This is probably preaching to the choir, but long covid is pretty nasty stuff. If you are able to regularly get vaccinated against covid and the vaccines are also effective at lowering risk of long covid, then get vaccinated.

I’m traumatized after seeing the effects of long covid on a family member. The covid infection itself wasn’t great, mind you, but the after effects have been awful.

It’s been 2 long and difficult years since the initial covid infection. There was a point when things were on the right trajectory in terms of recovery, but if I’m actually being honest with myself, it was false hope. The person I used to know isn’t ever really, fully coming back. It’s traumatic for them because they know they aren’t the same. It’s traumatic for me because I lost the caring, intelligent, thoughtful, loving, empathetic person I used to know while also watching them suffer from delusions, depression, and all manner of issues while fully realizing that something is wrong without knowing what or how to fix/change it.