Link: Everything "That Friend" Wants You to Know About Covid

[packbat]

A bunch of studies on the impact of COVID-19 infection, with sources. Content warning for suicide, but I think it might be validating to have this.

Getting sick over and over again weakens your immune system. That's why most disease experts recommend masks and clean air, even if they're reluctant to tell the public that for various reasons.

It's hard to keep up with the research chronicling the damage Covid does. We have thousands of studies now.

Thousands.

[...]

Your friends and loved ones want you to understand something: They're not living in fear. They're trying to protect themselves from everything described here. They're also trying to protect you. They don't want you to end up like the people described at the beginning of this article, forced to give up careers and weighed down with so much pain they end their own lives.

Everything "That Friend" Wants You to Know About Covid.

Comments

[fred_mouse]

Thank you. Off to have a read.

[silveradept]

It is somewhat depressing that four years in, the message of how to protect yourself as best you can and stop spread hasn't changed, but there has been clear and concerted effort to not do those things because it's not profitable to be concerned about rampant disease, I guess.

[packbat]

it really is.

once again, we're remembering those Three Panel Soul comics from mid-2020 - Time Machine and Time Travellest - and the second one's last line:

(spoiler)

"There's nothing to say you didn't already know."

[silveradept]

Yeah. And the "we know this, and we don't do it, because we don't prioritize life and health" is…terrible.

[packbat]

yeah.

elementally terrible, even.