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> > if such a thing truly exists… > It exists. My experience is heavily biased towards people at risk for long covid. I live in TX surrounded by people who wer

> > if such a thing truly exists… > It exists. My experience is heavily biased towards people at risk for long covid. I live in TX surrounded by people who weren't too serious about covid. I have friends that got covid 3-4 times. I know people with actual measurable lung damage that have long term consequences in that sense, but I know _zero_ people with anything resembling "long covid". No one I know knows anyone who has long covid. I believe it exists because a wide range of other viruses have occasional mysterious long term effects, but what I don't believe is that it's possible for it to be anywhere close to as common as it's purported to be(figures like 10-30% of those infected were thrown around by news outlets back when I was paying attention). My personal bet is that the majority of peoples' symptoms are psychogenic with a small minority experiencing physiological effects worth studying.

lamontcg 4y ago
> My personal bet is that the majority of peoples' symptoms are psychogenic You state that you don't know anyone who has long COVID one way or the other and then state that it must all be "psychogenic". If it were that common to have fake long COVID you'd think you would know someone who was faking it. Instead you have no experience with it and you're making sweeping pronouncements about it. Yes, the studies finding 10-30% rates of long COVID were flawed, but they were usually of people who were hospitalized and they may have included the people you know who actually had lung damage. And 3 million people can have long COVID and you might not know one of them since that is an incidence of 1-in-100 and even if someone you knew had it, it might not be so totally disabling that they couldn't keep up appearances and hide it from you.

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> > if such a thing truly exists… > It exists. My experience is heavily biased towards people at risk for long covid. I live in TX surrounded by people who wer

by TexanFeller 4y ago

lamontcg 4y ago
> My personal bet is that the majority of peoples' symptoms are psychogenic You state that you don't know anyone who has long COVID one way or the other and then state that it must all be "psychogenic". If it were that common to have fake long COVID you'd think you would know someone who was faking it. Instead you have no experience with it and you're making sweeping pronouncements about it. Yes, the studies finding 10-30% rates of long COVID were flawed, but they were usually of people who were hospitalized and they may have included the people you know who actually had lung damage. And 3 million people can have long COVID and you might not know one of them since that is an incidence of 1-in-100 and even if someone you knew had it, it might not be so totally disabling that they couldn't keep up appearances and hide it from you.