Except we do not know the long term effects given its apparent mutations.
That being said, my wife is good friends with someone who appears to be a "long-hauler." Been sick for months, vertigo, fatigue and other neurological issues. They didn't think she had the COVID so they didn't test her, until recently. She had the anti bodies. It has fucked her up since early spring.
The “we don’t know about long term effects” thing is viable. But this isn’t a virus we can contain. We can only slow it down. Originally (as I’ve mentioned many times before) it was about flattening the curve and not overwhelming health care facilities. But healthcare facilities aren’t overrun. Doctors have better learned how to treat it in the unlikely event most of us actually need treatment for it.
Now due to the unprecedented response and resulting panic, the good folks that tanked the global economy aren’t about to publicly own the fact that they enormously overinflated risk of the virus and their response to it probably made things worse. And thus it has morphed into this weird “ZOMG CASES” fascination.
The Atlantic article (published in February) I linked earlier clearly illustrates how this virus would not be containable. The best we could hope for was to slow it down, which we did. But that might also, in a tragic twist of fate, actually come back to bite us this winter. I’m on record here saying quite some time ago that perhaps we’d be better off just letting it redline all summer and early fall, and now there are studies suggesting that’s precisely what should have been done. 20/20 highlight and what-have-you.
It’s starting to look like a large percentage of the global population has T cell immunities in some form or another from previous corona virus infections. That’s a really good thing. Data from Europe that hasn’t been manipulated or dumbed down for political gain by American politics is enormously encouraging.
I think it sucks that your wife’s friend is having all these issues. I wish her nothing but the best. At the same time you didn’t really make a compelling argument that what she’s experienced is even tangentially related to COVID-19. It very well might be, but literally no one knows that.
When dealing with a novel virus it’s not really prudent to hold up the super rare exceptions that prove the rule because it just foments more fear and panic. It’s my opinion that we should ultimately be happy that these are quite rare and realize this isn’t what we originally thought it was.
Whenever there is a new bug in town we know it’s going to pick off the weakest of the herd and that there also will be specific genetic markers and such that are more susceptible for whatever reason. That sucks, but it’s biology 101.
For the camp that wants to stop the world until there is a vaccine, the question now becomes, “Is the very real and devastating collateral economic and mental well-being damage that’s occurring while waiting for a vaccine truly worth it when the easy targets have already died of it?”
From the YouTube video earlier statistics showed something like 800 people died of cancer, 33 of suicide, and just a couple of actual COVID deaths for Ireland in July. Trump probably skewed these stats but the narrator’s accent was very convincing.
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