A friend of mine who is 25 now has a heart condition to deal with.

Yeah, it's directly from COVID. Couple of months ago.

10% of cases are still getting long covid and dodging it once doesn't mean dodging it twice; the odds don't improve. Not overall.

So don't give up yet. The nasal vaccines are in human testing and doing well. Those are the ones that'll actually throw a wrench directly into communicability.

Hold out for those.