Covid worriers on Twitter like “what, do they expect us to just catch this twice a year forever, even as it makes our Long Covid worse?”

Like… yeah, basically? I’ve been doing it since 2020 when it first went “long” in my brain, I believe I’m on my 7th case (none have been tested, but all so reliably feature the same particular symptoms I feel confident calling them), new stuff shows up each time but both it and the returning stuff is weaker each time.

Well, generally. Actual strength order was something like 1, 2, 6, 7, 3, 4, 5. And based on progressions, I expect from case 11 on it’d be nothing, maybe feel a little funk for a week.

• 1st was brain and nerves, messed up my ability to conceive of motion, to implement it with my muscles, and to conceive of myself as a person, that lasted over 2 years though it was reinforced partway through by…
• The 2nd was the first fatigue, that seems to be an issue with aerobic energy generation from blood sugar but I found I can compensate by boosting anaerobic generation from fat with creatine.
• The 3rd case, in retrospect (the 2nd was the last one to announce itself with any initial “acute” respiratory symptoms), introduced blood pressure issues, I collapsed twice while standing
• The 4th and 5th infections, I felt sudden simultaneous strengthening of all the other symptoms but noticed nothing new, but new effects might be something unnoticeable. I’m pretty sure my testosterone levels shot up somewhere between the first and fifth cases.
• The 6th infection debuted the second major fatigue, which is an anemia-like iron deficiency controlled with supplements.
• The 7th infection, the most recent about a month ago, added an effect that muscles pushed to their limits experience bonus fatigue and weariness, which makes it good that earlier yard work already expanded my limits so much.

Now, it bears pointing out that one factor behind my equanimity here is when the first case got into my brain it wiped out the part that handles anxiety and thus I am physically unable to worry about things, I imagine without this the entire experience (I was stuck delirious in a body I could hardly control for over a year!) would have been significantly more distressing