SIDE-COMMENT:
Furthermore, How do we know the same is happening now in the present time with the count and with long covid?
We can't even know for sure what catching covid does to a person ten years later. So many questions as this is still a relatively novel disease. So much more remains to be known. Covid can kill silently and indirectly so I don't see how we can even come close to an accurate count all the hidden ways covid brings on heart attacks and weakens immune systems etc.....Covid can do so much damage as a catalyst as simply contributing to weaken the immune system... Is long covid even considered a factor that leads to death when these counts are being conducted. No doubt 'Long covid's' afteraffects are probably underestimated and is killing on a major scale and being unaccounted for as we type this.
Personally its way to presumptuous to declare this the end to the pandemic when you consider long covid could be worse than the initial infection even if they be considered 'mild' infections for the majority.
I say the long term repercussions of some of these diseases we carry are worse than the the short term initial infections. We don't even know if several generations will get dementia sooner in life for having caught these 'mild' covid infections. We don't know what having caught covid in youth will do to people as they age.
Insofar as those who say "covid isn't as dangerous as it used to be" I say this "How do ya know because time has to pass to know the long term repercussions of any disease...there is just no way of knowing or proving covid is harmless to catch until time passes.. this is impossible to know..there's something called the 'test of time' and that has yet to come.". A new disease came onto the scene and some people think they know how it's going to play out. Those are 'know it alls'. I personally don't sugar coat it and have no idea what will happen with covid and if those infected with covid or those who continue to get infected will face far worse days ahead as the years go by. It's a disease and has been proving to carry long term repercussions beyond what was expected or wished for.
For all we know some day people may refer to covid as the 'gateway disease' because it may have opened up the gate to heart attacks, dementia, sugar diabetes, decline in immune system.. etc.. You never know what's in store which is why I say the pandemic isn't over because we can't know while we are still in the process of processing it all! We certainly are in trouble with long covid mutations, ramifications, & repercussions while they are still in the making and are still happening and time hasn't played out yet. Those factors aren't over. We aren't there yet.
"It took over 50 years for the world to formally recognize cigarettes were deadly, moving from initial scientific suspicions in the 1920s to firm scientific consensus and public warnings by the early 1960s
. While research began early, massive disinformation campaigns by tobacco companies delayed widespread public acceptance until the 1964 U.S. Surgeon General’s report."
...considering the general public's mindset for many decades about smoking cigarettes, do you think the general public of today can accept that diseases such as covid might have long term repercussions and prove to be harmful for their health and do you think the general public will ever accept the idea that they should have worn a mask to prevent airborne illnesses and airborne diseases? Do people nowadays know more about light, mild or medium light covid than they did for fifty years about cigarettes?
Do you know how long it took the world to accept black lung as a diseases...
"evidence linked coal dust to lung disease as early as the 19th century, it took
over a century for the public and authorities to formally recognize and act on the danger. The disease was not officially understood and widely accepted by the US industry/public until the late 1960s, leading to the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969.
Ya think the world is ready to accept there might be serious long term repercussions from having covid when it takes them this long to recognize black lung and cigarette smoke is bad for them? Black lung affected coal miners & chimney sweepers and tobacco affects cigarette smokers and those around secondhand smoke while covid is a contagious diseases that affects entire populations.
Sincerely,
The Masked Man
P.S.
"pre·sump·tion
/prēˈzəm(p)SHən/
noun
noun: presumption; plural noun: presumptions
1.
an idea that is taken to be true, and often used as the basis for other ideas, although it is not known for certain.
"underlying presumptions about human nature"
an act or instance of taking something to be true or adopting a particular attitude toward something, especially at the start of a chain of argument or action.
2.
behavior perceived as arrogant, disrespectful, and transgressing the limits of what is permitted or appropriate."
