And this is why we are so resistant to acknowledging that COVID is still around (never mind acknowledging that it might still be a problem) and this erases and invalidates the struggles of those with long COVID and other long term complications of all infectious diseases.
The Fig EconomyOne of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.