[jimnotgym]

I have had Covid twice. Omicron was more like severe flu than a cold for me and my wife. In several ways it is quite unlike either a cold or flu. The brainfog, the feeling that one is ok one part of the day followed by a wave of fatigue were both quite dissimilar to cold and flu.

[dataflow]

Can I ask if you ever got vaccinated? (The claim was not about unvaccinated folks.)

[jimnotgym]

I was double vaccinated. My wife was triple vaccinated.

[dataflow]

Wow, interesting. That's the first time I'm hearing about this; it's great to know. Thanks! Hopefully you've been able to recover to normal by now?

[jimnotgym]

Unfortunately not. From my first infection I have fatigue, sleep apneoa, shortness of breath, brain fog and palpitations still. My wife had not had Covid previously is a keen runner and has just cancelled a race 3 months after 'recovery' because she can no longer run those distances.

Yet because 'some guy we know' had it easy, there are a bunch of people hanging around internet forums willing to refute all talk of covid being serious.

[dataflow]

> Unfortunately not. From my first infection I have fatigue, sleep apneoa, shortness of breath, brain fog and palpitations still. My wife had not had Covid previously is a keen runner and has just cancelled a race 3 months after 'recovery' because she can no longer run those distances.

Sorry to hear that. Hope you end up finding a way to recover.

> Yet because 'some guy we know' had it easy

I have no idea where you're pulling this from. I wasn't citing you an anecdote I gathered from "some guy I know". I was citing facts that have been circulating all over the news for a while now, along with the relevant hospitalization statistics. And I hadn't heard anything to the contrary. Here's [1] one link:

> In fully vaccinated and/or boosted people, omicron symptoms tend to be mild. In unvaccinated people, symptoms may be quite severe, possibly leading to hospitalization or even death.

[1] https://health.ucdavis.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-information/...

[jimnotgym]

> In fully vaccinated and/or boosted people, omicron symptoms tend to be mild.

Mild in comparison to other strains of Covid, yes. Tends not to require hospitalisation and has a lower risk of death. It doesn't say 'mild compared to a cold' though. I think it its too early for a study too be able to suggest that Omicron changed the possibility of developing long Covid either.

In regards to identifying yourself as one of the people I was targeting in my comment about 'some guy', I will put that down to a guilty concience.