Oddbean new post about login | logout What does a world look like where we let #COVID19 rip through the population repeatedly on an annual basis? Where people allow themselves to be infected time and again with a disease that causes chronic damage to our bodies? We don't know, but this is precisely what it COULD look like 🧵 :
Three of Team USA's 12 members have been benched for the FIBA Basketball World because of “illness,” weeks after multiple US Open players struggled because of a “mysterious illness.” Meanwhile, reports of a “yo-yo flu”--an illness people can't beat that keeps coming back--are being reports around the globe. These are signs of chronic infections and damaged immune systems, both of which are hallmarks of COVID infections. https://www.smh.com.au/national/we-ve-been-constantly-sick-why-we-can-t-kick-the-yo-yo-flu-20230907-p5e2v0.html