Isn’t it just a bad cold at this point?

No. The risk of long-term disability remains substantial.

Damn. You don’t hear about that stuff as much. I wonder how many people are affected by it and just don’t realize it.

Around 10% of people get Long Covid after the first infection, chances go up with follow-up infections. Long Covid has a long list of possible symptoms (a friend of a friend had a really bad cough for three months and was always exhausted) with the more severe symptoms being rarer but still fucking scary (like ME/CFS).