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To wonder why the fuck long covid isn’t considered a serious outcome

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Clutchingatfog · 09/10/2025 21:19

Why is covid often only talked about in terms of hospitalisations or deaths? Even in determining whether we are eligible for vaccination, long covid isn’t factored in. Not vulnerable to covid? Are you kidding me?! Oh, you don’t factor in that vaccination reduces risk of long covid either? Got it. FFS.

Where is this fantasy land where people’s risk of LC doesn’t increase with reinfection, where people are magically spared if they are healthy, where kids don’t get it, where only people who are vaccinated/not vaccinated (depending on stance) get it, where only people who have severe cases get it, where long covid was something that used to happen earlier in the pandemic, where most people fully recover, where you are not left to rot. I want to move there!

If you have LC or now have to care for someone with LC, please tell me you understand where I’m coming from.

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fourelementary · 09/10/2025 21:27

My child has long covid and as a result has barely managed above 75% school attendance as a result due to their symptoms for the last 3 years. It’s real and whilst at the milder end of the scale is still having a daily impact. YANBU

LarchFairy457 · 09/10/2025 21:26

I know it’s treated very seriously in Germany with rehabilitation etc. I feel that we have a culture in the UK (which I don’t agree with) where most long-term conditions are seen as “playing the (insert disability or condition) card”

MidnightPatrol · 09/10/2025 21:21

I don’t think long covid is well understood.

Is it like a chronic fatigue / ME post-viral response of some sort?

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