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This is just anecdata that is not really useful in making an informed decision. It's like deciding whether or not to try homeopathy based on comments on a group of people who feel that homeopathy cured their illness. Or deciding whether to get vaccinated by looking at a facebook group for people who have had severe adverse reactions to vaccination.On the question of whether people have enough information to decide about the risks of long covid, I would say that not only has it not been reported enough, but it has also frequently been reported in a way that doesn't help people understand the impact. So here's a post from a long covid fb group that just came up in my feed. I didn't have to go looking for this - it's a very common type of post in those groups - this is from a quite young-looking woman (in a public group and I don't think she'd mind it being reposted):
"I’m having a little pity party today. I am so sick of this **** of a virus and how it’s destroyed my life.
Went to the football on Tuesday night, was probably a bad idea and didn’t think through how far I would have to walk (cos of the crowds) and stand. Been basically bed/ sofa / house ridden since. Was supposed to be going to Leeds Fest today. At 6am the crashing realisation that I can’t physically manage going hit me, and that it was a stupid idea in the first place as even on a good day I wouldn’t be able to walk that distance, manage the porta loos or the late night.
I just want to be able to do the things I used to do. Covid has taken everything from me, my job, my career, my social life and my health.
Feel like I have let my husband down as I can’t go with him (other people are going so he’ll still go) and that everyone is going to have an amazing day whilst I spend yet another day trapped in the house"
So you could just hope that vaccination reduces the chances of this happening to you. Fingers crossed, right?
Anyway, the point has been made. I'll leave it there.
This is not me saying that there is no evidence that long covid is a significant problem, I am just saying that it seems very difficult to judge what the actual risk is, at the moment.