That’s not the reason they are sounding alarms on individual cases, though. That could be easily clarified for employers unless the employers are a**holes. That was a problem before covid anyway. There was a time not long ago at all, just last year, in fact, when many employers expected people to go back work if they had the flu for more than a few days even though it can last a couple of weeks, or drag themselves out of bed to get a doctors note that people often have to pay for, just to be told by the doctor to go home and go back to bed - after possibly infecting vulnerable people in the doctors office. Or work with colds even if they spread them to everyone, who were also expected to work with colds. That’s an employer problem not a covid problem. Invisible disabilities, like depression too, are often not taken seriously. Again, employer problem, not covid problem. It’s a capitalist productivity/ bottom line oriented problem. The problem of the attitude that basically people don’t deserve to live if they don’t make money for the Boss, but that they should risk their lives trying.
They’re not giving accurate stats on how this virus affects people by pointing out anomalies, or rare effects, in individuals. What we need to know most now is how it affects most people who get it. You could get the flu and get a secondary pneumonia and die, if you are in a vulnerable group, too. Or, anyone could end up with Epstein Barr from mono, but most of the time that won’t happen. What they are doing is scaring people into believing this might be how it affects everybody. We have to be careful of media attempts to get people good and scared and under control without questioning. Fear sells.
Plus, are we going to get a follow up about this woman? Maybe she will get over her post viral effects in a few more weeks.
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