Wish everyone had taken it more seriously.
I got vaccinated when I could and got yearly updates, though I understand the US is clamping down on boosters now? Not sure what I’m going to do this year.
Thanks for the nitpick.
Instead of spreading misinformation and being rude to strangers, you could check.
This statement is patently false, as you yourself admit in the next clause.
Here's a PDF handout from 2023 for handing to hospital admins, https://www.nerode.org/clean-air/medical%20clean%20air%20rel... . The same statistics can probably be looked up for children acquiring covid at school, because like where else do they get it. $100 HEPAs in every classroom, $40 reusable p100 masks for every teacher, ask parents to voluntarily mask their kids.
Just share stories. You see [1], go to your social media and share it, “she got COVID like 3 or 4 times and it seems to have caused chronic kidney disease, even with vaccines reducing the rate of straight up death, we need get this thing under control otherwise our generation's not going to live to see 80. Each time you get it there is another small chance of long covid, another rolling the dice hoping for no snake eyes. Masking is just saying you want to roll the dice fewer times.”
Organize or join a covid slack channel at work, there are other groups like https://publichealthactionnetwork.org/ , if BTS Army can connect over K-pop we can connect over wanting to protect others.
1. https://x.com/HollyMars2/status/1936235382816784443?t=A4RaLq...
Food for thought: It is so generally safe that some people have taken it to stop worrying about it. If it helps, then great. If not, then no harm done.
Most major international health organisations have issued press releases warning against the use of ivermectin for anything except treating parasitic infections. - US Food and Drug Administration - US Center for Disease control and prevention - Eurpean medecines Agency - Work Health Organization
Even follow-up research triggered by the widespread confusion yielded no useful results for treating or helping any part of the COVID infection or recovery. Instead, there have been papers published on the massive uptick in emergency room visits from people falling ill after ingesting ivermectin in dangerous quantities.
The only thing we really learned is that the modern news landscape is in a catastrophic state, where outright dangerous lies pick up steam in order to cater to an increasingly divided and source-uncritical population. Critical thinking and journalistic integrity are gone, and I fear for the democratic process if even such fundamental factual errors can spread so faar among these "reputable" news organisations. If the organisations we are supposed to trust for worldly events are this broken, what is anyone ever supposed to believe or trust?
I don't even blame anyone for falling into it these days (i know a professor in nanotechnology who was swept up in 5G + COVID conspiracies). I get nausious when I think that this was PRE good LLMS. It's just a dumpster fire. May god save us all.
... rant over. Here are some sources.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210806053833/https://www.fda.g...
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/109271
https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/news/ema-advises-against-use-iv...
https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/who-adv...
> Long covid or the vaccine? Is there any way to tell the difference anymore?
Yes, 2 ways:
1) If you didn't take the vaccine, it's long COVID
2) If you got the vaccine, complications are rare and present in specific ways.
On 2) the long covid-like symptoms are clumped into a group called PVS (post-vaccination syndrome). The minor symptoms of PVS resolve within a few weeks, and the long-term effects are so rare that they're having trouble studying it to try to determine the cause. So we don't know whether or not the vaccine alone causes those reactions or why. But we do know it's very rare, whereas long COVID from not getting the vaccine is much less rare. OTOH, getting the vaccine actually resolves long COVID symptoms (we know this because long COVID predates the vaccine, and long COVID sufferers reported their symptoms abating once getting the vaccine, and in data from other studies).
Defunding/dismantling the NIH is not helping us find answers. If you want to "know the truth", call your representatives and ask them to invest more in NIH research and studies around COVID symptoms.
For a while they assumed children were not as impacted but the prevalence numbers now suggest they are impacted by Long Covid at about the same rate as adults. Given our history with these types of diseases and things that look like this, ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia and chronic Lyme unfortunately its likely a lifelong disease.
We badly need a serious worldwide effort to research understanding and treating this disease because at its worst children (and adults) are locked by their bodies in bed, needing darkness and silence unable to chew their own food let alone do anything else. The level of suffering that is currently being ignored is horrific and the doctors have zero tools to help.
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https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.241596 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38940402/
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Literally a meme at this point.
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