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The author of that comment obviously has quite some expertise in the matter (see their profile and some of their other comments linked to in this thread). They

The author of that comment obviously has quite some expertise in the matter (see their profile and some of their other comments linked to in this thread). They didn't say that "Long COVID" symptoms aren't real. They just stated that this particular virus disappears after some time, that is once your immune system manages to cope with it and the infection clears out. This statement is emphatically true. Otherwise, antigen and PCR tests would still yield positive results months after someone became infected. An example of a virus not simply disappearing from your body anymore once you're infected with it would be HIV.

aplummer 5y ago
I take “quietly” to mean “without causing havoc and long term symptoms” which appears to be the undefined term here. This is why I refer explicitly to long term symptoms as being what remains. I stand by my comment, it does not “quietly” go away.
- Talanes 5y ago
  >I stand by my comment, it does not “quietly” go away. By the standards you yourself set two posts above, we cannot know that yet.
  - aplummer 5y ago
    I should have confirmed I was denying the claim and not making one, “we have not proved it goes away quietly eventually”.
AndrewBissell 5y ago
A potential mechanism for Covid to produce lingering symptoms would be some kind of mast cell activation syndrome. I believe that "long Covid" is probably a mix of that, actual lung or vascular damage that takes time to recover (we have a friend who suffered lung damage and referred to the recovery period as "long Covid"), and some (possibly quite large) amount of psychosomatic subjective experience and amplification of lingering symptoms caused by the relentless hype on this issue. http://farid.jalali.one/MCAS_COVID.pdf?fbclid=IwAR08nCA9isigLA_bkuCic2xmUKtvLHKF6z9ga8YyVwlbQMrftMy1-6PetM0 http://farid.jalali.one/MCAS_COVID.pdf?fbclid=IwAR08nCA9isig...

aplummer 5y ago

I take “quietly” to mean “without causing havoc and long term symptoms” which appears to be the undefined term here. This is why I refer explicitly to long term symptoms as being what remains. I stand by my comment, it does not “quietly” go away.

Talanes 5y ago
>I stand by my comment, it does not “quietly” go away. By the standards you yourself set two posts above, we cannot know that yet.
- aplummer 5y ago
  I should have confirmed I was denying the claim and not making one, “we have not proved it goes away quietly eventually”.

AndrewBissell 5y ago

A potential mechanism for Covid to produce lingering symptoms would be some kind of mast cell activation syndrome. I believe that "long Covid" is probably a mix of that, actual lung or vascular damage that takes time to recover (we have a friend who suffered lung damage and referred to the recovery period as "long Covid"), and some (possibly quite large) amount of psychosomatic subjective experience and amplification of lingering symptoms caused by the relentless hype on this issue. http://farid.jalali.one/MCAS_COVID.pdf?fbclid=IwAR08nCA9isigLA_bkuCic2xmUKtvLHKF6z9ga8YyVwlbQMrftMy1-6PetM0 http://farid.jalali.one/MCAS_COVID.pdf?fbclid=IwAR08nCA9isig...