what matter are stats, and they don't lie Sadly stats do lie, all the time, and especially in this particular event. Just a few days ago it was discovered tha

what matter are stats, and they don't lie Sadly stats do lie, all the time, and especially in this particular event. Just a few days ago it was discovered that Public Health England was defining a "COVID death" as literally any death of anyone who had ever been infected. Under this definition COVID is a terminal disease from which nobody ever recovers. The stats reported for COVID deaths in England have been completely corrupted and nobody seems to know how long this has been going on for. Is the UK really one of the "worst hit" countries given such statistical errors? Maybe, maybe not. Nobody actually knows. The same problems are visible in other countries too. That's why there are so many cases of people reported as COVID deaths yet who actually clearly died of other cases. Governments suspended the usual judgement of pathologists, autopsies etc to find out 'true' cause of death and just assumes COVID+death = COVID death. The case count is even more corrupted. At this point I don't think there are any stats that are reliable except all-cause mortality, and even then, people routinely read things into it that aren't there. For example by assuming all excess deaths must be caused by COVID. Not a valid inference. So some newspaper has come up with some stats saying lots of people have weird, inexplicable yet vague symptoms after apparently recovering. Given how often these outlets have mis-labelled or mis-reported basic statistical data and always to the same end of creating more panic, I'm going to reserve judgement until far more analysis is done and with far more reliable evidence.