Hmm, deadly fungal infections are worse now.
Hmm, flu and RSV were bad this year.
Hmm, cardiac events are climbing.
Hmm, STD rates are rising.
Hmm, plane near-misses are rising.
Hmm, student absentee rates are rising.
Hmm, disability rates are climbing.
I'm sure that's all due to a set of random & unrelated factors and not because we're pretending a rapidly mutating virus that reinfects people frequently and damages brains, hearts and immune systems isn't continuing to spread.

#COVID19 😡 🙄 😷

@augieray

Immune resources are finite. Resources used to manage a chronic infection--particularly innate immune resources--can not be applied in defense vs pathogens acquired from the external environment. We see the same thing happen in HIV long before the disease progresses to AIDS.

@shayz0rz