His advice: Get the vaccine, wear an n95 indoors, and avoid public indoor spaces.
“I find it very distressing that we, as a society, aren’t willing to talk openly about COVID,” Dr. Dick Zoutman declared.
“The media are almost completely silent, and it’s really perplexing,” Zoutman said of the disappearance of COVID-19 from the headlines in the fourth year of the pandemic. “We are missing a huge opportunity to protect our loved ones, our children, our elderly, our vulnerable … by taking simple interventions.”
Although the mortality rate for COVID-19 has declined thanks to mass vaccinations, the infectious disease specialist stated that long COVID threatens the health of the general population.
“We don’t understand all the implications of long COVID,” he said of the lingering symptoms that may develop after the acute phase of the illness. “Basically, this virus gets into your body and it doesn’t leave. …And it invades the lining of the blood vessels and every organ of your body,” he explained.
“Long COVID syndrome occurs in at least 10 per cent of every infectious episode and may be as much as 30 per cent. Stop and think about that: if you get COVID twice a year, that’s a 20-60 per cent chance that you’re going to get long COVID. And the next year, it’s now 40-120 per cent. Almost certainly … you’re guaranteed statistically to acquire some form of long COVID.”
"You can't wear a mask forever" coughs in your face "I'm following CDC recommendations and washing my hands."
This is not how probability works but he's got the right idea that subsequent infections don't decrease the likelihood of long covid infection
It's what annoys me whenever I hear that Covid is just the flu, especially after the MSM pushed the idea of Covid being endemic.
I've got family that have caught Covid multiple times and I really don't get it anymore. My mom just got over her first Covid infection, but she's still got a bad cough. She was speaking with one of my cousins recently and they were both saying that dumb shit about the Covid just being the flu.
My cousin had also recently had covid a few weeks ago and was also coughing like crazy. The most upsetting part of it all was that her mom passed away due to Covid and is now really just out here acting like it's nothing.
We have internalized our expendableness.
woah
One of my family members that isn't particularly careful with masking got COVID and then shortpy after had a stroke (COVID at least triples stroke risk). They're still not being careful with masking.