In an age awash with misinformation, our friends Trafcy Høeg, Vinay Prasad, and Shamez Landi serve as the intellectual lifeboat for those drowning in the murky waters of long COVID research. With the precision of a surgeon's scalpel, they dissect the prevailing epidemiological studies, revealing a disconcerting anatomy of error and bias
Long covid is very rare indeed however what a great way of covering up millions of people disabled and injured by the bioweapon aka "the vaccine". Next they will tell us long covid is causing people to vote the wrong way so we should not be allowed to vote!
Seems to me many of the symptoms of long Covid are similar to those of depression and anxiety. Considering how we have been treated since 2020, I would think depression and anxiety would be running rampant in the population. Just my opinion.
This post doesn't do anything to disprove Long Covid, though the author tries hard. The study/article it discusses doesn't; it urges for more study and "rigorous" analysis.
Can you please put a link to the study. Anyone with a half a brain-cell knows long Covid is nothing more than fear-mongering Bullshit that team covidiots made up.
“All the people complaining?” You know how stupid that sounds. How could you even begin to understand numbers this big. Media sensationalism and the chronicle ill are keeping this lie alive.
Let me repeat LONG COVID IS BULLSHIT. COVID-19 was and is a coronavirus (albeit a bad strain) something humans have dealt with since the beginning of time. Covid-19 was a cooked up pysop.
I also want to point out that a doctor I follow has been vaccine injured and he continues to look for answers to help the vaccine injured but he refers to LongHaul Reset because the social media algorithm accepts this term and it’s understood by his followers that he is trying to help the jabbed injured.
I know people that weren’t vaccinated who got Covid and had symptoms that lingered and I know people who took the two shots in order to go on Vacay or attend school or feel safe (elderly). I will say more people in my sphere of knowledge suffered from the 1-2 jab than the post Covid symptoms long haulers.
I am still not jabbed and my long haul back from Delta took a month but I got all my strength, cognition and mobility back 💯. I lingered with a taste/smell alteration where things that had sulfur in them were hard for me to like as much and I couldn’t distinguish between a skunk and burning marijuana, which we joked about from time to time. But that didn’t diminish my quality of life. Few others also had taste smell not working after recovering from covid.
On the other hand those who jabbed and had vaccine injury got things like, turbo cancer-2, stroke-1, neuropathy-1, gastro issues-1, Bells Palsy droopy face-1, erratic blood pressure-1 and finally, recurring COVID-3
People are complaining of chronic symptoms. That's "stupid"...? OK, stating facts you don't like is "stupid."
I think at least SOME of the people complaining about symptoms have legitimate physical problems (could be various things--vax injury, persistent viral activity, other issues exacerbated by Covid or the vaxes, etc...). Unfortunately the Science is not really "there yet" to weed out what is what.
Post-viral illness (from various viruses) is something "humans have dealt with since the beginning of time." Heard of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Myalgic Encephalitis? Maybe those are BULLSHIT too, and not a single scientific paper validates them at all.
Are we "following the Science"...? I'm all for it.
If Covid infection causes problems, why in the world would injecting oneself with mRNA to produce the toxic spike protein in unlimited quantity, and unrestricted locations not cause significantly more problems? This is exacerbated by the fact the more spike protein producing shots one gets, the more likely they are to be reinfected with SARS-COV-2.
Add to this the dreadful mistreatment patients receive in hospitals, and we have the reason for 'long Covid' - vaccine injury and medical malfeasance.
And, as Connie Benn points out (below), anxiety, depression etc brought on by draconian government responses to 'Covid' leaves people feeling constantly ill. I can just imagine how the average, misinformed, person feels when they believe they have contracted, what is in their paranoid mind, a potentially deadly disease.
Your "reason for 'long Covid' - vaccine injury and medical malfeasance" may be to blame in some cases, but not all. Some people who didn't get vaxxed got "Long Covid" after having the virus. It may be different things. For example, some are saying the Epstein-Barr virus gets (re)activated in some people, after the immune system is weakened by Covid. Reasonable possibility, no?
I would argue "Long Covid" is not a "mirage" to be dismissed and ridiculed across the board, as this Substacker has consistently done.
