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"I was anticipating the release of
Will There Ever Be Another You (2025) by
Patricia Lockwood because I love her work but also because I feel a sense of
relief anytime I encounter a discussion of the Covid-19 pandemic in this era of
collective forgetting. Lockwood's autofictional novel centers on a writer who
is suffering chronic physical and neurological symptoms weeks and months after
contracting Covid during the early stages of the global pandemic, as Lockwood
did, and as she wrote about in a more straightforward way for July 2020
publication in the
London Review of Books.
Recent research suggests that more than one-third of people who contract
Covid-19 experience Long Covid. Long Covid is a loose medical term applied to
instances where a person has ongoing symptoms for three months or more after
infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus (Covid-19). According to the CDC, a person
is more likely to develop Long Covid if they have a particularly severe
infection, if they have not been vaccinated against Covid-19, or if they have
an underlying health condition. Older people, women, Black people, and Hispanic
and Latinx people have also demonstrated a higher likelihood of contracting
Long Covid. But it can happen to anyone."
Via Violet Blue’s
Threat Model - Covid: January 22, 2026
https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-january-22-148825922
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
