People are obsessed with the short-term effects of Covid, prioritising them over the longer-term impacts. "It was just like a minor cold, really", they say, perhaps not realising that [even mild cases of Covid have been shown to cause lasting cognitive impairment](https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/236034/lasting-brain-impacts-severe-covid-19-equivalent/). But I also take exception with this comparison to the common cold.