I know you didn't address it to me. But..... how can anyone know long term affects on anything until decades pass? What is long term? 6 months? A year? 5? 10? 20? 50? A century?
All these concerns are an infinite montage of currently unknowable what ifs. It is mostly fear driven at this point.
There is no way to calculate long terms effects for something that's only been around for about 4 or 5 months.
That said...... Covid is still a flu virus. And Flu vaccines have been given out for decades. And so far there is no significant long term health problem proven, although that doesn't mean zero. Although there are those who insist (anecdotally) that it can cause autism. But even then, autism is such a wide range of behavior/psychological presentations and disorders that is very difficult to classify.
Point being: Pretty much everything we do to our bodies (like concussions) has short and long term risks. But risk means just that: it doesn't mean certainty. And so it is expressed by probabilities, but even then that depends on the extent and purity of the data sampling.
Bottom line: get over it. Life has many risks. Covid is another, and there will be more in this fully interconnected global system. But what we know from literally millions of data points is that if you are under 40 and of normal and typical health, you are at very low risk of getting acutely ill from it, and mortality is super low.
Hey pro football players. Quit now. You are playing a game with risks. But.... Covid isn't one of them.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/17/2021 01:34PM by RockRam.