“Following the science.” That’s funny. We live in a time where every American holds a supercomputer in the palm of their hand, yet we as a nation have never been as chronically ill, or as stupid as we are today. Half of America is close to being morbidly obese. Wake up, America is dying and people like you that fall for the media and criminal politicians and public health figures are part of the reason why.
I may not be the enemy you think, just because we disagree on the issue of Long Covid. As I said, "I think at least SOME of the people complaining about symptoms have legitimate physical problems." The umbrella term "Long Covid" may not be accurate in many cases, but many people reporting symptoms (OK, you don't like the term "complaining") are having REAL problems. The paper discussed here proposes more study to better figure out what's what (and what's NOT "Long Covid"). More Science. Is that "funny" ?
I never believed in long covid or any covid. What happened to SARS CoV-1 from about 20 years ago? Why would this dissipate in a few years and covid-19 seems to be hanging on forever? It's all nonsense unless you believe in viruses. With millions of viruses floating around as the experts claim, our bodies would be overwhelmed with them and we would not survive. Even if you have an immune system, it can handle only so much. Covid has never made any sense to me.
However, your article title itself, "The Mirage of Long Covid," spews more MISINFORMATION and makes your agenda clear. The authors don't talk about a "mirage" in their paper, do they. Their title is "How methodological pitfalls have created widespread misunderstanding about long COVID." They seem to acknowledge that (at least some) people complaining of post-Covid symptoms may not be just crazy malingerers.
For sure, let's be rigorous. But let's not impose impossible standards on people suffering--and not apply similar to the Big Pharma products being forced on us.
If one bit of this "rigor" you're so excited about had been applied to the Covid vaccines, we wouldn't be dealing with them at all, much less the 4th booster or whatever we're on.
Long covid is very rare indeed however what a great way of covering up millions of people disabled and injured by the bioweapon aka "the vaccine". Next they will tell us long covid is causing people to vote the wrong way so we should not be allowed to vote!
Please don’t give the ideas!!!
Seems to me many of the symptoms of long Covid are similar to those of depression and anxiety. Considering how we have been treated since 2020, I would think depression and anxiety would be running rampant in the population. Just my opinion.
I do believe some of the front line doctors are still acknowledging long covid and remedies. You need to forward this to them.
And maybe those doctors know something?
This post doesn't do anything to disprove Long Covid, though the author tries hard. The study/article it discusses doesn't; it urges for more study and "rigorous" analysis.
Can you please put a link to the study. Anyone with a half a brain-cell knows long Covid is nothing more than fear-mongering Bullshit that team covidiots made up.
So all the people complaining of long-term post-Covid symptoms are full of shit, or deluded, or what? ALL of them...? And you're GOD?
“All the people complaining?” You know how stupid that sounds. How could you even begin to understand numbers this big. Media sensationalism and the chronicle ill are keeping this lie alive.
Let me repeat LONG COVID IS BULLSHIT. COVID-19 was and is a coronavirus (albeit a bad strain) something humans have dealt with since the beginning of time. Covid-19 was a cooked up pysop.
I also want to point out that a doctor I follow has been vaccine injured and he continues to look for answers to help the vaccine injured but he refers to LongHaul Reset because the social media algorithm accepts this term and it’s understood by his followers that he is trying to help the jabbed injured.
I know people that weren’t vaccinated who got Covid and had symptoms that lingered and I know people who took the two shots in order to go on Vacay or attend school or feel safe (elderly). I will say more people in my sphere of knowledge suffered from the 1-2 jab than the post Covid symptoms long haulers.
I am still not jabbed and my long haul back from Delta took a month but I got all my strength, cognition and mobility back 💯. I lingered with a taste/smell alteration where things that had sulfur in them were hard for me to like as much and I couldn’t distinguish between a skunk and burning marijuana, which we joked about from time to time. But that didn’t diminish my quality of life. Few others also had taste smell not working after recovering from covid.
On the other hand those who jabbed and had vaccine injury got things like, turbo cancer-2, stroke-1, neuropathy-1, gastro issues-1, Bells Palsy droopy face-1, erratic blood pressure-1 and finally, recurring COVID-3
People are complaining of chronic symptoms. That's "stupid"...? OK, stating facts you don't like is "stupid."
