There's some serious goalpost shifting going on. The people that told you long covid was rare in general, and exceptionally rare in kids and for reinfections, have been unequivocally proven wrong by several studies. So now the talking point is "your lifetime risk of LC isn't 99%"

LOL wait is that the bar now? Despite being common in general, on reinfection and in kids... most people need not worry about LC bc 'there's no evidence that 99% of us will end up with post covid health conditions in our lifetime'. How could there be when the virus is only 3yo?

The bottom line is that we now have evidence that you risk LC/post-covid health issues with every single infection and that that risk isn't rare with reinfections. It's common. So the lifetime risk of covid badness is cumulative and keeps increasing w each additional infection.

*If* the lifetime risk of post covid health issues keeps increasing with subsequent infections isn't controversial anymore. It does. The remaining unknown is *how quickly* your lifetime risk increases. How many infections before the odds of being okay are no longer in your favor.

The math of LC roulette is really inconvenient so the LC minimizers are deflecting. Either they can't wrap their heads around the concept of cumulative risk or they just aren't ready to concede because of what it implies for our collective future (if we keep doing nothing).