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I would not set much stock in the idea that young people escape "unscathed."That's pretty scary. I wonder why, then, young people mostly get C0VlD-19 and are seemingly unscathed, and can potentially be carriers.
Yes, it has been drilled into our heads by the media, but I don't believe it matches the evidence.
- China published a study that 80% of patients had mild disease, 15% had severe disease, and 5% were critical.
- The media latched on to that 80% number and the game was on.
- "Mild" transformed to "asymptomatic" or "you may never even know you had it."
- Come to find out, that "mild" segment from the original Chinese study included people with pneumonia. Once you needed oxygen, you were "severe," and once you needed intensive care, you were "critical."
People are flippantly expecting to get this disease and recover, like they always do with the flu. But if it is like the recovery prognosis from SARS, people's lives could be permanently changed.
In 2012, I went to Haiti, thinking I was invincible. I was in excellent health; pretty much the most energetic person I knew.
I came down with malaria, cholera, and dengue fever while I was there.
My health has never been the same. I now have to completely sit out things I loved to do, like games of ultimate Frisbee. I had extreme fatigue for 4 years (for instance, just a simple task like taking a shower consumed what felt like 3/4ths of my energy for the day). I experience pain on a daily basis and get sick easily. I have to stick to an extreme diet in order to be able to function.
So now I have a very healthy caution about getting exposed to an unknown disease.
And nothing I have seen in the actual evidence has reassured me that this is a disease that ANYONE will escape unscathed. Even if you live, like most children seem to do, no one knows if there will be after effects (like how shingles crops up later in life of those who have had chicken pox, or like how adults who survived polio often develop post-polio syndrome). It's way too early to tell.
I fear that a lot of young people are in for a rude awakening when they get sick.
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