Free Palestine (Katherine 😷)Jan 18, 2023

Review article on long covid, really good (I’ve read about 60% of it so far)

Nothing about what we know so far makes me think masking is unnecessary or over-cautious.

I live my life without fear, masking in all shared indoor spaces. I’d like to be able to do more—but I wish more people understood that masks don’t have to be a reminder to be afraid.

Masks can be the opposite: the reason we don’t need to worry. That’s what it is for me.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2

Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations - Nature Reviews Microbiology

Long COVID is an often debilitating illness of severe symptoms that can develop during or following COVID-19. In this Review, Davis, McCorkell, Vogel and Topol explore our knowledge of long COVID and highlight key findings, including potential mechanisms, the overlap with other conditions and potential treatments. They also discuss challenges and recommendations for long COVID research and care.

Nature
Show threadSiyehJan 19, 2023
@cricketcrocker it's sobering. felt like a gut punch reading that the effects of long covid will probably be lifelong. but I guess it's good someone is saying it plainly, if it's true. 😔
Show threadFree Palestine (Katherine 😷)Jan 19, 2023

@pandemoniumcrutch I’m sorry about the gut punch.

I hope it won’t be the case—whether it is or not, though, it’s sufficiently bad that the current policies are indefensible from a public health standpoint.

I hope more conversation and research will lead to a more systematic understanding (and ability to address). But as you say, that won’t happen without the hard true things being said.

Show threadSiyeh
@cricketcrocker Totally. Everyone just seems like they have main character syndrome-- they assume nothing really bad will happen to Them, so they don't have to take things too seriously, right? It's hard not to wish a reality check on them, because then they'd be too tired to fix the policies. 😅
Jan 19, 2023 at 3:51amWeb