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depends. if your quality of life is already poor due to health issues, long covid could easily result in you never being able to leave your house again
being lonely is awful, but let's not downplay the disease that has killed literally tens of millions of people and crippled countless others
Edit: also stating that there are things riskier than exposing yourself to covid doesn't minimize it. How many deaths of despair have occurred worldwide over that same period?
i'm gonna go ahead and disagree that loneliness is even likely a "much greater risk to your health" than covid tbh, unless you have some compelling information to share
i'm not really trying to start a fight but i do think making claims like that is downplaying the seriousness of covid
Again, it's pretty weird that you interpret this claim as downplaying the seriousness of covid. The health risks of loneliness and isolation are very well established, and they're generally considered very significant.
This is a good recent meta-analysis on the topic
If that's not your bag, this is a readable interview in Harvard Review by a researcher in the topic
This is the CDC on the subject
To suggest one thing is a greater risk than another is not to say either of them are not significant risks. I'm just saying if your solution to covid is to completely isolate yourself socially you may be introducing more risk than you would introduce by spending time socially with other humans.