Someone asked me a few days ago, "If COVID is as bad as you say it is, why isn't Public Health doing more about it?"
It's because in Canada, Public Health's main job is keeping the health care system running smoothly, not keeping you running smoothly.
You can see this by looking at how they make decisions. On this page, PHAC explains how they decided to limit vaccines to certain groups: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/publications/vaccines-immunization/national-advisory-committee-immunization-statement-guidance-covid-19-vaccines-2025-summer-2026.html
If you look at the research on cost per Quality of Adjusted Life-Years, the papers overwhelmingly only look at the cost to the health care system of dealing with the initial (acute) illness. No consideration to chronic effects or of the costs to the humans (e.g. in lost pay).
Some of the papers looked a little deeper, but the ones that included Long COVID assumed that Long COVID only lasted for six months. Only one considered people who did not seek medical attention in their acute phase. Only one considered non-covid long-term effects, and only for people who were in ICU.