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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So much hysteria.  Schools need to stay open for students.  At this point, the vaccines have primed our bodies to easily fight off Covid, and the illness is either similar to the flu or way less than that.  Scientists are starting to realize that "long covid" is not a thing... or any more of a thing than "long flu."  Most of the people that are dying are the unvaccinated.  I guarantee that lots of hysterical people got a runny nose within the past several months, didn't think anything of it, and didn't realize that they had Covid.[/quote]

Long Covid is definitely a thing. Please don’t post inaccurate information [/quote]

Long covid is not anything to worry about.  Unless you are also worried about getting struck by lightening. [/quote]

Wow, you are clueless. What’s your take on post-polio syndrome?[/quote]

DP. Long COVID is nearly always mild symptoms that resolve on their own, typically in a few months. The severity and frequency of these symptoms after a Covid infection are similar to after influenza infections (about 50% more common).

So I get that people don’t want those symptoms, but it isn’t like this is some sort of new risk.[/quote]

Post-polio. Maybe you’re not familiar with it. It wasn’t well-characterized when polio epidemics were happening either. And yet it’s real, it’s common, and it disables people and contributes to early death for some of them. [/quote]

Ok, but you reference Long COVID, which is an observed and documented phenomenon (albeit one that has been grossly misrepresented in the media), not some hypothetical syndrome that doesn't have any evidence to support its existence in significant numbers, despite coronaviruses being common.[/quote]

I suspect that “Long COVID” will turn out to be multiple clinical entities that become better-defined with time. I don’t see what coronaviruses generally being common has to do with this. With a couple of exceptions, they weren’t severe  enough to kill ppl before now either.[/quote]

Related viruses speak to the likelihood that this new virus will have a fairly rare property. SARS patients continued to get better over time, including those who had long-COVID-like symptoms. They didn't get better, and then later get worse. There's no reason to think your hypothetical syndrome will exist.[/quote]

We’ll see. But we can’t see now. That’s how the passage of time works.[/quote]

I guess we will. In the meantime, it is ridiculous to make decisions based on wild suppositions that lack evidence.[/quote]

Correct. Follow your own advice. Oh the irony. [/quote]

A lot of people who suspect this is no big deal because they heard it on Fox News.[/quote]

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