That’s not what the drs, CDC and NIH are reporting. The mucous builds-up so fast from the scarring, that the victim drowns in it, allowing no air into the lungs, during the illness. There is no “after”, in many, many cases.
I heard interviews w/ drs who said they’d never seen such scarring in younger people’s lungs, and some were young children.
True, many don’t present such symptoms, but those with scarring and concurrent mucous build-up, do, and die.
I’m a 55yr smoker, and my lungs are clear as saran wrap. Go figure. It depends on the person.
If your lungs get to resemble the x rays you posted, you are not likely to survive or will have debilitating respiratory chronic impairment if you do. If you develop fever and cough in NYC, a presumptive diagnosis of COVID-19 is being made and most physicians are prescribing Hydroxychloroquine and Zithromax even before shortness of breath develops. Absent a safe and effective vaccine that very well may be the best approach knowing what is currently known. These governors would do more good making hydroxychloroquine and Zithromax readily available to physicians and their patients than constantly clamoring for money and respirators.
If a patient is dead there is no scarring, so your argument is moot.
If they live there might be scarring but a scar heals over time.
I hope you haven't smoked for 55 years and only intended to say you are a fifty five year old smoker.
I smoked for about 12 years and quit about 35 years ago. I never documented my stop date and now cannot celebrate that great event. I suggest if you quit you should write down the date. I was able to quit cold turkey and substituted gum. I made one of those gum wrapper chains to keep my hands occupied. I think it was about fifteen feet long before I stopped that.