I’d feel a lot better about this if people stopped making concrete assertions about their hunches however well-informed.
For someone in his position to say long covid is overblown and usually something else without any explicit diagnosis for those cases is no more responsible than the “it’s just a flu” brigade have been since this started.
Literally everything has become so poisoned by misinformation that we can’t even present real science and reviewed data without feeling the need to represent probabilities as certainties for fear of the conspiracy mob running with it, which it seems like is happening here, and I think is even more dangerous.
The rest of us aren’t listening to the whackadoodles on Facebook, but we’re certainly paying attention to credible scientists.
I’m sure it’s infuriating for the science community that you have to clear a really high bar of evidence and critical examination of data before making an assertion, whereas Karen or Chad just write whatever stupid and demonstrably impossible nonsense they like on Facebook without a care in the world.
The morons don’t have standards. It sucks. But resorting to their tactics, even a little, is a really slippery slope.