COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]

Dragon said
And 5 years are still too short time to know the long term consequences of COVID-19 infections like increased risks of heart disease, myocarditis, arrhythmias, and blood clot formation due to damage to the heart and blood vessels, which again could lead to organ damage or strokes.

If serious long-term damage to the body and mind affects even just 1% of people who have had COVID-19 once, the resulting number of individuals with chronic health issues could overwhelm healthcare systems, disability support networks, and long-term care facilities. This would lead to increased medical costs, reduced workforce participation, and significant economic strain on countries worldwide.

I understand fully, Dragon. My previous comments were more of a general observation or reflection of just how significantly (and severely) Covid-19 has affected so many various aspects of so many people's lives worldwide in so many unforeseen ways that would've seemed near-impossible to consider except from discussing this from strictly hypothetical scenarios 10-15 years ago on SR or at international WHO or CDC health conventions.

I do realize and vaguely know about a few other minor pandemics that occured throughout the 20th century, particularly a short-lived 1968 pandemic, but my God, the closest, analogous example to the novel-coronavirus-19 was the 1918-21 H1N1 "Spanish Flu" pandemic that broke out during the last 6-7 months of WWI and was called the "Spanish Flu" because some of the first accurate, European reports about cases of the H1N1 virus came from a still-uncensored neutral Spanish press. Very few people who were even 1-2 years old at the time of the outbreak were alive by the time of Covid's spread, much less could they give us first-hand, contemporary accounts of psychological, social and economic fissures or attrition it further caused in so many war-ravaged European countries. And our world was a lot less interconnected a century ago then it is now.

Hunger, malnutrition, disease and economic stagnation or regression affected even neutral countries like Holland, Switzerland and your own Denmark due to pre-war international, interconnected commercial trade networks and shipping lanes being mostly severed due to the British blockade of German ports and German navy's restricted/unrestricted submarine attacks on commercial and passenger ships, like the Lusitania in 1916.