same magnitude as intoxication at the :ukkk: drink driving limit or 10 years of cognitive ageing
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Viral persistence in the penile tissue has been documented, as has an increased risk of erectile dysfunction, likely resulting from endothelial dysfunction. In one study, impairments to sperm count, semen volume, motility, sperm morphology and sperm concentration were reported in individuals
:alex-aware:
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Several imaging studies that included non-hospitalized individuals with long COVID demonstrated pulmonary abnormalities including in air trapping and lung perfusion
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Few people with long COVID demonstrate full recovery, with one study finding that 85% of patients who had symptoms 2 months after the initial infection reported symptoms 1 year after symptom onset
There's lots of good links to studies if you need to debate libs
I don’t know how to live my life like this, I just want to break down screaming every day that everyone’s just given up on doing anything to prevent these millions of unnecessary deaths.
I don’t know anyone besides me that wears a mask anymore. Not even my girlfriend does. Most of my friends haven’t even bothered to get the bivalent booster despite me telling them how important it is and it taking 20 fucking minutes. My workplace has been actively discouraging taking any measures to slow or stop it since like day 1.
The fucking DOCTORS here are discouraging people from getting additional boosters.
It's fucking infuriating.
I'm often the only one on public transport or at work wearing a mask.
My rheumatologist told me I could "get another booster if you feel like it, but it's not necessary" back in APRIL. This doctor works exclusively with chronically ill immunocompromised people, most of which are old, and started a rant about how "they keep changing how many are recommended"
like... jesus christ, you went to med school!
That is part of the problem though. You can try and stay on top of things and go insane, or just follow the pack. Most doctors are going with the latter, it seems.
Doctors are still people I guess and people are famously lazy with things like this.
Yup. Our jobs would be a lot easier if that weren't the case, but it's an uphill battle we're facing.
But if there’s one group of people I don’t think it’s too much to expect for them to keep up with those updates it’s fucking doctors
I am shocked that doctors and other medical professionals are so blasé about this, but it also perfectly conforms to many of my experiences with doctors being totally useless and occasionally contemptuous of patients. Like the second anything doesn't go exactly like it does in their textbooks they become totally lost and retreat in to arrogance and dismissal to protect their egos. Not every doctor, but when you're dealing with quality of life destroying chronic illnesses it doesn't take many for you to be suspicious of all of them.
I mean, you'd also expect them to not be right wingers. And yet.
I know so many people who went to med school and a lot of them are the dumbest fucking people I’ve ever met
One of my dumbest customers when I was a bartender before the pandemic was this right wing boomer lib doctor who just started shitting on Bernie for no reason and could never take the polite hint that I didn't want to talk to him
I think the primary qualifications of getting through med school are being smart in a few specific competencies, and after that having an enormous tolerance for stress and sleep deprivation that serve no educational purpose but are used as a form of sadistic hazing for no useful or justifiable reason. Having residents pull 24 hour shifts is just measurably, provably bad for everyone involved including patients, and they continue to do it purely for hazing.
If this was an ordinary disease we could rely t and b cells when antibodies wear off, but this one harms our immune system itself and can harm every organ in our body by the time our bodies figure out they are infected.
All studies that come out indicating that this happens, going back to the first Sars, are being ignored or dismissed as a problem for only a small subset of people who are infected.
So we've been set on a course of repeat infections to "build immunity" with a disease that attacks our immune system and can infect everyone on the planet, and even more wild animals. 8 billion hosts to evolve mutations in, several times a year, and we expect it to burn itself out when its getting better at evading the immune system and binding to our cells. It's fucking madness.
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I literally do not know a single person who wears a mask as often as I do, and I don’t even wear one as often as I should largely because of social pressure. The fact that she does wear one sometimes and is up to date on vaccines is literally the most I can expect outside of putting a bullet through my skull.
I cannot understand the reluctance to wear masks. I just can't understand it. It's such an utterly inconsequential ask with such obvious benefits in the face of such obvious risks and people treat it like the labors of hercules.
But then I always wear a helmet when bike riding, always use safety goggles when using almost any tools, always wear earpro when shooting or using power tools, always wear close toed shoes, never get on a ladder unless it's completely stable and always brace ladders when other people are using them, life vests, medical supplies on hand, check both ways before crossing the street, drive the speed limit, and dozens of other things that are breathtakingly easy and not disruptive in any way but for some reason people treat them as huge impositions.
I think it might help that I live one of the few places in the anglosphere where masking is not taboo but I found that dunking on people for their shitty COVID practices has been an effective tactic to get them to mask. Like to tell people to mask and to not take "no" for an answer just because of how dangerous this virus is; I definitely think being that rigid stance wise should be reserved for things regarding being hostile to oppressive actions, but the refusal to mask literally kills lol.
Like I will tell people that their refusal mask gets disabled people killed, like in a manner that where its clear I am not going to back down, and often they throw one on in response lol. "Reactionaries are paper tigers" is one of the best quotes from the last century for a reason, and it def has been true in my experience regarding anti-maskers (especially those who are libs or "leftists").
I just got in a fight with one of my closest friends about this tonight. After having to explain that he’s wrong about how statistics work and how public health policy works, I told him the statistically correct fact that getting a covid vaccine reduces your risk of dying or becoming permanently disabled from covid more than wearing a seatbelt reduced those risks in a car accident, and he just got pissed.
Dude was spouting straight anti-vaxxer talking points in the GC tonight and it was all I could do to not say “Unless one of the other biologists in this chat wants to back you up I need you to shut the fuck up until you get a biology degree”
Damn I'm sorry one of your best friends is being that shitty on COVID. I am glad you tried to hold him accountable for his beliefs though, its better that way than no one speaking up.