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Uh, isn’t COVID damaging on your system every time you get? Basically risking long COVID and death?

Also the more cases there are the more chances for mutation. The reasoning is like one step away from antivaxer logic.

COVID right now is mutating towards being more contagious but less severe. That isn't really antivaxer logic, get a good vaccine and you should be much more protected against either catching or getting severe symptoms from a more endemic COVID.

Ok, let's check in next year and see if the US life expectancy rebounds from its two year decline.

I'm guessing not though, if daily COVID deaths are anything to go by.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2022/...

It most definitely will rebound, I don't think anyone with any knowledge about how these things work will argue otherwise. But it isn't clear if or how fast we will get back to 2019 numbers, especially since our long term health care labor and infrastructure was decimated by the pandemic (by COVID directly as well as by lockdowns, and just by people not wanting to do the work anymore for what we are willing to pay for it).

I think we have vastly different values and even if we agreed on the same set of facts we wouldn't agree. Interesting talk, though.

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