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@LadyCowParsley @techlife @Homoevolutis0@dobbs.town @augieray

It's by far the most common outcome with doctors for people with long COVID, unfortunately. Even the specific "long COVID clinics" mostly just test at this point and don't treat. There's millions of people in the US alone having the same experience.

@Judeet88 @pixplz

That's a great point and thanks for making it!

I can say for sure, though, with my dad that he's as active as ever, if not more so. He lives on the edge of the wilderness and takes a lot of hikes.

@ecclesias

Thank you so much for sharing that. Put a big smile on my face.

For the record, they eventually finished it and submitted it later that day. Pretty cool moment for them.

@techlife @Homoevolutis0@dobbs.town @augieray

When the doctors aren't prepared to help we all have to pitch in where we can! I appreciate the info :)

@techlife @Homoevolutis0@dobbs.town @augieray

Appreciate that! I've really tried not to give anyone I know advice on what to take as it's really not in my wheelhouse, but being that my dad's doctor isn't doing anything he's trying some things. Based on some other people's ideas he's actually starting with nattokinase and trying quercetin as well.

@urbanfoxe

I completely understand. Our social group skews heavily towards teachers. Keep masked, use HEPA filtration and do your best to stay safe out there.

@voron @mindstalk @micropainter

The 9,000 is a real number as best I can tell.

"China is probably witnessing 9,000 Covid-related deaths daily as the country is experiencing a new wave of Covid infections, claims UK-based health data firm Airfinity."

https://www.firstpost.com/world/9000-daily-covid-19-deaths-in-china-says-uk-research-firm-predicts-25k-fatalities-on-23-january-11902911.html

The projections are all over the place going forward. Depending on what model you go with it goes from 500,000 deaths in 2023(which I find laughably small) to millions. I think a reasonable mid-point seems to be 1.5 - 2.0 million which fits right into the IHME forecast. That would be a further ~5,000 a day across 2023.

@voron

I don't blame you for being scared of that at all. Glad to see you're still hanging in there after that.

@CassandraZeroCovid

You're definitely onto something there. I've read some psychology work about how hard it is to accept that the people you rely on to keep you safe aren't interested in actually keeping you safe.

@SmallTownGirl @micropainter

Oh absolutely. There's no way to teach a class, in a traditional setting, when there's so many people in and out. Both kids and teachers.

I've become a big fan of online education. Not the stop gap measures that teachers valiantly tried to make work on the fly, but real online schools that have often been doing it for decades. That's a whole other topic, though :)

@tompearce49

It really is unbelievable. I often mention that I do a lot of genealogy and I often think about those people from the distant past and how ashamed(and shocked) they'd be about all of the people running into the pandemic without any worries!

I hope the last of that brain fuzziness passes and you get fully healthy again. Stay safe out there!

@SmallTownGirl @micropainter

I absolutely see the same, especially with kids that are in daycare. Which makes sense given the germ breeding grounds that they are. It must be so exhausting to be sick all the time.

@nomdeb

Thank you for sharing, and, yes, this is very much our experience as well. We're not unhappy at all when we're home, much like you.

My in-laws are much the same. Thankfully my wife understands them and early on said we could never trust them to tell the truth about taking the precautions we wanted them to if they wanted to come over and see the kids. It took a while for the info my wife was giving them to make any dent, but, sure enough, my MIL is always telling my wife now that my FIL is out all the time, only sometimes masked, with the rest of their family and she now masks in her own home.

I honestly gave up giving the people I know more info, but I hope yours gets through to your family!

@kegill

We are from the west, but currently living in the south. So I think you're half right! Our friends who have given up all precautions, however, are in Washington and California.

@Unclebrain@mstdn.ca @micropainter

An actual pandemic plan that fit the pandemic in question would be nice, for sure.

@AlisonCreekside

You're not wrong at all! To be honest, when I first was trying this out I was aware of that, but wasn't sure I wanted it all easily searchable, or how much I was going to use the platform.

I kind of just blah blah blah and think later when I type anyway :)

@MiguelB@artisan.chat @Homoevolutis0@dobbs.town @augieray

I'm so sorry Miguel. These are hard times for so many. I sincerely hope you can recover your health.

@NeilFederspiel

Thank you for responding! Those are exactly the types of stories that are hard to scientifically nail down. Sure, everyone ages and this has been 3 years. We've all aged 3 years. At the same time a lot of people report that they don't recover the same energy levels they had before COVID.

Stay healthy out there!

@Ar

Thanks for sharing. I can anecdotally say that a lot of women report menstrual issues after COVID. Assume it's the global pandemic until proven otherwise!

https://www.maturitas.org/article/S0378-5122(21)00174-2/fulltext

@micropainter

You're absolutely right on all of that, too. I never take it for granted that we were able to take precautions that others simply couldn't. That's a very different situation than the people who pretend there's no problem with living like 2019.

In our world I worry about those situations in which there's no avoiding the risk. They eventually come up!