You know why getting long covid is worse than preventing it? Because there are no treatments. None. Zero. Zilch. Five years in, we have no reliable way of curing long covid. I’m not kidding: no approved treatments. Nothing. And we still have *no idea* what the long term outcome is for patients. - ThreadSky

baddestmamajama.bsky.social • 5 days ago

You know why getting long covid is worse than preventing it?

Because there are no treatments. None. Zero. Zilch. Five years in, we have no reliable way of curing long covid. I’m not kidding: no approved treatments. Nothing.

And we still have *no idea* what the long term outcome is for patients.

Reposted from Evelyn Waugh (V)

Economist Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, soon to be NIH Director, has suggested that preventing Long COVID is worse than getting it. Around 100 million people disabled by COVID would beg to differ — myself included.”

stanforddaily.com/2025/02/13/s...

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sh2vt.bsky.social•2 days ago

Long Covid is awful. They have no smarts now no research

gayfabfourfan.bsky.social•5 days ago

We still don’t know what the long term effects of a single COVID infection are—but 400,000+ scientific studies strongly suggest we should take precautions and wear masks.

dannybaram.bsky.social•5 days ago

As someone with debilitating Long COVID, 100% agreed.

spandza.bsky.social•5 days ago

Can one hope for some poetic justice, as in for that doc to get long covid himself, to experience firsthand. Maybe then he'd be more interested in studying it?

mitchsolomon.bsky.social•5 days ago

The amount of deference we give to the worst people, who elevate their feelings over everything that makes us human, is our biggest achilles heel

tbas7000.bsky.social•5 days ago

This is what I have at the ready to explain to any ignoramus who asks Why you still masking?

baddestmamajama.bsky.social•5 days ago

Wearing a mask is slightly inconvenient and makes some things, like eating in public, harder.

However none of that matters, because due to long COVID, I’ve developed so many food allergies that I’ll never safely eat in a restaurant again. It’s impossible.

Which sounds worse?

slowsinkfeel.bsky.social•5 days ago

I ate outside tonight at work. It was -21° F. I mask 100% of the time indoors. I've never had COVID, but my wife has Long COVID, and I don't want her to get any worse. If I get it, I won't be able to take care of her.

slowsinkfeel.bsky.social•5 days ago

I eat outside every night at work. Tonight, it was PB&J with a cheese stick and 5 cherry tomatoes because I can eat that in under 10 minutes and get enough protein and sugar to make it through the next 4 hrs on a factory production floor.

slowsinkfeel.bsky.social•5 days ago

I eat better when it's not below 0°.

baddestmamajama.bsky.social•5 days ago

That sounds really tough. My husband is the same way, he works on sets and has to go hide at lunch in his van, only time he takes his mask off. I’m sure your wife feels like I do, which is incredibly lucky to have a partner who gets it.

baddestmamajama.bsky.social•5 days ago

You miss eating in public with a mask?

Well I miss coconut, dairy, ginger, cinnamon, basil, thyme, sunflower seed and oils, peppermint, tumeric, any kind of fake meat, lipstick that doesn’t make my mouth swell, normal toothpaste, and not having to stuff an EpiPen in my purse.

Long Covid is worse.

baddestmamajama.bsky.social•5 days ago

I had my yearly appointment with the Stanford long Covid clinic, and I asked my annual question “what have you guys learned over the last year?”

the answer?

“That we can up the dosage of the off-label meds you’re taking, it sometimes helps people a little more.”

That’s it! In a whole year!

pjbrissy.bsky.social•5 days ago

Reading the health directive, and it’s like “how do we explain the sudden rise in cancer, chronic illness, autoimmune disease? Could it be SSRIs or ADHD meds?”

It’s COVID motherfuckers, everyone’s immune systems are fucked.

carlarus.bsky.social•4 days ago

And this is the second article:

https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2025.1532383

carlarus.bsky.social•4 days ago

I wrote two articles about the treatment of post-Covid. I do that with SSRIs or with N-acetylcysteine (together resveratrol). On the first drug 2/3 of the patients respond reasonably. The second I reserve for children.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-45072-9

baddpenny.bsky.social•3 days ago

ssris help some people is because they calm the brain which means less mental exertion and PEM. if ur patients lay in a dark quiet room with no light or sound as much as possible their symptoms will mostly likely improve even more than with an ssri. most bed bound people cant tolerate taking them

carlarus.bsky.social•2 days ago

But isn't there more than that, listen. Just look at our first article.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-45072-9

baddpenny.bsky.social•2 days ago

your research is amazing thank you so much. i feel like i always have to dumb the explanation down as much as possible for anyone to grasp the concept

dannyfdonahue.bsky.social•5 days ago

And if it’s anything like the long term outcome for the first SARS virus, it’s bad fucking news.

vapornoir.bsky.social•5 days ago

Not just no way to treat it, but also no way to prevent it post-exposure or predict its course.

vapornoir.bsky.social•5 days ago

Once you get infected it’s literally just “thoughts and prayers”

exponentialgps.bsky.social•5 days ago

📌

paulkeeble.bsky.social•5 days ago

The problem with eating outside gets solved when you have a huge list of food allergies and you can't get out of bed! The prevention is definitely not worse than the life long debilitating disease Long Covid.

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