I think at least SOME of the people complaining about symptoms have legitimate physical problems (could be various things--vax injury, persistent viral activity, other issues exacerbated by Covid or the vaxes, etc...). Unfortunately the Science is not really "there yet" to weed out what is what.
Post-viral illness (from various viruses) is something "humans have dealt with since the beginning of time." Heard of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Myalgic Encephalitis? Maybe those are BULLSHIT too, and not a single scientific paper validates them at all.
Are we "following the Science"...? I'm all for it.
If Covid infection causes problems, why in the world would injecting oneself with mRNA to produce the toxic spike protein in unlimited quantity, and unrestricted locations not cause significantly more problems? This is exacerbated by the fact the more spike protein producing shots one gets, the more likely they are to be reinfected with SARS-COV-2.
Add to this the dreadful mistreatment patients receive in hospitals, and we have the reason for 'long Covid' - vaccine injury and medical malfeasance.
And, as Connie Benn points out (below), anxiety, depression etc brought on by draconian government responses to 'Covid' leaves people feeling constantly ill. I can just imagine how the average, misinformed, person feels when they believe they have contracted, what is in their paranoid mind, a potentially deadly disease.
Your "reason for 'long Covid' - vaccine injury and medical malfeasance" may be to blame in some cases, but not all. Some people who didn't get vaxxed got "Long Covid" after having the virus. It may be different things. For example, some are saying the Epstein-Barr virus gets (re)activated in some people, after the immune system is weakened by Covid. Reasonable possibility, no?
I would argue "Long Covid" is not a "mirage" to be dismissed and ridiculed across the board, as this Substacker has consistently done.
“Following the science.” That’s funny. We live in a time where every American holds a supercomputer in the palm of their hand, yet we as a nation have never been as chronically ill, or as stupid as we are today. Half of America is close to being morbidly obese. Wake up, America is dying and people like you that fall for the media and criminal politicians and public health figures are part of the reason why.
I may not be the enemy you think, just because we disagree on the issue of Long Covid. As I said, "I think at least SOME of the people complaining about symptoms have legitimate physical problems." The umbrella term "Long Covid" may not be accurate in many cases, but many people reporting symptoms (OK, you don't like the term "complaining") are having REAL problems. The paper discussed here proposes more study to better figure out what's what (and what's NOT "Long Covid"). More Science. Is that "funny" ?
The link is right there, the very first linked text starting on line 3, but here it is:
https://ebm.bmj.com/content/early/2023/08/10/bmjebm-2023-112338
Thanks don’t know how missed that other than I was still half asleep before my cup of coffee.
Yeah, maybe that's it.
Some notes on a recent conference on "Long Covid," FWIW... https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2023/09/27/keystone-long-covid-conference/
This post reads as if it was written with AI assistance.
I never believed in long covid or any covid. What happened to SARS CoV-1 from about 20 years ago? Why would this dissipate in a few years and covid-19 seems to be hanging on forever? It's all nonsense unless you believe in viruses. With millions of viruses floating around as the experts claim, our bodies would be overwhelmed with them and we would not survive. Even if you have an immune system, it can handle only so much. Covid has never made any sense to me.
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I Think That It Is Great
That The Vaccinated Care So Much.
They Care So Much About Other People.
- Not For Those That Are Dying From The Shots.
No.
They Care So Much
As To Be Willing To Die
To Prove The UnVaccinated Were Right.
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Thanks for sharing this paper.
However, your article title itself, "The Mirage of Long Covid," spews more MISINFORMATION and makes your agenda clear. The authors don't talk about a "mirage" in their paper, do they. Their title is "How methodological pitfalls have created widespread misunderstanding about long COVID." They seem to acknowledge that (at least some) people complaining of post-Covid symptoms may not be just crazy malingerers.
For sure, let's be rigorous. But let's not impose impossible standards on people suffering--and not apply similar to the Big Pharma products being forced on us.
If one bit of this "rigor" you're so excited about had been applied to the Covid vaccines, we wouldn't be dealing with them at all, much less the 4th booster or whatever we're on.