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Long-Haulers Are Fighting for Their Future
The Atlantic ^ | September 1, 2021 | Ed Yong

Posted on 09/02/2021 4:16:13 AM PDT by Widget Jr

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1 posted on 09/02/2021 4:16:13 AM PDT by Widget Jr
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To: Widget Jr

Maybe we should hold China and the FDA accountable for what they did?


2 posted on 09/02/2021 4:19:32 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. Weaker, a Jr partner good at losing wars.)
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To: Widget Jr

Probably reduced life expectancy by about 5 years.


3 posted on 09/02/2021 4:25:55 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: Widget Jr

When most of the population has been infected,
you can be sure that every chronic condition will be blamed on Covid. We have seen it with veterans and Agent Orange, Gulf War Syndrome and now the burning garbage pits. And you see the junky lawyer tv commercials (’did you ever use this pesticide and suffer from anything on this long list of conditions...’). Same concept just on a much bigger scale. Is Long-Haul real? I have no idea.


4 posted on 09/02/2021 4:27:49 AM PDT by Stingray51 ( )
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To: Widget Jr

Sorry, I don’t believe these BS fear articles anymore. They cherry pick because if they were honest there’s also long haulers from people that survived bouts of the seasonal flu. And yes, 15 people in our family got Covid on Christmas Eve. I lost my smell for 6 months and I had the worst “long term” of all of us…even worse than my 80 year old parents.


5 posted on 09/02/2021 4:36:30 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: Widget Jr

good article and some handy info:

” In October, long COVID will get its own code in the International Classification of Diseases—a global diagnostic system run by the WHO. In July, the Biden administration announced that American long-COVID patients are entitled to disability rights under the Americans With Disabilities Act. “


6 posted on 09/02/2021 4:40:07 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: ClearCase_guy

And this was a bio weapon that wasn’t fully developed. Imagine what they have on the shelf that’s finished….


7 posted on 09/02/2021 4:45:22 AM PDT by Kozak (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TV)
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To: Widget Jr

I wonder if so-called ‘long-hauling’ is akin to what is often called ‘Walking Pneumonia’. Had that once as a teen and it was brutal. But being young you just sort of worked through it. If I had been older I think I’d have had a much tougher go of it.


8 posted on 09/02/2021 5:28:25 AM PDT by Tallguy (Press '2' to have your name removed from our call list...)
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To: Stingray51

That’s our culture of class-action suit legal action at work. Insurer’s eventually seek to buy there way out of liability despite sometimes Shakey causal links.

Think of mesothelioma (asbestos). It’s been to years since anybody worked with that stuff, but there’s still a pot of money paying out to a decreasing number of sufferers. You still hear PSA’s often. The links are well established for that disease.


9 posted on 09/02/2021 5:33:53 AM PDT by Tallguy (Press '2' to have your name removed from our call list...)
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To: Widget Jr
Long but useful article on one of the most under-reported aspects of the pandemic.

Some links from the article:

The Patient Led Research Collaborative studying long haul Covid-19 should appeal to anyone whose trust in medical and government 'experts' is waning.

Likewise, the Recover organization is taking a patient centered approach to studying the long term effects of the disease.

10 posted on 09/02/2021 5:34:35 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Widget Jr

Is that why the Chinese spliced in some of the HIV virus sequence, so some would be sick forever?


11 posted on 09/02/2021 5:42:21 AM PDT by PTBAA
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Calls for another round of jabs - that’ll fix it! (vaxxing fixes everything doncha know)

/s


12 posted on 09/02/2021 5:43:35 AM PDT by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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“the pandemic’s biggest and least-addressed unknowns.”

But this brave writer, with pretentious allusions to Tolkien, WILL pretend to know.

No thanks, no fear porn


13 posted on 09/02/2021 5:52:54 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2 (Widespread belief in asymptomatic spread of a low-risk virus hastened the end of the West by 100 yrs)
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COVID must be afraid of Muslims and the Taliban. It only seems to affect effeminized western men.?.?


14 posted on 09/02/2021 5:54:12 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Widget Jr

Truckers hardest hit! /s


15 posted on 09/02/2021 5:59:18 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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FLCCC has their I-Recover treatment & evidently it has been very successful. There is also a post vaccine inflammatory syndrome & I-Recover has been helpful with this as well

I-RECOVER Management Protocol for Long Haul COVID-19 Syndrome (LHCS)
https://covid19criticalcare.com/covid-19-protocols/i-recover-protocol/

From link:

The Long Haul COVID-19 Syndrome (LHCS) is an often debilitating syndrome characterized by a multitude of symptoms such as prolonged malaise, headaches, generalized fatigue, sleep difficulties, smell disorder, decreased appetite, painful joints, dyspnea, chest pain and cognitive dysfunction. The incidence of symptoms after COVID-19 varies from as low as 10% to as high as 80%. LHCS is not only seen after the COVID-19 infection but it is being observed in some people that have received vaccines (likely due to monocyte activation by the spike protein from the vaccine). A puzzling feature of the LHCS syndrome is that it is not predicted by initial disease severity; post-COVID-19 frequently affects mild-to-moderate cases and younger adults that did not require respiratory support or intensive care.

