Allen but one of the bad ones, woooo on Nostr: Interesting chat with the doc yesterday. I said I'd noticed that every time they give ...

Interesting chat with the doc yesterday. I said I'd noticed that every time they give my kids a sick note for school, they add strict instructions to avoid exercise or physical activity, which wasn't a thing when I was a kid. I wanted to know when Doctors had started saying this.

He sighed, said "Not as soon as they should have" and then explained how it was known that certain illnesses could lead to heart problems (apparently similarities between the pathogens and heart tissue could lead to the immune system attacking the heart), but it was only after covid struck and so many people developed heart conditions that they figured that it was not such an isolated problem and LOTS of viruses do this. He then shared a personal story of a colleague who was training for a marathon, and ended up needing a heart transplant. So now its standard practice to ban exercise when you're sick. Because although it's a low-probability event, the consequences are severe.