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jokes on you i got long covid the first infection
Same
disclaimer: I've made like 10 major predictions about COVID that were all proven right months or years later
I think that people from the very first round of COVID (March 2020 and earlier) have the worst effects, because they breathed in full loads of the virus
After March 2020, people started masking, and while masking doesn't stop infections, it severely lowers the viral load of each infection.
Somewhere around August 2021, people were basically unmasking totally, but by this time everyone had either inhaled COVID already or been vaccinated.
My conclusion is based on years of talking to long-COVID people on forums, and also observing people in March 2020 IRL in New Jersey. There's a distinct cluster of people from NEUSA who got completely fucked around Feb-March 2020. I saw many young people walking like dementia patients, and the amount of ambulance sirens that month basically x1000 (I heard several a day instead of baseline once a week)
How does that follow? Is there a lower amount of viral replication in the rest of the respiratory tract, compared to previous lineages?
Also, not to be rude, but I think the focus on respiratory tracts is completely defunct now (if it already wasn't years ago). It was always a whole-body disease, but killed via lung failure. But I believe everyone susceptible to dying like this is already dead. (Personally I suspect that lung failure is simply the apex of the multi-organ disease progression, and it seems that the people who die of lung failure aren't only having their lungs fail)
The problem now is all the other "lesser" stuff COVID does, which is still worse than literally any other disease save ebola and marburg