It's a Neurological and Vascular Disease that causes immune system dysfunction. The acute phase of the infection can disable or kill you, but damn if that virus doesn't take up residence in the body and cause some fucking damage.
I have 3 close friends who have been completely disabled by COVID. The inflammation in their brains has left them with what I'd say sounds like early Dementia. I mean "Brain Fog" is a really nice way to sugar coat not being able to speak properly anymore or remember what you were saying CONSTANTLY while talking to people. Big yikes.
My primary care doctor of 12 years got COVID on the frontlines and died (before the vaccine).
And, I have quite a few extended family members that died in 2020 (before the vaccine).
And, quite a few friends have lost Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, and siblings to COVID - all unvaxxed.
Evangelical Christians living in "red" areas of the country who thought Jesus would save them and they didn't need a vaccine. Praying (shockingly) did not save their lives.
They died young too! Leaving behind spouses and young kids. Doing GoFundMe campaigns to help their widows.
I had one friend whose unvaccinated family lost SIX members from one birthday party. Six! Including the woman of the hour whose birthday it was - she died 3 weeks after that party. Whoopsie.
60% of infections are asymptomatic, and you'd never know if you had it if you had not tested for COVID, obviously. So, you can not say you have never gotten COVID.
That's like saying you low cholesterol, but have never once had any bloodwork to test your HDL/LDL. Just bc you never tested your cholesterol doesn't mean you have healthy levels, lol.
If you are going out unmasked, gathering indoors, etc over the past 4 years - you've gotten COVID and it's eating away at some part of your body.
Ok, cool. I'll make sure to get all my health information from a facebook group doctor and substack and not the experts in virology, immunology, and public health. Sounds like a solid plan. I'll see ya there.
In southern Missouri we just didn't contract it at rate like many areas except in crowded St. Louis up north. And black folks usually suffer worse.
And in 2 large area churches that I am familiar with it only took people who were going by way of whichever virus was next. VERY old or frail or compromised people.
My now 86-year-old mother-in-law got in early on and said she felt like she had bronchitis in the normal manner she always does, but did not miss any activities except a week at church to respect other folks.
She was 82. She's fine. No known lasting effect.
The whole extended family got it around that time except my household and 16 of about 20 tested positive and zero even missed a day of work.
Nobody has long Covid, and nobody is suffering any known lingering effects.
How can our experience be so different?
(I finally caught it about 6 months ago and it was an unpleasant summer cold and my wife too, who had a sore throat, but doom pandemic result is just not what we are seeing)
It's a Neurological and Vascular Disease that causes immune system dysfunction. The acute phase of the infection can disable or kill you, but damn if that virus doesn't take up residence in the body and cause some fucking damage.
I have 3 close friends who have been completely disabled by COVID. The inflammation in their brains has left them with what I'd say sounds like early Dementia. I mean "Brain Fog" is a really nice way to sugar coat not being able to speak properly anymore or remember what you were saying CONSTANTLY while talking to people. Big yikes.
My primary care doctor of 12 years got COVID on the frontlines and died (before the vaccine).
And, I have quite a few extended family members that died in 2020 (before the vaccine).
And, quite a few friends have lost Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, and siblings to COVID - all unvaxxed.
Evangelical Christians living in "red" areas of the country who thought Jesus would save them and they didn't need a vaccine. Praying (shockingly) did not save their lives.
They died young too! Leaving behind spouses and young kids. Doing GoFundMe campaigns to help their widows.
I had one friend whose unvaccinated family lost SIX members from one birthday party. Six! Including the woman of the hour whose birthday it was - she died 3 weeks after that party. Whoopsie.
60% of infections are asymptomatic, and you'd never know if you had it if you had not tested for COVID, obviously. So, you can not say you have never gotten COVID.
That's like saying you low cholesterol, but have never once had any bloodwork to test your HDL/LDL. Just bc you never tested your cholesterol doesn't mean you have healthy levels, lol.
If you are going out unmasked, gathering indoors, etc over the past 4 years - you've gotten COVID and it's eating away at some part of your body.
Good luck with that.
yeah, all my family members and friend's family members died from injectables that they DID not get.
Crazy how that happened.
You are a nut.
Good luck!
Ok, cool. I'll make sure to get all my health information from a facebook group doctor and substack and not the experts in virology, immunology, and public health. Sounds like a solid plan. I'll see ya there.
In southern Missouri we just didn't contract it at rate like many areas except in crowded St. Louis up north. And black folks usually suffer worse.
And in 2 large area churches that I am familiar with it only took people who were going by way of whichever virus was next. VERY old or frail or compromised people.
My now 86-year-old mother-in-law got in early on and said she felt like she had bronchitis in the normal manner she always does, but did not miss any activities except a week at church to respect other folks.
She was 82. She's fine. No known lasting effect.
The whole extended family got it around that time except my household and 16 of about 20 tested positive and zero even missed a day of work.
Nobody has long Covid, and nobody is suffering any known lingering effects.
How can our experience be so different?
(I finally caught it about 6 months ago and it was an unpleasant summer cold and my wife too, who had a sore throat, but doom pandemic result is just not what we are seeing)
Well, lucky for you and yours. My experience has been very different.