2021-01-13 - Long terme.md 2.5KB
Long terme
[en] So I wonder about the long-term effects not of lockdown itself, but the continuous risk of lockdown. Like, will you book a holiday for 6 months time, or will you book simply the option to go somewhere? Would you ever start a business that had a reliance on in-person meetings, or a supply chain that wasn’t tolerant to an unexpected 3 month stop? Of course not. How do you invest in friendships? ==Do you ever move far away from ageing parents if there’s a risk that planes won’t fly== – or does distance no longer matter when you wouldn’t be able to meet in person anyway?
*Some rambling thoughts about the stuttering end of the last ice age and what lockdown means* (cache)
Je me faisais cette réflexion dernièrement que les symptômes grippaux n’auront plus jamais cette signification quasi-bénigne à laquelle nous étions habitu·é·es. Il y aura toujours la crainte d’une mutation, d’un nouveau variant, d’une n-ième transmission à l’humain, d’une complication imminente.
Sous un autre angle, comment va-t-on vivre avec les personnes présentant des séquelles à long terme de la Covid ? Perte de mémoire, de concentration, fatigue chronique, aphasie, etc., nous découvrons peu (cache) à peu (cache) les conséquences neurologiques à long terme.
De quelle solidarité va-t-on faire preuve auprès de ces survivant·e·s ?
[en] “People seem to be going home, getting long-term effects, coming back in and dying. We see nearly 30 per cent have been readmitted, and that’s a lot of people. The numbers are so large.
“==The message here is we really need to prepare for long Covid.== It’s a mammoth task to follow up with these patients and the NHS is really pushed at the moment, but some sort of monitoring needs to be arranged.”
*Almost a third of recovered Covid patients return to hospital in five months and one in eight die* (cache)