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I‘m not part of any societal effort to pretend it’s over :-) Someone says they still have problems breathing 6 months after a moderate covid case? I’ll believ

• ok_dad 4y ago
  That's a fair assessment, IMO. I believe that only a small, small minority of humans are going to be out to scam or do fraud (personal belief, obviously) and so from that lens, I hate it when people try and paint a group of people with a broad brush simply because they might believe something that is not factually correct, but in reality it's the best solution for now. What I am arguing here, is that the 3000 people who have "long covid" aren't responsible for categorizing their disease, they are sick and just want to feel better. It's the medical community's responsibility to determine if that's because "long covid" is an actual disease, or if it's a set of disparate symptoms that many people have that were kicked off by covid, or something else entirely. Just because their "government services applications paperwork" (or whatever we call that stuff) says "long covid" that does not mean that later we should say they were defrauding the goverment if we find out they were actually suffering from a major lung cancer and it just so happened to coincide with some symptoms many other people were having due to everyone getting covid around the same time and as such their doctor(s) put "long covid" down as a probable cause. It's a logical fallacy that the OP made, and I pointed out that it is unlikely all 3000 are scammers. I am sure some percentage of those people are scammers, statistically.