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I wonder if this has always been the case for major illness, and the effect/study was too hard to observe.

• NoPie 5y ago
  Most likely this. It is hard to imagine that covid has disproportional ability to cause lasting side-effects without causing causing severe disease and/or death.
  • 20after4 5y ago
    It actually does seem that this virus has a fairly unique ability to directly attack the brain.
    • NoPie 5y ago
      Sorry, it doesn't seem like that at all.
• blagie 5y ago
  Yes, this was the case for many major diseases. It also wasn't hard to observe: * Syphilis could cause madness later in life * Polio could lead to paralysis later in life * Rabies moves up the nervous system very, very slowly, with no symptoms, and suddenly you go crazy, fear water, and die. * Lyme disease causes memory losses and cognitive dysfunction ... and so on. Good thing we managed to fight those off!