Wednesday, November 30, 2022

My Humble Thoughts On Long-Covid

 We are almost three years into the Covid era, and to this date....no one (within Germany, the EU, the US, etc) has a answer for the cause, effect, and cure of long-Covid.

Course, I don't think radical amounts of funding has been put into this, and with some university elements developing research.....it's hit-and-miss.  

The odd parts leading into this?  I sat and watched a German documentary piece two months ago, where they had several folks (Germans) who had NOT had Covid (the virus) but had the vaccinations, and that triggered a long-Covid problem.  Most of the long-Covid crowd?  If you believed their data....vast majority were from the virus....not the vaccination.  

Some of these folks were marathon-type athletes.  Some were couch-people.  Some were over-weight.  Some were slim-Jim-types.  Most of their data suggests 3 women to each two guys....have long-Covid.  

The one thing that you do notice.....there are those who go through a long month of rebuilding themselves after Covid, and they aren't quiet in the same bucket as the other crowd....who suffer for months from long-Covid.  The short-long-Covid people?  They remind me of the after-affects of pneumonia (something I had as a kid, and readily remember an entire month of feeling weak after recovery).

Why the women get higher numbers here?  Unknown, and it ought be simple to connect the dots and find physical elements, diet practices, or some habit that guys aren't into.

The fact that some long-Covid people have lost brain 'speed'?  Thats probably the biggest worry in my mind.  If you wasted four years of your life in some university, and now a decade later....find yourself suffering from long-Covid, and that college business is now worthless....it'd bother me a great deal.

So I end this with a view of the future.  If Covid lingers on....say for 20 years, and you end up with 10-percent of German society permanently disabled with long-Covid because of this....the system can't support that many people in the 'equation'.  Maybe it's not a high priority on funding, but you really don't have time or resources to waste.  

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