Thread by @LauraMiers

I’m seeing a lot of LongCovid “recovery” talk again. For me (& countless others), LongCovid is a constellation of permanent medical conditions affecting multiple organs that I will have for the rest of my life. These diagnoses are almost certain to shorten my life expectancy, particularly since I acquired them in my 30s, & because they’re afflicting essential organs like my heart & brain. While I can function more normally after five years of serious illness & three years in bed, I will never be “recovered.”

Since people aren’t being routinely monitored, a lot of these serious complications aren’t being caught by doctors in time, & that’s why so many people are dropping dead. LongCovid isn’t a feeling that goes away, it’s often life-altering multi-organ damage & permanent or multiple catastrophic chronic illnesses. And then there’s all the people who are acquiring various diseases & organ damage months & years after COVID infections, but they don’t classify themselves as having “LongCovid” because they so often don’t even realize COVID triggered all their new medical problems. There’s a reason the educational COVID coverage ended in 2022, & the Back to Normal minimizing coverage began. SO MANY PEOPLE are sick, & no one wants to pay for it.

Having ANY training in medicine or nursing delivers a death blow to Everything is Fineism because I know EXACTLY what having arrhythmia & unstable hypertension means for my future. I know EXACTLY what neurodegenerative processes are. I know the immune dysfunction is bad long term. I know the mystery masses in multiple organs that aren’t being monitored will end poorly. But convincing medicine of this after they were instructed to check right out & ignore it all is another thing entirely. I’ve never seen denial like this before. I’ve never seen people ignore all their training & pretend people aren’t sick because it’s politically convenient. It’s pathological, & it is causing immense harm.

Since I have only been prescribed beta blockers & GI drugs since COVID rocked my entire world & gave me multi organ damage in 2020 (before tests/vaccines) & then all of medicine pretended it wasn’t happening, the only REAL treatment I’ve had is the passage of time. I was bed-bound waiting to die for 3 years, & now I can function enough to do daily tasks & care for my kids, & I even traveled out of state for a week. I never could have done any of this in 2020, but I still require time to recover after I do too much. There is no way I could work, & I’m not anywhere near “back to normal,” I’m just functioning, barely. I am also very clear eyed about my ultimate prognosis living with this permanent multi-organ damage. This focus on RECOVERY is disingenuous, & it’s meant to keep people working & consuming IMHO. If the public thinks LongCovid is just a feeling that goes away, & “Most recover!” (Which we have heard since 2021, even as studies show only 2%-7% of people are recovering) then people won’t care if they get it routinely. It’s just Business as Usual, until we collectively drop.

2% report recovery from LongCovid. Since 2021, Professional Minimizers with impressive credentials & other people who should know better but who are probably paid to be ignorant, have screamed, “MOST RECOVER!” over & over again.

Study after study has proven they are wrong, but we keep hearing it anyway.

Read the entire thread. It’s a nightmare from hell. The public has been deliberately misled.

https://twitter.com/lauramiers/status/1766599649236779228

In 2023, a two-year study found 7% recovered. The latest study found 2% recovered. Everyone is still systematically infected & reinfected—from the cradle to the grave. This is a road to nowhere.

https://twitter.com/loscharlos/status/1679263519466987520

This is PRECISELY what all of the “recovery” discussions deliberately ignore.

We are talking about PERMANENT damage here.

https://twitter.com/seeksboston26mi/status/1896256673582580180

We are in Year 6 of the pandemic & most people have never heard of the LongCovid lag. You think you recovered from your acute infection, only to be steamrolled a few months later. Most people blame other things because they haven’t been properly educated about COVID. And if you die of these complications outside that initial 30 day window, Covid isn’t mentioned as a cause of death.

I have also personally declared myself “recovered” from LongCovid multiple times, but despite only a single reinfection in 2022, new symptoms & medical complications continue to develop—as we were warned they would. Most SARS1 patients never fully recovered, except this time we infected the entire planet…

I’m experiencing this too—it started a few years ago. Of course, people quit talking to me when I lovingly suggest the Covid infections they ignored MAY have caused all their new medical complications, so I don’t get a lot of updates, but it sure sounds like things are bleak. By misleading the public, the hope is they will look at their newly disabled bodies & their newly disabled kids & they will blame themselves instead of government & employers. So far, it’s working like a dream. People are so disconnected from reality, they may never come back.