I Am One of 20 Million in US With Long COVID. RFK Pulled the Rug From Under Us.

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2. I have been vaxxed and boosted from

as soon as the vaccines were available, and with Asperger's social distancing is my superpower. But here in Southwest Florida the lack of empathy which is inherent in maga is rampant. I was keeping track of my exposure time and I contracted covid in a trip to Publix which lasted less than a half hour. Covid almost killed me. It took three months before I could sit up in the chair at the computer for more than a couple of hours at a time. Thankfully my senses of taste and smell returned at least 90%. But after the first three months I realized that I wasn't getting better.

Now, after two years, if I walk for an hour in my garden or at the store I'm still exhausted the next day. I've heard doctors who specialize in long covid say that your brain can age by a decade, and I certainly feel it.

I was in pretty good shape for my age but I think that long covid has taken at least a decade off of my life. All because much of the general public here are too stupid and selfish to take obvious precautions.

I'm taking vitamin d and, on my days out zinc. I've also started azelastine nasal spray on my days out. And I'm able to severely control my public exposure, being retired. Still, I live with the fear that one more random bout of covid will be the end of me. Good luck to us all.