Thread by @yousitonmyspot

Yep, and I ask myself when exactly it has started that people like me are considered as "the other extreme" compared with the Covid deniers whereas the scientists representing the "golden center" with a tolerable (?) burden of disease are completely neglecting longcovid.

https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1529894305753706497

Yesterday, I asked the provocative question how many additional deaths we will tolerate when living with Covid.
The answers clearly showed: Zero. But zero is not a choice we're given to make. Pretending to be "amidst the extremes" means >> zero.

https://twitter.com/yousitonmyspot/status/1529886433263161345?t=OjG3VhEMDgv_jWaJYNJ5Xg&s=19

Either way, allowing for a low number of deaths or a fairly low number of longterm disease means to implement long-lasting protective measures. The belief to control the pandemic by "living as if the pandemic were over" and causing only a low number of deaths, is wrong.

It is also wrong because the number of C19 deaths is flawed. While there is heavy debate about if people in hospital "with" or "because of" Covid should be taken into account, the number of patients AFTER "recovery" is not considered.

https://twitter.com/rogguronium/status/1528024380223242245?t=OjG3VhEMDgv_jWaJYNJ5Xg&s=19

"There are also other infectious diseases."

Dysfunction of the immune system after Covid infection may lead to more frequent catching other diseases and the burden of disease would be growing, too (which is also of economic importance).

nature.com/articles/s4159…

Asking the question how many deaths we'd like to tolerate also neglects the great lack of information/disinformation in the society. Longcovid is still denied as a big factor to count in. Parents know nothing about #MISC or the probably enhanced risk of hepatitis.

When many people actually live like the pandemic were over (which is only true politically), then mainly due to the narrative that omicron would be mild, vaccination protects against longcovid and reinfections would always be milder while new variants exhibit more immune escape.

For me, personally, I wasn't seriously ill with infectious diseases for about 6 years (except for some short gastrointestinal infections). So for me the risk to get other infectious diseases is not the same like with Covid19. I already had my fair share of disease in childhood.

The impact of longcovid would be, given all the self reporting but also hundreds of studies, much more severe than everything before, even after vaccination (and I also get the vaccination for the flu), especially I depend on exercising like hiking to relax.