the question is what’s the upshot of this, given that most of these children had mild or no symptoms, does it condemn them to the curse of long covid or does it mean that they’re more likely to shrug off future waves, or neither of these?
Covid-worrier Twitter is now thumping about how every infection carries the chance of progressing to “long Covid” which is a bother in its own right, is not yet confirmed to inevitably at any point end, and can damage systems in a way that may lead to later issues.
One of the things they’re talking about now is the circulatory system, not only the heart muscle but also blood vessel walls (and clots) – studies citing 30% increased risk of cardiac events in the following year.
And like, yeah, my blood pressure sometimes drops so low I faint standing up, and the last mania it went uncomfortably high, but honestly I was so unconcerned with 1X the cardiac event rate that 1.3X isn’t much – they cite cases of people suddenly dropping dead but like yeah, that’s what a heart attack is and if you harvest news cases from the entire world there will be occurrences in any given week, but there were back at 1X too.
They talk about brain damage and yup, I’m pretty sure it made my brain better but that’s clearly a radial keratotomy-ass thing where it took damage and healed just the right way, I haven’t heard of anything similar.
They ominously suggest it might raise the chances of cancers later, but while the mechanisms they suggest sound possible and precedented, their seizing on the concept really seems less connected to it being likely than on it being a possible way their hyperanxiety might still be proportionate even after everything we’ve seen
