The Arc of Dominion, Saga 22: The Undying Spirits

The war is won. Oasis and the Concordat are at peace. Overwatch has been folded up again, this time made into an intelligence arm for Helix, under new - and the UN hopes better - leadership. The Gods are free - largely - to do as they will.

But the Great Game never ends, not even with victorious Gods - it merely changes. And as the dust settles, old players begin feeling out their new positions - and questioning their old relationships.

Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Dominion
Saga 22: The Undying Spirits
solarbird and bzarcher

Of Gods and Monsters: The Arc of Dominion is a continuance of The Arc of Conflict, The Arc of Ascension, The Arc of Creation, and In the Beginning, There Was an Armourer and a Living Weapon. To follow the story as it appears, please subscribe to the series.

this is what i've been afraid of

This 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.