Swiss Re: Expert Forum on secondary COVID-19 impacts, Feb 2021

Trial By Error: Prof Sharpe Fact-Checks Comment on Blog About How George Monbiot Is Causing Long COVID

https://www.virology.ws/2021/04/07/...out-how-george-monbiot-is-causing-long-covid/

 

Reseaarchers into FND are not playing the game and actually referring to the "disease" as a new name for conversion disorder, which is a form of hysteria, in their published papers.

The older BPWS people know to imply things rather than spell it out so you can disown it when people complain.

 

Guardian opinion piece by George Monbiot:

Apparently just by talking about it, I’m super-spreading long Covid

"Rejoice! A mystery has been solved. We now have an explanation for long Covid, a condition afflicting many thousands of people. A super-spreader has been identified. Important as this finding is, I’m reluctant to call for the vector to be eradicated. Why? Because it’s me.​

In a presentation to the reinsurance giant Swiss Re, Michael Sharpe, a professor of psychological medicine at the University of Oxford and founder of a long Covid clinic, proposed that one of the causes of the syndrome was “social factors”. The social factor at the top of his list was an article I wrote for the Guardian, describing the suffering of patients with the condition."
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Article: https://www.theguardian.com/comment...spreading-long-covid-professor-press-coverage

 

last tweet on that thread:
https://twitter.com/user/status/1382260515758600194

 

The thing that stood out for me most in the presentation was this (in the summary, at the end):