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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder whether people who don't mask in crowded indoor areas expect is going to happen to them, exactly?

If you catch covid 1-2x per year from this, and your chance of getting long covid is 15% each time, you're rolling the dice each time and you've got less than 7 years before the jig is up and you get long covid.  Less time if you're including others in your family.  Barring some major scientific development.

- Do you not believe in long covid and think it is a magical white lady disease?  (I saw that earlier in this thread.  Good luck with that.)
-- Is it just about hating masks no matter what the cost to your personal health?
- will you not take precautions like masking and not eating indoors again EVER or will you start again if more people around you are being careful again
- avoid any "optional" indoor social activities?
- if someone in your family gets long covid and suffers from constant fatigue and brain fog that doesn't resolve, will you change your mind about what precautions your family might have taken to prevent the exposure or at least reduce the dosage inhaled?  Or will you still be happy with the choices you made now?

I'm pretty sure you will say you are happy with your choices because no one can plan for the unexpected.  (It's not that unexpected!  but whatever you do you)
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What? Where on earth are you getting that you have a 15% chance of getting “Long Covid?” That’s crazy. I’ve never heard the estimate to be that high, even 5% seems high with the current strains, never mind 15%. Keep in mind we have lots of “Coronaviruses” circulating, of which Covid-19 is the “novel” Coronavirus, but it’s still just a Coronavirus which causes cold and flu like symptoms. Even if one does have post-viral complications/symptoms, in the majority of people these are resolved within 6 months.

So you’re giving up precious years of your life for something that has a 5% or less chance of happening and if it does, is resolved within 6 months at most. That doesn’t seem like a way to live, to me. Studies have shown that more liberal Democrats tend to OVERstate the risks of Covid to them and the risks of dying or becoming permanently disabled by Covid. Maybe that happened to you? [/quote]

It’s the CDC’s number. Dispute it or whatever, but it’s not some mystery number. It was widely reported.[/quote]

And it includes the type of long COVID that many people are ok to risk getting. If I can't run a 5k for 6 months I'll survive. I'm not going to cancel Christmas to avoid that.[/quote]

I honestly think that some people have never been or have completely forgotten what it was like to be truly sick. I’ve had various illnesses that lingered, I mean REALLY lingered, long before Covid. I caught a bad case of bronchitis on a cruise, or possibly from plane travel to get to the cruise, 10 years ago, and I coughed for probably 3 months after. I remember because it was fall and I was still coughing at night even at Christmas. It sucked but it was only temporary! Was my experience really that rare? I expect to have a lingering cough and some congestion for awhile after a bad bout of whatever respiratory illness. But maybe that’s not been other people’s experiences so they way overreact to lingering symptoms. [/quote]

You folks have no idea what you are talking about. I had to take 14 months of medical leave from a high-status, professional job because of long Covid. I had frightening cognitive deficients. I couldn’t recall words or remember something I was told minutes earlier. I lost the ability to raise my left arm. I lost 20 (starting with a normal BMI— friends and colleagues described me as emaciated.  I had crushing, crushing fatigue. Believe me, you don’t understand what the word “fatigue” means until you’ve experienced this. Like it would be an all afternoon project to walk across a room. I’d be thirsty with a glass of water right next to me, but lifting it required too much effort. Prior to long Covid, I never had any serious medical issues, never missed work for illness, never even caught the flu. I took no medications, no chronic or underlying conditions. I was fit and active and healthy by every objective measure. You do not have any idea what you are talking about. Your views on Long Covid are ignorant nonsense. I hope you never have to learn about it the hard way. [/quote]

This type of long covid is incredibly rare. It’s amazing that we don’t have any stats on this, because this is what people are afraid of. CDC includes having a prolonged cough or stuffy nose, or even just hair loss as long covid. [/quote]

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