I’m well-aware of long-COVID, but I was responding to someone who seemed terrified of dying from the disease.

Re long-term effects on health: the dangers of eating food that’s been toxified by Big Agra, taking drugs that have been toxified by Big Pharma, living in a society in which the average person is stressed to the point of exhaustion and can barely afford to feed themselves, also have long-term effects on our health. Life as a human, especially if you live in the U.S., is beyond dangerous and has been for a while, long before COVID hit our shores. If only we were as concerned with the obesity crisis, the cancer epidemic, the heart disease epidemic, the diabetes epidemic, and the myriad other chronic illnesses and diseases that cause long-term health complications!

A government-driven effort to make Americans more nutrition and health aware, rather than looking for easy answers (vaxx up and mask up), would make you, me, and everyone else much safer than anything our society is doing now — and greatly diminish our likelihood of suffering from long-term health effects.