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self@awful.systems to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year ago

as it turns out, a mountain of health woo and transfusing your teenage son’s blood into yourself is no match for long covid

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as it turns out, a mountain of health woo and transfusing your teenage son’s blood into yourself is no match for long covid

www.donotpanic.news

self@awful.systems to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year ago
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The Billionaire Who Wants To Live Forever Has Long Covid
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The billionaire who wants to live forever just admitted he has long covid. Specifically, covid wrecked his lungs. If you haven’t come across him, Bryan Johnson is a 46-year-old tech bro who cashed out a few years ago and now spends all his time trying not to die.

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    I guess this counts as long Covid, although I associate it more with brain fog and similar symptoms.

    Either way, “lung capacity of an 18-year-old” and “15% loss of lung capacity” can’t both be true, unless he’s suggesting he started with super-lungs.

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      Or he now has the lung capacity of a 15% smaller 18 year old.

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        a large lung the size of a small lung

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          “A lung small in the same way a large one isn’t” ~ T. Pratchett

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        Tbqh I think a lot of the “long covid” symptoms are just things people weren’t treating before.

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            Didn’t deny long covid was a thing, but I’m glad you agree it isn’t the primary reason why the morbidly obese are developing diabetes.

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                You gave 'em the benefit of the doubt, but you can take it right back. :-)

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                Something tells me I can guess what you think gave you diabetes.

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                  holy shit fuck off

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          I think it’s just that we never really addressed the fact that you don’t fully bounce back from illness. But then suddenly, everyone got this serious illness, and at the same time we realized “I just don’t feel like I did before, even now that I’ve recovered”

          That’s just my personal feeling, it’s not based on much except our attitudes about illness

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