"Reports about the prevalence of long COVID vary widely, but a June 2022 CDC study estimates that as many as 20 million American adults—1 out of 13 people over age 18—have lingering COVID-19 symptoms that impact their lives months after infection."
""It's a mass disabling event," says Alba Azola, MD," "Some of these individuals can't work and they can't be caregivers for children or aging parents, she says. "The impacts are staggering.""
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-03-unraveling-covid-impacts.html
A mass disabling event that almost everyone in society is willingly taking part in and fighting everyone who suggests otherwise.
That is extremely well said and meshes quite well with what I see. I've tried to say something similar many times over the last couple of years, but that's much better than I achieved.