'Long haul' in your link does not really mean permanent or semi-permanent, it also includes people who have symptoms lingering for a few weeks or a couple months, and it includes symptoms more easily attributable to stress, anxiety, and depression, which naturally imo follow on from having a plague - especially one everyone is saying will do you nasty lasting damage - as well as minor symptoms such as my own lingering effects of corona, which are nowhere near 'losing all taste' in terms of QoL. That is a higher number than I was thinking but the article does temper it down and I think its still valid.

People unreasonably fearing they'll die or get really hurt of virus is probably the only thing saving us in America, which is why I wouldn't spread this talk elsewhere; I think the only real problem with this post is the OP might stress themselves to death due to that overestimation of their risk, but its not problematic as such. But it speaks to a very depressing truth about the virus and are society, how the social responsibility to protect the weak is totally subsumed by the self-centered will to not suffer pain. That makes me very angry and so I posted to harvest hatred to reflect that back out at the world. Its a little more than that though; when I posted last night I did not expect this thread to go as far as "boomers have less years left and thus are less valuable", which makes me feel vindicated in my initial upsetness