COVID-19 lives under the rug

[mtbc]

I experience ongoing dissonance. On the one hand, I read of abundant SARS-CoV-2 infection, reinfection, mutation, increasing clear incidence of long COVID, etc. On the other hand, nobody's wearing a mask and life continues as if it were the Before Times. It's unusual for me to have the sense of joining the Cassandras.

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[thewayne]

I saw my immunologist Monday, he said there's a total of about 120 Covid hospitalizations in the entire state of NM! Pretty remarkable. I don't know what the total number of infections are, but at least the hospitalization rate is very manageable. And I guess the availability of the drug they're using is pretty good as long as you can get a positive test result early enough for it to be effective. I've done a double-dose of Evusheld since I'm immune compromised, which theoretically gives me pretty good protection for nine months, so I'll probably be re-upped on that before October, and they'll probably have an updated mix of that by then to account for the newer strains of Omicron.

[mtbc]

Good luck with the immunity given that you're an unusual case! I do wonder if, oddly, maybe you eventually get better protection than the rest of us.

Agreed that hospitalizations don't look worrisome at all. My fear is mostly that of chances of long-term effects, whether from the virus not being cleared from all tissues then reemerging, or simply from the organ damage it can cause. https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-03-10/long-covid-has-become-the-pandemic-after-the-pandemic is the kind of thing that makes me want to be very cautious until the picture becomes clearer.

[thewayne]

Absolutely agree!  Long-haul Covid is pretty terrifying!  Not to mention brain fog for those of us who especially work with our noggins!