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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's been interesting to watch the warnings about covid morph over time. At first it was about becoming extremely ill or even dying. Once we had vaccinations that was wasn't really a threat for most people anymore, so the messaging switched to the fear of long covid. Then we all saw nearly everyone we know get covid in the last year and not have any long term impact, so it switched to next time you're infected you'll get long covid, which doesn't really make sense. Now we have people suggesting that we need to be afraid that something is secretly wrong in healthy appearing people that will rear it's head in the future because covid.

Maybe at some point you should consider stepping off the covid train. 
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I totally agree with your first paragraph.

But long COVID and death from COVID are real so it is worth it to take practical steps to reduce transmission to protect the small percentage (but large number) of people that will be impacted in these ways. Indefinite masking and avoiding indoor activities is not practical. Staying home and/or masking when sick or during surges is practical.

But when people are flooded with fearmongering about long COVID that is very clearly false, they of course say f7ck it, I'm going to "step off the COVID train". So, congrats folks, look what you've done. I do often wonder if these long COVID alarmists are actually right-wing trolls. If so, they're very clever.[/quote]

I don’t think that makes any material difference.  People warning about long Covid haven’t made any significant impact on peoples’ behavior.  Even if couched differently, most people would not change their behavior.  Most think it won’t impact them.  [/quote]

Sadly, I know many 20-30 somethings, the kind of people immersed in social media and Twitter, who are deathly afraid of long covid and still don’t date/socialize normally due to the fear. [/quote]

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