Hard to tell in advance, without the information. Was this a flippant dismissal or a genuine question?

Would be interesting to know. If you're alarmist about COVID affecting brain tissue long term and we have protections against other diseases that also have long term effects on brain tissues, it reasons to me that you should also be as adamant if not more for protecting against those diseases.

There's a lot of funding studying COVID, for good reasons. Why not use those findings to further other areas as well? We now have some interesting comparisons to look at. Might be even more good reasons to promote getting your annual flu shot.

> Does this matter?

Who knows? Maybe there's a ton of viral infections out there that cause some form of brain damage and get no attention at all. Attention bias at play.

I would try to avoid the flu more if I had an idea of how much brain damage it could cause. I understand the comparison to the flu is a touchy subject, but the question can still be asked from a standpoint of curiosity. Is this disease showing completely new symptoms for a viral infection, or have we been over analyzing any little details that are not so uncommon? Does it matter? I certainly would like to know the answer.

The flu causes myocarditis in a similar way that COVID has been reported to cause in children. Having a comparison of rates of issues would be useful so as to figure out if it’s important or not.

The same goes for this reported brain issue. If it is a real issue, comparing against other known issues will tell us how dangerous it is.

> Does this matter?

If we believe in science, probably.