With millions of cases worldwide there will always be some statistical outliers. Those are individually tragic, but not very relevant to most of us. The best estimate for infection fatality rate in the 20 - 49 age group is only 0.02%.
They are still scary due to the way they are portrayed to people. You could probably inject a million people with medical grade saline and still see some crazy reactions.
Many of the long term issues described for COVID already messed up my life as a result of Epstein-Barr 14 years ago (brain fog, fatigue). Post-viral syndrome is real and now it's getting some public attention for the first time.
a) these cases are real and scary
but
b) these cases are proven outliers amplified by crazy fearmongering media and the likes of redditors who don't stop to understand statistics.
What we need is a more reasonable approach to all of this, especially regarding the fact that COVID will be endemic. We need to deal with this fact.
But we also need better reporting since death is not the only bad consequence of COVID-19. It isn't even just limited to health.