People keep parroting this out of fear.
Go ahead and take your best guess about the percentage of people that this will happen to. Are you ok with lockdowns to save .001% of the population from this? I've asked questions like this before but never received a response. Any type of real debate is simple ignored and downvoted. All emotions, never any debate.
Fear brings more upvotes than facts. A scary story will get 100+ upvotes but this story only got 7:
Lungs damaged by coronavirus can repair themselves in three months (telegraph.co.uk)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/09/06/lungs-damaged-co...
The online fear factory is similar to the old school media fear factor but the online one is self perpetuating.
No. But that's a full 4 orders of magnitude off our best estimates of mortality which are around 1%. Do I support the limited lockdowns we've had, lasting only a few weeks, to allow breaking the exponential growth and not doubling our yearly mortality? Definitely yes.
It is absolutely worth continuously assessing whether the measures are necessary and what is and is not working, but that requires not throwing a huge number of people under the bus