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> We have no long term knowledge because covid hasn't existed over the long term. The flip side of that coin is we have no knowledge that it has catastrophic l
by koolba 4y ago
> We have no long term knowledge because covid hasn't existed over the long term.
The flip side of that coin is we have no knowledge that it has catastrophic long term damage. And even it if does we have a critical mass of people infected to justify research to solve it.
> Its love of eating brains and what seems like an ability to stick around in the nervous system indefinitely for some people like herpes or chicken pox are worrying.
Sure but worrying to the point of living as a recluse for years to come? For an otherwise healthy person that’s frankly absurd.
- xypage 4y agoOk but if it turns out to be fine, being overly careful means you didn't get to be as social as you otherwise would be. An inconvenience, sure, a degradation of your quality of life, yes, but nothing too major. If it does turn out to have long term consequences, you could be losing years of your life, and making the years towards the end have a much lower standard of living. I'd much prefer to isolate more than normal now when I'm healthy and have that turn out to have been unnecessary than to not, and end up forced to isolate due to poor health limiting my ability to live my life. For the record, I'm not a recluse or anything, but I'm not going to concerts or things like that, and am still wearing a mask.