Study finds people have short-lived immunity to seasonal coronaviruses

Re:Study finds people have short-lived immunity to seasonal ... by djsumdog on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:34PM (#24629907)

This is the new narrative and it's pretty misconstrued. Have you read any of the "long term" effect studies? They're almost all case studies on very specific people. The UK study published out of Charlottesville has 60+ people in it, 8 with their own individual case studies, and all of them are either over 50 or are high risk workers.

ANY virus can cause long term neurological damage, especially in the elderly. It's very common. It's WAY too early to claim "permanent damage" for a virus that's literally been with us less than a year. Look at lymes disease.

We simply cannot keep living like this under absolutely hysterical fear that has no real basis in fact. We need to start living our lives again.

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Re:Study finds people have short-lived immunity to seasonal ... by jaybrendansmith on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @09:04PM (#24634818)

As someone who had Covid-19 this month and is now technically through it, I can attest that I am not old, and this thing does not go away. Heart palpitations, random bouts of exhaustion, inexplicable random sweating, inability to run for any distance. All of these things are real if you get over this. I am of course hoping these all will eventually go away, but I have no evidence that this 'mild' case did not give me permanent heart and lung damage as it attacked my body persistently over 28 days.

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