“Debilitating a Generation”: Expert Warns That Long COVID May Eventually Affect Most Americans
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In a candid discussion with INET's Lynn Parramore, Dr. Phillip Alvelda highlights the imminent dangers of long COVID, criticizing governments and health agencies for ongoing preventable suffering and deaths. *This is Part 2 of a two-part interview.

In a candid discussion with INET’s Lynn Parramore, Dr. Phillip Alvelda highlights the imminent dangers of long COVID, criticizing governments and health agencies for ongoing preventable suffering and deaths. *This is Part 2 of a two-part interview.

  • AernaLingus [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Thanks for sharing—solid article that sums up a lot of the information people are lacking, and I appreciated the emphasis on clean air standards.

    Did notice one thing that I found amusing:

    P: […] Which nations, by the way, are doing a better job than the US and the UK? Who can we learn from?

    PA: Those that did the best job are the ones that were run by women, notably, New Zealand, Taiwan, Norway, and Finland. It’s also the ones that are run by scientists and engineers: Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Germany. The ones run by right-wing demagogues have done the worst.

    Hmm, isn’t there someone you’re forgetting? xibe-check

    Standard lib stuff, perhaps, but I went back and read Part 1 (also worth checking out!) for completeness and this part jumped out at me:

    My friend Bryan Johnson, a high-profile billionaire, is spending two million dollars annually to rigorously monitor his system, focusing on markers that indicate the age of each of his organs. He had an asymptomatic COVID infection that aged his lungs 13 years.

    Yup, that’s the weirdo who uses his son as a blood boy and compares their nocturnal erections. So perhaps not too surprising that a guy who runs in the same circles as a billionaire wouldn’t want to praise the country which maintained the longest and most effective zero-COVID policy in the world. Again, all the other information he gave is solid as far as I could tell, but I just thought that was funny.

    Oh, and that one bit from Part 1 about the incredibly misleading graph produced by the ukkk Office of National Statistics was wild…utterly shameless.