Little by little, we are learning more about Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, and the disease it causes, Covid-19. What we are learning is clearing up some of the misconceptions we had initially.
- Covid-19 is not a “Chinese flu.” It is not any kind of flu.
- Covid-19 is HIGHLY infectious. All it takes is a single virus particle penetrating one of your cells to trigger the virus replication machinery that will produce an army of virus particles within you.
- If you are lucky and in robust good health, you will recover from a Covid-19 infection, but that does not mean that you will be as healthy as you were before you were infected. It appears for many, that damage to the lungs, heart, and other internal organs is permanent. This is true even of people who have a “light” case and show no symptoms. This damage will almost certainly shorten a recovered person’s healthy lifespan.
- Even if you are young and in robust good health before contracting the disease, Covid-19 could still incapacitate you for months. It could still kill you.
- It is insane to counsel people to deliberately become infected so that society can reach “herd immunity” where the virus dies out because there are no longer susceptible people to infect. At best, you are consigning such people to internal damage and a shortened life. At worst, you are consigning them, and the people closest to them, to death.
