Discussion
Loading...

Post

Log in
  • About
  • Code of conduct
  • Privacy
  • Users
  • Instances
  • About Bonfire
datum (n=1)
datum (n=1)
@datum@zeroes.ca  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

This person's experience:

“I got the flu between Christmas and New Year’s. I’m still fighting it,” he told Global News. [1]

I know so many people[2] in this situation. Not a similar situation, but literally, they got influenza itself around the holidays in Dec 2025 and they still have residual symptoms, today in Feb 2026.

Mind you, the quote is from a person in 2013, a decade after they had SARS1, and the people I know have had SARS2, not SARS1.

Wouldn't it be great if our health system treated SARS2 as seriously as SARS1, and protected the vulnerable? The vulnerable being anyone who uses their brain or body or both.

[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/404562/sars-10-years-later-how-are-survivors-faring-now/
[2] "so many" being five. Which is a lot considering the sample pool size! It never used to be normal to get sick for weeks and months at a time!

#SARS #SARS1 #SARSCoV2 #CovidIsNotOver

Global News

SARS 10 years later: How are survivors faring now?

This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the first case of SARS in Canada as the pandemic made its way into the country. How are patients faring a decade later?
  • Copy link
  • Flag this post
  • Block
Sun Kitty ☀️
Sun Kitty ☀️
@Crissy@tech.lgbt  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@datum i know 3 people (IRL friends) in this situation of residual symptoms ... 2 of them are a couple (and had the flu since autumn 2025), their roomie.

The other person got it at the end of autumn. I think they all have just low immunity from the cold weather persistently where they live (none have SARS).

Your post, definitely agree that protecting the vulnerable is what is important and i really like that definition is so inclusive!

  • Copy link
  • Flag this comment
  • Block
datum (n=1)
datum (n=1)
@datum@zeroes.ca  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@Crissy Although none had SARS1, the odds are very low that none have had SARS2 without living as extreme behavioural outliers.

Isn't it mindblowing that people can have influenza or at least residual symptoms for months and months!?!?

(I also worry about influenza, and other diseases, developing new advantageous features from chronic infections, as probably happened to generate Omicron: "Major new variants like omicron are believed to have emerged from a chronic infection in a patient whose immune system was suppressed." https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/11/nx-s1-5312100/covid-virus-mutation-evolution )

  • Copy link
  • Flag this comment
  • Block
Sun Kitty ☀️
Sun Kitty ☀️
@Crissy@tech.lgbt  ·  activity timestamp yesterday

@datum actually i was thinking exactly that as i read your OG post (people can have flu/residual symptoms for months).

I have a friend who is Type 2 diabetic on the immunocompromised list who has had some form of low level fever (that doesn't break) after having the flu this winter.

She is better now but experiencing some chills and a cold for a long time seems quite unpleasant!

  • Copy link
  • Flag this comment
  • Block

bonfire.cafe

A space for Bonfire maintainers and contributors to communicate

bonfire.cafe: About · Code of conduct · Privacy · Users · Instances
Bonfire social · 1.0.2-alpha.34 no JS en
Automatic federation enabled
Log in
Instance logo
  • Explore
  • About
  • Members
  • Code of Conduct