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@KimSJ they do indeed. usually* less so on the long-term immune, neurological, vascular, and organ damage, but yes. and as covid makes everyone more susceptible to those other infections, you'd really think that they'd make more of an effort to encourage people to protect themselves and others. they (rightly!) don't let people drive drunk, and covid is so very, very much worse than that in terms of how many people one person can kill. but but but the economy. which will collapse eventually when everyone's too sick to work and too poor to buy stuff. bah. *ofc debilitating post-viral illness can come on after any infection, but covid has the added benefit of being not so much a respiratory illness but a vascular one. with proteins that lodge in the brain ...