I would use the word "priors". I've looked at the literature that claimed long-term hard damage, long-term lung damage, etc. In almost all cases it's overblown or statistically irrelevant. Let me give you some studies here:
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https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-27359/v1 … > Radiological abnormalities in patients of severe COVID-19 could be completely absorbed with no residual lung injury in more than two months’ follow-up
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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1046/j.1440-1843.2003.00522.x … (SARS-1 pathology) > Preliminary evidence suggests that these lung function abnormalities will improve over time This is obviously SARS-1 but I think SARS-1 is a great model of what severe COVID-19 looks like.
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I know that a lot of the "long-term damage" claims are about more than just lung issues. Like I said, most of the literature I've seen is not very convincing. A couple months of fatigue following SARS-1 or severe SARS-2 infection? Sure. Life-long ME/CFS? Vanishingly unlikely.
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How do you calculate the odds?
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That depends on the specific claim in question (vague enduring fatigue? or specifically years-long physical damage? etc). But the same way anyone does, looking at the studies. To flip it around, what do you estimate the prevalence of "long COVID" or similar to be?
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More broadly, how convinced are you that the net increase in net wellbeing attributable to avoided COVID-19 mortality/complications will outpace the decrease in wellbeing due to school closures, economic devastation, suspended elective surgeries, general stress/anxiety/fear etc?
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You are conflating topics. Masks look like a smart cost-benefit play. School closings and business closings were smart during the initial fog of the unknown, but not at this point.
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I concede that; it occurred to me that you likely don't support all of those, but twitter length prevents/ed me from elaborating. Let's focus on that then - why does it look like a smart cost/benefit play to you? The theoretical mechanism doesn't even make sense.
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I do have to mention though that both school closures and business closures were not smart during the fog of the unknown. This is the fallacy that it's better to *do something* than to do nothing. If you're lost in a 20-dimensional space, don't start walking randomly
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I never want to be in an emergency situation with you. You don't seem to have the right kind of judgement for that.
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