May be there are already posts like this here, but I haven't seen any. But I am sure I am not the only one like this here. I like the tendency to talk about serious stuff on SG. If we are community.
I am a survivor of Covid. I had it in autumn last year. It was terrible. I didn't need hospitalization, I stayed at home, but I was feeling very-very bad, for whole month long. It was MUCH worse than a regular flu. I not only had respiratory symptoms and fever, also sences of smell and taste dissappeared and I had brain fog. The world didn't seem real. I also have mental disorders, and Covid made them worse. And I am not the only one with such complaints. Covid is not just flu, it's neuro infection too.
For 2 weeks I had the virus itself, but it was not like it all ended in 2 weeks. After the virus itself was gone, bacterial infection came on its place because my immune system, naturally weak, was ruined to the ground. I was prescribed antibiotics. But even after this course I feel much worse then before Covid, both physically and mentally. Sences of smell and taste recovered in a couple of month, but I feel weak and tired all the time. My mood swings, which I had even before, became more often and sudden. Panic attacks returned. I easier catch cold then before and almost all the time I have herpres on my lips (before I had it like once in a year).
Almost half a year passed since I was sick and my antibodies expire soon. What do I plan to do? Go to Russia and get vaccination (in Germany I will be able to get it only in the end of the year). I don't want to be sick with Covid for 2 weeks + with bacterial bronchitis for 2 more weeks again. Some of my friends got vaccination and told that they were feeling bad for 2-3 days. And it is obviously better, than for whole month. I am pro-vaccination. I decided that it bears less risks for me, than catching the real virus once again.
That's what I want to say. Please take Covid seriously. Masks are not giving 100% guarantee of safety, and sitting locked at home for more then a year is of course no good for no one. Get vaccinated, vaccinate your children. That's how we'll be able to defeat the pandemie. Stay safe!
