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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TV personality Kelly Osbourne, 40, has been reportedly rushed to medical care after she developed a temperature. She joins a long list of personalities struggling with pneumonias or "flus" in the last few weeks
EU's Ursula Von der Leyen, 66, is currently battling a severe case of pneumonia and has cancelled her external engagements. She is reportedly recovering and working from home
Italy's former football star, coach and television personality, Aldo Agroppi, 80, died on 2 January 2025 after being admitted, reportedly, with bilateral pneumonia
About poliovirus: it's not that polio was taken more seriously than Covid/LC. On the contrary (lockdowns, vaccine at warp speed, etc.). It's that more effective vaccines could be developed for polio than Covid. There is zero cure and almost no awareness for post polio syndrome
People basically could be vaccinated for polio and forget about it in most countries. Many people have taken so far 4-7 Covid vaccine doses. This could have eliminated Covid, like polio, in countries where there is such coverage. But the pathogen/vaccine features doesn't allow it
If the Covid vaccines were sterilising (with permanent immunity) policymakers, most likely, would have aimed for eradication. The unwillingness to pursue eradication for Covid (please note that Zero Covid countries could achieve elimination) meant the policy "living with Covid"
Covid-induced acute pancreatitis presenting after discharge for Covid pneumonia. A case report. SARS-CoV-2 infection can trigger pancreatitis presenting in a delayed manner from acute lung pathology
Study published in 2022. Team "report a case of a 71-years-old male with multiple comorbidities that was admitted as a case of COVID-19 pneumonia for 10 days."
"Afterwards, the patient was discharged with resolution of the infection and presented two days later with signs of acute pancreatitis. On further investigation, it was confirmed that his acute pancreatitis was due to his previous COVID-19 infection."
The news has been available on Italian media for days. I have thought a lot about sharing as the information was more speculative before today. It's also sensitive news about a young person. News has been consolidating today with more concrete information
More extensive examination on cardiac MRI, reportedly, would have revealed a "scar" on the heart of the young player. This would have been visible after the recent cardiac arrest but, reportedly, not so (or not so much) in previous MRIs following post Covid myocarditis in 2020
"Long Covid has dramatically changed my life”
Actor Matt McGorry developed LC after Covid infections in 2020 and 2023, with symptoms of dysautonomia, "brain fog" and debilitating" fatigue that doesn't go away even after "sleeping for 10-12 hours a night" theguardian.com/wellness/ng-in…
"Memorizing lines was becoming hard. Or doing cold reads, where you get handed the script, which requires a lot of multitasking: you’re looking at the script, engaging with the person, hitting the marks." McGorry said
"I felt like I kept missing the turn, you know: driving by and you’re like, shit, that’s my turn. Some of that cognitive stuff has gotten better, but it’s incredibly scary. I can still do my job as an actor as long as it’s safe for me."
Myasthenia gravis (MG) as a complication of #LongCovid. Case report of MG emerging four months after acute Covid. MG is an autoimmune neuromuscular disorder, which could be triggered in the context of immune dysregulation post SARS-CoV-2 infection pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39479090/
"This case illustrates the intricate link between post-viral states and autoimmune responses, particularly in geriatric patients." [The patient in the case study was 81]
"The pathophysiology linking COVID-19 to MG primarily involves immune dysregulation triggered by the viral infection, which may disrupt immune tolerance and lead to clinical autoimmunity."