Good read overall, I recommend checking out the post, but here's the big highlights imo.
I know a lot of us have been watching Disability Numbers in the workforce and Long term sick in the UK. Here's some more fuel for the fire.
“New data from the official Spanish health survey. The share of the population that has a chronic illness now stands 9.8 standard deviations above its prepandemic average. Hospitalizations, 5.9 standard deviations above its average. All age groups doing badly.” Full thread here
Tuberculosis is on the rise. They mention that during the early years of HIV, it's rise served as an indicator of AIDS/Immune damage.
[cw:dead rat image] They wanna stress that covid is a vascular illness, not a respiratory illness.
Recent study found:
The pooled analysis found no significant increase in the risk of myocarditis among vaccinated pilots compared to unvaccinated pilots
I might be wrong, but Spain seems to be the country with with heavy "you do you" attitudes towards masking and lockdowns. I'm assuming that their infection rate is way higher than average.
Looks like they started doing lockdowns, no idea what happened later though. Wikipedia's "Timeline" just kinda trails off after April.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_in_Spain
I think sweden was the most like this but at this point whats the difference if they did mask mandates and lockdowns for 9 months 4 years ago or not?
My rough point is that Spanish people probably got covid infections more often than average. My vibes based analysis is that Spain got more infections and more deaths for a medium sized country with good health care.
I'm not gonna die on this hill. I just remember a lot of anti-mask protests in Spain during the high of the pandemic.
My point is that possibly Spain has worse outcomes than other countries as they had more infections per person.
