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[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]

Not the poster you are responding to but things have changed: long COVID studies were including anyone who had symptoms, even very mild, after 30 days which is ridiculous. Many studies also included extremely vague symptoms like fatigue, anxiety, etc. Yes, bone crushing fatigue is one thing but many studies were not excluding things like run of the mill fatigue from being an adult living in stressful times. They also included severe cases of people being hospitalized, and yes, if you were on a ventilator, you are going to have some longer term effects for a few months and not sure that is long COVID or just the norms of being hospitalized for a serious condition and taking time to build back strength. The studies also lump original COVID and pre vaccination time with fully vaxed omicron times and I do think the numbers are going down.

I've seen a lot more high quality large studies that put the number at closer to 2-3% but even in those people most symptoms are resolving in a year. Not saying it would be fun to have even mild symptoms for a year but I do think the people on twitter saying COVID is a slow mass extinction event and will lead to crippling disability in the population are not helping.

On a population scale, even 0.5% of people is a lot of people for such a common illness that most will get, so I do think we should take long COVID seriously but it seems like many people are needlessly scaring people for clickbait.

I hate that our country has put it on the individual to protect ourselves. Yes masking is a helpful tool but why aren't we upgrading ventilation systems and demanding better indoor air quality? This was a problem before COVID for many conditions not just respiratory viruses. [/quote]

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