Today's News: "In the Covid era, the vulnerable die earlier, the remaining become vulnerable earlier"

I've been noticing and collecting a variety of recent posts and tweets about Covid and our situation these days, and the challenges we will be facing in 2023.

This pretty well sums it up, really:

In the COVID era, the vulnerable people die earlier, the remained ones become vulnerable earlier.

— Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) (@Yash25571056) January 14, 2023

And as for the continuing political implications:

Many people expected a huge explosion in babies after everybody stayed home for COVID but I didn’t realize they would be 20-50 year old men flying “F*ck Trudeau” flags screaming about imaginary rights they don’t understand.

— Dean from Winnipeg (@Dean_Winnipeg) January 30, 2023

Yes indeed:

... the same people who were wrong to say that we all had to catch it are the same people who were wrong to say that there is no way to stop it are the same people who were wrong to say that it's just a cold are the same people who were wrong to say that kids don't get sick ...

— tern (@1goodtern) January 30, 2023

... are the same people who were wrong to say that there is no airborne transmission are the same people who were wrong to say that the pandemic would only affect people in China because western healthcare is better are the same people who are all complete and utter idiots.

— tern (@1goodtern) January 30, 2023

Why do we even hear from any single one of these people ever any more?

— tern (@1goodtern) January 30, 2023

But wait, there's more....

A Long Covid Compendium

Long Covid is now pretty close to the top of my List Of Diseases I Never Want To Get. For the past several weeks I have been collecting Long Covid news so I thought I should post this today.

Even Queen Elizabeth II may have had it.

2/ No doubt her death was hastened by COVID.

I know I will miss her rocksteady presence as we continue to navigate these uncertain times. She has been a constant, and has dedicated her life to serving the nation. May you rest in peace. pic.twitter.com/djAyZPCuHV

— Dr K Fearnley (@fearnley_k) September 8, 2022

We’re not living with Covid, we’re ignoring it. Like we live with domestic violence, inequality, crumbling public infrastructure, and runaway climate change.

— 💉💉💉💉 Henry Madison (@RageSheen) September 2, 2022

I know COVID’s over because we’re back to twitter lawyers being the most naive and aggressively insufferable accounts again rather than the rando doctor accounts.

— Conner Hafen (@Conblob) September 5, 2022

I'd love to hear the Long-covid numbers, but... we aren't tracking them. But I can tell you that the Long-covid clinic at my hospital has a nine month waiting list.

— Concerned citizen (@Concern47348137) September 6, 2022

Yep. I am a social worker in hospice & now long term care since the start of pandemic in FL. This is what I have been seeing for a long time. Serious sickness in younger patients is becoming more prevalent not less in both vaxxed and not. People have a false sense of security.

— Foresight (@smartforesight) September 1, 2022

It's true though... a lot of folks are saying we don't understand what the late-term effect of COVID will be like other viruses.

But we actually do... it's an early death.

— Don Ford - #LongCOVIDisDestroyingLives #ZeroCOVID (@DonEford) September 1, 2022

Young and middle-aged people, barely sick with covid-19, are dying of strokes ⚠️

Doctors sound alarm about patients in their 30s and 40s left debilitated or dead. Some didn’t even know they were infected.

Still sound mild ?!?! https://t.co/TmG2ITghkL

— Jess ™️ (@MeetJess) September 4, 2022

Covid can lead to connective tissue degradation. https://t.co/l2xwUvg9LQ

— Karen Lubell (@karenlubell) September 4, 2022

🆕 @NatureMedicine
Heart manifestations of #LongCovid
A prospective MRI study of 346 people with mild Covid, and controls, demonstrated myocardial inflammation at 3 months, worse w/ symptoms, and edema at ~1 year
by @v_puntmann and colleagues @GoetheCVI https://t.co/TjrAJphYCh pic.twitter.com/RxlRyHCcZ1

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) September 5, 2022

The main symptom was difficulty breathing with exertion; 53% of the cohort had persistent symptoms at ~1 year, not present before Covid.
"Absence of significant structural heart disease or increased levels of cardiac biomarkers"

— Eric Topol (@EricTopol) September 5, 2022

BREAKING: Canada has now lost more lives to COVID than in World War II 44370 are dead

— Cheri DiNovo (@CheriDiNovo) September 6, 2022

Fuuuu. pic.twitter.com/bm7BAhw0UQ

— Rod Farva's litre of cola (@RodKahx) September 6, 2022

This is why masks matter:

On the left @uwinnipeg masks recommended on the right @umanitoba mandatory masks...see the difference? Language matters and protects our students. pic.twitter.com/J9n1uPqyDX

— Laura Forsythe (@MetisLForsythe) September 6, 2022

If I entered a room full of professionals wearing hazmat suits, my first instinct wouldn’t be to mock them. It would be to put on a hazmat suit.

So, I’ll take the appropriate lesson from doctors wearing masks.

— David Moscrop (@David_Moscrop) September 7, 2022

Me looking at a dude who walked up to me out of a crowd just to tell me to take my mask off, I said thanks but I'm ugly this is going to be a better picture and he left me alone pic.twitter.com/LqVR9tdXoE

— nic (@nickelpin) September 2, 2022