I’m sorry the increased vertigo is sticking around. It may still be a temporary issue, as many people do experience resolution of lingering Covid symptoms by six months post-Covid. (Certainly wasn’t my experience, but I’ve read enough studies to know that a lot of folks do seem to escape having Long Covid stick around long-term.) I’ll keep my hopes up for you that it fucks off.

I feel you on the family members not protecting themselves. My teenager has decided he’s done with masking, even though he’s well-aware of what Long Covid can do (having directly seen it put me in a wheelchair). There’s nothing I can do about it or about the fact that he’s now made himself a much bigger risk to me. He knows he was the vector that brought Covid to me and put me in the hospital last time, so if his fear of doing that again isn’t enough to make him mask, nothing I can say will convince him either.