COVID and immune system

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I haven't been following COVID news or stuff in a long time.

I had a look on twitter to see some people are still panicked about COVID.

I came across these posts on twitter. Basically stating that COVID damages the immune system.

Is this true?

We were led to believe that COVID was a cold or a flu at worst. Now there's these posts saying it's more than that and it's damaging the immunive system.

If it's damaging the immune system - isn't that what HIV does - the immune system is damaged with HIV.

Why are governments allowing COVID to spread?

Flu is seasonal and maybe you get it once every few years but COVID just keeps going around and around. For people catching COVID multiple times - that can't be good.

My son is in his 30s and recently developed diabetes type 1 after having covid. He's been told by the hospital consultant that it's almost definitely caused by covid and there is now research showing a rise in both diabetes 1 and 2 after having a severe bout of covid

It's long been known that a virus can trigger Type I diabetes, though. Covid is by no means unique in this respect.

I know viruses can cause complications. I was talking to a nurse who had a patient on her ward who was nearly blind because he had the measles. His parents never believed in the vaccines when he was small.

However many viruses don't really pose a huge threat today due to vaccinations.

Aside from flu, RSV and norovirus that can be deadly with some vulnerable people.

Other virus aren't really wildly circulating to cause such a threat.

I will take flu as an example. I only ever got a flu once when I was small and then again maybe about 17 years ago when I was mid 20s.

I get flu vaccine now every year due to work.

Other viruses don't really pose a huge threat in relation to catching them and developing complications compare to COVID. COVID is still circulating around and around. COVID is like a flu that has married a cold.

It's really right to have COVID circulating around and around all year long.

My DD14 has had cold after infection after cold after Covid in Sept. She has had it before but this one seemed to really knock her immunity.
She had steriods for her asthma as well.
The GP said it will be the Covid that has reduced her immunity and it may take 4 months to improve.
She also said they don't want to scare the public but this variant was often quite nasty.
I don't know about scaring the public but seeing as a lot of us are low on antibodies due to no further jabs they coukd do with a bit more public health info around reminding us all to be a bit more careful and reiterate hand washing and masks if you are unwell with a respiratory infection.
It's just being completely ignored.

There are good scientific accounts using research papers whose also concerned

My grandson aged 21 and fit and well has had shingles twice this year. Prior to this he contracted Covid three times. I looked up the (proper) research and there is evidence that shingles is on the increase amongst young people who aren’t normally the group who comes down with it, and who have previously had Covid.

I'm sure there are some, but as far as I can see most of the COVID alarmist community on social media is made up of people talking about their own experiences and those of people they know / have read about, and linking those to COVID. This sometimes appears to be supported by scientific papers they quote, but often when I've looked further into it then study turns out to be flawed or the findings misrepresented.

I'm sure that COVID is a nasty virus and probably does impact the immune system, but at this point in time I don't believe there's evidence to suggest it's much more damaging than other common viruses. I might be proven wrong on that but I have faith in the wider scientific community that alarm bells would be ringing louder if there was a serious threat at this point.