Opening Blurb:
Think you’ve grasped the full extent of COVID’s ongoing impact? Think again. As Americans shrug off vaccines and forget indoor air quality, the virus stealthily continues its destructive path. This was pretty much inevitable without new guidance urging a change in strategy and nobody telling us the full truth.
The danger is clear and present: COVID isn’t merely a respiratory illness; it’s a multi-dimensional threat impacting brain function, attacking almost all of the body’s organs, producing elevated risks of all kinds, and weakening our ability to fight off other diseases. Reinfections are thought to produce cumulative risks, and Long COVID is on the rise. Unfortunately, Long COVID is now being considered a long-term chronic illness — something many people will never fully recover from.
Dr. Phillip Alvelda, a former program manager in DARPA’s Biological Technologies Office that pioneered the synthetic biology industry and the development of mRNA vaccine technology, is the founder of Medio Labs, a COVID diagnostic testing company. He has stepped forward as a strong critic of government COVID management, accusing health agencies of inadequacy and even deception. Alvelda is pushing for accountability and immediate action to tackle Long COVID and fend off future pandemics with stronger public health strategies.
Contrary to public belief, he warns, COVID is not like the flu. New variants evolve much faster, making annual shots inadequate. He believes that if things continue as they are, with new COVID variants emerging and reinfections happening rapidly, the majority of Americans may eventually grapple with some form of Long COVID.
Let’s repeat that: At the current rate of infection, most Americans may get Long COVID.
In the following discussion with the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Alvelda discusses the wider social fallout from this ongoing health crisis, which could be avoided with the right mindset and action. He raises tough questions: Without robust surveillance and mitigation measures, how do we prevent future outbreaks from spiraling out of control? Is our pandemic readiness up to par for looming threats like bird flu? How do we cope with a population ravaged by the lasting impacts of Long COVID? The answers are a wake-up call.
Biden's most succesful policy for sure has to be convincing people that Covid is harmless. I've seen leftists repeating the propaganda because it's just easier to believe the lie.
I feel this. I haven't stopped masking either, and everyone I know has gone back to 'normal' with traveling and pretending everything is fine...and I'm just here like
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It's not even expected to wear masks in medical settings anymore. Makes you feel crazy.
There’s still a mask mandate at a small hospital where my spouse works. This place also caters to millionaires and billionaires. The nurses however aren’t the best at keeping their masks on.
The cancer center someone I take care of goes to to get her treatments hasn't had mask requirements since late 2022. I used to take her when she couldn't drive. She had long covid for 9 months after her spouse brought it home twice and even though her cancer isn't gone she won't mask anymore because no one else does and "the CDC and doctors said it's safe".
Is that answer some variant of "Well some people will die, but that's the price we pay for comfort?"
How the hell is any western country a superpower when its citizens are such weak-willed hedonists? You'd think any attempt at building a superpower would never come to fruition because of them wanting instant gratification.
It's their want of instant gratification that fools them into things like nationalism and xenophobia.
IMO a lot of long-COVID people are technically not permanently disabled, the body can in some cases heal itself once the COVID goes away (saying this based on experience)
also it's not really even about disabled people, I've heard more and more accounts of random "unaffected by COVID" people getting it, and even dying from acute COVID infections (someone on here mentioned one such case in winter 2023)
but yea people are morons
Yesterday my coworker asked me what long covid was. He had never heard of it.
You know, I got a lot more patience for that than for people that know and make excuses not to care
If they're anything like my relatives I've had to explain it to, they'll pivot to "it's not a big deal" in seconds.
I’m sooooooo tired.
Tired of masking
Tired of defending my masking
Tired of friends leaving me behind
Tired of family giving me the guilt trip
With all of that tho, I still feel right about being as cautious as I am. I don’t feel like I’m wrong for still trying to protect myself. It’s just extremely disheartening and disenfranchising to know that the life I knew is gone and as far as the public is concerned it’s all my fault for not just going back to normal.
When "have we tried monetizing the rot" stops being a joke and becomes real
