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Also for selfish reasons. I know a 24 year old ballerina (so a professional athlete) who had it two months ago and is now at 80% lung capacity.

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And the even more selfish evolutionary reason: viruses mutate. If we spread it a ton while it's still "safe" for someone young, we're risking major mutations. It's like playing Russian roulette with 8+ billion bullets x probably millions/billions of viruses per person.

We just need one strain to go to something like 5% mortality + mortality across all age groups for this pandemic to become a civilization ending event. Maybe not ending, but "setting back by 20-40-60 years" event.

This kind of thing isn't rare

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...

And to pile on this, I know a triathelete in my group, 24 years old, who had it in April of LAST YEAR and is still not at 100% (can't do any hard aerobics without getting wildly out of breath).

We are still in a pandemic. Stay distant.

I have a coworker that never went to the ICU but can no longer taste or smell. Their family was never at a high risk and only felt normally sick. None the less the damage is done. No one wants to be maimed by this. Claiming “I’m not high risk (of death)” does not mean there is no risk of damage.

We all need to do our part to stop the spread of the virus.

We have a friend in their late 30s who also never went to the hospital but got sick with covid five months ago. They have yet to regain their sense of taste or smell.

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