I not humbly disagree. I dont see how we could ever even begin to be a society if we allow mistrust & rejection of possibilities to be the primary shaper of our opinions & positions. The refusal to regard here is actively harmful.
> I read some of the “Long COVID” studies a while back, and they all included things like anxiety, depression, and mental state weeks or months after testing positive for COVID. Linking this to COVID is an example of bad science.
Yo, what? Excuse you? You're going to disregard people's reports & assessments, call it bad science, just throw up correlation does not equal causation qed & pretend like the job is done? People feel like shit, have incredibly fuzzy brain states for a while after covid. Even those who physically (aerobically) recover still doubt how healed their are, are anxious because the brain still feels behind. Maybe some of this anxiety you disregard is because they are never sure if they ever will really truly ever recover; this has felt like shit to me and Im never sure Im back to who I was before this ordeal. That seems widely reported, real to me & I'd expect some familiarity with thay from others. That feeling of brain fog is real, that worrying & anxiety is real although perhaps not directly entirely attributable, but a serious & clear & inarguable & concerning secondary effect that we frankly dont have a ton of good data to help people fully through. Even if we did have the data, people are still allowed to be afraid. Afraid of flying, afraid of escallators, afraid their bloody mind is scrambled & not really recovering like it should be.
Sorry comrade but science aint always so simple & clear & direct. Finding out can be hard. Just because the facts dont conveniently line up to make sometbing clear right away doesnt give you license to disresged, to ignore possibly real information. There's a word for argumentation that tries to make information in general less believed, less real: disinformation. Please dont border so close to being actively denialist of possoble validity.