> I know long covid sufferers personally The problem here is that covid is a respiratory disease, and as with any other serious respiratory disease, there can

> I know long covid sufferers personally The problem here is that covid is a respiratory disease, and as with any other serious respiratory disease, there can be a whole host of consequences that are long lasting. Everything from brain damage, lung damage, and that will then affect pretty much every other system in your body. And then ontop of that you have a full blown viral outbreak, which can damage pretty much any organ. What we know only scratches the surface. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2082798/#:~:text=The%20most%20severe%20form%20of,%2C%20and%20cerebellar%20medulla%2C%20occurs https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2082798/#:~:tex... https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/acute-necrotizing-encephalopathy-type-1/ https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/acute-necrotizing... But we do not call someone struggling with the results of acute cute necrotizing encephalopathy as a "long flu" sufferer, as if this meant their flu infection was never cured. Just like we do not call it "long pneumonia" when someone discovers that damage to their lungs has caused a whole host of permanent ailments, from difficulty climbing stairs, to dizziness and short term memory loss, or even weakness, loss of muscle mass, joint pains. Nor we do not say "long oil-burn" when a failure to replace burnt oil causes long term damage to your car. As long as this keeps being framed as some special form of long lasting covid infection, rather than damage caused by covid, you are going to run into all sorts of problems with people who point out that no covid can be detected in the person, and so there isn't any scientific basis for the long covid theory.