How Bad Is a Second (or Third or Fourth) Case of Covid?
How Bad Is a Second (or Third or Fourth) Case of Covid?
Reinfections are becoming more common. Experts are still unsure about how damaging they can be.
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This articles style of writing is so infuriaring. Mask wearing is the best thing everyone can do to protect themselves and those around them. It is proven that it works and works best when a) everyone is doing it b) everyone is doing it all the time, not just when there is a surge. It is not fearful to do the best things you can to protect yourself. It requires courage to go against the conformism and the peer pressure to reinfect yourself over and over again. There is nothing fearful about seeing the science about covid and long covid and doing the logical thing. It is being rational.
I have gotten it once, a year ago. Had a relatively mild acute phase of the infection. Still have not recovered. And I will keep doing my best in order to not get it again. I am not afraid. I am angry that the world has decided to abandon those that are disabled, immunocompromised, and those with long covid.
I have had COVID at least 3 times (I'm an advocate masks, but I live where masks are not a pop6choice,) and I swear my brain function has plummeted since my first infection. I feel so dumb at times because my memory has went to shit, I can't think of simple words, comprehend simple questions or solve simple problems. It's like having writers block but it affects all my thinking abilities.
My dad is anti-mask and his mental function has suffered greatly. During his first infection, he would ask the same question multiple times in a single conversation, and although he's better now, he's not the same as he was.
My symptoms during consequent infections after the first were not bad, in fact I wouldn't have guessed I was sick at all the 2nd or 3rd time, so I have no idea if I've had it more...
I wonder if we'd see a mass dumbing effect evident in IQ or IQ equivalent testing such as SAT.
I'd participate in that study if it existed
Same with a lot of other health problems. We've had so many people who have gotten it, many of whom probably didn't think much of it at the time or didn't even know they'd been infected. That's pretty likely to have population-level impacts.
We know it can affect cognition and increase risks for a variety of health concerns, but somehow the idea that those individually-recognized issues might start showing up in population-wide trends doesn't seem to cross people's minds. Instead we get stories wondering about why everyone's gotten angrier, or worse at driving, or why younger people are having heart attacks. Certainly those things could have entirely unrelated causes, but the idea that it's actually mass infection with COVID isn't even brought up and then rejected, it's simply ignored.