The Latest Development on 'Long COVID' Is Going to Make You Angry

Townhall ^ | 03/15/2024 | Matt Vespa

[SeekAndFind]

So, what the hell did we go through all of this for? I expected another wave of either anger or hilarity regarding the new guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued earlier this month about COVID: we can pretty much treat this viral infection like the flu. Remember, it was not long ago that even uttering such a thing could land you in social media jail or be branded a science denier. The footnote for the COVID pandemic will be that the people were right, and the experts were wrong. 

Masking is grossly ineffective. The vaccine is no more effective than the seasonal flu shot. You can still get infected, but it might save someone a trip to the ICU. That’s fine, but the cocktail was marketed as a bulletproof vest against infection.  Ivermectin was long dismissed as an effective therapeutic—but it works. What’s the next shoe to drop? Long COVID—it’s a myth. Or at least a new Australian study strongly urges we ditch talking about it (via NYT): 

Follow the science — right out the door. 

The term “long COVID” should be tossed aside like a stack of expired N95 masks — that’s according to health experts in one country, who found that symptoms of those reportedly suffering a year on weren’t any different than your typical virus, such as the flu. 

Government-backed medical researchers in Australia say it’s time to stop using the fear-inducing phrase, which became popular after high volumes of people testing positive for COVID-19 led to a surge in generally non-severe “virus fatigue symptoms” that would normally have gone unnoticed, South West News Service reported. 

“We believe it is time to stop using terms like ‘Long COVID’,” said Dr. John Gerrard, Queensland’s Chief Health Officer, who oversaw the newly-released study. 

“They wrongly imply there is something unique and exceptional about longer term symptoms associated with this virus,” he explained. 

[…] 

Researchers at Queensland Health surveyed 5,112 symptom sufferers aged 18 years and older to reach their conclusion. 

Symptoms reported included fatigue, brain fog, cough, shortness of breath, change to smell and taste, dizziness, and rapid or irregular heartbeat.

Researchers pulled their subjects from a pool of sick Australians who’d taken COVID-19 tests — testing both positive and negative — in late spring of 2022, quizzing them a year later on their symptoms and quality of life. 

[…] 

No evidence was found that adults who tested positive in 2022 were experiencing this increased level of impairment at a higher rate than those who tested negative, or those who simply had the flu. 

So, please explain why we should listen to these people ever again. I got conned into getting the COVID vaccine despite being more than adequately protected through natural immunity stemming from my past infection in December of 2020. And it so happens that the science later determined that anyone who had survived initial infection didn’t need the shot. These experts destroyed their credibility with the public to ensure that Biden beat Trump. Medical experts are now viewed as being no better than the talking heads from the Democratic National Committee, and rightfully so. 

How It Started vs. How It’s Going.


pic.twitter.com/jiqoN7ofdY— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) March 2, 2024

[lgjhn23]

The CDC has become nothing but another piece of political weaponry...
They’d be comical if it weren’t so serious.
They have NO credibility anymore.
They blew it...nada....NONE.

[Jane Long]

What WE KNEW ping!

[Alberta's Child]

The Latest Development on 'Long COVID' Is Going to Make You Angry

No, it's not. I saw COVID as a farce and a fraud in March of 2020. I have been living my life accordingly.

[Leaning Right]

The whole COVID mess is yet another example of why George Carlin was right.

[wjcsux]

“ No, it’s not. I saw COVID as a farce and a fraud in March of 2020. I have been living my life accordingly.”
Most of us Freepers followed suit.

[RideForever]

Read the thread posted today about the CoVID 'spikes'.

link to FR thread

The 'spikes' are single layer carbon with the sharpest cutting ability of known substances.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

"Long COVID" is, for the most part, long mRNA syndrome. Not named as such for the most obvious of reasons. It has many appearance based mostly on the organ(s) in which the mRNA injection(s) might have landed for having gotten into a vein rather than muscle tissue.

"Safe and effective" proved not effective as and when many prominent political types like Fauci got re-infected after the "effective" part, to include Paxlovid takers, and the "safe" part was never fully safe.

Moreover, the actual and up-to-date mortality rates for this WHO forecast of "3.4 percent mortality" has been:

From: "COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic - Last updated: March 14, 2024, 11:35 GMT"

7,005,901 deaths since the pandemic began in 2020

Source: Worldometer updated as of today [ now, yesterday ]

( 7,005,901 deaths / 8,097,203,634 world population ) x 100 = 0.0865 percent mortality rate of the world's population. Less than one-tenth of one percent over more than three years.

[icclearly]

No, it's not. I saw COVID as a farce and a fraud in March of 2020. I have been living my life accordingly.

Do you know why you did that?

Because, that's exactly what it was, and any fool could see!

I was considered "high risk." As a former cancer patient with ongoing issues from cancer treatment and cancer, and as someone who sees a doctor at least every 60 days due to this condition, I was lectured to by my docs that I was at grave risk if I did not get that shot! It was relentless and consistent. I would often argue with my docs. When they got hard pushback, with logic and facts, they always backed off.

Well, we were right -- for ourselves and for our families who shared the same opinion.

Continued good luck to you!

[Big Red Badger]

We Are an
Independent,Prosperus and Proud People!

[drSteve78]

“Going to” make sane people angry? You mean covidiot sheeple may become angry, except thye won’t, because covidiot sheeple And Karens “care” more than sane people.

[wjcsux]

“ We Are an
Independent,Prosperus and Proud People!”

Yep, that we are!

[Drew68]

Long Covid is the latest version of fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. A made-up disease characterized by undiagnosable ailments that only afflicts liberal white women.

[metmom]

People act like *long Covid* is something new.

I’ve been sick with other viral illnesses in the past that have taken months to recover from as well. Covid isn’t the first one with that kind of tack record.

And besides, I have a family member who always needs attention and to feel special and brags on how long it took them to recover from *long Covid* when honestly the symptoms they were complaining about were nothing out of the ordinary.

I had an unknown viral illness just recently that nuked my sense of smell for a few weeks, but I figured that since zinc is necessary for fighting illness, that perhaps my zinc levels were off so I supplemented some with it and am fine now. Maybe it was a coincidence, but maybe not. Either way, a few days of extra zinc didn’t hurt.

[Bulwyf]

Exactly what I did. Ignored it all, didn’t comply with a thing. I hate that word actually.

[Gen.Blather]

I have to disagree with the long term covid not being a “thing.” I got Covid in March 2020 and almost died. Then, I had the exhaustion and the sensation of being sick for at least the next 18 months. There were many days when I essentially stayed in bed. This was dramatically different than I’d been before, and I’d never experienced anything like it after the flu or a cold.

As an interesting aside, one of the permanent changes was in the effectiveness of my blood pressure medicine. The stuff I’d been taking for years simply stopped working. I had to switch to a cocktail of three medications.

[enumerated]

They are telling me its now OK to do what I was doing all along...
Treat Covid like the flu.

[zeugma]

“long covid” is a vaccine injury.

[Organic Panic]

“Symptoms reported included fatigue, brain fog, cough, shortness of breath, change to smell and taste, dizziness, and rapid or irregular heartbeat.”

So basically a night out at the pub....