Would patients with “mild” COVID-19 really call it mild?
We should run that study, see how they self-label. Because for many people it’s the sickest they’ve ever been.
Here’s an essay on the topic from a professor who’s had COVID-19 for 7+ weeks. somatosphere.net/2020/mild-covi…
We should run that study, see how they self-label. Because for many people it’s the sickest they’ve ever been.
Here’s an essay on the topic from a professor who’s had COVID-19 for 7+ weeks. somatosphere.net/2020/mild-covi…
We’ve been talking about this for a while, but only counting deaths and hospitalizations doesn’t capture the intensity of the disease for survivors.
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QUOTES
“I am thankful for my mild to moderate symptoms. I’m not sure I could survive anything worse”
“A moderate case of the flu is nasty but bearable. A moderate Covid-19 experience...[would] come close only if you souped it up with nuclear waste and mamba venom.”
“I am thankful for my mild to moderate symptoms. I’m not sure I could survive anything worse”
“A moderate case of the flu is nasty but bearable. A moderate Covid-19 experience...[would] come close only if you souped it up with nuclear waste and mamba venom.”
MORE QUOTES
“whatever doesn’t kill you must be mild or moderate”
“I have had 14 surgeries. I have had two children. And honestly, my mild case (of COVID-19), I would do any of those over. I can’t imagine being any worse than I was”
From @felicitycallard piece on “mild” COVID.
“whatever doesn’t kill you must be mild or moderate”
“I have had 14 surgeries. I have had two children. And honestly, my mild case (of COVID-19), I would do any of those over. I can’t imagine being any worse than I was”
From @felicitycallard piece on “mild” COVID.
“Right now, many of those who have had – or suspect they have had – Covid-19 in mild or moderate form are keen to make visible something rather different.”
“What accounts for the insistence in many of these early illness narratives on making visible the intensity of suffering?”
“What accounts for the insistence in many of these early illness narratives on making visible the intensity of suffering?”
The rhetoric of “mild” is a trap.
Many people with the disease find themselves the sickest they’ve ever been — and are then told it’s mild if they weren’t hospitalized, didn’t die.
BUT that’s not what they’ll tell their friends and family. They’ll tell them how bad it was.
Many people with the disease find themselves the sickest they’ve ever been — and are then told it’s mild if they weren’t hospitalized, didn’t die.
BUT that’s not what they’ll tell their friends and family. They’ll tell them how bad it was.
Relative to losing your life, you can call these cases “mild or moderate”
But relative to normal economic activity, these cases are wildly severe.
So as word gets out, the chance of getting “moderate” COVID will inhibit economies.
Because you don’t want COVID with your coffee.
But relative to normal economic activity, these cases are wildly severe.
So as word gets out, the chance of getting “moderate” COVID will inhibit economies.
Because you don’t want COVID with your coffee.
Increasingly thinking “moderate” COVID will become as infamous as “moderate” Syrian rebels.
