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This wouldn’t surprise me in the least considering this entire operation has been engineered to induce a potpourri of mental health conditions, from mass hypnosis to paranoid delusions to OCD to folie à deux to narcissistic personality disorder to psychopathy/sociopathy to learned helplessness to Stockholm Syndrome to every other kitchen-sink DSM V disorder that serves TPTB’s Mephistophelian purposes.

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I decided from day 1 that " long covid" is imagination run wild. I've suffered "long covid" off & on for years thanks to hay fever, chemical sensitivities, changes in atmospheric pressure, situational depression, head colds, you name it....

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Since the time I wrote this, increasing amounts of evidence supporting long covid has emerged. Eg, spikes have been found in monocyytes (white cells known as phagocytes) as long as 15 months after "recovery." Since spikes are known to cause the bulk of the disease, there is every reason to believe they would cause issues...I find it weird that this post has suddenly been resurrected 5 months from when started! Especially since I deleted it a few days ago!!

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I would say living under lockdown and then being vilified and othered, living in fear for 2 years, isolating, masking like criminals or loons, your country being run by totalitarian monsters... I am sure you can come up with more reasons. They all produce long covid. It is called being utterly depressed. It also produces people smacking their spouses around, ladies named Raptor drinking so much wine that I could build a housing project out of glass bottles... Blarg.

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Thank goodness for this study and your analysis. When the frightened Covid lockdown enthusiasts run out of arguments trying to justify the necessity of all the lockdown NPIs, Long Covid is the last remaining argument that they pull out of their ass that has, to this date, been resistant to falsifiability. I have often called it "the last refuge of the Covidian scoundrel".

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I think there's a distinction worth making. Some people had very serious bouts with COVID (including ventilation) that have left them damaged, which is different than the "long COVID" these hypochondriacs are reporting.

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I love how they can use serology testing in studies like this to determine whether or not you've previously had covid but the FDA still insists that "it doesn't know" if having antibodies in your system proves that you're immune. Instead, it's: "Just go get the vax."

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/antibody-serology-testing-covid-19-information-patients-and-consumers

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As someone who developed two autoimmune conditions within weeks of my first and only flu, I have given the long covid claimants the benefit of the doubt. I will continue to do so.

One flaw of this study is the use of antibodies as a marker (proof) of infection. We know they drop quickly over time. Perhaps a T-cell test would have been more definitive?

No doubt there are people walking around convinced that they were infected (with or without a useless PCR or antigen test result). The specter of asymptomatic disease just adds to the mythos.

And I'm sure there are many people who were actually infected who are having a long recovery as they might from any other serious infection.

But I allow for the possibility that the infection has triggered autoimmune conditions in some that may or may not be unique to this virus.

I also allow for the probability that the viral spike protein persists in the tissue for months in some people. Since we know the spike protein is bio-active and can damage endothelial cells, can we be sure there isn't something to this?

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I don't doubt that some people are suffering lasting damage from the virus. I also believe that the vast majority of "long covid" cases could be cured by taking a sledgehammer to your TV and throwing your smartphone in a lake.

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Coincidentally, we see the same thing with "Havanna syndrome." I don't know if you could legitimately call it mass psychosis, but it's coming close. Human minds are powerful things.

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For some it is real though. I have an aunt who was hospitalized for 10 days and almost died from covid. It is now more than 6 months ago but she is constantly tired and out of breath. They suspect the long tissue damaged by the virus (and waiting too long to go to the doctor, which gave her pneumonia) will not repair anymore.

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I definitely got Long Flu following that horrible 2017-18 flu season. I'd never been that sick outside of foods poisoning. I coughed for about 3 months after my January 2018 flu illness. The world didn't shut down nor did I expect it to. I limited my interactions with others mainly because coughing all the time everywhere is annoying and awkward. I hated every minute of it.

What gets me about the Long Covidians is how they're bragging about it. Like, what? What weirdo brags about being sick?!

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This whole thing has been a giant mental health crisis initiated by people with severe hypochondria.

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I’ve enjoyed your blog, even when I didn’t entirely agree, but find I’m among strangers on this one. Having gotten Covid on 3/6/20 and having spent the past 20 months seeing people gaslighted by the medical industry, which — in between ignoring and feigning ignorance over the condition — has been diagnosing these patients, some of whom have been severely disabled by the sequelae of Long Covid, as suffering from “anxiety,” I have nothing left to suffer fools.

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We have incentivized chronic disease in this society judging by the number of people that are on or are attempting to go on disability. If you shop long enough you will be find a doctor who will classify you as disabled. So we should not be surprised.

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Sorry, gato. The French sent you off on a wild goose chase. This brilliant paper describes how Dr. Bruce Patterson found a unique immunological signal that distinguishes long covid from mild and moderate covid: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2021.700782/full

Conclusion: It's biological! Stop hurting people with "It's all in your head" medicine.

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Years ago I suffered a nasty bout of pneumonia. Although I was only 41 and in decent shape it knocked me around badly, and it took about 6 months before I felt fully recovered. I guess I had long pneumonia!

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