The poster’s concern is with long COVID, which can certainly have effects that a lot of people would consider severe. The “severe” COVID that has a baseline of less than 1% for the young and healthy refers to COVID that requires hospitalization. Long Covid rates are higher.
Also, some LWers are neither young nor healthy, and/or have family responsibilities that would become problematic or impossible at some levels of lasting lung or organ damage, whether you call it “long covid” or not. So I’m definitely waiting for more understanding of long-term effects before I change my risk profile.
The poster’s concern is with long COVID, which can certainly have effects that a lot of people would consider severe. The “severe” COVID that has a baseline of less than 1% for the young and healthy refers to COVID that requires hospitalization. Long Covid rates are higher.
Also, some LWers are neither young nor healthy, and/or have family responsibilities that would become problematic or impossible at some levels of lasting lung or organ damage, whether you call it “long covid” or not. So I’m definitely waiting for more understanding of long-term effects before I change my risk profile.