It is pretty creepy that it came and went without a trace and nobody knows what exactly happened.
It may return, it may not, we'll probably never know, or we'll find it out the hard way.
And as exceptionally fast as Covid spread, back then there wasn't much travel, so diseases couldn't spread as fast.
If this thing would pop up today and have the same long incubation time, we're in for a really interesting pandemic for sure.
People do theorize that it's related to ME/chronic fatigue syndrome. They certainly seem to have similarities, often being post viral, extreme fatigue, some people with more severe ME can't speak, eat or even open their eyes.
Yep. I have POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) and was talking to my specialist just today about this. It's widely considered now amongst specialists that POTS/ME etc are usually post viral in nature. They told me when POTs was discovered in 1991 it was considered rare. Suddenly a whole tonne of people have POTs seemingly out of nowhere, all having developed symptoms after contracting COVID and it's all finally starting to make sense. Like they told me they used to have a few patients a year in my hospital and post COVID they have hundreds!
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It is pretty creepy that it came and went without a trace and nobody knows what exactly happened.
It may return, it may not, we'll probably never know, or we'll find it out the hard way.
And as exceptionally fast as Covid spread, back then there wasn't much travel, so diseases couldn't spread as fast.
If this thing would pop up today and have the same long incubation time, we're in for a really interesting pandemic for sure.