This story is possibly the very last thing I wanted to read today. Nonetheless, I read it and upvoted it because I like to think of myself as a reality-facing

This story is possibly the very last thing I wanted to read today. Nonetheless, I read it and upvoted it because I like to think of myself as a reality-facing optimist, as opposed to a wishful-thinking optimist. (The landscape of history is littered with the dead bodies of wishful-thinking optimists; I don't want to be one of them.) After reading this story, along with recent evidence that a substantial portion of covid-19 patients exhibit cardiac anormalities [a] and that herd immunity to covid-19 may be infeasible [b], I realize how little we actually know about this new disease. -- [a] https://academic.oup.com/ehjcimaging/article/doi/10.1093/ehjci/jeaa178/5859292 https://academic.oup.com/ehjcimaging/article/doi/10.1093/ehj... [b] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53315983 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53315983