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I'm somewhere in the middle, have understood the risks are mostly not for my demographic, and have gone outside to do things like get coffee / exercise almost e
by skciva 6y ago
I'm somewhere in the middle, have understood the risks are mostly not for my demographic, and have gone outside to do things like get coffee / exercise almost every day since lockdown began.
Even then I'm aware we're still completely in the dark of what long term effects this might have. Do you have any worries about that? That along with the viral load research makes me pause when people are itching to just get "back to normal."
- guscost 6y ago> Even then I'm aware we're still completely in the dark of what long term effects this might have. Do you have any worries about that? Nope. I don't have time for (what I see as) irrational paranoia. I've judged the risk to be small enough where if that happens to me, it's OK.
- mrfusion 6y agoAgreed. I think there’s a virtue signaling downvoter going through here.
- mrfusion 6y agoIt’s in the same family as cold viruses. There’s no reason a healthy person won’t recover. If you’re at risk and get in ICU there could be long term issues but that’s a small risk for healthy people.
- nkozyra 6y agoThis is pretty reductionist and simplistic. H1N1 variants were in the same family as influenza D. One killed 17-50 million people in two years, the other is not yet known to even infect animals.