I completely agree with you. I know some COVID “long haulers”, including a woman in her 40s who was in excellent health and who went through a moderate case of COVID-19 (bad symptomcs but not hospitalized) about 7 months ago. She’s had severe back pain ever since then with no identifiable cause. She’s getting vaccinated in the hopes that it relieves that problem as it has for many long-haulers.
She hasn’t been able to work since then because of her health issues and this was a woman who was very active previously. That has a cost to society and to families.
A good friend’s 3-year-old caught it in daycare. He wasn’t particularly sick outside of a fever but a couple of weeks later was covered in a rash. The pediatrician said she has seen that in a number of children. Rather spooky for any respiratory virus to me.