#LongCOVID will take your health, your wealth — then it will come for your marriage
"For David Putrino, the "one thing" he wishes people would understand sooner rather than later is the "looming social impact" of long COVID. "I'm talking about the workforce being diminished, the fact that people can’t think the way they used to think — we're losing intellectual capital, we're losing physical capital, we're losing social capital," he says."
This is one of the great catastrophes of all the ‘normalizing’ narratives: that having Covid is no big deal, and not preparing people for the subtle aftermath.
If people aren’t prepared ahead of time to expect and to recognize the symptoms of mild cognitive dysfunction and emotional deregulation, who is going to be able to point it out to them?
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Millions of households will go through a version of what families of dementia patients go through in the early stages, but without any social or other support for the idea that what they are experiencing is real. People with impairments will project their challenges onto the spouses, friends, family trying to get them to see what is happening.
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It will take people with a large dose of self-awareness or with a large cushion of practical and emotional privilege to weather these issues without tearing down relationships.
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You are so right. People should be informed about the possible consequences of their COVID infections. They should be informed what many of them are to expect for themselves and their loved ones. But they are not informed. And if they experience it, no one will make the connection to COVID. How can politicians treat their people in this way. I just don’t get it.
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