“I have been eating rotten eggs and drinking gasoline for a week. Covid has made me lose my sense of smell and taste and since I bought them back, every food has a unique, disgusting taste. I am vaccinated and I respond to whoever screams at me best now infected than vaccinated ‘or asks me’ then what is the vaccine for if you are sick? ‘ I need to be 23 years old and it has prevented me from hospitalization or even ending up in intensive care. Not only that, if I hadn’t been immunized I would have infected my whole family who are vaccinated anyway. But they are all fine, including my grandfather. If he had taken Covid, as I took it, he would have died. That’s what the vaccine is for “.
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Domenico is a university student living in Palermo engaged with the civil service. Vaccinated in June with the single-dose J&J, at the end of August he contracted the Sars-CoV-2 virus, remaining positive for over a month and therefore in isolation, away from his family and friends. Now she is better, but since September she has been fighting with the discomforts caused by the Long Covid: tiredness, difficulty in breathing, loss of smell and taste. On Saturday afternoon, tired of reading about “coronaparty” organized in the woods by his peers in South Tyrol and seeing the squares full of boys screaming “better infected, than vaccinated”, he connected to Twitter venting out and telling his story as a patient of Covid.
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Tweets to friends
A dozen tweets, one after the other, which at the beginning were mainly aimed at his friends. Then suddenly something in his profile changed: the followers from 2 thousand in a few hours became 10 thousand and he started receiving violent messages from novaxes. “I wondered what happened, since I don’t use twitter a lot.” It happened that Danpo’s posts (this is his nickname) were relaunched by Roberto Burioni, the popular virologist and academic as well as by some national newspapers. Since that moment, Danpo has found himself at the center of a controversy between vax and no vax.
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“In reality, until November 27th I rarely used Twitter, only as a discussion forum between friends – says Domenico – on Saturday I just wanted to share my Long Covid problem with them. What happened after my series of tweets I still it seems incredible, they even asked me to show my medical records and the green pass. I was threatened, so now I’m afraid to reveal my surname “.
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Losing smell and taste
Here’s what Danpo’s tweets were about. “Some of you know that I had Covid in September, although my family and I are all vaccinated. Covid immediately made me lose my sense of smell and taste as well as all the other symptoms they describe on TV. For a week now. I have regained the taste and smell, but they are altered. In my case it does not mean that I used to like lasagna and now I hate it, it means that I no longer feel its taste. It means that whatever food I eat (from pasta to vegetables) what I feel is a single, disgusting taste that I can describe to you as that of rotten eggs. ” He noticed this alteration when one evening at the table eating a plate of pasta he asked his family if the sauce had gone bad and if they too tasted the same terrible taste. But neither his brothers nor his parents felt the same sensation. At that point, Domenico understood that it was still the consequence of his illness due to the infection from Sars-Cov-2.
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And after the flavors, Domenico begins to have the same problems with smells. “Two weeks ago I started to smell again, but even in this case I feel the same nauseating smell, even when my mother cooks a simple sauce I think she is using some detergent and I can not help but lock myself in my room. of petrol is also reflected in drinks such as Coca Cola and coffee “, says Domenico.
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The smell of gasoline
He wrote in his profile: “For me everything smells like gasoline. Now pretending not to stay there … when I hear ‘oh well it could have been worse, you could have died’, I ask you to concentrate and think about what yours would have been like. life, if every day you ate things that taste like rotten eggs and smell putrid in the air. Fortunately the only thing I can drink is water. I have to constantly ask my parents for help because I do not understand if what I am eating is actually gone bad, or that terrible taste is due to the fact that I still have the altered flavors. “
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The Long Covid
Since that moment Danpo and his parents have toured many medical studies to find a solution (gastroentorologist, ENT, Covid experts) but no drug has managed to pass that feeling, which is also creating social relationship problems for the boy. “They told me that my problem concerns only a part of those who have lost their sense of smell and taste with Covid and that it affects young people in particular. It could last up to 10 months or be irreversible. It seems there is no specific cure, that I just have to wait and be patient “, explains Domenico.
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“Put on your masks”
Since then his story, then on Twitter he wanted to send a message to his peers: “Wear a mask and get vaccinated because surviving Covid still leaves you with serious deficits. I neglect the lung problems that are still manageable. of masks, vaccinate yourself and be careful. Add a gem: do you know how to brush my teeth? Even the toothpaste tastes rotten, so if I wash them with a little toothpaste most of the time I have to spend some time rinsing my mouth. sucking from the mouth is hard “.
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Since then, his posts are relaunched on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, he receives many certificates of solidarity and are used as an appeal to young people to get vaccinated. “But above all the no-vaxes were unleashed on me, accusing me of having told a lie: that it is not true that I am vaccinated. I have even published, deleting sensitive data, my green-pass. In this way I hoped to convince him. , at least some. I thought that my story dealing with the strangers that Covid leaves you could be an important contribution. But the lathes have become more and more violent and aggressive. So, in the end I realized that I could not contain them and I stopped answer”.
And this is how Danpo’s posts end: “I shared my experience not to convince the fanatics, but because I was having a bad time. Don’t break up. Thanks to those who spent words for me and who told his story, Agli others know the way to go to go to that country ”
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