• ButtBidet [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    The new variants are much more infectious, as you mentioned. So maybe it's safer if you get it, you're more likely to get it, so arguably it's just as dangerous.

    Since everywhere has stopped testing for COVID, recorded deaths are down. Many COVID deaths are now recorded as heart or stroke related. If you look at general excess deaths, everywhere is way up.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      There's also evidence that it attacks your immune system, making you more susceptible to subsequent covid infections as well as everything else. Idk if they've determined whether the damage is permanent or not but with people catching covid 3+ times a year it seems bad.

      Plus all the other damage it does to every organ system.

      • ButtBidet [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        My thinking is that those with long SARS 1 still have long SARS, even twenty years later. My partner has had long COVID for over a year and shows no signs of getting better.

        I'm fucking N95ing like a crazy person. I hear about all the serious problems, and it's not worth risking it, especially if losing my job is likely going to drive me into extreme poverty.