I'm so goddamn ripshit about people minimizing risk from this thing. It is a SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE. We have 2 solid years of data now that show that lasting damage occurs even in children, teens, and adults with asymptomatic infections. What little shitty reporting we have suggests that up to 30% of people with symptomatic infections may develop some kind of Long Covid. We have no reporting yet on how many extra strokes and other vascular events are killing or disabling people with and without symptoms, though what we have suggests that the coagulopathy can last around 2 months after symptoms abate. ARGH.

Even my normally fantastic PCP minimized it as "just some bad cold symptoms" and I am full of despair.