Comment by imperialdrive
Comment by imperialdrive 7 hours ago
This has very little to meaningfully do with anything, but I know someone that had long covid, and it ruined their life and career etc. because of barely being able to function more than a few "good" hours a day. They got covid again about two year later, was moderately sick for a week, and then completely healed, 100% back to normal. Absolutely blew my mind.
A lot of the hypotheses about Long <insert virus here> are about how well your body cleared the remnants. You can have a persistent reservoir of something for quite a long time until your body finally decides to clear it out.
One of the canonical examples of this are warts from HPV. There are documented cases of people having persistent infections until they "injured" a wart somehow, their body finally took notice, and then their body proceeded to completely clear all of them.
Modern medicine really does not deal with active viruses or their aftermath very well.