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And if you think I’m obsessed with #Covid it’s because I could see back in 2020 that #LongCovid was going to be a serious problem if covid wasn’t suppressed or eliminated, so I’m still bewildered by everything that has happened since then. If I knew, then the healthcare sector knew, politicians knew, influencers knew, they just pretended otherwise
And right now many people are sick again, and just accepting of it?
@oftencalledcathy i’m so sorry you’re having to deal with this. I found your description of how long Covid makes you feel very touching. “I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.” #LongCovid #Covid #CovidIsNotOver
@Pineywoozle @oftencalledcathy Interestingly, that is how Bilbo Baggins described how it felt to have been in possession of the one ring for far too much time.
@PurpleShadow Is it a Tolkien Quote? It’s lovely and evocative regardless. @oftencalledcathy
@Pineywoozle @PurpleShadow yes it is, and I do feel like Bilbo. Much older and more exhausted than I appear in public! I’m always spreading myself thinly too, like so many people with responsibilities, never able to meet everyone’s demands or expectations 
@oftencalledcathy @Pineywoozle Another similarity is that we become invisible, with the difference that we don't choose when or for how long.