several thousand interested people reached out
nearly twenty thousand followers on Instagram
for those experiencing long covid, including Survivor Corps, which has almost two hundred thousand members on Facebook

They think these numbers are impressive. The facebook numbers aren't terrible but it isn't exactly hard to recruit based on hypochondria. "Oh, you're low energy and your joints hurt? It isn't because you've been in a bed for two years believing all the insane bullshit we've been telling you. It's long covid, and it's those damn anti-maskers fault."