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I don't see any difference between this and the Scientology Thetans-inhabiting-the-body thing. It's literally the same idea, a deus ex machina without substance. How did such ridiculous ideas ever got taken seriously? Let alone continue to be. Emotions being stored in the body? Ghosts of aliens...

:thumbsup::trophy@:party: (before, and now, and for the foreseeable future) Dr Lambert was the primary research on one of the long Covid studies and has been quoted on many articles. Comment on that study...

That "in the past" line does not inspire confidence things will change any time soon. Bit like saying we had problems with pandemics in the past. True. But we very much have those problems right now. It's not just the "now" but especially the "ongoing" aspect that is the concern here. The state...

Hey I did that. Around age 2. And again around age 20. I have no idea if it's worth mentioning, I never did. Whenever I happen to actually have access to medical care anyway.

This whole field is a sick joke. All substance is irrelevant. Burn it all down and salt the ashes, there is nothing of value to preserve here.

Arriving at the arbitrary 6 months threshold...

As I suspected, some of the lowering numbers on the ZOE app are because many post-Covid patients have simply given up using it. In part because it still doesn't include many of the symptoms that have been reported for months, requiring manual input. And since no one knows whether this will be of...

Why indeed? We know why.

This is a wild grab bag of various unrelated things. Even an apples to oranges comparison doesn't give it justice. How is such a trivial evaluation worth being published? It basically amounts to a global evaluation of alternative medicine, all types considered. Other than the underlying...

It seems like the psychosocial aspects are completely superfluous here and basically past pain and accidents make it more likely that over time pain will become more painful. So basically low-level acute pain that does not resolve becomes low-level chronic pain then disabling chronic pain. So...

So the people responsible for massively harmful systemic discrimination, who argue plainly that we are hysterical malingering attention-seeking shirkers, basically sub-humans unworthy of basic respect, find it odd that their colleagues hear their words plainly and apply their recommendations...

It certainly would be great if, failing to grasp the whole thing, medicine could at least acknowledge the reality of infectious diseases requiring longer than a few days' recovery, that in some cases it requires months and that recovery clearly cannot be precipitated (nor is there any evidence...

Oof. Terrible response. That's what happens when feedback mechanisms are broken on purpose to maintain a delusional fantasy. They respond to things happening saying that they are not happening. Like talking to a wall. Either they are not aware that GPs routinely advise this for post-Covid, or...

Very, extremely weird people: "malingering losers are faking having COVID because of all the secondary gains and status it gives them." Reality: ‘I feel devastated’: COVID-19 long-haulers fight for understanding from employers...

But. I was told by very serious people that people are panicking to the point of madness and this surely must be the cause of long Covid. This can't be. That would mean they are making this all up. No, that's impossible.

Case in point:

Yeah. "DOOM AND GLOOM PEOPLE ARE AFRAID AND THAT'S MAKING THEM 'SICK'" Also: "why won't people wear masks? why are people congregating at pubs? don't they see there's a pandemic under way? why are people not social distancing? WHY ARE PEOPLE GOING SHOPPING? WHY AREN'T THEY TAKING THIS...

Predictably, under yesterday's JAMA article: "Status". "Secondary gain". WTF is this guy smoking?

This argument falls extremely flat considering how consistently the long Covid community are saying they are being ignored and that their situation is downplayed. Especially given the highly dismissive attitude from the medical community and the gaslighting the patients are experiencing. This...