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I am a long hauler. Serious COVID scarring on my lungs. Went from clear lungs in January to COVID in February, hospitalized again in March, to COPD by April, and finally emphysema by August.
There is light at the end of the tunnel. Need fewer and fewer meds to make it through the day. Energy level finally picking back up. The number of days per month where I struggle is down to less than 5.
Compared to September, when I told my job to find my replacement, it is a big step forward. I’m still at my job and they have had no luck finding someone with my skill set, so thankfully I am still employed.
I live in a university town with thousands of Chinese students. My wife works in the graduate economics department and the students are almost exclusively Chinese.
She and I and half my co-workers and friends came down with something we ironically called “the plague” last January. It hit like a freight train and took months to clear out our lungs, but we recovered with no long-term effects.
I believe the key to getting over it is to stay as far away from doctors as you can get.
So, the same exact thing happens with the flu.
Yep. Well known that any illness can cause prolonged symptoms after recovery.
Media coverage makes this “long COVID” sound like something new and unique.
All lot of other things don’t make sense that there is scientific evidence to support that we should question.
We continue to possibly be infectious after getting an immunization .... such that one needs to keep wearing a mask.
That proof of immunity (antibodies) or recent infection (PCR test 2 weeks ago) doesn’t count for anything, with claims that immunity might only last a few months. There are only a hanful of people worldwide that have been proven to have gotten a second COVID strain.
Suddenly cloth masks can filter out viruses, like a chain fence filters out water.
In most years I am the doctors office or hospital with the flu and having trouble breathing.
The toll on my body lasts months
Last year I decided “enough “ and got the flu shot. Wasn’t sick once.
This year took the flu shot and still not sick as I usually am by this time