Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2022?

Re:Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2022? by mikewarot on Monday October 25, 2021 @03:41PM (#28992170)

The phenomenon of Long Covid - leaving people with symptoms that doctor's write off as anxiety due to its novelty. Eventually we're going to learn a whole new level of stuff about how the body and immune system work as a result of studying it, but the awareness has to come first, and it's against narrative for both mainstreams to talk about it.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2022? by dude187 on Monday October 25, 2021 @03:57PM (#28992347)

So your prediction is that long covid slashes decades off of life expectancy?

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Re:Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2022? by mikewarot on Monday October 25, 2021 @04:06PM (#28992478)

Yes, it certainly feels like it. Leading to the prediction.

If you look through all the reasonable predictions made in the 2020 predictions threads for the coming decade, there were only 3 mentions of pandemic, none of them close to being on point, and that had actually already started. Thus, if you want to actually have a chance of predicting things, you have to go out on a limb.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2022? by TechBro8615 on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @11:26AM (#29001559)

How do you differentiate between long covid and a bunch of hypochondriacs?

If you haven't noticed, people love to feel fear and anxiety.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2022? by dude187 on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:48PM (#28994139)

I predict we'll get more and more evidence that "long covid" isn't as real as people think it is.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2022? by foobarbaz33 on Monday October 25, 2021 @11:28PM (#28996087)

Some young people get heart damage from covid. Where the blood doesn't circulate properly afterwards and stays stuck in the heart where it can harden. For the unlucky a serous heart issue brought by covid could shorten life span by decades

Some people still have not had their sense of smell or brain fog clear. People who experience these side effects have their brain literally shrink in size. These symptoms are real. Whether these symptoms lead to early death is speculation. But the calling them not real is as much denial as saying Covid itself is not real.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2022? by muzani on Monday October 25, 2021 @07:36PM (#28994583)

I don't necessarily think it's long covid but also the damage that comes from being brought back from near death. The stats cover deaths and recovered, but rarely show "not fully recovered".

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