Given the available statistics, I’m a bit surprised at the amount of concern you seemingly place on you or your family contracting the virus. It seems as though death is very improbable if you are otherwise well and relatively young. Are potential long term health consequences more of the concern? Are you worried about infecting someone else who is more high-risk? Curious as to your thinking. I respect your insights in general and I’m not very concerned so I’m wondering if I should be thinking about this differently.
There are a few people in my social network experiencing “long covid” who were otherwise healthy and young. I think some of the unknowns there provide more than enough reason to take low-cost precautions like getting and wearing masks.
The long term symptoms aren’t being talked about much because lots of people are still dying, but also because most of the infections are still really recent so we don’t have much data on the long-term.
Given the available statistics, I’m a bit surprised at the amount of concern you seemingly place on you or your family contracting the virus. It seems as though death is very improbable if you are otherwise well and relatively young. Are potential long term health consequences more of the concern? Are you worried about infecting someone else who is more high-risk? Curious as to your thinking. I respect your insights in general and I’m not very concerned so I’m wondering if I should be thinking about this differently.
There are a few people in my social network experiencing “long covid” who were otherwise healthy and young. I think some of the unknowns there provide more than enough reason to take low-cost precautions like getting and wearing masks.
The long term symptoms aren’t being talked about much because lots of people are still dying, but also because most of the infections are still really recent so we don’t have much data on the long-term.