Ika Makimaki-Are you coming to [event]?
-Is it outdoors?
-No, we want it to be cozy.
-Will there be ventilation and filters inside?
-*puzzled look*
-*sigh* Are masks required?
-No, no one is doing that anymore.
-I am. Will there be an online option?
-No, too complicated, we want everyone to be together this year.
-I don't think I'll join, thanks.
-We've moved on, the pandemic is over!
-Sadly, it is not. And it's not worth risking my family's health so we can pretend it's 2019 again.
Michael Misamore@pezmico #CovidIsNotOver until #LongCovid is cured, and sadly it isn't yet. That's the reality. Folks are in denial.
GreenDotGuy@mmisamore @pezmico At least in the US, the portion of the population who report currently experiencing Long Covid has been dropping. It barely blipped up a tenth of a percent in our winter Covid wave.
It appears that Long Covid is becoming less and less of a concern as fears of it doing cumulative damage on aggregate have failed to materialize.
Cifer@DarcMoughty @mmisamore @pezmico Is the portion who report Long Covid dropping because fewer people are sick with it or because fewer sick people are reporting when this stuff currently has no real treatment?
@Teskariel Pretty sure it's because each variant seemingly has less teeth than the one before, and the people most susceptible to harsh effects are no longer with us.
I had four very healthy friends hospitalized with the Alpha and Delta strains, some had Long Covid lasting months. More recently though, even high risk friends have avoided anything more than a 'bad cold' with no after-effects, and the stats back that anecdotal experience up.