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Yes, actually, you can get rid of a disease.  We did it with polio.  And note that polio's overwhelmingly predominant symptom was diarrhea.  We don't remember polio nowadays, only longpolio.  In 70% of cases, polio is asymptomatic. In 29.5%, it presents as diarrhea, GI distress. Only 0.5% of cases present with neurological symptoms. For the vast vast majority of people who got a disease which left hundreds of thousands disabled for the rest of their lives, polio was a few days of having the shits. If that.

So when you say that we can't get rid of COVID and you're just going to live your life, recognize that more people WILL die, and WILL become permanently disabled, due directly to those choices.  [b](Estimates are that 30%+ of COVID cases, *even asymptomatic ones* will result in long COVID.)[/b][/quote]

This is when I know I'm not talking to a normal person.

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"Among COVID-19 survivors, 36.55% had one or more long-COVID feature recorded between 3 and 6 months [post infection]."  https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1003773

"More than half of the millions of people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 worldwide since December 2019 will experience post-COVID symptoms up to six months after recovering."  https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/how-many-people-get-long-covid-more-half-researchers-find/

"more than half of COVID-19 survivors experienced PASC [postacute sequelae of COVID-19 - long covid] 6 months after recovery." https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2784918

Something, ANYTHING that reduces the spread of COVID even a little, is better than nothing.  To say "oh well, there's nothing we can do" is just condemning so many people to unnecessary death or disability.  In the face of a disaster like a hurricane, we acknowledge that we cannot actually stop it but AT LEAST we try to protect against the worst possible impact!  [/quote]

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