The entire political establishment is in agreement on the need to enforce the pro-corporate policy of “forever COVID,” in which the working class and broad layers of society as a whole are condemned to unending waves of mass infection, death and debilitation with Long COVID.
There are plenty of studies about the long term damage that even a mild infection can have. Vascular damage causing strokes, brain damage causing brain fog and eventually dementia, immune damage causing increases in other illnesses that aren’t fought off like they used to be, etc etc. So cold level symptoms give the impression it’s fine and nothing but that’s just some symptoms of immune response.