In Switzerland they were massive.
In the newspapers photos maybe. In Zermatt over Christmas and Zinal over New Year’s zero queue in spite of reduced capacity. Arosa / Lenzerheide are emptier than ever.
with the tour skis
You are walking up the hill? That’s hard work 
This is what they are doing in Italy, too. However, I hear from a local that if you are having ski lessons, you are a “student on a course” and you can ski as normal
On today’s UK numbers, 100k+ new infections per day, CV19 Mk 2 is “vaccinating” more people than the govt… the downside is that the side effects are a lot bigger (~1% chance of dying, overall).
Zermatt Ski Queue.
Empty Chairlift.
A scientific paper about “Long Covid” was published in the extremely renowned paper The Lancet , examining over 1700 Chinese Covid-19 patients six months after their initial infection.
63% of them reported fatigue or muscle weakness, 26% sleeping difficulties and 23% anxiety or depression. The renal and pulmonary damage left by the infection was also assessed, but the findings are harder to summarise without reading the full text.
MedEwok wrote:
26% sleeping difficulties and 23% anxiety or depression
How can this be explained physiologically ? This reminds me of tales from the trenches in WW1. People reportedly got grey hair over night.
LeSving wrote:
How can this be explained physiologically ?
They can’t – but mental or psychosomatic diseases are as real as somatic ones, aren’t they?
MedEwok wrote:
63% of them
To put all mentioned percentages into perspective one has to mention that the cohort this study was done on was a group of patients discharged from hospital after Covid treatment. So the selection is on patients with an acute phase that was severe enough to require hospitalization. One could expect that percentages are smaller for patients with less sever acute phases.
Not saying long Covid is not an issue (to the contrary) – just want to give the transparent picture for the quoted article.
Malibuflyer wrote:
To put all mentioned percentages into perspective one has to mention that the cohort this study was done on was a group of patients discharged from hospital after Covid treatment. So the selection is on patients with an acute phase that was severe enough to require hospitalization. One could expect that percentages are smaller for patients with less sever acute phases.
Yes, thank you for pointing this out. A major limitation of this study if we want to assess the possible impact of “Long Covid” on a population level. However, given that a significant number of Covid-19 patients need some level of inpatient treatment, this study further indicates that the societal impact of Covid-19 is huge.
From the numbers cited, one can deduct that a relevant portion of the population is impaired in their ability to work and carry on their lives as normal, and will also need further medical resources for months after their initial infection, placing an additional strain on social and health services.
MedEwok wrote:
From the numbers cited, one can deduct that a relevant portion of the population is impaired in their ability to work and carry on their lives as normal, and will also need further medical resources for months after their initial infection, placing an additional strain on social and health services.
I guess we’ll see more finding like this is future especially later this year when cases from autumn 2020 are analyzed.
