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by CharlesW 1343 days ago
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.
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Llamamoe 1341 days ago
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.

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andrewflnr 1342 days ago
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.

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