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Covid itself creates an auto immune response.

It's estimated one in seven kids will suffer long Covid.

The symptoms aren't the symptoms of depression.

Not peer-reviewed. Only 13.5% of the children completed the 3-month online questionnaire. After 3 months, 30.3% of test-positives and 16.2% of test-negatives had 3+ symptoms. Possible response & recall bias. No control group for other respiratory infections. Did not assess whether symptoms were continuous for the entire 3 months.

Unfortunately, the media has scared the shit out of people, and they are so convinced that COVID is an extreme threat to every one, that the evidence that confirms their biases requires zero rigor, while the evidence that contradicts the consensus narrative, like ivermectin being an effective prophylaxis, requires extreme rigor.

My opinion is that both should require extreme rigor mind you.

I downvoted your comment because you obviously don't know what you're talking about. Only rigorologists can advise whether extreme rigor should be required or not.

15% of kids seems like an absurdly high number compared to what i've seen reported in the last 18 month (including delta).

Aka : in the immense majority people < 65 are not going to die, and people < 30 barely won't notice anything.

15% of which kids ? the ones that end up in ICU ?

> 15% of which kids ?

Of all PCR confirmed cases [0]. Disclaimer: preprint.

[0]https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-798316/v1

Again vaccines autism level of jumping on the first alarmist publications.

There is no statistically significant evidence for this in large scale analyses.

Also, yes of course covid causes an immune response. It's that response that leads to pneumonic symptoms that in the elderly and at risk prove to be fatal. I fail to see how there is any point to be made over stating you get sick and your body reacts.

My statement is that the immune system isn't perfect and there are long term conditions caused by it misbehaving, and that we need to understand this more.

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