Comment by dhosek

This is the thing that drives me the most nuts about so many people's reactions to this disease who treat infection as a binary: You die or you don't die and the latter is just as good as not getting it, ignoring the (a) social/medical/emotional costs of a person being sick and (2) the fact that we have just been learning about the long-term effects of infection. From the beginning I've been worried that we're going to see a generations-long impact on overall health just from people who were infected and then "got better." There's so much unknown about this disease but we've let a bunch of politicians and cable TV/internet/podcast hacks claim that it's not serious so that a significant fraction of the population ends up actively spreading the disease and providing reservoirs for it to mutate.