For anyone still not talking covid seriously, I really, really need you to read this...
https://eldritch.cafe/@TheSunnyOne/116031331726013783
This isn't a one-off, it isn't a part-time thing 
For those of us heavily affected by long covid, this is our reality day in and day out.
Our bodies look like they exist in their entirety. I'm not missing limbs, I still have my sight and hearing, but the systems that allow us to use them are broken, and our lives become our beds.
I can't even talk to my partners withy voice except once every week or two for maybe 2 hours tops because talking puts a drain on my stamina, and if I go over my capacity, my max stamina *decreases* 
Even petting my cats is draining, and so is having any of them on me, as much as they want to be.
By not bringing covid to heel, this is what was inflicted on millions of people. We lose our professions, our passions, our friends, and even the little comforts, and our existence shrinks down to trying to make sure we don't just shrivel up and die while fighting desperately to keep the will to live and keep fighting burning.
And what's worse? We don't know if we'll recover. Some seem to after a handful of years. For me, I've simply gotten worse and worse over the last 3. I've watched one thing after another slip through my fingers. Now, I'm finding that I need compression on my wrists and hands or they're too painful to sleep with 
Please stop making even more people experience this hell. Please mask. Please stop throwing giant events without masking.
I don't know how to end this. My hands hurt and my brain feels too fuzzy to think properly.