ThirteenthWorrier , 3 months ago

@eeyam
Or maybe it's time to start using the term 'long FLU'?

CrypticMirror , 3 months ago

@eeyam
They say that about every chronic illness, to try and get out of paying benefits. The thing is, a lot of #LongCovid sufferers were exactly the type of people to say that shit about ME, CF, and a lot of other chronic illnesses, and now they are shocked and horrified to discover how easy it is to be dismissed when you are ill by the healthy. They don't understand why their privilege has suddenly gone away. And I'm having some schadenfreude over it.

azonenberg , 3 months ago

@eeyam Oh, post viral effects are seen after other viral illnesses too? Who would have guessed.

Sablebadger , 3 months ago

@eeyam absolute bullshit.

mxtthxw , 3 months ago

@eeyam Maybe the mean Spanish (more likely USA) Flu?

sleepy , 3 months ago

@eeyam I’ll let my gf, who is on supplemental oxygen since she had covid in 2020.. who's doctors are talking about lung transplants.. she’ll be delighted that it's just like post-flu symptoms.

mathew , 3 months ago

@eeyam Meanwhile:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/long-covid-symptoms-cdc

The Guardian has always had a habit of violently disagreeing with itself, but I wish they'd stop both-sidesing COVID.

glitchontwitch , 3 months ago

@eeyam “newspaper of the year”… and what year is that, exactly? :blobcateyebrow:

narpoleptic , 3 months ago

@eeyam meanwhile, from the same section of the same news outlet: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/28/brain-fog-from-long-covid-has-measurable-impact-study-suggests

This is based on findings from a study of 140,000 people that has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Illuminatus , 3 months ago

@eeyam I hope the "expert" who signed this gets to taste long COVID in their own flesh.