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)
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: