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Sometimes there are complications after being vaccinated too. That does not mean that all adverse effects you experience at any point later in life is the cause

Sometimes there are complications after being vaccinated too. That does not mean that all adverse effects you experience at any point later in life is the cause of it. Long term debilitating diseases happen to people very single day, and since there is quite a high percent chance of a person catching corona in that day as well, you end up with thousands of "unexplained long covid" which are, in reality, just two bads of different coins

vkou 4y ago
> That does not mean that all adverse effects you experience at any point later in life is the cause of it Correct. But that's not the situation that people have with long COVID. The situation that they do have is that they test positive for COVID, they get regular COVID symptoms (loss of smell, brain fog, fatigue), that then don't go away after three weeks. > Long term debilitating diseases happen to people very single day, and since there is quite a high percent chance of a person catching corona in that day as well Except that it's not a high chance that on any particular day/week/month you're going to catch COVID, and an even lower chance that you're going to catch a completely unrelated, rare, hitherto unknown disease that has all the same symptoms, but is not COVID. The intersection of these odds is even lower. The rate at which people have long COVID symptoms has dramatically gone up since the start of the pandemic. You have an incredibly high hill that you have to climb to convince us that no, those symptoms are actually caused by some unkown unrelated mysterious thing that just happened to have affected all these people in the same week/month that they caught COVID. If we release a bunch of tigers into the woods, and people going into the woods start mysteriously dissapearing, with the occasional discovery of a mutilated body covered in tiger shit, Occam's razor leads me to believe that the tigers probably have something to do with it. It's possible that there's another explanation, but you're going to have to do a lot of work to convince us of it. 'It could have been something else' doesn't meet that bar.

vkou 4y ago

> That does not mean that all adverse effects you experience at any point later in life is the cause of it Correct. But that's not the situation that people have with long COVID. The situation that they do have is that they test positive for COVID, they get regular COVID symptoms (loss of smell, brain fog, fatigue), that then don't go away after three weeks. > Long term debilitating diseases happen to people very single day, and since there is quite a high percent chance of a person catching corona in that day as well Except that it's not a high chance that on any particular day/week/month you're going to catch COVID, and an even lower chance that you're going to catch a completely unrelated, rare, hitherto unknown disease that has all the same symptoms, but is not COVID. The intersection of these odds is even lower. The rate at which people have long COVID symptoms has dramatically gone up since the start of the pandemic. You have an incredibly high hill that you have to climb to convince us that no, those symptoms are actually caused by some unkown unrelated mysterious thing that just happened to have affected all these people in the same week/month that they caught COVID. If we release a bunch of tigers into the woods, and people going into the woods start mysteriously dissapearing, with the occasional discovery of a mutilated body covered in tiger shit, Occam's razor leads me to believe that the tigers probably have something to do with it. It's possible that there's another explanation, but you're going to have to do a lot of work to convince us of it. 'It could have been something else' doesn't meet that bar.