My great-grandma survived the Spanish flu as a teenager. But the high fever during the illness fucked her up so bad, she died of heart failure in her forties.
I’ve had it for a couple of months now. Sure, it sucks, and I can’t work currently, but I’d much rather have this than die though. This will pass (almost everyone gets better in a couple of years max), death is rather final. Also, don’t kid yourself about the people that had COVID but don’t experience long covid. Many of them have permanent changes to their body too, they just don’t know it.
I’ve had minor asthma my entire life, but didn’t used to really get asthma attacks. After getting COVID though I get them no problem. That was almost two years ago I was sick less than a week. Jogging, biking, sex, playing tag with the cats, need to grab my inhaler now.
More like as more people got sick, the worse side effects they found. At first, they didn’t think there were any real long-term side effects. Then people started having the heart and lung issues, brain fog, hell, they even found permanent COVID damage in guys’ testicles, causing infertility.
Even now, we don’t know the effects it’ll have had when we look back 10 years after the fact and make the connections between increases in conditions and COVID.
I was 34 when I first got it March 2020. I have no other health issues. I am not overweight. Covid fucked me up. My lungs were messed up for six months. I had long Covid for a year. My lungs are still not the same. I couldn’t smoke weed again if I wanted to (I was not a smoker at the time, but I did when I was younger). Then I got it two more times before vaccines were widely available. I’m a shell of the energy I had before, and I really feel like it did something to my brain
No one on this planet is able to live without assistance, and needing others to exist doesn’t somehow reduce the value of ones life. You really have a lot of ableism to unlearn.
I know you probably don’t mean it to but the idea that it’s better to die than to be chronically ill or disabled is ableist as hell. Society treating us like shit doesn’t mean sick and disabled peoples’ lives don’t have value.
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My great-grandma survived the Spanish flu as a teenager. But the high fever during the illness fucked her up so bad, she died of heart failure in her forties.
I’ve had it for a couple of months now. Sure, it sucks, and I can’t work currently, but I’d much rather have this than die though. This will pass (almost everyone gets better in a couple of years max), death is rather final. Also, don’t kid yourself about the people that had COVID but don’t experience long covid. Many of them have permanent changes to their body too, they just don’t know it.
I’ve had minor asthma my entire life, but didn’t used to really get asthma attacks. After getting COVID though I get them no problem. That was almost two years ago I was sick less than a week. Jogging, biking, sex, playing tag with the cats, need to grab my inhaler now.
My hypothesis is that when Covid started, the experts weren’t really sure of the long term effects, and they were preparing for the worst.
It’s bad enough as it is that I’m happy to wear a mask when appropriate.
More like as more people got sick, the worse side effects they found. At first, they didn’t think there were any real long-term side effects. Then people started having the heart and lung issues, brain fog, hell, they even found permanent COVID damage in guys’ testicles, causing infertility.
Even now, we don’t know the effects it’ll have had when we look back 10 years after the fact and make the connections between increases in conditions and COVID.
I was 34 when I first got it March 2020. I have no other health issues. I am not overweight. Covid fucked me up. My lungs were messed up for six months. I had long Covid for a year. My lungs are still not the same. I couldn’t smoke weed again if I wanted to (I was not a smoker at the time, but I did when I was younger). Then I got it two more times before vaccines were widely available. I’m a shell of the energy I had before, and I really feel like it did something to my brain
Yeah being disabled sucks. Millions of people live like this.
It’s not until it happens to someone you know that you really think about it.
But people learn to live with it.
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Again you learn to live with that.
You should do some reading about being disabled because you views are a little ignorant tbh.
No one on this planet is able to live without assistance, and needing others to exist doesn’t somehow reduce the value of ones life. You really have a lot of ableism to unlearn.
https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/independence-is-an-ableist-myth-unlocking-the-power-of-community-in-healing/
https://www.theswaddle.com/how-societys-fixation-on-independence-as-a-universal-goal-excludes-disabled-chronically-ill-people
I know you probably don’t mean it to but the idea that it’s better to die than to be chronically ill or disabled is ableist as hell. Society treating us like shit doesn’t mean sick and disabled peoples’ lives don’t have value.