Stan Laurel said your eyes are the windows to your soul.
I don't know about that, but I do know that your body is really complicated, but your eyes... yeah, your eyes are something else.
An orbital disorder is a problem affecting the eye socket. It can involve swelling, pressure, pain, double vision, or inflammation around the muscles and tissues that move the eye.
Covid makes these problems more likely because it can trigger strong inflammation in the tissues behind the eye and can affect the blood vessels and nerves that run through the orbit. That extra inflammation means more people needing hospital care for eye socket pain or pressure.
They *don't know* that they're avoiding diseases spread by water, blood, food, faeces, because society is set up to do most of that work for them *without them knowing*.
Most people move through life inside a cocoon of invisible infrastructure that quietly blocks whole categories of disease transmission.
So they don't *try* to avoid those modes of transmission, they just do the only thing they're told to:
Wash hands.
I've been sent the text below, which is an extract from a proposed article that didn't make it to publication.
The writer asked me to share it.
For American readers: categories like Motor Neuron Disease include things like Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/ALS/Lou Gehrig's disease.
"There is growing concern among clinicians and researchers that COVID-19 infection may be contributing to a striking rise in rare but serious neuromuscular conditions such as motor neuron disease (MND) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) among younger adults.
While these disorders are typically regarded as genetic or idiopathic, mounting evidence suggests that viral infections...
I've been watching soccer players here get ACL injuries with painful regularity over the last five years.
I've had two ACL injuries myself, and some times of year I develop a painful ache just below and to the side of my knee that feels like a small ball of pure pain.
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So whenever I hear about someone going through this, I feel a strong personal empathy.
I know what it's going to be like for them to try to sleep tonight, and how they'll feel when they try to roll over.