Comments by "UzuMaki NaRuto" (@UzumakiNaruto_) on "Why the US is now recommending new COVID-19 vaccine boosters | Eric Feigl-Ding Interview" video.

Its unfortunate that your dad had more serious symptoms, but for the vast majority of people who have ever been infected by covid, the effects have mostly been moderate to almost nothing. If you look at the statistics, the overwhelming majority of covid deaths and hospitalizations have been among the most elderly and sick. There's not one country on the planet where covid has massively affected even decently healthy people under the age of 60 in a hugely significant manner. I've always wondered why the medical and scientific community along with the media, politicians and all the people who are so afraid of covid absolutely REFUSE to acknowledge this fact and also how young people and kids are barely affected by the virus? Also covid has behaved like the flu since the start of the pandemic. Do you not find it weird that every summer even before any vaccine existed, the number of covid cases and hospitalizations magically went dramatically down during the spring and summer and then it started to rise to higher numbers during the fall and winter? Isn't that what the flu does as well where we see almost no cases during the spring and summer and then come fall and winter we start to see increased flu cases? Covid is no different except its more transmissible.
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@McLKeith What benefits does the vaccine have to young healthy people who have never been significantly affected by the virus to begin with? In Canada I don't think even 100 people under the age of 20 died from the virus in the entire country during the pandemic and yet the government still insisted millions of young people get vaccinated anyways. If our government and health experts keep saying they want to 'follow the science' then why didn't they follow the science on this fact that young people aren't affected by the virus in any significant way?
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@huginug It's definitely not the majority as you say. Quite the opposite, most people have persistent mysterious side effects that apppear after covid. The sleep disturbances are among the most common, incidentally which also are so important for our immune systems and health. google statistics for insomnia in relation to covid, and various other mental disorders, health complications and so on and stop spouting about the "majority" because that is nowhere near the truth I'm not saying covid doesn't affect people differently and that some might experience long term effects after getting it and even after they largely recover from it. However no one can deny that the overwhelming majority of people who have gotten covid either didn't get significantly sick enough to require going to the hospital or else they only suffered mild symptoms at best. If large amounts of people were suffering significant long term effects we would've heard about it constantly these days. Its no different that a good number of people who took a vaccine shot and suffered significant long term complications that impacted their lives and others who took the shot who even mysteriously died shortly after. It happens, but they are outliers and were unfortunate to suffer side effects from the shots when the vast majority didn't. That doesn't mean that many thousands of people who took the shot didn't suffer from it when if they didn't choose to take the shot they might still be fine today. I think far too many governments just went completely nuts over the virus when we knew within the first couple of months that the elderly and sick were the most vulnerable people to the virus the same as they are to the flu or pneumonia or some other kind of illness. I just look at how the Japanese government handled the pandemic and wish all other governments did the same. Japan took precautions, but they only ever had one brief shutdown at the beginning of the pandemic and NEVER SHUT DOWN AGAIN for the rest of time when places like Canada where I am had a number of shutdowns and partial shutdowns during the past 3 years.
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How many healthy people have died to covid vs elderly and unhealthy people? I'm sure there have been some healthy people with little to no medical conditions who have died to covid during the pandemic, but they are few and far in between compared to the vast majority of people who have died to the virus who were elderly and/or sick with other medical conditions.
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