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If you don't get tested - the odds are you won't - the relief of recovery is quickly replaced with doubt, "was it really Covid-19?" And you must fearfully go on acting like it wasn't.



Not if you're people I've talked to recently -- any cold or flu and people are like "yeah I had it any it wasn't too bad, I don't get all the fuss. I'm immune to it now!" Even though they never got tested


For the vast majority of corona viruses cases, it is, in fact "not too bad".

There is survivorship bias in the media reports. Mild cases don't get reported because it's bland, common, and everyday. The ones that cause death DO get reported because it's clickbait basically. This biases the population to overestimate the risk from this.


The point I was trying to make though is that people that almost certainly didn't have it are assuming that they did, which is dangerous because now they'll be much less cautious




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