betrayal
Banned
Ignoring the fact that human beings understand tragedy precisely through individual fates, long COVID is a societal problem that will need to be addressed as part of the process of returning to normality.
Individual fates have nothing to do with the general public, nor are they a "societal problem". They are, quite clearly, individual fates.
It may be that some people would like to believe that and also the media contribute a lot to it, but that still does not make it true.
And by the way, you can ask these very people and media about the "big" "sociatal problems" before COVID. Remember racism? Gender equality? Political left vs. political right? And much more. They're "gone" for now, but those were big "societal problems", too, at least until the media stopped writing about these issues, which until then had lived rent-free in people's heads.
But it is always the same. The majority of society perceives things as they are presented and not as they are. The latter would require energy and time and that's a big no-no for most people.