eugyppius

Look, sequelae from all kinds of viral infections are common and nobody denies them. But Covid is the only virus whose sequelae gets promoted to being a distinct syndrome, and that's what I object to.

Do I have long-term sequelae from a Corona infection? Yes. What you seem not be understanding, is that many diseases, including Long Covid, are essentially social and political categorisations. Again, there's a reason nobody before mass containment worried about Long Influenza

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.

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.