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Best way to assess the impact in terms of deaths, but don't forget that the impact will also be on those suffering long covid symptoms.

My wife was first ill with covid this time last year, and is still suffering now. She didn't get covid that bad, wasn't hospitalised, and prior to falling ill was working out 4 days a week and a damn busy person.

Now a 15 min walk can see her needing to sleep it off for 2 hours.

We are very lucky that she wasn't working before this, as there is no way she could have worked this last year. She knows of many others who have lost jobs, houses and even partners due to the impact of their long covid.

So I'm always a little touchy when people act as though deaths is the only factor to record.

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Do you have any evidence that these symptoms were caused by long covid and not by something else that changed at roughly the same time, like lockdowns?

[ljf]

Obviously I have none at all, though on online covid support groups you will find people from a range of countries that have (or have not) locked down to varying degrees - so should be pretty obviously not linked. It is so odd that people are so keen to question others long term impacts from a novel disease, when I've not seem the same effort put in to down playing the long term effects of SARs on people.