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We over diagnose. It's taboo to discuss the fact that population is tumblr/twitter types, and not people that are well adjusted. It's a contagion, but it's not
by local_crmdgeon 3y ago
We over diagnose. It's taboo to discuss the fact that population is tumblr/twitter types, and not people that are well adjusted. It's a contagion, but it's not spread by a virus. Most people with Long COVID recover through increased exercise and improved diet. They're just depressed, which is of course a real illness, but it's more to do with burn out from social media hysteria.
Any mention of this on HN results in immediate downvote brigade.
- throwaway6977 3y agoYou get down voted because there are thousands of people suffering from real physical symptoms of this - like clots and tachycardia - and you are waving away the symptoms as a mental illness. What a joke; I hope no one ever does that to you.
- local_crmdgeon 3y agoShould we not be Trusting the Science? This paper is The Science.
- avisser 3y agoYou aren't wrong, but "the science" figured out that Epstein-Barr was connected to multiple sclerosis _last year_. Maybe some skepticism that things aren't settled is warranted - especially with something so new.
- somedude895 3y ago> real physical symptoms of this - like clots and tachycardia I think what GP was talking about when saying overdiagnoses was LC diagnoses where no physical symptoms are present.
- mcpackieh 3y ago"It can't be depression because my wife has it. You need to do more research, please subscribe to doomerist facebook groups to read all about it."
- local_crmdgeon 3y agoWe've both been downvoted to oblivion, which at this point means we're right. COVID really broke a lot of people mentally