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Lucent authored Sep 25, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ <h2>So it's not about COVID?</h2>
<h2>COVID is only dangerous for old people</h2>
<p>If COVID was only its symptoms, it wouldn't be that bad for most. However, even <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04569-5">minor, asymptomatic bouts are known with certainty to reduce brain volume</a>, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2311330">reduce IQ</a>, and <a href="https://doi.org/10.7150/ijms.73134">dysregulate T cells in the same way as AIDS</a>, among <a href="https://theconversation.com/mounting-research-shows-that-covid-19-leaves-its-mark-on-the-brain-including-with-significant-drops-in-iq-scores-224216">many other effects</a>. Infections may permanently deplete young people's resilience in the same way as the elderly, going unnoticed because of their reserves, only to reappear later in life. <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/mis/mis-c.html">MIS-C</a> and <a href="https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.21231">children being 30% more likely to become type 1 diabetic after COVID</a> both hint at this possibility.</p>

<p>There is no rule that the damage done by an illness must be proportional to the symptoms felt. Nor is it an immutable law of nature that more contagious diseases are less deadly, a heuristic we learned from comparing colds to cancers. This <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_virulence">happens over time with evolution</a>, and COVID is brand new, however you believe it came about.</p>
<p>There is no rule that the damage done by an illness must be proportional to the symptoms felt, as any diabetic can tell you. Nor is it an immutable law of nature that more contagious diseases are less deadly, a heuristic we learned from comparing colds to cancers. This <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_virulence">happens over time with evolution</a>, and COVID is brand new, however you believe it came about.</p>
<p>Imagining contagion "just happens" is a pleasant fiction to adopt. I get it. The alternative is seeing everyone as a potential harbinger of misery, expelling illness at you. But your life story has no <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plot_armor">plot armor</a> shielding you from disability or an untimely demise. A single unmasked cough can reshape your entire future.</p>

<h2>Don't you trust the vaccine?</h2>
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