I’m not saying “it’s the flu”. I’m saying that if Covid becomes another flu-like childhood disease, as Scott Alexander predicts, then we should expect comparable long-term effects. The question might be how much that changes the baseline of such conditions overall.
Overall, this sounds a lot like flu side-effects:
https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/flu-complications#:~:text=They%20include%20viral%20or%20bacterial,failure%2C%20asthma%2C%20or%20diabetes.
I’m not saying “it’s the flu”. I’m saying that if Covid becomes another flu-like childhood disease, as Scott Alexander predicts, then we should expect comparable long-term effects. The question might be how much that changes the baseline of such conditions overall.