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Leo, thank you. It has been difficult. Hearing how strongly my family believes the common, often incorrect, current information has been difficult. My father is the one who lectured me on over worrying. I know that those absolutely certain they know it all, don't. The real experts welcome new information. Confirmation, from an expert, that this is real, not my imagination helps -- more than you can imagine. It reduces my self doubt, and helps me stop blaming myself. It begins to lift a load off my shoulders. I suspect you don't know the real number of how many you helped. Again thank you.

Uncommon Boston, take it from an MD working volunteer in our hospital here, you are very much not alone. It's distressingly real; people will be disabled six months or more that I'm seeing personally, and I'm not even on the Covid ward. I sit outside it and translate Medical to English. Essentially, Covid appears to trigger a range of autoimmune disease-type responses, b/c our immune systems haven't co-evolved with it (yet) and we're not at herd immunity (yet), so we're its Petri dish. If your faily gives you grief, PLEASE understand you are not alone. You are not making it up. It's real, but we're so swamped with active Covid that we're nto able to track and treat post-Covid (long Covid etc.). Seriously, big hug. I'd love to have a solution.

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Thank you again. Wow, has this has helped! I accept all hugs and offer one of mine to all those looking for hugs.

‘The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary’, observed H.L. Mencken. ... Overlooked by almost everyone is the possibility that the pandemic could end with an effective treatment. If there were an outbreak of plague (which still exists in parts of the US and Africa) would the Australian government lock down the country because there’s no vaccine? Let’s hope not since there’s a perfectly effective antibiotic to treat the Black Death. ... The first essential element in responding to any pandemic is not a vaccine, which does nothing for people already infected, it is treatment. Indeed, an effective treatment reduces the circulation of a virus reducing the chances of mutations and makes a mass vaccination program safer and more effective. ... It is to Australia’s credit that one of the most effective treatments was identified at Monash University along with the Doherty Institute which showed that ivermectin kills the Sars-CoV-2 virus within 48 hours. Yet to our national shame, the researchers have been starved of resources and the discovery ignored. ... Not so in Indonesia where an enterprising philanthropist, Haryoseno, leapt into action and made ivermectin available to the masses for free or at low cost. As a result, Indonesia has had an extremely low Covid mortality rate. That is until the Ministry of Health decided, in line with the WHO’s recommendation, that ivermectin would only be used in a clinical trial. Haryoseno has been threatened with a fine and a ten-year jail sentence and the supply of ivermectin has dried up. Result? Deaths per million have increased five-fold since withdrawal of ivermectin on 12 June. ... Indeed, federal Health Minister Greg Hunt wrote to one of the doctors in Australia who prescribes ivermectin confirming that he was aware that some physicians are prescribing ivermectin off-label for Covid and that they were quite within their rights as the practice of prescribing registered medicines outside of their approved indications is not regulated or controlled by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), it is at the discretion of the prescribing physician. Yet the silence persists. Ivermectin is the drug that dare not speak its name. ... Some doctors prescribing ivermectin are members of the Covid Medical Network. They can be contacted via their website and provide prescriptions for prophylaxis and treatment anywhere in the country (covidmedicalnetwork.com). Many follow the protocol established by world-renowned researcher Dr Thomas Borody who, largely at his own expense, has run a trial of an ivermectin triple therapy which has shown a reduction in mortality of 86 per cent in patients who were seriously ill with Covid. The only patients who died in the study – which has been published on preprint server medRxiv – were those that declined treatment. ... Demonstrating the complete lack of urgency with which it treats repurposed drugs, the TGA last updated its advice on ivermectin on 1 June. It claims that there is currently insufficient evidence to support its safe and effective use. Yet since 1 June results of 15 new trials and meta-analyses of ivermectin have been published almost all showing steep declines in mortality. The question that the TGA has to answer is how is it possible to approve an experimental gene therapy vaccine with plummeting efficacy, significant short-term safety signals and unknown longterm side effects and yet not recommend a drug with an outstanding safety profile, which is supported by Nobel laureates and multiple randomised controlled trials? ... On Wednesday, when Premier Berejiklian decided to lock down Greater Sydney for another two weeks only 24 people who had tested positive were in the community. In order to bring that to zero the lockdown is estimated to cost about $16 billion. Sydney’s new Northern Beaches hospital only cost about $2 billion. Covid has cost the Australian economy $311 billion or in our new Covid currency 156 hospitals. ... https://spectator.com.au/2021/07/hunt-goes-off-script-with-ivermectin/

We all hear on the news about serious cases and deaths but not a lot about what happens with mild cases. As a result we have a false sense it just not that bad if mild. Hence a big thank you for sharing your stories and I hope others do too. I hope you are able to recover and you have good support system around you.

@Tracy: You also don't hear that of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have died during this pandemic (impossible to determine exactly what from since all deaths occurring within 28 days of a positive Covid test are recorded as Covid deaths - and which is not even the same thing as confirmed infection let alone still affected by or shedding virus) that those aged below 35 account for only 10 000 of those deaths. Nor that of the total severe cases two thirds were obese. Nor that of the total deaths two thirds have six or more comorbidities. All implying other underlying health problems as the major factor. Age, obesity, and general poor health are the epidemic. Doesn't help anyone thusly at risk, but should be part of the discussion of who in fact should be vaccinated, how the illness should be treated and managed, especially in otherwise healthy people, what preventative measures are appropriate, and who in fact should be isolated. Don't you agree? But, you're too stupid to understand this, or to be reasonable or responsible with the true facts. That's the message. You're a naughty child, and you'll be treated as one. And you'll be glad for it.

