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When you say the risk of long COVID is 'low' & we don't need to worry, what you really mean is that it's 'lower' than before but still too high for something that's infecting everyone again & again & that you don't care about the clinically vulnerable who are at much higher risk.
From a population perspective, if in the current era even if the incidence of long COVID is 1%, for an infection that affects a whole population multiple times, that's high. Because that's millions of people, given the numbers that get infected each year.
And remember for those who are clinically vulnerable, disabled, have pre-existing conditions, the risk is *much* higher. So saying we don't need to care about it, isn't just inaccurate, it's also deeply abelist, and testament to not caring about the most vulnerable in society.
And please don't encourage people to get infected again & again to develop 'natural immunity'- that's how people develop long COVID. Many of us developed long COVID getting infected in the omicron era after multiple vaccinations. Each infection is a risk no one should take.
Long COVID changes your life- often permanently. Don't ask people to take that risk. I'd do anything to be able to go back and not be infected. As I'm sure many people who are suffering with chronic illness and disability would.
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