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Yes good article. I.was reminded of post Vietnam War trauma.
Yet people do have serious problems from it still. So many seem to just be assuming hospitalization is the only concern. I don't understand why for the most part provincial/federal government isn't taking about long term effects.And it seems like the public is happy to believe Covid is now a mild illness in folks who have received two shots.
Dr. Hinshaw does at least express condolences for those who lost loved ones. She started doing it regarding COVID deaths but had feedback regarding family members who lost people due to reasons other than COVID, so switched it up. At that time hospital visits were pretty limited.Neither level of government seems to have leaders capable and willing to name the big issues or offer proposals to respond to them. It seems they prefer managing to leading. The money in the budget for mental health is little more than a bandage. Naming recognition of the grief that many people are feeling regards dong the deaths of loved ones would be a good start. Inviting people to offer suggestions to respond to that grief including the associated painful isolation might help. Recognizing and researching long Covid and the broader category of long term effects for many people due to a variety of viral infections might help as well
When leaders say little or nothing about these, it seems they just do not care about the people struggling with these.
Never used it, but it was promoted with many of the COVID updates.I just heard this week about this 'text4hope' initiative (out of Alberta). They appear to have offered it for issues of varying types that mental health - including COVID. Sign up - free - and receiving brief daily texts on coping strategies. Not a commercial site (by Alberta Mental Health) which is refreshing. What brought my attention to it was a piece about 'hope4ukraine - text to 393939' - so it appears they modify to be somewhat issue specific, although the coping strategies may be quite similar. There is now some early research being published about efficacy. Of course its difficult to do a specific randomized control trial - but it seems there is reasonable support for the initiative. Has anybody been part of it?
Spoke to a coworker of mine who said that she read somewhere that she has read that people who has had H1N1 in the past are a lot less likely to get covid. She has had H1N1 really badly and didn’t get Covid despite having been close contact several times.
Anybody else heard this before?
She also had her own theory of people who had the flu shots regularly not getting infected.