Just call it an endmic at this point ffs
oh fuck i guess i technically have had long covid before took me a month to recover even though i definitely wasnt sick anymore the first time. idk how its going this time, does feel like im recovering faster than without the vaccine (couldnt get it before cause it didnt exist)
It's worth noting that symptoms that stay around after you recover could be long-covid (potentially scary possibility) or it could be reactions due to your immune system. If I have a bad cold or flu, I'll sometimes have a cough for a month or two after. I think this is also possible with covid, and better than vascular issues or brain fog.
or it could be reactions due to your immune system
highly credible scientists are proposing further studies to learn if :same-picture:
Thinking about how I got chicken pox as a kid, was fine until my 30s and then shingles absolutely wiped me out for 2 weeks. So excited for the prospect of Covid doing something similar :what-the-hell:
Eternally fixed categories. Libs can't be dialectical
Just call it an endmic at this point ffs
Every lib I have talked to somehow equates this condition with covid being as "harmless" as a cold
Libs want to declare victory / an end to the pandemic and this is, mentally, about 80% of the way there for them.
:liberalism: love 2 have endemic diseases, like Malaria for instance
There are over a million new cases a day in the US alone. A new variant is inevitable.
Is more transmissible even that concerning??
Omicron is so transmissible that i don't think it really moves the needle if a slightly more transmissible variant arises.
A virus could be more transmissible by being able to evade the immune response from previous infections or vaccinations.
That is to say, by being able to hurt people who had developed immunity to the previous variant.
So yes.
I think those are two different things. Immune escape and transmissibility that is.
It can develop transmissibility without getting immune escape. If that's all it is i don't see how it makes things any worse. Like it's already so bad
Yeah they're different things, with a causative link. Immune evasion causes higher transmissibility.
It makes things worse because more people get infected, and because people who were immune to the previous variant can now be infected and damaged again by the new variant. More infections also creates more opportunity for more dangerous mutations.
well, this could only end in two ways. For the US, where almost half of the population is categorize as obese, and barely over 60% fully vaccinated, not looking good. The Corony is breeding, munching and licking it lips.
I don't know enough about epidemiology (nothing at all) to say it should be called an endemic. But I've heard endemics can potentially turn into less harmful things fwiw
Again, I don't know wtf is going on
