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Re:'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering? by djsumdog on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @10:42AM (#24698132)
Things are pretty much back to normal in parts of Mississippi:

https://neckbeard.xyz/notice/9znbtKqgRaGgwdVxgm

..and the secondary effects of the economic and psychological devastation are pretty bad. I wrote this back in July:

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/secondary-effects/

It's been eight months! We cannot keep living like this. We know now the largest deaths came from a failure to protect the elderly and misusing nursing home facilities (Michigan, Kirkland/Seattle, NYC). We need to do more to protect the elderly, but other people need be able to assume their own risks again.

Most lockdown restrictions have ended in Ecuador. Florida and Mississippi are opening up. Pennsylvanian had a cord order by Stickman to open up, but it's been stayed pending appeal.

Humanity cannot be put into low power mode like a laptop. We are not cogs in a machine that can be stopped and started at will.

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Re:'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering? by NationalPark on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @11:17AM (#24698576)
Daily new cases in Mississippi are still pretty bad. Removing restrictions because you feel like you should be done with the virus is just going to drag this out.
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Re:'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering? by djsumdog on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @05:15PM (#24702409)
and yet Sweeden is doing very well. What is your long term goal/solution exactly? This thing isn't going away. Keeping people locked up delays infections, it doesn't stop it.
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Re:'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering? by rweir on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @10:53AM (#24708872)
the US hasn't even been able to match the measures[0] Sweden put in place, though? there's still thousands of people showing up with no masks to breath on each other at rallies etc

[0]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2251615-is-swedens-coro...

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Re:'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering? by matwood on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @08:50PM (#24714538)
Sweden’s voluntary measures were/are likely followed better than the patchwork of measures in the US. I’m not sure they can be used as an example of anything that’s possible in the US.

Also, this whole ‘locked up’ straw man is growing tiresome. There is a large gradient between locked up and going out like there is no pandemic.

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Re:'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering? by gotoeleven on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @10:57AM (#24698317)
It's getting to the point on HN where the informative posts are greyed out and you have to find them before they get killed completely. Sad!
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