> The skeptical take is of course that there is no long covid. either people are faking for benefits or they are being sincere but imagining it. I think the sk

> The skeptical take is of course that there is no long covid. either people are faking for benefits or they are being sincere but imagining it. I think the skeptical take is neither of these things. What you've described is more of a cynical contrarian take. The skeptical take is not "there's no long covid" but "there MIGHT not be long covid". And it's not ~"people are faking or imagining"~ it's "lots of people develop weird health problems every day that never get explained, which many will now point to as long covid, which makes it super hard to know if long covid exists".