The long shadow of long covid

[Ellis Bell]

Originally Posted by StillwaterTownie

But the chances of having long covid after catching covid are so slight that it isn't enough to discourage many people from getting out with other people and enjoying their lives. No wonder. Lots of people don't fear catching covid. For instance, I recently went to a sold-out concert that attracted 1100 people. Only few people were wearing masks.

Originally Posted by Cida

I think the possibility of a home disaster is "slight," but I still have insurance.

So the government should make everyone buy home insurance, because some people think it's a good idea?

[Ellis Bell]

Originally Posted by FrankMiller

People aren't sitting down with a slide ruler and a stack of research papers before the hit the club, calculating their risk profiles. They make their decisions based on media discourse, and the media says go shopping covid over OPEN BIDEN.

Originally Posted by MissTerri

Driving is dangerous but I still drive. I also try to enjoy living life as normally as I can in spite of the threat of viruses.

Originally Posted by FrankMiller

But driving is an order of magnitude less dangerous than COVID, and we invest considerable time and expense in making driving as safe as possible.

People fly in airplanes, as well, and die in plane crashes do to no fault of their own --- risk is risk, even with government regulated air craft maintenance.

[ManApplet]

Long covid deniers are science deniers. I suggest they search out the data, then argue with the scientists. Or perhaps they have a problem with simple math.

But consider these: 1) any one who has a case of covid that lasts longer than some reference time length, say perhaps 2 weeks of illness ( or make up your own number and tell us why, I had to pick something to get the party started)

2) If you die that is long (forever) , so add 800,000 plus dead in the USA alone.

3) have a gander at world o meters https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ note changes by the minute with updates.

USA currently has 10,309,361 active cases. That equals all the cases since September 7, 2021 until today. In and of it self that seems long.

Now obviously some of the people who tested pos since then have recovered or died, so many (if not most) of these cases are from even farther back. Remember some positives are asymptomatic or hardly sick at all.

The current infected number is probably a reasonable MINIMUM approximation of long covid cases. [On top of that some long covid cases have been resolved by now. ] Without the resolved long covid cases it still comes out to about 20% of all infections. Not counting the dead.

How does any rational person equate that to some misguided notion along the lines of 'hardly anything'?

[Taratova]

It is a bio-weapon that the Chinese were playing with. They vaccinated some people against it and it spread.. they thought they could control it in their country but they messed up with their trials as it spread in China . They had planned to be using it against the world. This is why they shut Wuhan down and let all those people spread it and told the world it was not able to transfer to other humans. They lied and the WHO and CDC Fauci , who funded this bio-weapon should be jailed for killing off millions of people around the world. Fauci is lying to cover himself as he knows his funding got this off the ground and used to kill off millions.

[Taratova]

Originally Posted by ManApplet

Long covid deniers are science deniers. I suggest they search out the data, then argue with the scientists. Or perhaps they have a problem with simple math.

But consider these: 1) any one who has a case of covid that lasts longer than some reference time length, say perhaps 2 weeks of illness ( or make up your own number and tell us why, I had to pick something to get the party started)

2) If you die that is long (forever) , so add 800,000 plus dead in the USA alone.

3) have a gander at world o meters https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ note changes by the minute with updates.

USA currently has 10,309,361 active cases. That equals all the cases since September 7, 2021 until today. In and of it self that seems long.

Now obviously some of the people who tested pos since then have recovered or died, so many (if not most) of these cases are from even farther back. Remember some positives are asymptomatic or hardly sick at all.

The current infected number is probably a reasonable MINIMUM approximation of long covid cases. [On top of that some long covid cases have been resolved by now. ] Without the resolved long covid cases it still comes out to about 20% of all infections. Not counting the dead.

How does any rational person equate that to some misguided notion along the lines of 'hardly anything'?

The case numbers must be much higher because some get sick and never get tested and counted.

[elan]

The guy across the street had long term effects from covid, but not like this lady. He was losing his balance for months after having that illness. Its been a year now and he is finally outside puttering around in the driveway. He was sorta a fixture on the street, out there tinkering on something everyday, so it's good to see him back.