Thread by @KristieDeGaris

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Looks like we're in another Covid wave, which means the 'flu' you have is statistically likely to be Covid.

Covid is studied to have many negative outcomes including Long Covid, heart attacks, strokes, autoimmune diseases, diabetes and death.

But even the flu can be life altering for others. It was the flu that gave me an autoimmune disease.

If you are ill, stay at home, and if you can't, wear a mask. It's a really easy way to offer some protection to others, and we should all be striving to do that.

This is also a good time to remind people that Covid doesn't look like one thing. Each variant has a generally distinct set of symptoms and those can present differently in individuals. Depending on the variant/person Covid can look like many things.

Don't even start to think 'It's not Covid' unless you have good reason to do so. Right now, it's probably Covid. Many, many Covid infections are asymptomatic. You can have Covid, be infections & never have a symptom. FYI asymptomatic infections have negative outcomes too.

I have to accept that no one cares about Covid, but my family and many other families deal with, every day, the fact that people we love are sick and must live a limited life because other people can't be bothered to do simple things.

Your decision not to protect others directly affects me & my family. They have made my daughter sick & force her to live a limited life.

I don't care how much this pisses you off. Every day I have to consider your reality. I think it's fine that occasionaly you consider mine.