Watching how poorly some professional athletes perform during long Covid recovery makes me highly doubt CFS as the root cause. Also, people have reported long-term loss of smell which also isn’t a typical post-illness or CFS thing.
as i've said, long-term sequelae certainly exist - and they are different for covid probably.
i also have had long-term loss of smell and modification of taste after getting a breakthrough delta case.
that said, demographically (as well as by diversity of symptoms reported), it does appear that there is also a "CFS-like" disease population being super-imposed on top of those that are experiencing long-term sequelae. much of the conversation around long covid is also being funded by ME/CFS lobbying/patient advocacy groups [0].
i think there are two distinct phenomena, and the fact that women are over-represented as long covid patients may be due to the CFS-like phenomena rather than the sequelae one.
[0]: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dubious-origins-of-long-cov...
The Journal has told us twice this year that “Herd Immunity is Near”
“Herd Immunity Is Near, Despite Fauci’s Denial”
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/herd-immunity-is-near-despi...
“Herd Immunity Is Near, Despite Fauci’s Denial”
It’s December 2021. What went wrong?
So, in March people should have said the opinion was reasonable and made corresponding policy decisions.
Include any facts that support a belief and omit all others.
Anyway, I’m simply saying the track record of the Journal leans more in one direction, and is frequently wrong.
Furthermore, no one ever follows up to correct all those incorrect opinions
Perhaps the steady diet of “coronavirus is no big deal” and “climate change “ opinions has skewed my opinion but to me the wsj seems to have an agenda.
“ Climate Change Calls for Adaptation, Not Panic”
https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/climate-change-adaptation-p...
If we would have reached herd immunity at 70-80% vaccinated (which is what was being said) then the argument was we would reach it sooner due to antibodies.
Given that delta evolved and rendered both of those stories bunk, I think it is silly to solely blame the WSJ for being wrong at predicting the future here.
What a completely unrelated piece by Bjørn Lomborg has to do with covid is not easy to understand. Hopefully no one is surprised if Lomborg has a simplified view of any given environmental problem. He is a business school professor after all and pretty well known for these things.