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Number of studies are meaningless by itself, and an intellectually rigorous scientist wouldn't use that as a metric. We've known for decades that any serious infection can have long lasting effects for some patients. There's nothing special about SARS-CoV-2.

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you can't criticize someone for poor reasoning while simultaneously making unsupported claims yourself

What's unsupported? What I stated is common knowledge in the medical community. Anyone unaware of this hasn't been paying attention for the past 40 years.

I suppose the no special sauce is the unsupported claim, not that I disagree

usually (at least since Ol' Russel) there's no real need to prove that space is quite rare when it comes to teapots

so far there was absolutely no scientifically "woah" thing about SARS-CoV-2, it fits "neatly" into an acute respiratory virus hole (we know of a lot of coronaviruses and influenzaviruses), we even had a lab set up to research zoonotic viruses ... instead of telling idiots to stop running the patient zero lottery on that fucking market.

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