And many who didn’t die now have to live with permanent disability that prevents them from holding any kind of job (especially because employers are so opposed to making the work accessible).
Those who are able-bodied and still remain have left to fill the higher-paying vacancies left behind by the newly deceased/disabled.
They died when you told them they were “essential” and couldn’t not work. They died when you refused them paid sick leave during a pandemic. They died because they have to work two or three jobs to make ends meet, multiplying their chance of exposure. They died because you refused to do even the most basic things like wear a mask, not go out, and get vaccinated.
A study showed that 68% of ppl who died the first year of the pandemic were service, retail, or labor workers who were in low socioeconomic positions.
Long Covid is having a huge impact on the world.
From this study, 37% of people who have had covid and recovered have developed some form of long covid. Symptoms include: abnormal breathing, abdominal symptoms, chest/throat pain, cognitive problems (also called “brain fog”), fatigue, headache, muscle pain, other pain, and anxiety/depression.
So, how many people is that?
From the WHO website (as of 5.33pm CEST, 29 July 2022), there have been 572,239,451 confirmed cases of Covid. Of these, 6,390,401 people have died from Covid.
This leaves us with 565,849,050 confirmed cases that haven’t resulted in death.
Now, cases doesn’t translate to individual people, since people can get it more than once.
This BBC article from February 2022 suggests that ~4% of those positive tests are from reinfections. Since there is ongoing research into the reinfection rate, and very little data available, that is the figure I will use.
Leaving us with a total of 543,215,088 people with a confirmed case of Covid.
If 37% of those people have long covid, that’s 200,989,583 people with long covid.
In other words, approximately 2.6% of the population of the entire world has some form of long covid
Long covid is a mass disabling event
Capitalism has a lot to answer for, make no mistake your suffering was all for profit
She’d had a miscarriage, the doctor said, once she was dressed. That was why she’d been in pain, why there was no fetus visible on the ultrasound. He was sorry for her loss. She felt a surge of relief, and teared up. The doctor mistook that for devastation. Gently, he began asking questions, his voice soothing.
Had she been trying to get pregnant? No. Did her partner know? No. Had she been pregnant before? Yes. How many kids did she have? None. Miscarriage? No, she said, an abortion, when she was 19 — and suddenly, something in the doctor changed. The questions kept coming, but they were clipped now, formal. They no longer sounded like they were meant to console. Had she taken misoprostol, a drug used in medication abortions? Did she use illicit drugs? What about alcohol? What kind of physical activity had she been doing recently?
It felt like an interrogation, as if she were being accused of doing something wrong, of causing the loss of a pregnancy she hadn’t even known about when she arrived at urgent care. She wanted to go home. She wished she hadn’t come to see the doctor at all.
The Abarimon are a mythological people whose feet are turned backwards, but despite this, can run at great speeds. They are mentioned in early texts like Natural History (Pliny the Elder) or Attic Nights (Aulus Gellius).
The Abarimon were hard to capture, not just because of their great speed, but also because they were so savage. They lived side by side with wild animals in a great valley of Mount Imaus (now called the Himalayan Mountains in Pakistan).
In Pliny’s texts he makes a reference to information that originated from Baiton (the land surveyor for Alexander the Great) which states that the Abarimons could only breathe the air in their own domestic valleys. Because of the special quality of air, which meant if it was breathed for a long period of time, it would be impossible to breathe any other type of air.
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