Since 2020, the condition known as long COVID-19 has become a widespread disability affecting the health and quality of life of millions of people across the globe and costing economies billions of dollars in reduced productivity of employees and an overall drop in the work force.
"Just another flu" is what everyone now feels, not because there's ever been a clear argument for that status, but because everyone got tired of being worried and by universal acquiescence decided it's so. But these studies show everyone just keeps rolling the dice on long COVID every time they get sick.
And I get it. It's like driving more carefully after getting in an accident. It's hard to feel the urgency of what a lifelong chronic disability means until you're close enough to touch it, and then it might be too late. I'm also tired of being worried. I just guess the virus didn't get that memo...
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