Anonymous #1 10w

and like, my city’s gay district used to be the one area where i could reliably avoid negative attention for being visibly queer, but now i just get gawked at there too for wearing a respirator

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Anonymous #2 10w

it’s a correlation not causation thing. a couple studies have shown that the prevalence of long covid is higher among queer people than non-queer people, but the cause is not necessarily well understood and is likely multifactoral. queer people tend to be less wealthy, experience more stress (minority stress) which impacts the immune system, experience higher rates of chronic illness, and experience barriers accessing healthcare. all of which can contribute to developing long covid.

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Anonymous #2 10w

OP might have different thoughts / info on this, i can’t speak for them, but my understanding is that it’s related to class position & labor rights. as in, LGBTQ+ people deal with much higher rates of job insecurity—even within higher-paying & more specialized fields, we’re considered more “expendable” on average by our bosses

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Anonymous #2 10w

and the more “expendable” you’re viewed as, the less compromising your higher-ups are willing to do to keep you around, meaning you have less bargaining power. this is especially relevant ever since CDC guidelines were changed to approve single-day quarantining standards. any source of financial instability becomes a risk factor

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Anonymous #4 10w

Guess you wanna die of a heart attack before 30, then. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Anonymous #1 10w

It’s definitely due to class position and the workforce as well! I’ve read “Long COVID in transgender and gender nonbinary people in the United States” (Witt’s et al., 2025), and Trans Health Research has some great data and further reading as well (https://www.transresearch.org.au/post/long-covid) despite being Australia-based. Long COVID Justice also has a detailed page about it, including resources if anyone is interested in that (https://longcovidjustice.org/trans/).

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Anonymous OP 10w

Study mentioned in the first one: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmv.28187

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Anonymous #4 10w

You clearly don’t want to have a good-faith, intellectual conversation about a serious issue. Goodbye.

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Anonymous #6 10w

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2025/06/23/new-covid-variant-2025-symptoms/84317260007/ USA Today reported on a rapidly-spreading new strain just a couple weeks ago. a professor of immunology at University of Nevada is quoted as saying that it’s “likely to spread more rapidly and evade our immune defenses more easily” than the prior strain, and “requires careful monitoring”

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Anonymous #6 10w

so it’s definitely still been in the news, but for years and years now there’s been excess & overstated emphasis on “but don’t worry, it’s only the elderly and chronically ill dying from it!” messaging in the coverage, meaning most people are content to dismiss it as nbd even when they see the headlines

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Anonymous #1 10w

Interesting! I thought this was dead. Oh well. Don't get sick people. And if you do, don't go near other people. I mean this is common sense but I guess some people can't seem to figure that out.

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