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@LillyPip @lntl remember this when people tell you covid is nothing to worry about

@DarkGamer @balderdash9 @SovietyWoomy @Efwis @KnilAdlez and yet:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU00074597

@Inky @nimnim sadly there is no such thing as mild covid, only mild symptoms. The underlying disease is always severe, and brings with it a significantly increased risk of cardiovascular events for months or years, even if vaccinated:

https://blog.open-source-eschaton.net/covid-fact-sheet

@notacat speaking of those – there is evidence that SARS-CoV-2 sticks around and causes chronic T cell activation, and there are only so many naive T cells the thymus can supply before it shrinks (it normally shrinks with age)

This implies that all covid infections, even those that don’t produce obvious long covid at first, may be prematurely aging the immune system

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.07.27.23293177v1.full

@wintermute_oregon @const_void “I have friends who won’t leave their homes.”

That’s me. When I have to wear PPE in order to safely leave my home – because everyone is huffing immunodysregulating, organ damaging plague at each other year-round – it tends to make me not want to