When I see young healthy people potentially obsessing, turning life into some sort of morbid probability matrix because one particular potential risk (Long Covid) has been made more salient and blameworthy, I sympathize a lot less.
I don’t see what’s so controversial about Long Covid. There’s evidence indicating that Long Covid might create a lifetime of increased fatigue in ~50% mild cases. As you’ve said in previous posts, P100 masks are cheaper and easier than N95 masks which might not do anything at all, and Paxlovid might spontaneously become much more available in 1-2 months from now (apparently you can get it right now anyways). It would be pretty regrettable to give one month before the finish line, especially when there might be several decades of permanent, constant fatigue at stake, and the finish line might be a very hard finish line dividing the “everywhere brain virus” period with the “nowhere brain virus” period of human history.
The internet is effortlessly capable of creating a different world than the one we exist in. People who know a lot about the internet, or a lot about social media, know that it’s so obvious as to be not worth mentioning. I’ve seen it, you’ve seen it, and we’re still seeing it right now.
We’ve been in the middle of a war for two years, not two months; it’s well known that a virus is theoretically capable of collapsing the economy and permanently ending the global influence of Europe/China/the US. And it’s even more well known that it’s worth starting wars over something like that, with all the misinformation that goes along with wartime policy. It’s just that a war against a virus takes different forms depending on how the virus changes and the virus’s perceived threat to the economy (as well as the time horizons of people in the government, which could be a short as 5 years).
I don’t see what’s so controversial about Long Covid. There’s evidence indicating that Long Covid might create a lifetime of increased fatigue in ~50% mild cases. As you’ve said in previous posts, P100 masks are cheaper and easier than N95 masks which might not do anything at all, and Paxlovid might spontaneously become much more available in 1-2 months from now (apparently you can get it right now anyways). It would be pretty regrettable to give one month before the finish line, especially when there might be several decades of permanent, constant fatigue at stake, and the finish line might be a very hard finish line dividing the “everywhere brain virus” period with the “nowhere brain virus” period of human history.
The internet is effortlessly capable of creating a different world than the one we exist in. People who know a lot about the internet, or a lot about social media, know that it’s so obvious as to be not worth mentioning. I’ve seen it, you’ve seen it, and we’re still seeing it right now.
We’ve been in the middle of a war for two years, not two months; it’s well known that a virus is theoretically capable of collapsing the economy and permanently ending the global influence of Europe/China/the US. And it’s even more well known that it’s worth starting wars over something like that, with all the misinformation that goes along with wartime policy. It’s just that a war against a virus takes different forms depending on how the virus changes and the virus’s perceived threat to the economy (as well as the time horizons of people in the government, which could be a short as 5 years).