First started hearing people talking about long COVID after it finally started sinking in to the general public that the case fatality rate was minuscule, making all the restrictions rather pointless from the perspective of saving lives. Figure the popularity of this narrative is largely driven by cope: rather than admit they'd been listening to clowns and acting like clowns, it's much easier to just transfer the object of fear from death to long COVID, and thereby retroactively justify the hysteria (while continuing to justify the ongoing hysteria).
Husband and I had COVID. I am 60+, he is 80+ with co-morbidities. He got sicker than me and took longer to get better. (We treated early following the FLCCC protocol.) I likened his recovery to an 80+ person recovering from pneumonia - it just takes time. We continue to supplement and are both operating a full strength given our ages and overall general health. Long COVID may exist but it may be just another name for an individual's unique time to recovery.
Soon as I saw that CDC infographic (curse that word to hell) I knew we had a new roadmap to neverending hysteria on steroids. Genius, really. The Holy Grail of vax-injury perpetual deniability. You gotta credit your enemy when they show smarts at anything. I won't call it cunning because it's just a really blunt instrument, but still. Heck of a giant bucket for the true believers to jump into and stay.
Is there any way to test for mitochondrial dysfunction? Did they try?
It can be credibly argued that pretty much *all* the "long-x" disorders (lyme, epstein-barr...) plus ME/CFS and a few others with similar symptoms boil down to.... something (often a virus or parasite infection) has poleaxed your mitochondrial function, and now your life is crap. It often gets written off as hypochondriasis because symptoms are "low energy" (that's what mitochondria *do*), there aren't any easy blood tests for it AFAIK, and there are no drugs to treat it. I don't think that makes it not real. I think it just makes doctors unwilling to deal with it. Like a lot of modern diseases... there are a few things that help (but don't really cure), but they're mostly difficult long-term lifestyle changes, not prescriptions, and your average medical practitioner can't handle that kind of intervention in a five-minute office visit, even if he does happen to know about it (which he probably doesn't).
Seems like it could be a legit issue of straight-up mitochondrial problems, with the initial insult to the body being covid, the vaccine, or both.
“ this sort of poor-calibration and sensationalist scare mongering has no place in public health. it does real harm and invokes inapt reaction, attribution, and risk assessment.
it also prevents the identification of real maladies, especially vaccine injury. one of a cynical mindset might go so far as to wonder if this is why the CDC is so interested in pushing this flimsily fabricated narrative…”
I always hesitate to discredit those who claim chronic illness on the basis of fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, chronic Lyme, etc. But only because our medical system sucks entirely and utterly, particularly when it comes to treating mysterious ailments faced mostly by women. It is not a coincidence that most of those conditions - chronic Lyme excepted - are mainly treated with psych drugs & alternative therapies:
Women and men are not the same. I know many are denying the supremacy of biology as regards sex these days, but we have real medical differences due to our hormones, genes, & the expression of both in our bodies. Science hasn't done a great job of figuring out why women are more prone to diagnoses of anxiety & depression. (This is partly because a lot of that proneness to anxiety & depression is situational. ) Science as practiced by doctors isn't even great at ruling out the spectacularly obvious in the face of symptoms of anxiety & depression in female patients: nutritional deficiencies, hormone imbalances, thyroid issues, etc. Far easier to prescribe Big Pharma psych drugs.
We also tend to rely overly on complete blood counts and comprehensive metabolic panels (which are anything frigging but). We do not look directly at many markers of inflammation outside of CRP. Maybe complement proteins, on occasion. In other words, there may be markers indicating fibro, ME/CFS or even Long COVID, but we're too cheap and lazy to find them, primarily because they are mostly affecting women.
But I do fear that the psyops around Long COVID are going to cause an outsized number of purely psychosomatic cases, and that is incredibly sad and infuriating. Particularly given that the main reasons Long COVID has been so hyped is to sell subpar "vaccines" and to disguise the harms of said "vaccines."
Totally disagree. This is a lab mutant and we live in toxic soup. Many things can tip people over into ME/CFS and CoVid is one of them. It’s an uphill battle to remain physically and mentally well in our current world. It’s a multi factorial problem but dismissing it as “in their heads” isn’t helpful. Will agree that this idea of long CoVid has been carrying a lot of water for vax injury since the vax roll out. But LC was happening before vax roll out and it’s very real.