@Leo: All the more reason to try anything and everything, as anyone who had sincere concern would consider, or at the very least respectfully allow. But, the best advice for all problems has been a hammer... at least now it's undeniably proven to be an inflatable hammer. After the damage has been done... by the experts... a year and a half of damage... It's like that Warner Bros character, the little girl who hugs and squeezes and loves the animals. Ya's have really violated trust beyond any reasonable hope to heal and forget in the foreseeable future. Perhaps there is still hope that you might learn from your mistakes. More than a year and a half in, with millions of deaths, other physical and mental health problems compounded immensely, people losing not only their lives but their livelihoods, and global poverty exploding, while power and government ceases to creep but falls on us as a wave, is it an appropriate time to maybe consider an alternative that isn't under patent and costs only pennies, but the name of which might have been uttered by a certain political figure, triggering a mass underlying pathology that has yet to be addressed? May we humbly request to be granted permission by the almighty gods of health and medicine to apply common sense, yet? After a year and a half of well-intended lies, coercion, manipulation and enforced disaster? Are we prepared to stand as a mortal among men? Can you detect my disdain? People like you sit outside of the ICU and mock people on the inside for daring to successfully treat those most severely affected with predictable repetition and then go on to share their entirely orthodox but off-label success. Meanwhile, a year and a half and millions pass. And all people like you do is sit outside and mock. Drawing attention away from the reality of your collective failure and apathy. From the failure to avoid the evidently avoidable and to accept the entirely acceptable. For the shallowest of reasons. Afterall, we've had to accept worse than might have been necessary, due to the unwillingness of some to even allow others to try. Even when success has been repeated, again and again. Still, people like you need to shoot down their success, and draw attention to your seated figure. Present outside. Safest people like you prevent any from trying, if possible, because then most will never know. Isn't that right? And you have the f*****g gaul to complain that people are dissatisfied...

@Kate: My sister, a psychologist with Master's, I think during post-graduate used me as a subject for a study on memory. Involved strings of letters and numbers spoken, then I had to repeat them back to her after a set time had elapsed. I don't recall how many sets, there were quite a few and it was a long time ago. But they increased in complexity, ending up being about 30 characters long. Of the total the only two errors I made were in the last two or three: I got one character wrong in one, and switched two characters in another. She was pretty impressed and asked how I managed that. It was a combination of using rhythm, applying mediation/relaxation (learned young during Kung Fu), just accepting, allowing myself to remember, some mental recitation and probably some visualising, and I guess some innate ability (e.g. I've also scored reasonably above average in proper IQ tests several times, and also used to have fairly acute focus). I suck with names, maybe because I am barely bothered with them. I suck with dates, but also rarely think about them. I sometimes forget things that happened five seconds ago. My mind is often foggy. Sometimes a sense of pressure. My attention span is often limited. I think that years of significant stress and depression have had a huge role. I doubt I'd perform anywhere near to that today. But, all improves somewhat when I can relax, don't over-stress myself, when I am enjoying myself, and when I do different mental activities (I play a lot of games, all different kinds, do puzzles, read, a lot of mental stimulation, and some exercise and I like cooking and things like that, and sex can be a pretty significant factor, preferably with company). I'm 41. My pop could remember not only the exact date, down to the day of the week, but even the time of day that this or that particular thing happened, even up until he died at 87 (heart attack during the night, but otherwise was still very active, often doing handiwork in his shed and fixing things for people while all of his friends were either dead or in the aged care facility nearby, where he would also volunteer and visit to socialise and play cards and stuff). But I know that his memory wasn't perfect in all applications. My point is, memory deterioration to some degree is inevitable, depending on how you use it, what you use it for, due to age alone, even if you're not "old", and even without any injury, but especially when any kind of trauma is involved, and especially that we use it differently now than we have traditionally and historically. And, sometimes it's easy to create contexts when we've not noticed things happen. I'm not saying that the accident is not the cause, but rather that it wouldn't be too easy to determine exactly how much was that and what was just previously unnoticed, or what might even be attributed to an overall response. Like, suggestion can be powerful, for example. And I can't say how many times I've failed to recall a word when I pressure myself, and yet it comes naturally as soon as I relax and stop trying to force it. Consciousness is useful for learning and analysis, but it's often otherwise an obstacle and impediment. That's part of why games help. They train that function of the brain to relax when you don't need it. And, yes, you can definitely do things to improve. Gaming is great, in many ways - even like chocolate: it makes you smile - but I think that probably the best thing to help is to get comfortable. I don't know how helpful any of that might be in the context of this thread, just... game on. One-handed, if necessary.

I forget the easiest words. I'll be 49 this month and was known for reading and spelling. Have you had both jabs? My brain fog got better after the second one. I am all for a booster. People keep talking about the survivability of COVID but they don't care about the long term effects we deal with.

It hasn’t seemed to effect your ability to post here. What I mean is, your posts don’t appear as though you’re at a loss of any kind.

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It was meant as a reassuring compliment—despite how she feels, her posts are still well written, using good English skills, good word choices etc. . I like Calypso. Why are you so hateful, and why are you so desirous of a robotic echo chamber?

I sometimes rewrite my posts several times before I post. I will even copy and paste. I also have a tremor disorder pre Covid so I used to like autocorrect but it's terrible on some sites. Thank you for being kind, it is easy to take things offensively online. I have been trying to be nicer on social media. I have been guilty of bullying I'm sure. But the last year shows we need to do better. I don't mean to brag but I used to read the dictionary and thesaurus for fun. So forgetting simple words can be a bigger deal for me. My husband is still impressed with my vocabulary.

Yeah. I’ve had a few TBI’s and as I age I find myself struggling sometimes for the proper word/s and sometimes the only thing that saves my device from hitting the wall is knowing I can’t replace it right now.

We already liked spicy foods like habaneros and ghost pepper but I can barely taste a jalapeño now. If I could handle eating the meat I could win every contest!