• lordbritishbusiness@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    You must have got the first version then, the biggest trap was the cytokine storm of a healthy immune system in heavily exposed younger people overreacting.

    We forget how dangerous the initial, alpha and especially Delta variants were before omicron out competed them all.

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      There was a lot of people who weren’t aware of how horrible that first one was. We were among the 2019 wave before they even called it Covid, it was easily the worst sickness to land on us. No surprise people suffered long-covid or died after that.