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Comment by kuhewa | Hacker News Reader

  There is not reason to be scared of a disease that don’t kill.

What about one that causes permanent lung and/or heart damage?

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You mean like other viral infections, or bacterial pneumonia? As grave as the effects are, they are absolutely not unique to SARS-CoV-2.

Sure, and those grave effects are a 'reason'

The incidence of these effects can be a reason. Unfortunately there are no reliable data on how they are prevalent.

My point is insofar as one would/should fear death, they would/should fear a decent probability long term nonfatal consequences to some degree. Incomplete information doesn't obviate that.

Nonfatal=/=nothing to fear

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