Tciso wrote: ↑Fri Apr 04, 2025 2:27 pm
The shit we did with Covid would have left us all dead if we had a highly contagious virus with a high mortality rate instead of a nasty flu that was hard on the old, weak, and immuno-compromised (like all other flus).
I take offense at this falsification of history.
My wife and I were in good health, 57 years old, no pre-existing conditions. I may have been slightly overweight at 90 kg, but my wife was not. We’d both ride our bikes to work and take long walks with our dog. Pretty healthy lifestyle.
I spent ten days in an induced coma on a ventilator, my daughters were told I would probably not come home.
My wife was 28 days on the ventilator before they gave up and turned it off on May 20th 2021.
I’ve had the flu. This was no fucking flu.
It hit different people very differently and they still don’t really know why.
I was neither old, weak or immunocompromised, and neither was my wife.
The sad thing is she was a RN, but working at a school. If she had been working at the hospital she would have gotten the vaccine and would be alive today.The vaccine had arrived, but was only available for hospital and health centre staff, people 65 and older and risk groups. A few weeks later it was made available for everyone, but by then we were already hospitalized.
I spent a total of six weeks in the hospital. I still get out of breath when I walk uphill.
I’m fine really, I work full time, I lead a full life, but I don’t think my lungs are quite what they used to be.
My lung capacity is 3.6 litres. I don’t know what it was before covid, but my daughter has 6.0 litres.
They consider anything above 3.5 in the normal range. Still. Assuming it is somewhat hereditary, and men on average have higher capacity then women, as a non-smoker I really ought to have more than 3.6.
When people try to pretend that covid was nothing I say FUCK YOU!
It ruined my life. I lost my wife, that I had been together with for 34 years.
I miss her. If it hadn’t been for covid, we’d still be together.
To giggle and shrug it off as a nasty cold is deeply offensive to me.
It killed my wife. It almost killed me.
My youngest daughter still suffers from postcovid. If she works out at the gym she gets a fever that can last for days.
It is extremely frustrating for her as she used to be a soccer player but can’t do sports anymore.
They haven’t been able to give her a proper diagnosis, just that it is something autoimmune, but whatever it is it was triggered by covid.
She had a few sessions with a PT that has given her a number of exercises that will help her build strength and stamina without triggering the fever, but any kind of running or exhaustion is out of the question.
They estimate that five percent of those that had covid have some sort of post covid problems.
Covid was not a joke!
Take a look at this video. You can quite clearly see the impact of covid on the chart of the change in life expectancy over time
Canada did good. The UK and the USA - not so much. It took two years out of the American life expectancy.
But yeah, Trump’s handling of the pandemic was a true clusterfuck. And the spread of conspiracy theories didn’t help.
https://www.tiktok.com/@thebeautyofdata ... 2073742625
There’s a flu every winter. They do not show up in the charts the way covid did.
So, anyway, when people make light of covid and say it only killed the weak and the elderly, it feels like they are spitting on my wife’s grave. And I don’t take kindly to that!
