It’s probably bad for a mod to be posting this. To be fair, I’m still 100% doing covid precautions, including N95 masking and boosters. I’m still actively very covid conscious.

I’m aware that there hasn’t been much new research on long covid numbers after 2024, or at least nothing that I can find. Trump taking over the presidency hasn’t helped. I’m very much a sciency kind of person, and I could always pinpoint a study as to why I’m still masking and being extra cautious.

Obviously caring about the vulnerable is still a very good reason to keep being cautious.

A lot of libs have been saying that “well we’re all immune from multiple infections, so long covid is over”. Clearly the opinions of libs should be discarded, and their thoughts are anecdotal af, but still I would appreciate some facts to keep me cautious through this difficult time.

BTW CDC pulse survey data still shows that around 10% of US adults have long covid.

    • un_mask_me [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Someone recently hit me with the “it’s normal to get sick a couple times a year”… I guess the brain damage from multiple infections made them forget everything before 2020, because I was a frequent convention/concert/restaurant attendee back in the beforetimes and would maybe catch a cold every 3-5 years before all this. Still have only gotten a single sinus infection in the last 5 years (when a former friend hid they’d been sick) and I’ve never had covid. I’m a lot more isolated now, but it’s still worth it. I posted this in another comm recently but I’ll leave it here for the people reading this:

      When I despair/ my kind friend reminds me/ that wearing a mask/ is an act of love/ and when I tell her/ there are days/ when I wear it/ not out of love/ but out of anger and spite/ my kind friend responds/ isn’t it wonderful/ to turn your anger and spite/ into an act of love

      • ButtBidet [he/him]@hexbear.netOPMEnglish
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        9 days ago

        Every year I used to get a head cold that would last a month, and that month would absolutely suck. I’d megadose vitamin C, take lots of liquids, or do steam shit. I fucking hated that feeling so god damn much. I also had the flu in 2019 and I thought I was going to die.

        Now I haven’t been sick in 5 years. I see normies suffering with respiratory illness all the time, and although I empathise, that shit is often very preventable. My body feels great, and I don’t want to be part of libs’ death cult.

        Great poem!