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I will continue getting them until I see studies / reporting indicating that the potential effects of long-covid are close to nil. I have read a fair number of articles suggesting permanent impairment of different sorts, with mental decline being the most frightening (to me).

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I remember being aghast at the "just a flu" crowd, and trying to point out even some very optimistic napkin-math was enough to show it was a multi-billion-dollar issue, even if we only looked at outright deaths.

Throw in medical care, lost work, and now long-term disabilities... and it's even worse.

~17M people in the US alone suffer from long covid.

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/as-reco...

How many from long flu to fairly compare?

Flu and Covid are pretty similar fyi, people just underestimate the flu.

The flu left me sick for three years as a young teenager. At a certain point I just assumed I wouldn't get better, luckily I did though.

But most people don't catch the flu once a year, while catching covid once a year isn't unexpected.

How many times have you had the flu?

Probably 3, definitely once.

I've had Covid 5 times (I'm vaccinated, though I got the alpha variant before vaccines).

The first flu I got almost made me fail freshman year of high school. Fever and aches lasted for 5 days.

The first Covid I had was nearly as bad, but the worst it was over in 2-3 days compared to that flu strain that I got. Covid leftover symptoms dragged on for a few weeks. I also got the fatigue people were talking about, but I can't decouple those symptoms from the isolation, then I had a kid right after too.

The effects of long-covid are definitely not nil. However having now had the jab 4 times and covid 3 times I'm kind of thinking my immune system must be pretty prepared by now. I'm not sure if there's been much research on the benefits of the much vaxxed/exposed getting yet more vax?

It’s easier for those of us vaxxed and got mildly sick to blame old age instead of covid complications.

That said, the number of delta people I know with tinnitus is crazy. I go crazy just thinking about it.

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