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Long Covid is likely not a real disease, and appears to be linked to other psychosomatic illnesses like fibromyalgia.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/09/depression-an...

I understand that you want to expose people to more information and view points they haven't considered, but speaking in absolute terms and posting the same links over and over again in multiple comments is not a means that will get people to warm up to your message.

If you want to help people learn more, then speak in terms of growing understanding, yours and their, share links, and focus on looking for a collaborative effort to find good answers, whatever those answers might be. Show the same open mindedness you want others to show.

Ironically, that article literally says that psychological health needs to be taken more seriously because it was more strongly correlated with bad outcomes than other 'physical health risk factors' that included smoking.

Lol, your linked article completely disagrees with you

It doesn't, people can have mental issues even without COVID, you know there were people with mentail issues prior COVID and nobody denies it, just don't call it "long COVID" because it's now buzz word.

You have a personal belief which you appear to be passionate about but actual scientists don’t share it. Rather than spamming the thread with your misinterpretation of the study, why not use the time to educate yourself about what clinicians are dealing with?

> Psychological distress, including depression, anxiety, worry, perceived stress, and loneliness, before COVID-19 infection was associated with an increased risk of long COVID, according to researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Where does it say long covid isn’t real? Did you take 2 seconds to read the article you’re spamming?

That article doesn't say what your comment says.

To flesh out your argument:

“To the best of our knowledge, this is the first prospective study to show that a wide range of social and psychological factors are risk factors for long COVID and daily life impairment due to long COVID,”

This statement could also be used to argue that people with social and psychological factors are more likely to be impaired by Long COVID symptoms, not that they are more likely to have it.

"After analyzing the responses and comparing those who developed long COVID to those who did not, the researchers determined that distress before COVID-19 infection, including depression, anxiety, worry, perceived stress, and loneliness, was associated with a 32 percent to 46 percent increased risk of long COVID. These types of psychological distress were also associated with 15 percent to 51 percent greater risk of daily life impairment due to long COVID."

This very clearly does not say that Long COVID is psychological.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35176612

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