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So instead, we'll continue to normalize the abnormal, to treat a 36% chronic illness rate as just another statistic, to let individuals bear the cost of collective failures. We'll keep moving, keep consuming, keep pretending that the bodies breaking down around us are isolated tragedies rather than predictable outcomes of predictable choices.

The numbers don't lie. But the people who interpret them for public consumption certainly do.

Thirty-six percent. Remember that number when they tell you the pandemic is over. Remember it when they ask why productivity is down, why healthcare costs are up, why so many people seem tired all the time. Remember it as evidence of what happens when societies choose commerce over community, profit over people, convenience over care.

References: Global Prevalence of Long COVID, its Subtypes, and Risk factors: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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