It’s almost as if it is a vascular disease that isn’t “just like the flu” after all.
Know of at least two people who got Covid in the first wave and still can’t taste anything.
I feel like this is totally flying under the radar, yet so many people seem to know someone affected. It needs an effort as big as the one to tackle the virus.
A colleague from work went down with it after that initial superspreader event at Cheltenham, he’s still not back at work two years on. They must feel totally abandoned.
So pay them disability for the rest of their lives then.
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Queue the parade of smug pricks who know better than all the doctors, expounding on why the world medical agencies are all wrong and that their O level in human biology means they know that long Covid doesn’t exist blah blah blah.
No one cares what you think. Get fucked.
I have almost every single long covid symptom. Except I’ve never had covid. I know exactly why I feel so awful. Over two years of the most intense psychological stress and suffering I’ve ever experienced. I’m serious I have all of them except the loss of smell. I’ve never felt this physically and mentally crap in all of my life.
I feel that people who get upset when you suggest psychological causes could be the root of *some* of this vastly underestimate the horrifying and debilitating ways in which your body can respond to extreme trauma, stress, depression and anxiety. I also feel like they are buying into the idea that physical suffering and mental suffering are two separate things, when mental suffering often manifests physically (especially after two years of non-stop fear porn about covid). It doesn’t make it any less real or difficult to endure.
I do believe there are some people who are experiencing some kind of post-viral fatigue but the symptoms of long covid are so vague and there are so many of them that I don’t think it’s possible to ever really know the true extent of it.
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There are an estimated [1.7 million](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/conditionsanddiseases/bulletins/prevalenceofongoingsymptomsfollowingcoronaviruscovid19infectionintheuk/7april2022) Covid long haulers, many more than were hospitalised so far and they aren’t recovering either, at the moment that number is climbing by about 200k a month. That is a lot of newly disabled people.
It’s almost as if it is a vascular disease that isn’t “just like the flu” after all.
Know of at least two people who got Covid in the first wave and still can’t taste anything.
I feel like this is totally flying under the radar, yet so many people seem to know someone affected. It needs an effort as big as the one to tackle the virus.
A colleague from work went down with it after that initial superspreader event at Cheltenham, he’s still not back at work two years on. They must feel totally abandoned.
So pay them disability for the rest of their lives then.
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Queue the parade of smug pricks who know better than all the doctors, expounding on why the world medical agencies are all wrong and that their O level in human biology means they know that long Covid doesn’t exist blah blah blah.
No one cares what you think. Get fucked.
I have almost every single long covid symptom. Except I’ve never had covid. I know exactly why I feel so awful. Over two years of the most intense psychological stress and suffering I’ve ever experienced. I’m serious I have all of them except the loss of smell. I’ve never felt this physically and mentally crap in all of my life.
I feel that people who get upset when you suggest psychological causes could be the root of *some* of this vastly underestimate the horrifying and debilitating ways in which your body can respond to extreme trauma, stress, depression and anxiety. I also feel like they are buying into the idea that physical suffering and mental suffering are two separate things, when mental suffering often manifests physically (especially after two years of non-stop fear porn about covid). It doesn’t make it any less real or difficult to endure.
I do believe there are some people who are experiencing some kind of post-viral fatigue but the symptoms of long covid are so vague and there are so many of them that I don’t think it’s possible to ever really know the true extent of it.