"Long COVID is a life under house arrest. It’s bearable but also isolating and strange, almost dreamlike. I will not contemplate the future. Getting your hopes up, that wouldn’t be Scottish.
"To those long-haulers out there, isolated and desperate, remember there are hundreds of millions of us. We aren’t mobilizing or protesting because we’re weakened. Remember that we know your story because we all live a version of it every day. We think of you constantly and send you great love and understanding.
"Until this medical/scientific mystery is solved, imagine this era as a vast human hibernation. It will end. Spring will come."
Let's hope she's right.
I remember when, at the start of the pandemic, these patients, being ignored and dismissed by doctors, smartly used the Internet to create support groups for themselves. They called themselves "long haulers" because dealing with the symptoms was -- and still is -- such a long haul. And they've been courageously dealing with it by themselves.
To the COVID-deniers out there, I ask "Can't you just get vaccinated, wear a mask, and protect your loved ones and yourselves from "a life under house arrest"?
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