Re: Could Covid be treated more like Swine Flu now?
It's interesting because here (near where Glassgirl resides) our numbers are all over the place, but consistently higher than they have been yet. One week they are way up, the next they are lower, but even the "low" is still twice as much as it was even in the worst of it. Likely because omicron is so much more contagious? But it is so hard to get a test, and symptoms are different, it's safe to say the actual numbers are much higher. We've also, unfortunately, had the most local death in the past few weeks than we have yet.
For me, I'm less afraid now that having Covid would be immediately fatal, but I am concerned about the potential of long term effects. Long covid, for one thing, even something simple as prolonged loss of taste/smell is disabling. They also don't yet know what could happen further down the line - there is just so much they don't know. It's a tricky disease, not quite as cut and dry as your regular flu, as it seems to infiltrate and infect so many different systems.
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