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90% of people living with long COVID initially experienced only
mild illness Jan 5, 2023
DIR By: Masked Man
Date: April 21, 2026, 2:45 pm
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Long COVID stemmed from mild cases of COVID-19 in most people
90% of people living with long COVID initially experienced only
mild illness.
The Conversation – Jan 5, 2023
Even mild COVID-19 cases can have major and long-lasting effects
on people’s health. That is one of the key findings from our
recent multicountry study on long COVID-19—or long
COVID—recently published in the Journal of the American Medical
Association.
LINK:
HTML https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/long-covid-stemmed-from-mild-cases-of-covid-19-in-most-people/
COMMENT: I am uncomfortable with the term 'mild'... its term I
have seen people in the public write, say, or label cases that
it's only a mild case...To me that seems kind of subjective and
dismissive of the seriousness of this disease ... Its not a taco
sauce that you can label mild or medium, its a disease that can
carry long term repercussions detrimental to physical and mental
health! Don't think your safe just because the initial infection
is 'mild' or even asymptomatic...
...Think of how many people covid can infect if the cases are
but 'mild' and more and more people catch it because they turn a
blind eye to the long term repercussions that covid has shown to
carry. If my math is correct: more cases mean more long covid
for everybody regardless of how bad people feel the first few
days weeks or years after catching covid. It's to the advantage
of the disease that people catch it and don't bother to take
precautions such as masking to prevent it. The disease spreads
more because people think they can whip it and don't respect the
long term aspect of it.
Excuse me for drawing these parallels but to my observation:
This covid is too much like the street drug 'crack' .. people
think they can handle catching covid but in reality they just
can't handle catching it over and over... these are just my
personal views but the majority of studies on long covid clearly
spell physical and mental damage from covid.
Take care,
The Masked Man
P.S. This was the reasoning as to why I started masking to begin
with in 2020.. the disease was relatively novel or at least not
much was known about it .. nobody I know lived with the disease
half their life yet.. we just don't know what this disease will
do to people 7 years or more down the road.. I masked not
because I was afraid of surviving the initial infection .. I
masked because I was and still am unclear as to what covid does
to people in the long haul and because of the possible long term
repercussions. Diseases can carry long term repercussions and
problems many years down the road.
I mask for health reasons and will continue to because I prefer
it now that I have reaped it benefits... the mask has
contributed to my safety, my wellbeing, and peace of mind.
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