re: Long COVID

If the science was so trustworthy they wouldn't need to hide the data for 75 years.

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Long COVID is the single most pseudoscientific thing I have ever heard of in my life.

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No it’s not; it's a real thing, just not exceptional. We’ve always had some sufferers from any virus develop symptoms that persist. We don’t call it “Long Flu” though. Some people will catch a virus and it will do damage that the body can’t repair. When covid does that they call it “Long Covid”. Big deal! It sensationalizes it, but it is a real phenomenon.

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Long COVID

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doesn't exist

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Symptoms can last weeks, months, or years after COVID-19 illness and can emerge, persist, resolve, and reemerge over different lengths of time.

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I always assumed this was their out to say “the vaccine worked, you didn’t catch Covid again you just have long COVID”

I had a friend who was diagnosed with Long Covid. He was in his early 50s and in decent shape, no vices. He got a mild case of Covid before the shots were released, but it never completely went away.

Slowly, it got worse. He couldn't keep anything on his stomach. He got vertigo. Had to get an O2 tank. He had to quit work. He went to a bunch of doctors and they called it Long Covid for lack of a better term I guess. The doctors could do nothing for him.

He told me he woke up one night and had to go to the bathroom. He didn't want to wake up his wife again, so he rolled off the bed, crawled to the bathroom, climbed up on the toilet, finished, crawled back to the bed, and looked at the clock. It had taken him two hours to get back in bed, and he was exhausted.

Then his organs started failing, one by one. Then he died. Probably took 2+ years.

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Trust the science? My God, Long COVID is the single most pseudoscientific thing I have ever heard of in my life.

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Questions that should be considered:

Does the Sars-Cov-2 spike protein have unique genetic components (ACE affinity, furin cleavage site) that enable it to cause damage to a wide variety of cells and organs in the body?

Does it have the capacity to linger in some people and cause immune dysregulation?

Does modern medicine ignore conditions until scalable, profitable treatments are proposed?

Even though Covid now only mostly causes mild symptoms, does its continuous circulation in the population cause wide-ranging chronic issues?

I had Covid in 2020 and lost my smell and taste. For 4 years both senses were completely gone. It’s only been over the last year that they’ve started to come back- but nothing like normal.

I can only taste food categories- like sweet, spicy, salty, savory etc…

As far as my sense of smell- that’s unreliable too- I cannot smell what everyone else smells- but I will randomly smell coconuts - like the suntan lotion smell.

Just learn to relax...

Maybe have a drink first.

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smell and taste

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That's the most common one I've heard.

The one time I had Covid, just last year, for about 3 months after everything tasted way too salty. And I love salt.

Thankfully, Weller tasted the same.

I had COVID back in January. I did lose my smell for about 3 days but it came back except for smelling shite. Weird I know. But that eventually came back too

I had the metal taste in my mouth the first couple of days I was positive but my taste never completely went away.