[capitalsigma]

Neither I nor any of the ~20 COVID recoverees I have met and talked with in real life had any long term symptoms. These are all youngish, vaccinated, healthy people. Long COVID seems to primarily exist among a vocal internet minority, as far as I can tell. YMMV.

[watersb]

I've never had COVID, as far as I know, but my health was wrecked after getting sick with influenza. My wife and baby got better. I got better, then got worse, then got better, then worse for longer...

It wasn't as bad as the original infection, but on bad days getting up and walking to the kitchen was a real challenge. I was in fairly good health before this, not obese, walked about a mile each day, and now I couldn't walk around my house.

That was 20 years ago.

[bsder]

> vaccinated

I suspect this is an important differentiator.

A lot of us who got Covid before the vaccines have lingering issues.