• Deborah@hachyderm.io
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    9 months ago

    long covid is a whole lot of things. Asthma, diabetes, depression… the identifiable things that sonofabitch virus can do to the human body appear to be legion.

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        9 months ago

        I think it’s just that we never really addressed the fact that you don’t fully bounce back from illness. But then suddenly, everyone got this serious illness, and at the same time we realized “I just don’t feel like I did before, even now that I’ve recovered”

        That’s just my personal feeling, it’s not based on much except our attitudes about illness

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        9 months ago

        [edited because I was too snarky and now I feel bad]

        I urge you to read the research here if you don’t believe in long covid’s reality, severity, or frequency. But yes, obviously a new chronic and devastating illness will exacerbate any pre-existing conditions; that’s how chronic illness works.