'Long COVID" can cause Vascular issues.

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5. I've been vaxxed and boosted all along and with

Asperger's social distancing is my superpower. But I live in a deep red area (no both siderism from me) and although it is one of the oldest per capita counties in the US people have been careless to the point of stupidity during the pandemic. I was even limiting my time in stores to less than thirty minutes a week. I was also taking vitamin d, and zinc on the days I went to the store. I stopped them, as well as masking a couple of months before I got covid. I got covid from a twenty minute trip to Publix. No one around me was even coughing, I always left the store immediately when I heard coughing.
It was three and a half weeks before my sense of taste started to come back, one of the happiest moments of my life was when I realized that I smelled the deodorant I put on. I gradually gained strength back, but it was four months before I could sit up in a chair for more than three hours straight.
Two years later my taste still isn't the same, fried potatoes and guacamole hardly have any taste, they were two of my favorites. I struggle to maintain the level of strength that I was able to regain a year after the infection. Physically and mentally I think that long covid has aged me a decade, and in my late 60's that's not time that I had to lose.

I wish everyone the best.