Long Covid: A Stark Reality, a Call to Action
The pandemic isn’t over, and its effects will be with us for decades, but information is a pathway to hope and power.
The risk of “Long Covid” symptoms increases every time you get infected.
Like a shitty game of viral Russian roulette, you never know when your luck will run out.
But what is Long Covid? How can we understand its effects when so much contradictory language has been used, and when the mechanisms for Long Covid are not well understood?
First, we need to be grateful to all the sufferers of Long Covid for speaking out, loudly, and demanding that their symptoms be taken seriously. Seriously, you people are unsung heroes, because of your early warning cries, research started into Long Covid much faster than it might have. And that gives us all a better chance of surviving and thriving in the years ahead.
As for what Long Covid is, let’s turn to a 2023 study that attempts to analyze the mechanisms by which the disease…
