Thread by @DarthSienna

I haven't talked about it much on here, but last year my partner of several years died after struggling with Long Covid for a year. They had an early case of Alpha in 2020 and their lungs never fully recovered. They were on oxygen for the rest of their life and died at 40. 1/

They also died a week before my mother died, in a hospital less than a mile from the one in which my mom lay dying on a high pressure O2 machine. Her death came not from Covid, but from severe side effects of chemoradiation for her lung cancer 2/

But I am terrified of Long Covid because I've already seen what it can do firsthand. It robbed Ken of years of his life and left a hole in my heart. I worry because my family is already at risk and already struggle with autoimmune issues, including my daughters. I don't want 3/

to sacrifice their future for the fucking economy or for "herd immunity." We're all vaxxed, I'm boosted, we wear KN95s, but the thought of a breakthrough infection fills me with dread because, unfortunately, it seems that the vaccines don't reduce the odds if Long Covid in 4/

the vaccinated. At least, according to preliminary studies out of Oxford. I just wish that, as a society, we would take this shit seriously and stop unnecessary deaths and life-long disease. 5/5