One thing I often wonder, though, is how much of these revelations about covid aren't really revelations at all. Like, until it happened nobody gave a second shit about flu viruses and how their mechanics work, the rare 1% symptoms and long term effects,

For example the mighty 'Long Covid' became a huge, terrible thing. Except that's not a new thing in flu's at all; long term flu and pneumonia symptoms are a thing that happens commonly, it's normal. But we just never thought about it or cared.

Now everyone's panicking about it because people gave it a name and a BBC article. Well, how many other weird and mysterious things are we dealing with and adding shock value to now, that we've always dealt with in the past without a second thought?

I've certainly had some weird stuff going on in my body over the years I never bothered even mentioning to anyone and just dealt with it until it went away.