There is no urgency.

When people are considered resources, the ones that don’t provide enough return on investment are eliminated. The only investment that is made is therefore in the types of medical issues that are acute / short-term, treatable and cheap to treat.

Long covid is not one of those conditions, at least not yet.

It’s easy to treat people with long covid as resources, because you won’t see them out and about. They’re housebound from either their existing symptoms or the knowledge that they’re at risk of reinfection.

This is not a new thing, it has always happened to people with disabilities. It’s just that we have a sudden large new cohort amongst the ranks, often from previously medically-privileged groups, who have to discover the awful truth firsthand now.

This will happen to many more people unless we change how we provide for society.