this is what i've been afraid of
Jan. 23rd, 2022 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
solarbirdThis article on Long Covid is not data yet. Not good data, anyway. But there's some data in it, and that data is bad.
Not on continuing cases. We'll find out shortly if we're going to augur down like so many other places, and I think we will, and big surges will be basically over by March, barring a more substantially new variant that genuinely bypasses vaccine protection against serious acute and long Covid - something which so far has not happened. And here, at least, in Cascadia, where vaccinations rates are high, it'll be a good spring.
But where they aren't. Oh god.
10% of children. And that's a low range. Christ.
I mean, I've talked about this. Repeatedly. I've begged people to come to terms with it and talk about it more and for the love of fuck stop focusing solely on deaths - which are bad! really bad! - and start focusing on long-term effects (like enfeeblement), and it just doesn't stick.
And now it's more or less too late.
I mean, it's not too late. For individuals. Get. Your. Goddamn. Shots. Get your kids their shots. For kids too young to get shots, I don't know what to tell you other than don't send them to school. And get them shot up the instant pediatric doses become available because if these numbers are real, then just fuck me this is what I was afraid of.
This is what I kept warning about.
People have already forgot - and even written off - a million US deaths. Yeah, the official number is less than that, we know from excess deaths that it's much worse than that.
But 10-20% systemic/major organ damage in children.
Fuck.
Vaccines stop Long Covid.
We know this. Symptom rates return to baseline.
And the GOP have turned into an anti-vaccination/pro-disease party that is going to absolutely fuck this country for a generation, even if they all vanished tomorrow.
And if these numbers are right, there's gonna be hell to pay. Once people figure it out, there's gonna be absolute hell, and nothing about it will be rational.
For the love of fuck, get your shots, because this... the aftereffects of this will last decades.
Not on continuing cases. We'll find out shortly if we're going to augur down like so many other places, and I think we will, and big surges will be basically over by March, barring a more substantially new variant that genuinely bypasses vaccine protection against serious acute and long Covid - something which so far has not happened. And here, at least, in Cascadia, where vaccinations rates are high, it'll be a good spring.
But where they aren't. Oh god.
10% of children. And that's a low range. Christ.
I mean, I've talked about this. Repeatedly. I've begged people to come to terms with it and talk about it more and for the love of fuck stop focusing solely on deaths - which are bad! really bad! - and start focusing on long-term effects (like enfeeblement), and it just doesn't stick.
And now it's more or less too late.
I mean, it's not too late. For individuals. Get. Your. Goddamn. Shots. Get your kids their shots. For kids too young to get shots, I don't know what to tell you other than don't send them to school. And get them shot up the instant pediatric doses become available because if these numbers are real, then just fuck me this is what I was afraid of.
This is what I kept warning about.
People have already forgot - and even written off - a million US deaths. Yeah, the official number is less than that, we know from excess deaths that it's much worse than that.
But 10-20% systemic/major organ damage in children.
Fuck.
Vaccines stop Long Covid.
We know this. Symptom rates return to baseline.
And the GOP have turned into an anti-vaccination/pro-disease party that is going to absolutely fuck this country for a generation, even if they all vanished tomorrow.
And if these numbers are right, there's gonna be hell to pay. Once people figure it out, there's gonna be absolute hell, and nothing about it will be rational.
For the love of fuck, get your shots, because this... the aftereffects of this will last decades.
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Date: 2022-01-25 02:45 pm (UTC)===We are waiting for when my son can get vaccinated...
===Our local vaccination rate is.... 31.9
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Date: 2022-01-27 03:00 am (UTC)Long covid is easily the thing I am most scared of right now, and it would be a huge relief to be more at ease about this.
Thank you!
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Date: 2022-01-27 03:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-01-27 04:01 am (UTC)https://twitter.com/sailorrooscout/status/1483166149110116353
And yeah, absolutely, Long COVID is what's actually scary, and there's so much more of it than people know, and I've been trying to get people to talk about it, particularly with anti-vaxxers, and... they just won't.
Maybe it's too scary. I don't know.
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Date: 2022-02-28 03:07 pm (UTC)The same idiots that were happy with vaccination as a Thing going away would have been happy with the return of the old diseases. We were already heading that way before COVID.