I am not sure why caution in a pandemic is a controversial point but I'll bite. Basically on top of lung damage, SARS-COV2 can also cause blood vessel and card

I am not sure why caution in a pandemic is a controversial point but I'll bite. Basically on top of lung damage, SARS-COV2 can also cause blood vessel and cardiac tissue damage, there are multiple cases of myocarditis post-infection.[0] Most of the symptoms are hard to study like shortness of breath or fatigue. Unless you have a prior VO2max study it's hard to _prove_ that you are worse off post infection but that is exactly what is happening with athletes being infected (loss of VO2max, which pretty much is a loss in peak performance for many athletes). Another aspect is that a loss in cardiac output or lung capacity is likely also a loss in life expectancy but it is the type of thing you would need decades to prove. My point is, with the information we already have the sensible approach is to use caution rather than trying to be stoic about it. [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32747875/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32747875/