Long Covid is real. I have reliable patients who describe lingering symptoms after Covid infection.
The very fact that this guy has to start out his critique by genuflecting at the altar of the narrative, lends credence to the fact that it doesn't exist whatsoever. I saw an analysis of a long covid study, which seemed to suggest that picking a random sample of people may be a better predictor for finding covid cases than picking among people who say they have long covid, ie. it's psychosomatic.
48% of the PASC group [my note: 'PASC' is their magic science acronym for long covid] had diagnosed mental health issues. 37.5% had anxiety disorder. this is the sort of alignment one sees in high psychosomatic or attributive conditions.
PASC also expressed at a rate of about 2:1 in women. (only 35.6% of PASC were male)
Dr. Robert Malone had Long Covid before the vaccine came out. I can accept that the incredibly toxic spike protein could cause some sort of chronic issue after an infection. I think it was over-diagnosed, and the hypochondriacs had a field day with it. Naturally, turning your body into a spike protein factory with the vaccine is worse, though. I do think that Long Covid is often used as a cover for vaccine injury.
And these factors are synergistic; lazy fucks are seeking a specific diagnosis, and a corrupt medical industry is happy to provide it. Everyone else is just paying the price.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claims that 20% of Covid infections can result in long Covid. But a U.K. study found that only 3% of Covid patients had residual symptoms lasting 12 weeks. What explains the disparity? It’s often normal to experience mild fatigue or weakness for weeks after being sick and inactive and not eating well. Calling these cases long Covid is the medicalization of ordinary life.
Two studies published this month put long Covid in perspective. The first, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at a spectrum of wellness indicators in 1,000 people who recovered from symptomatic Covid or another respiratory infection. It found that 40% of patients who had tested positive for Covid “reported persistently poor physical, mental, or social well-being at 3-month follow-up.” For Covid-negative patients who had other upper-respiratory infections, the figure was 54%. Covid patients did better than non-Covid patients.
The National Institutes for Health has been intensely focused on studying long Covid, spending nearly $1.2 billion on the condition. To date, the return on investment has been zero for the people suffering with it. But it’s been terrific for MRI centers, lab testing companies and hospitals that set up long Covid clinics. I’ve talked to the staff at some of these clinics and it’s unclear what they are actually offering to people beyond a myriad of tests.
An Annals of Internal Medicine study ran an exhaustive battery of tests on 48 people with long Covid and 50 people without. The researchers found no biochemical or physiologic abnormalities in people with long Covid. “Levels of plasma inflammatory markers, levels of biomarkers for cardiac and central nervous system injury, and presence of select autoantibodies were similar between groups,” they concluded. The only medical factor that predicted long Covid was pre-existing anxiety, associated with a 2.8 times increased risk of developing long Covid.
I'm far from the only one, but I knew it was scam as soon as they started pushing the long Covid fear mongering way back in April 2020.
They hadn't even had time to properly study the issue lol. It was clear to me that they recognized the Covid mortality rate wasn't scary enough, so they had to quickly push long Covid to keep fear levels high.
And it definitely worked because I sadly know multiple people who are still scared of Covid specifically because of long Covid. They know they'll survive if they get it, but they're convinced they have a good chance of being permanently messed up in some way.
It found that 40% of patients who had tested positive for Covid “reported persistently poor physical, mental, or social well-being at 3-month follow-up.” For Covid-negative patients who had other upper-respiratory infections, the figure was 54%
They didn't look at vaccination status, so it's also possible that the vaccine made covid less bad than a normal flu. As bad as they are, the vaccines actually do reduce severity at least for a while.
Long Covid was always fake, but like a lot of completely fake socially-transmitted mental illnesses, that doesn't mean people who are susceptible to that kind of thing aren't catching it.
Any mention of long covid which does not also mention both 'chronic cough' and 'post viral syndrome (with a few other names also)' is misleading at best.
Of course some people have a persistent cough, or persistent symptoms, after a cold. We've known this for decades.
Like, I could see where the idea came from. I had a minor problem for months after where I had trouble with swallowing certain types of liquids, and they would just build up into a cough up of mucus-y slime a couple times a day. A few of the people I knew took just as long to get their sense of smell back in the right place. Very specific symptoms that aren't common to other similar illnesses for people to be used to the idea.
So its one of those ideas you can clearly see the seedlings of that was then blown way out of proportion. Because none of the actual examples I saw was anything above "somewhat annoying" that passed with minimal actual risk to health or function.
It doesn't exist. It's a combination of pussy millennials milking it, or long term side effects from the fake vaccine.
The very fact that this guy has to start out his critique by genuflecting at the altar of the narrative, lends credence to the fact that it doesn't exist whatsoever. I saw an analysis of a long covid study, which seemed to suggest that picking a random sample of people may be a better predictor for finding covid cases than picking among people who say they have long covid, ie. it's psychosomatic.
There's also this:
"medium" covid exists. Any acute viral infection will give some people heart damage, and it takes a while to repair the lungs.
There's two sets of studies, ones taken right after covid showing heart damage and others showing no problems at 3 months.
Takeaway is don't go run a marathon or play soccer for a few weeks after a flu.
Dr. Robert Malone had Long Covid before the vaccine came out. I can accept that the incredibly toxic spike protein could cause some sort of chronic issue after an infection. I think it was over-diagnosed, and the hypochondriacs had a field day with it. Naturally, turning your body into a spike protein factory with the vaccine is worse, though. I do think that Long Covid is often used as a cover for vaccine injury.
That and two other factors:
Pussies trying to use it as a free stuff clause
Trying to hide effects of the vaccine on long covid in hopes people don't realise you poisoned the population for profit
And these factors are synergistic; lazy fucks are seeking a specific diagnosis, and a corrupt medical industry is happy to provide it. Everyone else is just paying the price.
I'm far from the only one, but I knew it was scam as soon as they started pushing the long Covid fear mongering way back in April 2020.
They hadn't even had time to properly study the issue lol. It was clear to me that they recognized the Covid mortality rate wasn't scary enough, so they had to quickly push long Covid to keep fear levels high.
And it definitely worked because I sadly know multiple people who are still scared of Covid specifically because of long Covid. They know they'll survive if they get it, but they're convinced they have a good chance of being permanently messed up in some way.
They didn't look at vaccination status, so it's also possible that the vaccine made covid less bad than a normal flu. As bad as they are, the vaccines actually do reduce severity at least for a while.
They scared people into mass psychosis
Long Covid was always fake, but like a lot of completely fake socially-transmitted mental illnesses, that doesn't mean people who are susceptible to that kind of thing aren't catching it.
Long Covid, or lifelong Vax-effects?
I've been saying this for years.
Any mention of long covid which does not also mention both 'chronic cough' and 'post viral syndrome (with a few other names also)' is misleading at best.
Of course some people have a persistent cough, or persistent symptoms, after a cold. We've known this for decades.
Like, I could see where the idea came from. I had a minor problem for months after where I had trouble with swallowing certain types of liquids, and they would just build up into a cough up of mucus-y slime a couple times a day. A few of the people I knew took just as long to get their sense of smell back in the right place. Very specific symptoms that aren't common to other similar illnesses for people to be used to the idea.
So its one of those ideas you can clearly see the seedlings of that was then blown way out of proportion. Because none of the actual examples I saw was anything above "somewhat annoying" that passed with minimal actual risk to health or function.