I advocated lockdowns combined with strong social safety net protections and a thorough testing regime and the person still said "yeah but the other effects." When I pressed as to what effects, they said "well children won't be able to socialize." Like yeah.... that's bad, but you know what else can effect a child's mental health: mommy/daddy/granpa/grandma/etc dying from a totally preventable pathogen.... Jesus and this person is in "academia" doing anthro and shit....
Yeah the person also said that even with a lockdown, the virus can "linger in the body" or some shit like that, even past the contagious stage...
Well, that means they can be safely ignored. It's not fucking herpes ffs take 2nd year microbiology.