We are literally seeing this with COVID and autoimmunity.īut I do think you're fear-mongering a bit if your thought process is that we're all going to find ourselves with a form "AIDS" in 20 years.Ībsolutely nowhere in my post did I even imply that lol, nor did I say it, so I think you're reading something into my comment that isn't there in the slightest. That's cause like I said, far more infections = more people showcasing autoimmune issues after infection due to the sheer increase in volume of infections. The biggest difference w/ Covid though is just that we are talking about it more these days. Colds and flus can do it and have done it for a very long time, and so can COVID. If you've been sick with covid and have fully recovered in a reasonable timeframe at this point, then you likely have nothing to worry about. That's not to say we should let our guards down and never worry about this virus circulating in our lives, but I do think you're fear-mongering a bit if your thought process is that we're all going to find ourselves with a form "AIDS" in 20 years. Booster shots and Paxlovid also help to greatly reduce the risk of complications. And re: long covid, from what we're able to see now looking back, is that the data is aligning with long covid impacts being better than we have previously thought with the vast majority of people recovering in a year or less. And there are varying degrees to which all viruses may or may not impact peoples long-term health, regardless and irrelevant of how far it can or can't spread.Īnd while I know that covid is something that's going to continue being studied for decades until we can have more conclusive evidence, FWIW there are tidbits of research to show that while covid can attack our vascular systems beyond just the respiratory nature of it, that it's actually not a latent virus which by nature stays dormant in your body forever like the aforementioned example of chicken pox and hepatitis, which is very good. That's of course just one of hundreds of examples that exist in the world. My grandfather died in 2015 from cirrhosis of the liver, due to the Hep C virus he contracted from a botched blood transfusion like 35 years prior. But what you're mentioning absolutely 100% is not a novel concept or occurrence, and isn't determined by the degree of spread and contagiouness. We've been seeing viruses do this for hundreds if not thousands of years. But they don't have much teeth in actually implementing policy. They do end emergency declarations when appropriate, and they continue tracking public health issues as needed. Thankfully this problem doesn't really apply to the WHO, an international organization unrelated to the US. It would obviously be best to just legislate this kind of stuff, but political gridlock makes it difficult, just like political gridlock has made basic COVID measures too difficult. Some of the 41 emergency declarations the US government is under just serve to maintain an important policy that should be made permanent - such as freezing the assets of international terrorists. Some will treat it as an official "we're giving up" strategy, or a statement of "everything associated with this problem has now ended, nothing to see here". The end of emergency declarations prompts these decisions to be made fast and hastily, so some of these decisions will be made incorrectly, like cutting off vaccine development funding, deprioritizing long-covid research, and cancelling various centralized data aggregation efforts that should be made permanent the way that flu virus monitoring is. Governments can get out-of-hand with emergency declarations - for example, the US federal government currently has 41 national emergencies that are considered "ongoing", some of them are obviously dumb and just serve to cause people to take institutions less seriously. It sets the precedent to actually have clear end conditions for future emergency declarations, and allows institutions to decide which measures and changes need to be made permanent and which ones only made sense as temporary. It is generally a good thing to end emergency declarations.
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