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by aroch 1859 days ago
Yes, but if your child is school age -- schools which are now increasingly going to in person instruction -- and you are immunocompromised, what are you going to do? Same question if you live in a multi-generational household, but now there are grandkids going to school and kids going to work.

I see elsewhere you're claiming that long Covid isn't a thing. It is, full stop. Unless you're suggesting that living with lung and heart damage caused by Covid isn't a complication of Covid?
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dham 1859 days ago
Lung and heart damage can be the result of any virus. Just look at any article pre 2020.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090717150302.h...

https://erj.ersjournals.com/content/45/5/1463

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/03/000329090639.h...

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/highrisk/heartdisease.htm#:~:text=St....

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK8142/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0945053X1...

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kspacewalk2 1859 days ago
Long COVID is post viral fatigue syndrome. Really sucks when you have it, nothing singularly new about it as far as any available evidence shows. A bunch of people are experiencing it all at the same time, hence the prominence in the media. "Long flu" is much more diffuse in time, so not media-worthy. Mine was 3 months of hell at 18 years old.
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