That's not 1% of the people who got Covid, or 1% of people who got long Covid, but 1% of all people in the world, or 65 million people. There is NO cure, so we have to focus on preventing cases of Covid.
Last month, a Wall Street reporter warned, that for months Federal Reserve officers insisted that the dwindling supply of workers from Covid was elevating inflation levels, then they suddenly decided to stop tracking it. She reported,
"It's premature to say that Covid is no longer an economic issue when long Covid has such a significant effect on America's workforce, economists and health care officials say. . . . The bottom line is that long Covid is why the labor force participation rate has not recovered to pre-pandemic levels"
Almost 18% of people - mainly young people - are not able to return to work after getting long Covid, and often family members also have to leave work to become caregivers. Our Ontario solution to the labour shortage is to let 16-year-old leave school for work.
In Canada last week, the chief science adviser, Dr. Mona Nemer, randomly gave it a new moniker: PCC, or Post COVID-19 Condition, and she warned,
"Future socio-economic implications for Canada may be far-reaching and require planning and monitoring. . . . Analysis of the socio-economic impact of PCC from other countries, including the United Kingdom and the United States, indicates significant impacts on the labour market and the Gross Domestic Product, in addition to health costs and demands."
She mentioned just diabetes and hypertension as the fallout from Covid, but there's a whole mess of problems in the body caused by this vascular disease that leaves behind micro-clots in the bloodstream of everyone who has ever had Covid because these micro-clots can travel anywhere to affect your heart, lungs, brain, and all other organs. Check out this 4 minute video to see the effect it had on the young and previously healthy PhysicsGirl:
Canadian researchers are getting money to try to help people with long Covid, which is fantastic, but it appears that we're not going to do anything provincially or nationally to prevent any more cases. We're at 1% of the population now, and it's not slowing down. A recent Nature news feature argues that we need real-time measurements of CO2 concentrations in all public places, and we need significant efforts made to keep limits below 700 ppm. Peterborough Public Health is working to improve Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) by writing "letters to relevant provincial ministries urging them to take action." That's great, but so many people have been begging for action for so long, and nothing's actually happening.
It's kind of like this new rapid-deploy safe room created for schools that folds out in seconds to cope with active shooters in schools. The other option would be to get rid of all semi-automatic weapons, but that would cost a lot of votes and rile up the types of people you don't want to upset too much, so we're just going with the safe rooms to protect children when the shooters come.
We're living the Upstream Story:
We know the cause of these issues, we've identified the problem, and we know the solution, but we don't want to do that. We'd rather allow children to die and destroy the economy than ruffle some feathers and make ourselves unpopular and lose some votes and probably, somehow, some profits. We'd rather just keep dragging the bodies out than actually put in real protections that prevent harm in the first place.
So, please wear a mask whenever you leave the house. Put it on like you put on your shoes - or your seatbelt, or bike helmet, or work boots. The only sure way to solve the problem of long Covid is to prevent cases of Covid. While we wait for the powers that be to pretty please start legislating for cleaner air, all we have is an N95 to directly filter the air we breath. Stop buying the illusion that you'll be one of the lucky ones as you do your grocery shopping or go to school or work unmasked! It can get you, too, or someone you love.
Whatever happened to an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure? It's still true; we just stopped acting on it.
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