Thread by @elisaperego78

Yes, this exactly what many policy makers mean and meant with "Living with Covid". Actually, it's much worse. These are just some neurological problems. We knew covid led to severe cardiovascular, cardiopulmonary, multi-systemic, immune-related etc. sequelae already in 2020

https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1560460231112417280

We knew about #LongCovid in 2020. Publications already existed about the dramatic sequelae of SARS before 2020. We knew we were facing a SARS-like disease as soon as information about the Wuhan outbreak emerged

crisis24.garda.com/alerts/2019/12…

We knew we were facing a potential pandemic driven by a virus similar to the deadly SARS CoV on 24 January 2020 maximum. This is when the first China's data were published in the top scientific journal @TheLancet e.g.

thelancet.com/journals/lance…

The WHO openly recognized #LongCovid in August 2020. We knew by September of the same year the damages inflicted by Covid were multi-systemic, affected children too, were not rare, had a severe cardiovascular potential, and led to immense costs e.g.

wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-224

We knew SARS-CoV-2 was airborne before many authorities openly talked about it. Airborne prevention isn't being implemented if not in "selected" settings like for the elite
We knew already in late 2021 Omicron could go beyond our immune defense e.g.

sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/…

We knew other viruses had the potential to cause sequelae and/or prolonged disease like with ME, post-polio syndrome, the sequelae of influenza #longflu and pneumonia, post-Ebola syndrome and the sequelae of SARS, among others, just to name a few

Despite this knowledge, a relentless policy of letting a SARS virus rip through the population has been pushed by many governments, especially with omicron. The real dangers and mode of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 haven't been fully, openly discussed with people in many cases

The population through which SARS-CoV-2 was let to rip includes children, very senior people, people with dementia, people living in care homes, people in hospitals etc., who couldn't conset to this in any way, or protect themselves. Those with #LongCovid were left with no care

I appreciate Dr Topol's effort to communicate the dangers of #LongCovid and specifically of neurological impairment from the study shared above. This is important as many verified Twitter accounts just, often, only deny/minimize the terrible burden of LC

But I also want to add that policy makers know or must know of the long term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection. They most likely know in 2020 too. Certainly, the burden and pathophysiology of #LongCovid has become more clear with time.
We're still letting SARS-CoV-2 rip

So yeah, neurological and multi-system disease is exactly what our policy makers and the uber-elite mean by Living With Covid. Maybe not for themselves, but for us outside their ranks and their affiliates for sure

I don't want to Live With Covid. But I am forced to do so, so as the uber wealthy can become richer, and policy makers won't have the inconvenience of planning for a true exit strategy from the pandemic they have driven to this stage.
I don't have the "tools".