Comments by "oolong2" (@oolong2) on "STUDY: Staggering Number Of Children Affected By Long Covid Symptoms" video.

@empanada223 Umm... What paranoia am I pushing exactly? This video and people in the comments are suggesting that 10% of children infected with covid have long covid and that it can be 6 months or 18 months. Whereas I'm quoting a recent study that says that only 0.8% children actually end up with long covid and that most cases of long covid end within 1-5 months. With other studies showing most symptoms end within 3 months. How exactly is it "paranoia" when I'm saying there is less that children have to worry about? I'm sorry, but you have it entirely backwards.
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Most cases of "long covid" end after 3 months. Most research on long covid has been defined as people self-reporting symptoms that last longer than 4 weeks. A small number of rare cases of covid have people with symptoms longer than 6 months. Somehow this has been mistranslated in the media as a large percentage of the population having long term disabilities. This is not the case. People are simply taking the extreme cases and pretending that it impacts a large percentage of people including children. This is misinformation.
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@stanleysteamer3212 You're simply resorting to ad hominems instead of formulating an actual argument. Please read an actual study on long covid in children and get back to me. You can try reading: "Long COVID symptoms and duration in SARS-CoV-2 positive children" which was published a couple weeks ago.
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It's not something to be overly concerned about. Recent studies have shown that long covid really only impacts a tiny number of children (0.8%) and most of those cases are resolved after a couple months. Most of the headlines talking about "long covid" are over-sensationalized nonsense.
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@MAGAtsAlwaysLie I'm not lying about anything. Look at the study entitled: "Long COVID symptoms and duration in SARS-CoV-2 positive children — a nationwide cohort study" The conclusions are that long covid in children is really rare. You're trying to make this mother extremely paranoid over her children.
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@user-fx4qz8pt3w Yes there are always things we don't know, that doesn't mean we need to exaggerate. Lately a lot of the rhetoric on Covid from progressives reminds me of the same fear mongering that the right wing engaged in with "Islamic terrorism" for many years.
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@user-fx4qz8pt3w Please stop acting as if a comment specifically on long covid and specifically with children, somehow means I think the entire pandemic is overblown. That is a classic straw man argument. People make those kinds of arguments when they don't want to address the topic that is actually being discussed and instead they find it easier to just pretend that someone is making a completely different argument. It's a disingenuous style of discourse.
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@calamitynatalie8590 Unfortunately it's different for different people, but generally kids tend to bounce back sooner than adults. For myself I never lost my taste or smell when I got Covid. For a friend of mine she lost hers for about 4 to 5 days.
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@crystalhazer7246 The OP asked a question and I answered it the best I could. I think it's more callous to exaggerate and cause someone to worry needlessly over a potential condition they can't do anything about. There is literally a less than 1% chance that their child will develop long covid, let alone long covid lasting longer than a few months. Tell me, how is it "having a heart" to tell this person that their child may have a lifelong debilitating condition? To me, it is far more compassionate to tell a person that the actual odds of long covid in children is nothing to worry about rather than causing panic and telling them that they need to worry over and over.
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Most "Long Covid" doesn't last longer than a few months. People act as if these are symptoms lasting for years when the fact is "long covid" is simply self-reported symptoms lasting longer than 4 weeks. It does not mean these are symptoms lasing forever and in fact and most people with "long covid" do not report any symptoms after a few months. So when you say "long term impact" you really have to put that into perspective.
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@MAGAtsAlwaysLie What am I lying about exactly? Look at the study published a couple weeks ago called "Long COVID symptoms and duration in SARS-CoV-2 positive children — a nationwide cohort study" You people are so caught up in a culture war that you really can't see straight.
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@teethgrinder83 I'm saying that it's been studied already and for children most cases end in a few months. We certainly don't want to be hyperbolic about it and turn it into a much bigger problem than it really is. For what reason would you have to want to panic parents about long covid in their children?
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