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          1. Adding to my thread about Moloch: a South Korean prof is sharing publicly his lingering side effects from COVID-19. He reports headaches, fatigue, pain, serious brain fog and inability to concentrate. Basically, saying "recovered" is... an overstatement. news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2020/08/19/2020081902588.html
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          It's being widely covered in the news here. Apparently other "recovered" patients have been contacting him to confirm that they've had the same or similar symptoms; some apparently allege that they'd reported these lingering symptoms to the Korean CDC only to be dismissed.
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        Which, I don't know what the Korean CDC actually said to them, and they're undoubtedly struggling to keep things under control, while MANY people had basically tried to living like the pandemic is over: kids in daycare, schools set to reopen, etc.
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      But all of this is just to say: we won't know for years the full extent of what this virus does to people. We need to *refuse* to pretend we *do* know, and reject decisions based on that false sense of understanding.
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    I mean, not to invent scenarios, but... it's quite possible these symptoms are just the first stage-effects. Maybe it's worse over the long term. Maybe these cognitive effects will develop in a larger percentage of recoverees as time passes. There's so much we don't know yet.
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      Therefore we have to stop acting like we do know more than we do. We're fumbling around in the dark, and way too many people are saying, "There's not going to be a pit in here, let's just keep moving." No. You light a match. You move slowly, and look around.
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        And yeah, I get it, it sucks that we're in a lightless pit. But we are in one, and we need to start acting like it, instead of pretending we see what's up ahead, or what's on the walls of this pit, or, you know, sending the most vulnerable of us to stumble forward and find out.
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