Oh that's good to hear!

I've heard it from them, but maybe there's not that much being done in our area/country to find a solution for long covid ( or maybe there is and we just don't know about it/have any breakthroughs ).

Question: "infections per 100,000" - with what disease? in what time or spacial frame? Personally and professionally I'm not just concerned with SARS-CoV-2. What disease? What sort of exposures are likely for you? Influenza is not yet on the rise, but likely will be. When it starts up get your vax, you'll likely get about 3 months of protection. If you have immune issues, consider a second flu shot in 3-4 months. Masking, handwashing. Rotavirus sucks, but handwashing takes care of most of the risk. Measles? Get your vax!

Time and intensity are important. Are you going to be outdoors, with a small distantly space group and/or over a shorter time frame? Is this event/ time with a larger group, lots of heavy breathing (gym, singing, use your imagination), indoors, for a longer period of time?

Many infectious diseases have post acute syndromes. Consider which of those is worth the risk to your life and those around you. Beyond the acute phase: a comprehensive literature review of long-term sequelae resulting from infectious diseases https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10864624/#s3 Then mask up.

At the moment PMC19 modeling shows that we are in the beginning of the 13th peak in Covid19. Ask yourself, do you wish to participate in this peak, or no?
If no then mask up.

Go a little more granular, local, small, find the waste water surveillance for your county, if it's available. Look at the county level for PMC19, which alas is from the previous weeks data. PCR takes time to run. Same for waste water surveillance.

Consider if your town is a big tourist destination/ had a big influx recently for some big event. My town has huge events nearly every weekend of the Summer, which attracts people from other areas. I generally avoid such events, since 2020. And if I decide to go, I wear a mask.

Consider where you are going: Regardless of those numbers, anyplace where large numbers gather (big group choral event), or large numbers pass through (grocery store), wear a mask.

Consider how much your death from cardiovascular disease, which is increased for 3 months post covid19, yes even a mild case, will mean to those around you. Also consider how much the death of someone you care about will mean when you get a mild/ asymptomatic and pass it along to them, e.g. your unvaccinated!?! elder parent.

Consider social implication in a small group - does everyone vs anyone vs no one in that group do anything useful in preventing the spread of infectious disease, e.g. testing, masking, handwashing, vaccination, participate or not if obviously sick (oh it's just a sniffle, oh, it's just allergies, oh X obvious symptom goes without any change in behavior whatsoever).

Apparently I can keep going on this, and have probably already "flooded the zone". These are some consideration.

tl;dr - wash hands, wear a mask, get vaxxed, avoid exposure to ignorant people who don't give a care for themselves or for you.

As always, diagnoses are simplified medical/social constructs that don’t fully capture the reality.

and it doesn’t help that there’s loads of prejudice against Long COVID in medicine.

Long COVID is actually a medical term. Look it up on the WHO.

But some diagnostic classification systems use “Post-COVID Condition” or “Long-term sequelae of COVID-19”

Then how would you have done it, now that you have access to the data?

where can I read about that cause wtf?!

(also those poor victims)

Still haven't had one with symptoms. Ftfy.

The chosen one

Y'all are so cordial, wtf