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I was an early long-covider, contracting Delta just before vaccinations were available (and a few months shy of my birthday and monoclonals stockpiled for boomers). I was very sick for a month, then somewhat not right (especially in the head and tastebuds, but largely from pathological media-induced fear) for about a year.
I wonder if I was so sick because the news had primed me with "this is going to kill you if you are over 40" kind of messages.
COVID can really hurt you if you are not lucky; but so can falling off a toilet. Is it the fault of our irresponsible government? Apparently, some bright minds think so.
I was a responsible fool, 4 shots, masks, extreme isolation and all. First three vaccines were too late, and useless for Omicron, the dominant strain, but no one told me. I got sick again after the third. The forth, likely useless, as I was just getting over (minimally symptomatic) COVID, my blood full of antibodies. I had COVID 3 times (that I know of). I actually don't care about it anymore.
In the end, sick as I was personally, I have to say that COVID was nothing. A flu can wreck your body as much. It was a glitch. A maybe 1% bump in the death rates (hard to tell as every death was listed as COVID-related for a while). To name it a pandemic is a scientific joke. It was an excuse to spend trillions of public funds and delay a likely economic disaster that was about to hit us in 2020 - at the expense of a massive inflation. It was a political stunt, a tactical diversion chapter of #bidenomics.
Currently, it is back to its original common cold status -- 30% of common colds were coronaviruses before this one. Many were rapidly mutating. Unless something changes drastically (and it may), it is irresponsible for the press to even talk about it.
Comparing it to AIDS, which early on was literally a death sentence, is absurd.