05-13-2023, 02:48 PM
(05-12-2023, 05:52 PM)ac3r Wrote: The vast majority of people getting infected at this point will do just fine and get over it, hence why the mask rules are all but gone everywhere.
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Not much you can do about it now, except to try and maintain a healthy body so that when you do get it again and again, it impacts you no worse than a common cold causing coronavirus does. Some will be unlucky, but that's the way life goes.
Here's the thing. Society is absolutely terrible at providing care for chronic conditions, and this virus still does cause chronic debilitation. We just ignore it and pretend it doesn't happen. Because if you have a chronic condition, you're not out there making noise. You're just dropped from society. Yes, most people are OK. My estimate is that about 8% of people have some form of long COVID and, for some of them, things just aren't quite the same afterwards; e.g. my friend used to do ultramarathons, got COVID, and seems pretty OK now. But if you ask him, he'll say that he's not completely cured. And it's worse for old people.
So, yes, I think we should care.
I also think that there are things that we should do as a society. I can't imagine why I would want to be on a plane or a train without a mask for an extended time. Heck, the CDC finally said, yes, COVID is transmitted via aerosols. So another thing we can do as a society is ensure that there should be adequate ventilation. We don't ever want places with > 2000 ppm CO2 even in the absence of COVID. They're terrible for cognitive function.