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To be clear, you’re saying it’s a lot, lot rarer than Covid alarmists think… because you don’t personally know anyone with it?
by jonstewart 3y ago
To be clear, you’re saying it’s a lot, lot rarer than Covid alarmists think… because you don’t personally know anyone with it?
- ggm 3y agoYes. That's how anecdata works. If enough people observe they don't know anyone either with or post long covid, it starts to move significance. I've known two people with ME over 50 years and it doesn't alter my sense of their personal anguish or its economic and wider health consequences. I have no doubt long covid exists and will need significant funding in research and targeted health care. It won't need as much as, or return as much as the spend on paediatrics or obstetrics, per capita.
- jonstewart 3y agoI’ve never known anyone to justify an argument explicitly using anecdata unironically. Amazing, no notes.
- gadders 3y agoYou don't seem to care that the COVID alarmists are only using anecdata as well. I think if is clear where your sympathies lie.
- gadders 3y agoIt's not the scientific method but if something is very common, and I have several hundred friends, relatives and work colleagues of various backgrounds and states of health then I should have heard of someone experiencing it, no? I've seen no evidence on this thread that proves it's super-common so apart from funding my own research project, what do you suggest?
- zdragnar 3y agoWell, of the ten people I know who have gotten COVID, one has long COVID. That makes my anecdatum a 10% rate of people developing long COVID. Given the number of people who have been infected, that's a very large number of people with potentially permanent side effects.