[GrandMasterPuba]

I feel like I'm being gaslit. By blog posts, the media, Twitter, social media, my work - everyone.

I keep up to date with the latest studies on Covid. Sars-Cov-2 is not a respiratory virus; it's a circulatory virus. And its long term effects on the body are not widely understood.

Everyone is acting like because Omicron doesn't make you cough that Covid is over. But scientists are finding deeply concerning long term effects - neurological effects, telomere and biological aging effects, autoimmune activation, long Covid, micro blood clotting - in a non-trivial percentage of Covid cases. Even asymptomatic and vaccinated individuals.

It's becoming increasingly apparent that having Covid will result in a lifelong disability for at least some percentage of survivors.

But we just ignore that so we can go back to normal? Because Covid is "endemic?" Endemicity was the failure state - it means we gave up. Covid should have never gotten to that point.

[immibis]

It's not everyone. The people with views like this editorial are the minority of people, but they are a very loud minority. If they would put as much effort into not spreading COVID as they put into convincing the rest of us to convincing the rest of us that COVID isn't a big deal or doesn't exist, there would be no pandemic today.