area49.bsky.social
👤 Joined on 01 July 2025
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@area49.bsky.socialIt isn't the early 80s, our diagnostic and monitoring tech is way, way, better. COVID just doesn't do the things required to have a long latency and then devastating effects on the immune system. Sure we don't know the exact long term effects, but we can rule *some* things out.
Show PostAnd the HIV/AIDS 10 year latency is a very rough population level average for adults.
Show PostLong term infection and immune system interactions would mean more cancer, not immune system collapse.
Show PostBut we have model viruses for the sort of common outcomes you're talking about, HIV, HPV, the herpesviridae. And SARS-CoV-2 just doesn't do the things they do. About 10-25% of people who are symptomatic get fucked up by COVID, and slowly recover. That's similar to flu, though more severe
Show PostBuddy I’m sorry you washed out of bigkaw but this is cope
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