[tehjoker]

Omicron has already demonstrated that vaccine evasion is inevitable, we are vaccinating against the extinct Wuhan virus. Global human elimination of SARS2 is necessary or you will see in both your personal life and in the broader economy continued disability, death, and drags on productivity.

There is some speculation that the "worker shortage" is due in part to workers with long COVID who want to return to work but can't. I do not know how large of an effect it is, but I can promise you it is real.

My perspective is we are living in a time of crisis and we must muster the reserves to forcefully challenge the problems of our time. Furthermore, COVID-19, a mass disabling event, may take years to resolve. If it takes 5 years to avoid catching it, I will have decades of healthy life remaining.

[shswkna]

While yours is one possible assessment, I don’t think that you have the full picture and it is at least partly driven by fear. Read up on societies that are already over Omicron. For example in South Africa & Namibia basically everyone got it in a short time and the wave is over. Omicron is mild in basically everybody.

[KptMarchewa]

>Global human elimination of SARS2

Yawn. This will never happen, and no one even cares. Long covid is just 1% of 1% cases that are psychosomatic and way overblown.

[tehjoker]

In unvaccinated cases, persistent symptoms appear in ~20% of mild cases, 50% for hospitalized [0]. Vaccines prevent contracting the virus, but afaik similar rates for those that contract it.

Long COVID symptoms range across many body systems including pain, fatigue, brain fog, inability to stand, heart damage, tinnitus (one CEO to the point they committed suicide [1]), kidney, and pancreatic damage. More results are being found routinely.

Your attitude is quite callous. I hope that if you were on the receiving end of the stick, other people will not dismiss you the same way you've dismissed them.

[0] https://s3.amazonaws.com/media2.fairhealth.org/whitepaper/as...

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninashapiro/2021/03/21/texas-ro...

[ipaddr]

Plus you have a % the vaccinated population COVID with similiar symptoms or in other cases different issues. So many unrelated things seem to be failing right after the vaccine from failed root canals to general aggressiveness to people forgetting things. It seems to be hitting the above 60+ population the hardest.

Things aren't going back anytime soon.

[tehjoker]

I haven't read anything credible indicating the vaccine causes problems like that. Can you cite a source?

[ipaddr]

The first long term studies are due in 2024. You didn't expect them to be ready yet? The trials are ongoing now with large groups testing 3 doses. Some leading edge countries have moved to 4 doses. The data will be available/peered reviewed.

[tehjoker]

So no.