[trompetenaccoun]

I live in Kenya and have not heard of a single person who got "long covid", or knows someone who does. It has nothing to do with working oneself to death as you imagine, this is a phenomenon that does not exist outside a certain social bubble.

You say you speak from experience. What exactly is your third world experience based on?

[lupusreal]

Post-viral fatigue definitely happens in Africa, but only very privileged people with the means to lay around doing nothing will allow it to knock them down so hard they literally don't stand up once in two years. Post-viral fatigue to this degree is a phenomenon of the idle upper class. It doesn't paralyze you, it just makes you tired and miserable. Normal people push through and carry on, because they must.

[davidt84]

Or they die.

[lupusreal]

From long covid? And because they didn't go two years without standing? You can't really believe this. Going outside would not kill her. Choosing to stay in bed for two years has done her far more damage. Staying in bed is worse for you than hard drugs.

[aucisson_masque]

Unless you got cold fever and you're literally too frozen to get outside, or you got your leg broken, there is absolutely no way you wouldn't get out at the very least once a day.

I believe it's a mix of depression and lack of will, being hungry and having nothing to eat is the best way to make someone get back on his feet. It happens everyday with the lower class, but people in the top of society don't feel that very often, or even at all.