Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)
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What's long covid? And how's someone able to know exactly wether they have this affliction or something else? Sometimes I feel that people who read such news items could latch on the supposed symptoms and then assume that what they're experiencing are exactly long covid when in reality it could be something else. Our minds can be primed easily by the glut of information out there without really knowing how to decipher those information accordingly.
Look at the number of people being convinced that the virus was leaked out of the Wuhan Virology Lab a.k.a. lab leaked theory, the number of people convinced that China is killing it's own people in Xinjiang because as their logic goes, China CPC is just evil. Then you have your forced labour variety nonsense.
More information isn't necessarily better informed citizenry; it's subject to be manipulated and misled by insidious parties. The same can be applied on some of these long covid situation, although TO BE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR am not saying this affliction isn't real or not affecting a lot of our fellow human beings. It's clearly an issue but it needs to be further investigated by the relevant authorities to ensure the integrity of this phenomenon is based on scientific facts and not on spurious need for sensationalism people call journalism.
Its hard to pinpoint what is long covid because there isn't much comprehensive studies into it and because it display many possible symptoms that come out of it ranging from mildly uncomfortable to severely crippling, even some research are estimating the long covid estimates might be undercounting. What's true however is the data showing something affected the workforce population, hospitals seeing an uptick in certain health problems and an increasing number of accounts by individuals reporting they don't feel normal or healthy even after being cleared of Covid. SARS-COV2 isn't just a respiratory disease, previous SARS symptom show how its not limited to lungs.
I can see how "Long Covid" can impact the work force.
I have a friend whom I meet in the gym once or twice a week for the past year or two. He is in the 40s and a bit over weight. He caught Covid-19 during one of the Xmas-New Year gatherings. Had fairly serious symptoms which lasted about a week, even though not severe enough to be hospitalized. Till today, he still experiences shortness of breath and light headedness with moderate level of physical activities - something he did not have before the infection. His primary care doctor diagnosed it as "Long Covid" without any X-ray scan or blood tests etc.
He has an an office job and still works from home a couple of days a week. So it has not affected his job performance. But if he works in a factory or some service or outdoor job, his condition definitely will have a negative impact.
Pretty much what i have been saying, after having gotten two rounds of the ooh so nice omnicron.
It takes you out for like 1~3 days in my case and most of the other people i have spoken too.
All because the Netherlands is a living with covid country.
I went from getting sick once every two years or so to having gotten Omnicron twice in the last 4 months.
"IN AN ARTICLE published Thursday, economist Jeffrey Sachs called for an independent investigation of information held by U.S.-based institutions that could shed light on the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Sachs and his co-author, Neil Harrison, a Columbia University professor of molecular pharmacology and therapeutics, said that federal agencies and universities possess evidence that has not been adequately reviewed, including virus databases, biological samples, viral sequences, email communications, and laboratory notebooks. Sachs and Harrison also highlighted a tantalizing scientific detail that may be an indication that SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, originated in a laboratory: a sequence of eight amino acids on a critical part of the virus’s spike protein that is identical to an amino acid sequence found in cells that line human airways."
So will they be investigating all the biolabs the US has setup all over the world including the decommissioned ones, or are they just going to try framing Wuhan Institute of Virology again.