The infection and damage to multiple organs was a feature of initial infection in an immune naive population. Whilst it might still be a feature in a sub-population of immune compromised individuals, it is no longer a manifestation generally. It’s now just another cold causing human coronavirus.

Everyone dies in the end! It’s just a question of when and from what cause. Cure one disease or pathology and the others lower down move up the list.

I think sometimes we can become obsessed with small details and arguing about complex issues. It often pays to step back and ask the question, has there been a major impact on global metrics? Infection and immunity is a complex subject, but all causes mortality and morbidity is a much easier metric!

Yet that repetitive reinfection of a majority of the worlds population is failing to show any significant increasing trends in deteriorating world health! Indeed an analysis of population mortality and morbidity shows a return to pre-pandemic trends. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I would argue that the recent global observation that life expectancy trends have returned to pre-pandemic projections, despite ongoing rounds of reinfections with SarsCoV2 pragmatically answers the question in the negative! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I think you could include influenza as an infection we understand in great detail and it’s also a respiratory infection caused by an airborne RNA virus, so a better comparator with COVID19 than is HIV, a sexually transmitted DNA retrovirus.

Lot of folk want to blame others for rising prices... and sure, venture capital, energy price rises, commodity costs... but you're also just proving the point of not wanting to own the policy choices... how much do you think it costs to eat out in Scandinavia?