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"People's financial well-being is being affected by #LongCovid," Fazlul said. "That's something we should care about."
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/new-data-highlight-financial-burden-long-covid
@justyourluck
No-one could have foreseen, unless they thought about it for a couple of minutes
The financial burden of anti-vaxxers and mutated health hoaxes is unfortunately even higher.
Like, it’s definitely good to question authority and audit institutions. But when nurses and doctors describe my FFP3 mask as “is it because of your anxiety?”
Or when I say “I got covid and then the jab soon after” and multiple people assume I meant I got long covid from the vaccination??!!!??
I hate this crowdsourced AI regurgitated think-for-me-please bullshit.
My long covid is from, in fact, the SARS-CoV-2 virus. That’s it.
Every vaccine dose had me feel bad for like 2 days and then the weeks after, my ongoing symptoms are way fucking better jfc.
I may pay for an extra shot next month to fully cover the winter tbh.
(The best protection is for the first three months after jab, then it drops a bit but is still way, way better than nothing.
It’s just my asthma has been getting way worse so I don’t want to risk anything else going wrong if it’s within my power to prevent it.)
Who WANTS to get sick ffs?
@MxVerda
I hear your rant but I don't think the financial burden of having #LongCovid should be minimized.
I'm not sure how exactly, and with what data to show it, "anti-vaxxers" are a higher financial burden than Long Covid.
If you want to get real, and get to the root of the whole thing, it was the day the vaccine was released, and our trusted leader said "vax and unmask", that did more harm than any "anti-vaxxer" or supposed hoax and continues to.
Oh yeah, sorry, absolutely.
As for anti-vaxxers, the grim increases would be in time off work, disablement, death, care needs, co-morbidities / overlapping exclusions, and broader degradation in critical thinking and “intuitive” (under-considered) policies. With multiplicative effects on each other, including across borders.
Yeah. Fucking political leaders everywhere fucked this up for all of us. Still angry with Biden’s lack of care for his own gd health. Still angry with Boris Johnson’s, even though honestly, he might do more damage dead than alive, same as Farage.
[ofc, whenever I mention that, people who agree the systems that run our lives are fucked think I’m with them (whether anti hierarchical leftists, yes, or far right goosesteppers, no).
And the people who need, NEED to agree that the systems running our lives are fucked … just write me off as “[insert ableist slur here]”, or “paranoid”. ]
Because there can’t possibly be something *that* wrong underlying our world’s governance and social structures!
Because *they* haven’t noticed it.
“It’s like the world’s gone crazy” lately,
but that can’t be because the cracks in the foundations are finally affecting “““normal””” people, ffs. ‘Course not.
</unnecessary rants I can’t seem to stem today, sorry / thank you / whoops>
Yeah I have days like that too. Long Covid is fascinatingly similar to a TBI which most people don't understand changes the brain in odd ways like going from 0 (total cool) to 100 (rage) instantaneously. Before, I could be pushed and pushed before I'd even start to get angry. Now? Boom. Even when I have no spoons.
Anyway, sorry you also have LC.
Money, "That's something we should care about." ?
Not health, happiness, fulfilment: money.
This tracks for a society that measures a person’s value in money: how much money they have or how much money someone else can make off them.
So tired of hearing the constant subtext (sometimes headlines) that health plays second fiddle to money.
If you're unable to work, you can't pay your rent, or pay for food.
Last I checked, homeless does not equal happiness.
This isn't about brunching and partying to save the economy, health be damned. It's about survival made more complicated.
That’s not what I meant…
“If you're unable to work, you can't pay your rent, or pay for food”
This is true in a society in which people have to *earn* the right to life, dignity, value.
If, instead, a society values people *first* before their utility, that will show in appropriate social supports, so that people who are ill can continue to to have a home, eat food, have medical care,
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️NORMALIZE CARING
ABOUT PEOPLE'S
FINANCIAL WELL-BEING️️
Which is a lovely goal that will not happen overnight. Hell, we can't get people to care about their OWN health and mask, so more and more people don't get more sick.
People understand money.
They don't get Long Covid.
If using money in the caring equation helps them get a damn clue then use it, before we don't have enough people able to work and keep this society functioning on some level.
Definitely. But it was lovely reading it and I just wanted to repeat it.