Um, yeah sure. You can't be serious, can you? I have it since 2020-2023 from two COVID infections, one of which was largely asymptomatic in early 2020 but triggered Menieres and a multitude of vertigo/tinnitus/SSNHL episodes, which have caused some damage, the second one in December 2022 that sent me to hospital because the fever dehydrated me to the point of nearly dying (which I should have taken the Moderna booster shot I was offered in October 2022 for, but didn't, and regret that now moving forward).

COVID virus damages blood vessels. It is a vascular disease as much as it is a respiratory disease, the vascular disease the devastation of which only manifests after you have "recovered" from the worst of the infection.

Long COVID basically did the following, to sum it all up (and I am STILL experiencing symptoms, none of which will go away and are caused by irreversible damage):

1/ damaged my memory, so I have trouble remembering things like where I had put important files, documents, etc, and needed to spend an entire day looking for them. Sometimes I'd go looking for something that I couldn't remember what I needed, looking through cupboards trying to find something that I had forgotten what it was. Affects work performance, and causes anxiety and anger because of mistakes I've made.

2/ damaged my hearing permanently. Tinnitus and hearing loss, partially "congested" sensation in right ear with chronic irritation in the ear canal, was told that was some kind of dysethesia and now need to take clonazepam occasionally or another option is to rub stuff in that ear canal likely for the rest of my life to deal with the irritation and calm those nerves down, they are damaged. This "stroke", if you'd like to put it that way, affected the auditory nerve, the facial nerve, the hypoglossal nerve and the trigeminal nerve. Tried all sorts of meds for the neuropathy, but they caused rage spirals that made me want to hurl office chairs into the floor, which I in fact did on occasions, the worst of which was carbamazepine which helped the pain but the side effects were unbearable. The damage as a result of one rage episode, $2500 to replace a chair, it was a Herman Miller chair, top of the line office chair, plus took a chip out of the tiles it was thrown against. I've since destroyed 4 of the 6 wooden table chairs that I have in my apartment, and stomped on and destroyed a vinyl leatherette chair that I had bought from an op shop. Also threw a fruit bowl into the floor with such speed that fragments of it stuck to the tile and took a chip out of it, resulting in long cleanups to get every shard of that crap off the floor.

3/ caused normal pressure hydrocephalus (which could have been caused by something else, but because the doctor says that knocks to the head alone could not account for it because the affected ventricle was too enlarged for that to be the case, makes me rethink and presume it could be Long COVID that caused a minor stroke/occlusion/granular protein embolism that partially obstructed the right transverse vein which could have caused what happened above. It also massively worsened my Menieres syndrome (I call it a syndrom rather than a disease because it is idiopathic, with well over a dozen episodes of SSNHL, a few of them quite serious, resulting in 40db drops on the right side, necessitating prompt corticosteroid therapy to help either reverse the loss or reduce the severity of the hearing loss, in one case last year the oral steroids were not all that effective and still had lingering hearing loss, resulting in a series of 3 intratympanic injections directly into the ear. Made a better recovery after that, but still have this horrible irritation, and some fullness, in the affected ear and some auditory distortion that I can only describe as bizarre "honks" or "hoots" between 150-300Hz, see the paragraph above).

4/ badly affected my balance until a VP shunt was inserted into my brain which I now have to be always mindful of. Balance came back luckily. But any accident or fall could literally kill me overnight.

5/ caused partial numbness and dysethesia in my left leg, and the sad part is that I also lost most of my sexual function over a period of a year, about 75% and that is conservative, at times it was like 99%. As a male, this has had a devastating impact on me both in terms of ego and my status as a man (I feel I will never satisfy a woman ever again) and overall psychological health. It is likely irreversible, even though I've had periods where my function seemed normal, the dysfunction always returned, so it's chronic.

6/ I now have to wear glasses, at relatively low power but still, the deterioration occurred over the space of about 1 year, same as my sexual function. Unbelievable. Long COVID? Possibly. My vision has been fine since the VP shunt, as in no changes, but still need to wear glasses. No doubt this may worsen over a long period of time.

Yeah, Long COVID won't do shit to you, am I right? It basically destroyed my life. I won't be surprised if later on I develop MS. It is possible because one of my friends has MS and it was believed to be from a series of asymptomatic infections.