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These are scary things, and if you live long enough chances of encountering one of these are substantial enough to justify that. However, right now the spread of SARS-CoV-2 is the more imminent threat, I'd say.
Anecdotal, but since it concerns myself I can attest to its truth and am willing to share.
I contracted Covid-19 end october/early november - one of my children picked it up in a clinic where she had been residing for a while, and was forced out upon an outbreak. I had her in isolation at home, yet two weeks after she was symptom free I nevertheless ran up a fever, and was out of it for a few days with mild symptoms.
At that point, I considered myself to have gotten off easy. Then the leg cramps started (a common thing that covid patients suffer), and I couldn't walk for a few days. As that subsided, I still thought, well, that's that then. But then an excruciating pain started shooting down from my right hip, with the right leg cramping up and pain flaring up to unprecedented high levels. Docter says it's probably a nerve being pinched somewhere near the lower back - and he thinks it's caused indirectly by the burden posed by the post-covid leg cramps.
Right now I can't walk at all, or sit, and am waiting for an MRI while looking for options to deal with the pain. So, anecdotal, but I can attest: covid-19 is no laughing matter — even though what I went through is considered to be a very mild case.
TL;DR Covid-19 is real and serious, even in so-called mild cases, and I'm surprised to see it downplayed so easily and often.
Sorry to hear about your case. What do you think you could have done better to avoid/improve your condition?