The symptom set of LHCS in the majority of cases is very similar to the chronic inflammatory response syndrome (CIRS)/myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, although in LHCS, symptoms tend to improve slowly in the majority of the cases. Furthermore, the similarity between the mast cell activation syndrome and LHCS has been observed, and many consider post-COVID-19 to be a variant of the mast cell activation syndrome. LHCS is highly heterogenous and likely results from a variety of pathogenetic mechanisms. Furthermore, it is likely that delayed treatment (with ivermectin) in the early symptomatic phase will result in a high viral load, which increases the risk and severity of LHCS.

Although numerous reports describe the epidemiology and clinical features of LHCS, studies evaluating treatment options are glaringly sparse. Indeed, the NICE guideline for managing the long-term effects of COVID-19 provide no specific pharmacologic treatment recommendations.

Given the lack of available treatment recommendations in the setting of large numbers of patients suffering with this disorder globally, the FLCCC developed the I-RECOVER protocol in collaboration with a number of expert clinicians including Dr. Mobeen Syed, Dr. Ram Yogendra, Dr. Bruce Patterson, and Dr. Tina Peers. Although our varied yet often overlapping treatment approaches were initially empiric, while based on both preliminary investigations into and prevailing theoretical pathophysiologic mechanisms of LHCS, the consistently positive clinical responses observed, often profound and sustained, led the collaboration to form the consensus protocol below. As with all FLCCC protocols, we must emphasize that multiple aspects of the protocol may change as scientific data and clinical experience in this condition evolve, thus it is important to check back frequently or join the FLCCC Alliance to receive notification of any protocol changes.


16 posted on 09/02/2021 6:00:27 AM PDT by Qiviut (Faith is the antidote to fear. Mindset: be a victor, not a victim.)
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To: Tallguy

I’m a long hauler. I have COVID scarring all over my lungs. After several months, I am off the inhalers but still need steriods occasionally.

It also damaged my kidneys. Thankfully, I no longer need Cipro.

The biggest hit was to my endocrine system. It was depleted. I went on a regiment of progesterone, an estrogen cream, and testosterone boosters.

That made all the difference in the world. Huge energy boost. Brain fog went away. Libido is back.

Went from clear lungs to COPD to Emphysema in 8 months. Last lung functionality test put me back at Stage 1.


17 posted on 09/02/2021 7:17:59 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (Trust not in earthly princes....)
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To: Widget Jr

I thought this article would be about long haul truckers.


18 posted on 09/02/2021 7:42:01 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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I also believe (derived from my personal observations, experiences, and research) that there are variations of the original Covid bioweapon, and of the jabs.

The jabs I consider a bi-combinate bioweapon, which lays the groundwork in a person (weakens ones immunity) so when the jabbed encounters the first forms of the original versions of the covid bioweapon, it enables it to be even more deadly.

Add to that the fact that the jabs cause spontaneous abortions and still-births in pregnant women, and potential sterilization of the jabbed, and you have a very potent tool for population reduction/control.

I also believe that about a third to a half of the jabs are placebo's, put there to throw off the numbers and make the jabbed think they have no issues with the "vaccine", but then they come down with the original covid (in its various flavors). This is also why they are pushing the "boosters", so that they can snag those who may have gotten the placebo.

Regardless, this is the most horrendous crime against humanity ever enacted, and the backlash needs to be epic.

We are in the middle of WW3, and the worlds human population is being culled at a horrendous rate. We are masked sheep, sitting in the slaughterhouse pen, awaiting our turn (jab). We are getting too populous and are awakening. They are losing control, so this is why the Elites are trying to kill us off. I also believe the influx of "refugees" are slave replacements for the ones that are or have awakened and that are targeted for culling before we become too dangerous after discovering the truth...

This is being covered up by the complicit propaganda-spewing MSM's and that fact needs to be treated as a war-crime with appropriate punishments.

Mad Cow and her ilk, swinging from a Black Hawk. I would frame that picture...!

19 posted on 09/02/2021 7:46:49 AM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase (Oh boy!)
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To: mikelets456

Have you gotten fully over it at this point or are you still having after effects?


20 posted on 09/02/2021 7:59:24 AM PDT by Yardstick
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