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Is there not near-unanimous agreement that everyone is going to catch Covid at some point. Like, cave hermits are pretty much the only exception.

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My family hasn't yet, and we're far from cave hermits — we just pretty consistently do smart, reasonable things.

Around 25% of children and adolescents who get COVID-19 will get long COVID, the long-term effects of which are not well understood. I have no plans to surrender to "fate" and to stop doing smart, reasonable things.

We're only, what, two years in? Give it a couple more. "Doing smart, reasonable things" only reduces the odds, not put them at zero. Iterate enough times, and the cumulative odds approach 1.

FWIW I predicted that would be the situation in like March 2020. This isn't some new forced narrative, at least for me.

I don't think the rate is that high. I think it's closer to 3%, give or take a few, right now, with an order of magnitude more cases of partial recovery of acute symptoms over time.

Which IMO is still insane, but I don't think it's 1 in 4 level of bad.

There is not, and it pains me to hear people reinforcing that narrative. There are immunocompromised individuals within my family that have significantly higher risks of complications than the next person. For this reason, we take every precaution to avoid exposure and transmission. We have been fortunate to remain COVID-free so far, but please remember that there are lives hanging in the balance.

> there not near-unanimous agreement that everyone is going to catch Covid at some point

Be infected by SARS-CoV-2, the virus, sure. Get Covid, the disease, no.

K, fair distinction.

That much was obvious as soon as it was determined that this new virus was a respiratory coronavirus.

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