Well this is a report from the Mayo clinic on the long term effects of covid.
COVID-19 can have lasting symptoms that affect many parts of the body. Learn more about the symptoms and effects of long COVID.
Did it occur to you that these cases would not be reported in the media as the effects may not be known for some time and so they may be heavily understated ?
Did it also occur to you that hospitals were not 'overwhelmed'
because of the restrictions introduced ?
Your anecdotal evidence of the few people you have talked to is not statistically significant compared to reports by doctors who have to treat the illness.
Did you actually read your own link? It makes it sound about as mild and trivial as I've been saying! What point are you trying to make by providing a link which indicates that your own fearmongering is silly?
Obviously we have reduced the number of cases with lockdowns etc. You're dodging the question. It shouldn't be necessary, but he's a reiteration for you:
The initial narrative was that even with extreme lockdowns, the healthcare system would be overwhelmed. We were told it was such a bad disease with people having no immunity/resistance to it (this is now utterly debunked, ie, the virus is not anywhere near the threat it was initially assumed and the models were based on). We were told that even with extreme lockdown measures the hospital system would be overwhelmed and people would be dying because they would not be able to be treated in hospital because there was insufficient capacity. The fact that we haven't had anywhere near that amount of issue shows that the initial assumption was wrong. The assertion, which we now know was incorrect, was that we would have an overwhelmed hospital capacity, that is, even with extreme lockdowns. This hasn't happened anywhere in Australia, with or without lockdowns. Even in the USA which is the poster child of mismanagement (rightly or wrongly), the hospital system is not overwhelmed and there have been very few cases of it even there, despite the healthcare system having been a complete mess and sometimes overwhelmed even before this virus came along.
The fact that you can cling to the absurd notion that this virus is not just as bad, but worse than initially thought, shows how radically divorced from reality you are.
Deaths are nothing like we were initially told to expect, even, and this is massive, even when counting people who die with the disease are counted as having died of the disease, and you compare this figure to the initial estimates of people who would actually die of the disease!
This is tangibly the case according to official data, and yet you still say it's worse! You continually demonstrate that you are not basing your arguments on anything valid. You're clearly just working on an extreme stance of pushing the 'the virus is bad and the mitigation measures are harmless' to the greatest possible extent with absolutely no requirement to be honest (probably including with yourself) or genuine, even to the point of providing a link which proves yourself wrong. Apparently you are so biased that you see evidence which contradicts yourself but you view it through such an extreme filter that you not only believe it says something different from what it does, but you assume others will see it the same way you do!