[nephihaha]

I knew someone who claimed they had encountered AIDS as a doctor in late 1960s London. I don't know the truth of this, of course, and the person concerned has passed away. I do know that some illnesses present similarly, but it's not impossible. I am sure these diseases are around for a while before people identify them properly.

[ck2]

in early 2020 people would show up in the covid forums and warn about what would become long-covid that they had experienced for TWENTY YEARS since 2003 from SARS-1

I suspect sometime in the 2030s we are going to go through all this again as there won't be any investment into making a cure, there's not enough profit

wastewater analysis in major cities shows covid is alive and well, just not in the news anymore because not enough dropping dead from it, but lifelong chronic fatigue and pain is still on the table for many

[nephihaha]

It's not a good survival strategy for a virus to kill its hosts. Its main priority is to reproduce, and if the host is alive, it can be transmitted. There are signs that Covid has moved towards that. Scarlet fever certainly has.

I think with AIDS, it has a long incubation period, That means it has long enough to infect other people.