@0177da18@0ecd8d1a@4183a04c@3a447f2a I was envisioning a robot that would do all the lifting and carrying - move groceries from the door to the kitchen counter, lift laundry baskets, and bring me a lunch tray.
But what I really need is something to track cognitive exertion and posture.
Am I avoiding looking at blinky things? What does my phone to no-screen time ratio look like? Am I spending more time horizontal or sitting up?
@0ecd8d1a@4183a04c@3a447f2a We could do better by assessing how effectively people are able to pace and what kinds of support actually work, and quantifying how effective it is. An in-home robot could observe actual activity which could be cross-referenced against symptom and medication data to get a more accurate picture of patients' actual capacity.
Yet pacing, the one tool patients have extensively employed, remains largely unstudied.
#StopRestPace
@ae1c89a6 I don't think he answered your question, but that response is full of such satisfying statements.
Make it boring. De-hype it. We need metrics. We need it to be correct when it's important that it be correct, and we don't care how it gets there.
I am smiling.
@b05df304@be314b31
First, per the WHO, our best estimate is that LC happens 1 in 10 *infections*. The evidence we have is that reinfection *increases*, not decreases, your chance of long covid, just as covid increases risk across the board for a number of other diagnoses like heart disease and diabetes.
If your glasses fog, you haven't found a mask that fits properly - if it's sealing correctly, it shouldn't fog your glasses nor should it be uncomfortable to breathe.
@b05df304@be314b31 You say "even if a study showed clearly". In addition to casting doubt, this indicates both that you are unacquainted with how research accumulates into knowledge and that you have not, in fact, looked for such a study.
As a research scientist, I assume you are capable of doing a literature survey. If you take the time to look for papers on sequelae prevalence in reinfection, you will find ample evidence supporting my statements.
@b05df304@be314b31 You may not realize this, but it's a lot more "not healthy" to get covid and have a 1 in 10 chance of symptoms that affect your life for years than it is to get a cold or flu with a tiny chance of symptoms that affect your life for years.
I'd rather spend less than a minute a day thinking about remembering my mask as well as my keys and gain a lifetime of continued cognitive function than pretend covid=flu and lose it.
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