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#LongCovid | Covid || researcher || inequality, health, disability in present | past || patient-led research || medicine history || MA PhD | ≠ MD || views own

Feb 17, 2022, 5 tweets

Exactly. Those who are all for "let's go back to normal" are literally telling those who are more at "risk" they don't care if those "vulnerable" people die
BUT
Here is the lie within the lie by many policy makers. Covid is Russian roulette. The "other" could be you
#LongCovid

Of course, vaccination has made it more difficult to die or suffer severe disease. This is good! But you never know what happens if you get infected. You don't know if it's you to get #LongCovid. We have already reports about Long Covid happening even in the vaccinated.

It was the same in early 2020: do you remember?
"Only the old and sick will die" "covid is a flu" many policy makers said. This was not true. Many people hospitalized in Wuhan --as per the publications in January 2020 --weren't old. Covid was already proven to be a SARS disease

SARS had left many with chronic disease #longSARS. This was already known before the pandemic. Viral-onset diseases aren't unheard of from before the pandemic! e.g. #MECFS

All of this to say: it's key we don't lose sight of safety for everyone. It's important we keep protections up. It's important we keep airborne prevention in use, like masks. It's important to vaccinate, test, isolate and seek care if you are ill. No room for useless risks

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