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  some social contagion happening there.
  
  that people can, with a straight face, point to a list of over 200 symptoms and pretend it is all covid and easily identified is a joke. anyone who knows they had covid is going to think every bruise and ache and cough is "long covid" now.
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  with more than 200 symptoms
  
  this alone makes it pretty meaningless. 200 symptoms means just about everything from a runny nose that one time to aneurysms. 
  
  t least 65 million individuals around the world have long COVID, based on a conservative estimated incidence of 10% of infected people 
  
  this is based on mostly guessing. and the study cited spells out 5 problems with their own data. most notably:
  
  Second, the incidence of new conditions after an acute COVID-19 infection might be biased toward a population that is seeking care
  
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  Finally, the study only assessed conditions thought to be attributable to COVID-19 or post-COVID illness, which might have biased RRs away from the null. For example, clinicians might have been more likely to document possible post-COVID conditions among case-patients.
  
  in other words, sick people get sick.
  i see no mention of who is getting what, or how debilitating it is. just that there is risk, etc. this paper is basically a plea for funding, so of course they want it to sound horrible.
  
  however it only takes one unlucky moment for humanity, and society as a whole, to collapse.
  
  humanity didn't collapse after the black death or spanish flu, both orders of magnitude worse than covid and at a time when we were much less advanced. predicting the end of humanity because some people might get tired in the future is a bit much. >
  
  Over 98% of people who reported long covid symptoms have recovered from them.
  Much like Havana Syndrome, we’ve got a bit of mass hysteria happening with people who still cling to this idea of long covid. 
  Being on subs centered around that gives them an identity, an excuse, and a feeling of belonging. We might also have some social contagion happening there.