The comparison I’m relating (that I read, not invented) took everything about Covid and drunk driving and compared them. Personally, I think it matches well - though not perfectly in all situations. Obviously it’s meant for neurotypical people. YMMV
Which is what we’ve been doing, so we agree on one thing. 
I get daily updates from what the AMA reports.
There are several reports like this one I just pulled up on Google:
Exercise within two weeks of Covid - longer for some is NOT recommended by health professionals. I thought that was the case, but double checked - just to be sure.
A summary:
Exercise after COVID
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Talk to your doctor: Aaron Vaughan, who heads Mountain Area Health Education Center’s sports medicine program in Asheville, says patients with pre-existing conditions should talk to their doctor before returning to exercise. Healthy adults can begin to exercise roughly two weeks after their symptoms subside.
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Don’t push it: Regardless of the type of exercise they did before coronavirus, patients should begin with very light workouts that aren’t taxing on the heart and lungs, such as slow walking and jogging or short stints on the exercise bike. Whatever activity patients choose should not raise the heart rate too much and patients should stop and consult their doctor if they experience chest pain, heart palpitations or other unusual symptoms.
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Increase the intensity gradually: Vaughan advises patients to increase the intensity of their exercise every five to seven days, and only advance to the next stage if their heart and lungs can tolerate it.
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Be patient: Returning to normal workouts should be gradual and could take weeks or months.
Regarding exercise after COVID-19, the problem that some people who have COVID-19 after-effects face is that even trivial physical activity like walking from one side of the house to the other (ordinary size house, not a huge mansion) has become like intense exercise for them.
In such cases, even very light exercise like a walk around the block would seem like winning the Tour de France.
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@MaineLonghorn there was a story this morning on NPR about Covid in Lebanon:
Does COVID-19 affect empathy? Seems to.
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On the radio this am, some caller insisted the hospitals here are NOT nearing capacity. He wants to take a camera in, to prove this.
That caller was plainly ignorant of reality. But he’s so sure.
These statements, themselves, may be ignorable. But they can lead to other, more insidious pronouncements -and actions- or lack thereof (eg, preventative measures.)
I agree with the study, don’t push it is what it really says and start with light workouts. If you interpret this as lie in bed for two weeks (no exercising) after recovering from COVID well I whole heartedly disagree with that. It always makes sense to start light and work up, as any physical therapist will tell you.
While for some that may be the case, you have to start somewhere. One block this week, two blocks next week. If you give up you’ll find an ever spiralling downhill trend.
Some people are still barely at one block despite trying for many months after COVID-19.
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@CU123 I think perhaps we all agree on more here than it appears. I took issue with the attitude. Yes, of course, the majority of folks recover with no problems from COVID. But it is insensitive to imply that because most people do, it’s “not a big deal.” That’s all.
Well then clearly they have a lot of damage to their bodies, and they’ll need a lot of PT.
In the early days, everyone was put on ventilators as soon as breathing was at all labored, and that required being them prone in the hospital beds. It was quickly found that vents weren’t always the best, and that lying upside down, or upright was better, and that moving was better than staying still.
I don’t think anyone is suggesting running a marathon, but moving as much as you can is recommended (as it is after surgery and in other medical recovery). Of course that is usually easier for someone who is 30 than someone who is 88 and wasn’t moving much anyway.
Not sure if this counts as close to home, but the San Diego Zoo just announced that the gorilla troop at Safari Park has COVID. They’ve taken tons of precautions but suspect an asymptomatic handler who later tested positive may have passed it on.
@catahoula, I am sorry for your loss.
Editorial opinion
coming. Apologies in advance.
There’s futility in this argument and I personally see some slightly shifting their positions to lessen the bite. And others increasing in fervor.
A lot of this reminds me of some college related threads: somebody asserts what’s really anecdote or (am I coining the word?) “guess-umptions.” It starts to go in circles, people get defensive. It starts feeling itchy.
Some irony: people find it easy enough to acknowledge they don’t know. But harder to quit basing their comments on what they admittedly don’t know.
In the meantime, with this covid argument about exercise, I suspect a better word would be “movement.” We can agree moving tops staying in bed. But the caveat is only to the extent one can.
And, no one else can offer directives about what someone else can or should do, from a distance-- and based on their own anecdotes.
Continued…
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Can we try and stay on topic. This thread is about people you know getting Covid. It has been a valuable thread and I don’t want to see it closed over people arguing about unrelated stuff.
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Oh, wow, thanks for the link! I’m busy right now, but I will look at it later tonight. Yikes. That poor country. I really think it may collapse. 
My continuation. I’ll reduce it to this:
How could one miss all the posts about loss, limits, one’s chest still hurting, advocating for one’s child, the fears sorrows, and more?
Many are struggling with ADL “Activities of Daily Living.” Even simple things.
Too many.
It doesn’t matter to me if it’s a minority of survivors. It’s a significant enough number that it’s acknowledged as a lingering aftereffect. Unpredictable.
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BunsenBurner, DeeCee36:
Appreciate it.
Not her passing that grieves me… she’d made it pretty clear for the past couple years ‘she might have lived too long’ but the way she went out was inhumane.
Covid rules have allowed for a multitude of deaths, in the worst possible way.
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