To say aloud a thought that seems worth saying aloud: My inner Science Genre-Savvy guesser, has a suspicion that long Covid / post-Covid syndrome, might turn out to be *real but not special*. By which I mean that if our science-larping establishment manages to...
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...LARP realistically enough to gather the relevant data at all, it could turn out that influenza that lays you out in the hospital, is liable to cause "post-influenza syndrome" at a similar rate due to lingering organ damage... or, maybe, that there are many people who had a...
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...common cold one year and spent the rest of their life mostly bedridden; with doctors telling them it was all in their head, because people's Just-World Hypothesis declares a common cold "shouldn't" be able to lay you out permanently like that. And that Covid-19 was just...
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...the first time that an illness like that was sufficiently big, scary, a violation of the felt sense of order, and causing sufficiently severe cases to enough people at once, that the long-term aftermaths got noticed and reported. Or, of course, it could be that...
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...Covid-19 *is* special, and lays people out in a special way due to getting into the bloodstream or something. I have no evidence for any of this. Just an inner Genre Savvy voice, guessing what would feel like a genre-typical result to end up reading about 5 years later.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
i... don't think that flu or cold attacks your lung or blood vessel epithelium anything like covid, so the profile of damage is probably pretty different.
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Replying to @TedGizmoComedy @DanielleFong
This too would not surprise me at all! It's just that, given the pushback I'm seeing against post-Covid syndrome - despite the objective "ground glass" lung scans - it seems plausible to me that if other viruses caused other long-term damage, society might have been blind to it.
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yeah, all kinds of people have chronic disease and fight with doctors for years over its existence
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