I think long covid is in a way worse than death. There are people, although I only personally know 2, suffering from long lasting effects for months or years at this point. Brain fog, heart problems, lung scars, the issues vary in kind and intensity. To me, that’s way scarier than death.
I know you probably don’t mean it to but the idea that it’s better to die than to be chronically ill or disabled is ableist as hell. Society treating us like shit doesn’t mean sick and disabled peoples’ lives don’t have value.
No one on this planet is able to live without assistance, and needing others to exist doesn’t somehow reduce the value of ones life. You really have a lot of ableism to unlearn.
I’ve had it for a couple of months now. Sure, it sucks, and I can’t work currently, but I’d much rather have this than die though. This will pass (almost everyone gets better in a couple of years max), death is rather final. Also, don’t kid yourself about the people that had COVID but don’t experience long covid. Many of them have permanent changes to their body too, they just don’t know it.
I’ve had minor asthma my entire life, but didn’t used to really get asthma attacks. After getting COVID though I get them no problem. That was almost two years ago I was sick less than a week. Jogging, biking, sex, playing tag with the cats, need to grab my inhaler now.
My great-grandma survived the Spanish flu as a teenager. But the high fever during the illness fucked her up so bad, she died of heart failure in her forties.
I think long covid is in a way worse than death. There are people, although I only personally know 2, suffering from long lasting effects for months or years at this point. Brain fog, heart problems, lung scars, the issues vary in kind and intensity. To me, that’s way scarier than death.
I know you probably don’t mean it to but the idea that it’s better to die than to be chronically ill or disabled is ableist as hell. Society treating us like shit doesn’t mean sick and disabled peoples’ lives don’t have value.
Yeah being disabled sucks. Millions of people live like this.
It’s not until it happens to someone you know that you really think about it.
But people learn to live with it.
Some people became unable to live without assistance though. That’s the part I found the scariest.
No one on this planet is able to live without assistance, and needing others to exist doesn’t somehow reduce the value of ones life. You really have a lot of ableism to unlearn.
https://thebodyisnotanapology.com/magazine/independence-is-an-ableist-myth-unlocking-the-power-of-community-in-healing/
https://www.theswaddle.com/how-societys-fixation-on-independence-as-a-universal-goal-excludes-disabled-chronically-ill-people
I’ve had it for a couple of months now. Sure, it sucks, and I can’t work currently, but I’d much rather have this than die though. This will pass (almost everyone gets better in a couple of years max), death is rather final. Also, don’t kid yourself about the people that had COVID but don’t experience long covid. Many of them have permanent changes to their body too, they just don’t know it.
I’ve had minor asthma my entire life, but didn’t used to really get asthma attacks. After getting COVID though I get them no problem. That was almost two years ago I was sick less than a week. Jogging, biking, sex, playing tag with the cats, need to grab my inhaler now.
My great-grandma survived the Spanish flu as a teenager. But the high fever during the illness fucked her up so bad, she died of heart failure in her forties.