Lockdowns determine Science. Politicians want lockdowns, and so Science will speak of nothing but Long Covid, reinfections, and B117. As soon as politicians no longer want lockdowns, Science will finally shut up about these stupid things. But not a minute before.
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diseases and the medicine that defines them are as determined as much by social understandings of what illness is, and broader political and economic agendas, as they are by actual symptoms or injury.
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the reason there is no Long Influenza, for example, is that since 1918 we have minimised the public and social portrayals of influenza risk, in a tacit recognition that any other approach would be disastrous for civilisation and also ultimately fail to contain flu anyway.
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