Very important to raise awareness of LC! Covid isn't over!
Coronaviruses have been with humanity for a very long time, and people have been reporting post-infection syndromes surrounding them - and have been ignored or downplayed - for decades now.
There are five endemic coronaviruses, all of which likely started as an epidemic (two are documented of course) and evolved into what we call a "common cold", with susceptible populations suffering outsized effects.
Now that we've finally (and I think we can say, successfully) achieved endemic equilibrium from covid-19, it's important not to lose compassion for those still suffering (and to perhaps bring awareness online regarding this syndrome going back a long time - some have been suffering for many years).
Viruses become "mild" when they kill enough people for natural selection to take effect. That has not happened.
There are a lot of things for people to think about.
Plus its not well researched so we should at least be trying to get the symptoms that are proven out there so we can get more information on it
Also, why is it wrong to want to provide grace to those dealing with it? Like suddenly losing IQ or getting a cognitive impairment is a huge part of someone's life, there are non-invasive and non-condescending ways to support them
For example, you say "cancer" and everyone has an idea of what that is. As of the 2000s/2010s, awareness has been rising about mental health and what it actually means to have mental illness. But if you say "long covid", most people still don't know what that really means to a sufferer of it. With its relative commonness compared to other, rarer yet more well-known illnesses (like DID), I'd say it deserves more attention than it gets.
If we think of public disease messaging as having limited "bandwidth", it makes sense to message about the most common, newest, and least understood diseases, wouldn't you agree?
The more the public understands what having an illness means for its sufferer, the more understanding the public will be of that person's needs and limitations, and thus the fuller a life that person will be able to live as their limitations are accommodated.
It doesnt add any value over the alternative of people having an unspecified chronic disease and requesting X accommodation, especially as accommodations needed or desired vary wildly
To your point, people know the word "cancer" but have no clue what it entails or what accommodations a specific person needs or wants.
People can march around raising cancer awareness, but it is also a pointless performative act for the benefit of the performer.
If you have a sick person in your life and want to be compassionate, figure out what accommodation they actually want or need.