NATURE News Article: Long-COVID treatments: why the world is still waiting, 2022, Ledford

After a slow start, researchers are beginning to test ways to combat the lasting symptoms of the disease.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02140-w

 

A lesson clearly not learned from the AIDS crisis. Like all the others. Imagine if AIDS research had been blocked on the basis that they didn't know the answer that only research can give. I mean it's pretty easy to imagine, it's literally what happened until a massive political movement funded by millions and many other factors forced the issue. And the basis for HIV denial, those first few years of jerking around doing nothing only serve to feed liars and the lies they tell.

I'm really tired with the defeatist attitude I see all over the place. So much whining about how they don't have all the answers that years of hard work would yield and that means there's no point even starting. Talk about being neurotic, gloomy, catastrophizing, etc. So much projection.

The lottery-based model of just waiting for someone to come up with the first clue is awful, seems to have given unrealistic expectations that hard work is not needed to get at it, that trying isn't worth the trouble. This era is long gone, all the easy clues have been found, the rest needs hard, sustained work.