An old friend of mine has long covid, the real deal, but she was also sick in covid for months in 2020. What she has matches post-viral fatigue syndrome perfect

An old friend of mine has long covid, the real deal, but she was also sick in covid for months in 2020. What she has matches post-viral fatigue syndrome perfectly, and she's getting care for it, from realistic doctors who've been saying that recovery is gonna be slow but steady. She's better now, a year later. And then, just as you say, there's "long covid", which is a large number of people who have very generic ailments, and if you start digging into the numbers, you realize it's all self-reported bullshit, where a good chunk of the sufferers haven't even been diagnosed with covid in the first place! Their symptoms match depression very well, though. It's extremely frustrating watching people like my friend getting ridiculed for having an imaginary disease. She doesn't. And at the same time it's even more frustrating watching a relatively huge number of psychosomatic hypochondriacs getting all the attention and using up the wrong kind of healthcare resources, just because a lot of people are using long covid for generating fear porn and want it to be worse than it is.