8 September

17 million Americans now have Long Covid. That's seen as a vast under-estimate of actual sufferers, driven (as here) by people and their doctors having zero clue that Covid is the cause of their often horrendous health issues. Long Covid is a catastrophe for a person's health and often lifespan. Nobody talks about it because that would violate the silent agreement to pretend Covid ended. Just as Trump is poised to pretend he won the war in Iran. I still wear my mask in closed public spaces. People think I'm weird. I'm less than 2 years from retirement, and want it to be long and healthy.