5. Risk analysis and mitigation is not rooted in fear. It is rooted in the ability to understand the variables of a changed environment and adapt to them. That is to say, risk analysis and mitigation is based in facing reality head-on. This is a rare and valuable skill. /end

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4. Mitigating such a risk is quite obviously rational. I have noticed a resurgence on X / Twitter of people casting those who mitigate as fearful, or anxious, or suffering from OCD. Ignore people who say this.

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3. Beyond even Long Covid, and as I previously noted, I consider it highly likely that a virus that has the capacity to both adversely affect cognition and re-infect a seemingly limitless number of times will likely be a serious risk factor for future neurocognitive disease.

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2. Fundamentally, this is why I avoid infection. I value my physical and cognitive health, as I suspect the majority of people do. I understand the data on Long Covid prevalence, and, personally, I know many people who have it. This hard data and my own experience drives me.

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1. The bottom line: SARS-CoV-2 only emerged in late 2019. No-one can know the long-term effects of repeated infections, but with anosmia and cognitive dysfunction as common symptoms, the assumption I make is that there is a tsunami of early-onset neurocognitive diseases coming.

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