So my anti-vaxxer cousin in Canada finally came down with covid. I knew it was only a matter of time. She refused to get vaccinated because she has "auto-immune" issues (she's a drama queen and while she does have some health issues she is fully ensconced in the naturopathy bullshit, etc.) and believed she'd have a serious adverse reaction to the vaccine. She told me her friend died from the vaccine - this story has changed over the months since her friend died.
She is a firm supporter of the Freedumb trucker caravan in Canada.
I still have a fb account but don't use it regularly. I heard that my good friend's mom had passed away yesterday so I logged in today to leave a message of condolence on her page and caught sight of my niece's post that her family was recovering from covid.
Turns out my cousin got sick about 12 days ago and had to be hospitalized, got Remdesivir (at least she isn't so much of an AV that she's refusing treatment and relying on Ivermectin), developed bacterial pneumonia, etc.
She is home with in-home nursing care but may be having a dead cat bounce as she had this to say: "I’m not out of the woods yet but I feel like I have turned a corner, I’m so grateful to be alive."
I don't think she realizes yet what she has done to her health but not getting vaccinated and then getting covid was a really stupid move on her part. I hope she recovers but I suspect we will all be hearing about long covid now for the forseeable future.
At least she got sick in the right country and won't be going broke because of this, but speaking of my own Canadian experiences with Long Covid, she's in for some real fun! A whole lot of specialists and elective surgeries were shut down for close to a year in some places thanks to the pandemic, and so even for people who are very sick, the backlog is huge and the waiting times are pretty long, unless it's an emergency. And we've had a far easier time of things than the States.
For the record, I've always had autoimmune issues too, but I got the damn shots as soon as I could, because I'd already had Covid once and didn't want to ever go through that hell again, or risk exposing anyone else to it. Plus I'm not a selfish, science denying asshole. Ok, maybe I'm an asshole... 😉
No, you're not.
LHF, did you see that Paxlovid is being looked at for long haulers? There’s some evidence that it’s given relief and reversal in patients that had to be on it for other reasons. I think they’re launching a study.