mishie
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See here's the core issue right. You're saying that we cannot make any assumptions about the future of covid whatsoever because we have so few cases that are exactly as lomg as you want. The thing that you're kinda ignoring is the fact that pneumonia isn't exactly a new thing, doctors and scientists have been studying all the weird and wonderful ways in which the human body, and lungs in particular can get fucked up, so even though the data for the long term effects of Covid19 is limited, there's an incredible amount known about how lungs work, how they recover after infection, and the different ways they can be damaged and how that effects tbat patient long term.But that's the thing we DO. NOT. HAVE any real data on most of the relatively low profile cases popping all around the globe. For starters, most of those cases live in areas of the planet where intensive research on every case, much less proper followup, is even feasible.
Most of the damage has been documented from serious cases, but you can't really say the proper research has been done on most of the cases that don't quite go that far, so we are in mostly unknown territory there and saying anything, one way or another, IS venturing guesses for the most part.
Are you really going to tell me with a straight face that most of the cases globally have been properly researched and followed to the point of formulating educated guesses on what will happen to the majority of them months, much less years, from now on, rather than being treated, then dispatched as soon as they get better with a mindset of "Welp, sure hope this is fine from here"? Come. On.
In that case we are all pretty much fucked no matter what. It's not a matter of if but when. Even the best of lockdowns can be extended only so far, a vaccine is still not a very clear option no matter what many may hope, and it's more or less generally agreed that even if we get one we all will get this before it's available, it's a matter of just not getting it all at the same time.
But if we can just get infected over and over in the meanwhile, every time further wearing you down, and this damn thing can win the attrition war against us? Game over, man, game over.
So yes, it is very much so reasonable to discus the long term effects in general of Covid19 at this stage, because unless it suddenly mutates and acts very differently, it is hilariously simple to assess a patients lungs via a routine chest xray, or if you're feeling fancy a HRCT chest, and to then use that information to plan ahead.