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My bro had it six months ago and still can’t taste. Dude can eat an onion whole now. Fucking imagine never being able to taste again (his might, idk)
I don’t disbelieve you and that sounds awful and life-changing, but there is a difference between “this awful thing could happen to you” and “this awful thing will happen to you”, but the brain cannot easily see that difference so stories like this tend to make people feel a lot worse than they have to. The truth is your bro is uniquely and tragically unluckly, but any given young person has a very low probability of experiencing serious adverse effects compared to someone in a risk-group.
It may seem like a callous thing to say, and I wouldn’t post it anywhere else because I wouldn’t want to feed virus skepticism by echoing the “its just a flu” people, but that isn’t a problem here so I can be honest and I honestly think it is more callous to say “I can’t believe old people get the vaccine first”, sorry. If you are young you kinda have to just suck it up because this virus isn’t really dangerous to healthy young people anywhere near what it is for unhealthy or older people and that is just a fact, your bro’s unfortunate circumstances aside.
I’d rather not add permanent lung scarring, kidney or other organ damage, neurological issues like the brain fog which seems to be a common complaint, etc.
I don’t think there is really a significant chance of these things if you are quite young, just going off the stats I’ve seen. I think brain fog is an easily misattributed symptom. Obviously nobody wants to get sick but herd immunity will come from a combination of vaccination and infection, better those likely to suffer adverse affects get vaccinated first
Look, I am sympathetic to your work having become extra shit and you feeling like your safety has been overlooked, it definitely has. But pretending like this is the black plague creates its own problems: for one, people who expect them can create symptoms for themselves, especially vague ones like brain fog, and for another, when others see the incongruity between the real severity of the disease and what the media is treating it as, it feeds virus scepticism. The truth is covid is extremely infectious and especially dangerous for vulnerable groups, who cannot easily avoid it due to its infectiousness, but you’ll probably be fine; that is, unless you worry yourself into a nervous breakdown.
I’m very sorry to hear that about your friend, people are suffering badly of course; but the truth is the prevalence of that sort of anecdotal evidence, true as it may be, is causing the disease to be widely misrepresented, and the damage that sort of panic can do should also not be ignored, especially if there’s gonna be another year of this
Ok, if you want to talk practicality, OP is a potentially incredibly virulent vector of infection if they catch Covid. The point of the vaccine, as we don’t have enough to vaccinate everyone, is to eliminate the most potent avenues in which the virus can spread, aka people who are FORCED to come in contact with hundreds if not thousands of people, many of whom do not wear masks
