I wasn't aware I was making any attempts to legitimize anything, I wasn't aware I had such authority in the subject. My intention was to make clear that I'm no

I wasn't aware I was making any attempts to legitimize anything, I wasn't aware I had such authority in the subject. My intention was to make clear that I'm not a denier of this phenomenon. Normally hypochondriacs are just mildly annoying, or at most waste some shared medical resources. In this scenario they're likely making it substantially harder to identify root causes of long covid. It's not helpful to act like they don't exist. I wonder what tools medical science has at its disposal to separate the noise from the signal, without getting into a situation John Snow must rescue us from.