Posted on 01/08/2023 3:29:30 AM PST by blueplum
Even mild COVID-19 cases can have major and long-lasting effects on people's health. That is one of the key findings from our recent multicountry study on long COVID-19 – or long COVID – recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
We found that a staggering 90% of people living with long COVID initially experienced only mild illness with COVID-19. ...women have twice the risk of men and four times the risk of children...
We analyzed data from 54 studies reporting on over 1 million people from 22 countries who had experienced symptoms of COVID-19....
...Among all people with long COVID, our study found that nearly one out of every seven were still experiencing these symptoms a year later...
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
A fine retort, one suggesting the hallmarks of a pro-mRNA progressive posting as conservative on a conservative site.
Washington Post. NBC News. VeryWellHealth, operated by NY's About, Inc. Experian, a credit agency.
You didn't comment on https://www.realnotrare.com/. Did you "dismiss" those individual narratives and their ADE experiences and disabilities, in favor of others?
Stay healthy.
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Thanks for your well wishes, which at my age means an awful lot.
I read the first 5 - 4 of them had covid at least once prior to vaccination. The one without covid has “aplastic anemia” - could be hereditary, smoking, hepatitis, etc. One had shingles. Shingles is caused by catching chickenpox as an unvaccinated kid. There is a corelation between covid infection weakening the immune system and shingles. J&J is not associated with shingles, but there have been 2 cases associated with mRNA vaccines. One had covid twice, and then a rash and pneumonia - rashes are associated with long covid. One was a cancer patient in remission and several ‘medical issues’ who also had covid. And the GBS gal also had previous covid. Yet they all blame the vaccine instead of the covid. Go Figure.
There is a predominance of those in the non-fundraising pages that admit to having covid at least once and in some cases twice. I also reviewed some of the ‘fundraising’ stories. Again, admissions to having had covid or left the question off their survey, which makes me think they just didn’t want to say. Another admitted to having long covid for 11 months, made worse by the vaccine. I’m skeptical of the majority, especially when seeing how many I picked at random on 12 pages did have covid. And most sounded like they have/had long covid
it’s unfortunate they’ve been led to believe it’s the vaccine that is causing their problems instead of the covid itself and the long covid that follows covid. Blaming the vaccine is silencing them when so much could be learned if their voices were raised to demand long covid research and treatment.
https://www.science.org/content/article/blood-abnormalities-found-people-long-covid
https://academic.oup.com/ofid/article/9/5/ofac118/6545460?login=false
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/shingles-after-covid-vaccine#connection
“Long covid deals mostly with sleep orders, mood swings, shortness of breath, brain fog, chest tightness, loss of hair, smell or taste issues, mobility issues, muscular aches and skin rashes.”
We know 2 women with Long Covid, and they are totally different people.
One is an overweight female teenager. Everyone in her family including a sibling with 1.5 years less lifetime had Covid and bounced back in about a month.
The long Covid teen is basically staying at home and vegging out. She is working on her GAT at home on the family computer.
The other Long Covid is the complete opposite. She is a single woman in her mid 30’s and was in excellent health.
She developed Covid on a trip to the UK, and she has all of the symptoms listed above and vision problems. She now needs bi-focal glasses to read and to see psast 6’.
Before the crud, she had zero vision problems.
She is on half time with her job and would love to be back to normal and working. She can work about 3-4 hours before wanting to collapse.
Both are being treated by our big PPO.
The teen is heading into her 3rd year with this crud. Every treatment has basically failed, and she is being monitored and receiving some light OTC treatment.
The other woman has had the crud for about 6 months. Basically, every treatment known has been given to this woman with minimal if any remission or her feeling better.
She is on 50% disability, and she wants to return full time.
What percentage of people with alleged Long COVID are vaxxed...?
The two, we know were fully vaccinated including any variant vaccines.
But if you listen to the on-line left, not only is "long COVID" a real thing, it's a huge, giant, unprecedented threat.
Even better from the left's perspective, it can be rolled up with another newish obsession of theirs, "Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)", which has in common with "Long COVID" that it appears to be a highly subjective thing making it almost impossible to say with any certainty if a particular individual is merely suffering from a particulary vivid form of hypochondria, or a disease with an underlying physical pathology. That's a feature, not a fault, as it has allowed the creation of a new identity of the 'immunocompromized" who believe themselves empowered to demand, well, just about anything from the government and society at large. The list is impressive: endless universal mask mandates, universal vaccine mandates, retrofitting all existing buildings to provide additional ventilation, social distancing, paid time off (not kidding), socialized health care in the US etc etc etc.
Those opposing their latest demands are "ableist" who seek to "normalize our deaths". These people seem to be mostly younger, millenials and gen Z, mostly female, though with a substantial cohort of self-identified homosexual males and "trans folx". Kind of the same demographic that formed the core of the Antifa hordes burning down blue cities during the summer of love a couple of years ago. But now they're big mad at the Democrat establishment for not continuing to lean in to the full COVID hysteria, which would seem to create a problem for the Democrat machine, and perhaps an opportunity for some monkeywrenching from the right.
The form of that monkeywrenching is not yet clear, but those old enought to remember all the way back to 2008 will recall the fun that was had with Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos", thought that was conceptualized in purely electoral terms. What would be fun would be to find some way to use this split in the Democrat coalition to exacerbate chaos, discord, and division intheir ranks, both for the pure joy of watching the anthill boil in rage, and hopefully, for some electoral advantage down the road.
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