A recent survey among Quebec healthcare workers demonstrated that the cumulative risk of developing long COVID from an acute infection is 17% and increases with each infection. The estimated prevalence of long COVID in this population was 5.6%. Other research places the global risk as high as 40% among healthcare workers who have contracted an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection. …
Nevertheless, many healthcare workers still don’t believe that long COVID is real, despite dramatically disabling symptoms in people with no preexisting risk factors. “The me before and the me now are such opposites,” said Pinard. “I would swim three mornings a week before going to the office. I was running 40 km. I was traveling every second week. Now I leave my house only every 2-3 months….I was where I was supposed to be [with COVID vaccination]. I was in good health. I wasn’t depressed; I wasn’t anxious.” …
Hulme and other interested parties have tried to help build the infrastructure needed to provide care for patients with long COVID, but they have faced many barriers. Although the condition shares many features with fibromyalgia, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, guidelines for those conditions could not mention long COVID by provincial government decree. “There are many, many political reasons as to why [long COVID] should not become a big deal,” said Hulme. “There are still little pockets of money for research, but they are very small.”
All this recent talk of Long COVID, and yet no mention of the incredibly effective and easy preventative measure: wearing a respirator in all public indoor and outdoor spaces as you should during an ongoing pandemic.
I caught covid just about two weeks right before it was mentioned publicly. Nobody knew what we had caught at the time, doctors were clueless as to what kind of flu-ish bug could be so violent.
I always wore a mask in public and followed acutely all directives. Yet I still have long covid to this day. It still feels like it stole away 20 years of health from me. I’m still at half capacity today, and there is absolutely no help or recognition of any sort. I’ll have to live with this unrecognized handicap for the rest of my life.
And I also lost my parents to covid.
I truly despise vaccine deniers and all these other stupid egocentric fucks who just wouldn’t follow basic hygienic rules because “fuck you, don’t wanna”. And yet some of these fuckers still proudly praise themselves about it even these days.
i’ve heard so many stories exactly like this. And now we’ve got 3 pandemics going on simultaneously because of the ever influential imperialist ego.
5th leading cause of death in 2025, because we chose denial.
