What Long COVID Taught Me About Life (and Data) | Giorgia Lupi | TED

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[olaemmm]

Long covid last 4 years - being a rough time is an understatement.

[mehvishkhan]

I got covid for the first time this year and am now dealing with long covid. It's so frustrating and so many people just don't understand or refuse to empathise when I ask for help for basic things. My breathing is not even back to normal yet, and that's the most frustrating thing. I'm so limited to what I'm able to do, but I'm grateful I'm not worse and that I have a job I can do remotely.

[vikramsinghdutt]

It taught me media controls human perception.

[MichelleEvans_CatLady]

As a Data analyst that nearly died from bacterial pneumonia and then got COVID 6 weeks later, this excellent work. I don;t even have the energy to have put that together

[VioletLaLaMoon]

I was the only person in a car of 4 after a week of traveling together that got covid. It’s been almost 3 years since then. At the time I struggled with all of the symptoms she describes especially that first week. Afterwards I had fatigue for months, couldn’t taste or smell for over a year. I still have recurrences of those symptoms but they are not long lasting; all of a sudden I can’t taste a meal or think clearly…that was the hardest…get fatigue for no reason.
Eventually, I had to shift my focus too.

[squarepeg]

Beautiful and moving. I saw this piece in The NY Times last December and wept.

I’ve had Long Covid since 2020 and have been in and out of a wheelchair, lost my independence, cardiac issues and my immune system is now so weak I can’t be around others without a mask so I’m unable to be social.

Those who haven’t lived this can’t comprehend how painful it is to have a debilitating illness that has been politicized and scoffed at as a “hoax”. It exponentially increases the difficulty. When you have MS or Lupus, no one tells you your illness is a hoax and part of the “deep state”. People don’t cough in their faces and hurl insults.

It’s also made more difficult by the fact that billions of people have had Covid. Most don’t get Long Covid and lack the empathy to comprehend that everyone’s bodies and experiences are different.

Love to all of the other members of this community.

[NinjaJKD]

Since you like data so much, you might want to look up all the data on excess mortality and all cause deaths.

[Lanideo]

Sad, left alone from health system, she only had the possibility to care for herself. I think this talk shall be optimistic, but it is just so sad

[leonardofabbri]

My dad has been diagnosed with Strumpell Lorrain syndrome for two decades, no one between Governments, science, influencers and influenced has ever given a damn

[brendabrenner]

I orinted out the ny times article, + thanked u at the time💞..u are an inspiration to all, bkessings ❤

[MagdaleneM-fq]

Bring Julianne Iwersen Niemann on the show. She changed my life Financially I managed to grow a nest egg of around 120k to over a Million. I'm especially grateful to Julianne Iwersen Niemann, for her expertise and exposure to different areas of the market.

[DipenDebnath]

It proved that how one man’s imagination can change the world

[MitchAcademy]

I am in control of my illness. My illness does not control me. Thanks for sharing your fight. 🥊

[JK_JK_JK]

What is the Covid-related mortality for non-elderly persons with no comorbidities???

[yannroth]

I am not sure about how I should react to this video. Was it about the placebo effect or not ?

[chrismacdonald]

Long covid sounds super 'safe and effective'. They totally know what they are talking about. 😆💯

[hgrace]

This was a beautiful message. Thank you for your insight

[ark]

I so desperately want to become a data scientist.

[alanredversangel]

If i had to put a timeframe on it id say long covid affected me for a good 18 months, and ive haven't felt 100% since. I can't rememeber most of 2020 without looking at photos. Too much exercise would set me back a lot and at the time we werent allowed out for more than an hour or something. The only thing i think I would do differently is walk a lot more. Which is more than a lot of long covid sufferers can do.

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