I suffer from acute Long Libtarditis. The enduring suffering and complete realization that this country is full of fucking lefty, chicken little, fearmongering, dipshits.
If you're asymptomatic...then why GAFF what you have. It's the SYMPTOMS that matter. If you don't have symptoms, then whatever you have, is form over substance.
On a separate note, egm, I like that you provide screenshots of morons' twitter accounts. Makes it very easy to post links to your columns directly on their Twitter accounts for all the world to see (well, until they delete them, anyway).
Long Covid is one of the many varieties of reignited EBV. Most people carry it and don’t even realise. Cold sores, fatigue, endo, adrenal and thyroid, fibromyalgia, and many more. Long Covid doesn’t exist, it’s just a name/ pigeon hole for more stuff they don’t understand!
Beware those who proclaim asymptomatic disease - simply a mechanism for assigning infectious status to anyone of any age, health background or economic status; purely political diagnoses for high jacking any and all civil rights under the guise of public health. There are physical pro dromal such as cardiopathies or tia's that can be silent for long periods of time, but I know of no infectious process which after the incubation process is entirely symptom free. Thanks for the great data.
Long COVID is part of a chronic condition called Karentitis.
"Long Covid" is largely a coverup for vaccine damage. In an amazing coincidence, many of the symptoms are the same.
First started hearing people talking about long COVID after it finally started sinking in to the general public that the case fatality rate was minuscule, making all the restrictions rather pointless from the perspective of saving lives. Figure the popularity of this narrative is largely driven by cope: rather than admit they'd been listening to clowns and acting like clowns, it's much easier to just transfer the object of fear from death to long COVID, and thereby retroactively justify the hysteria (while continuing to justify the ongoing hysteria).
Husband and I had COVID. I am 60+, he is 80+ with co-morbidities. He got sicker than me and took longer to get better. (We treated early following the FLCCC protocol.) I likened his recovery to an 80+ person recovering from pneumonia - it just takes time. We continue to supplement and are both operating a full strength given our ages and overall general health. Long COVID may exist but it may be just another name for an individual's unique time to recovery.
Soon as I saw that CDC infographic (curse that word to hell) I knew we had a new roadmap to neverending hysteria on steroids. Genius, really. The Holy Grail of vax-injury perpetual deniability. You gotta credit your enemy when they show smarts at anything. I won't call it cunning because it's just a really blunt instrument, but still. Heck of a giant bucket for the true believers to jump into and stay.
Is there any way to test for mitochondrial dysfunction? Did they try?
It can be credibly argued that pretty much *all* the "long-x" disorders (lyme, epstein-barr...) plus ME/CFS and a few others with similar symptoms boil down to.... something (often a virus or parasite infection) has poleaxed your mitochondrial function, and now your life is crap. It often gets written off as hypochondriasis because symptoms are "low energy" (that's what mitochondria *do*), there aren't any easy blood tests for it AFAIK, and there are no drugs to treat it. I don't think that makes it not real. I think it just makes doctors unwilling to deal with it. Like a lot of modern diseases... there are a few things that help (but don't really cure), but they're mostly difficult long-term lifestyle changes, not prescriptions, and your average medical practitioner can't handle that kind of intervention in a five-minute office visit, even if he does happen to know about it (which he probably doesn't).
Seems like it could be a legit issue of straight-up mitochondrial problems, with the initial insult to the body being covid, the vaccine, or both.
Exactly. Nailed it.
“ this sort of poor-calibration and sensationalist scare mongering has no place in public health. it does real harm and invokes inapt reaction, attribution, and risk assessment.
it also prevents the identification of real maladies, especially vaccine injury. one of a cynical mindset might go so far as to wonder if this is why the CDC is so interested in pushing this flimsily fabricated narrative…”
I always hesitate to discredit those who claim chronic illness on the basis of fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, chronic Lyme, etc. But only because our medical system sucks entirely and utterly, particularly when it comes to treating mysterious ailments faced mostly by women. It is not a coincidence that most of those conditions - chronic Lyme excepted - are mainly treated with psych drugs & alternative therapies:
https://www.drugs.com/condition/fibromyalgia.html
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/17720-myalgic-encephalomyelitischronic-fatigue-syndrome-mecfs
Women and men are not the same. I know many are denying the supremacy of biology as regards sex these days, but we have real medical differences due to our hormones, genes, & the expression of both in our bodies. Science hasn't done a great job of figuring out why women are more prone to diagnoses of anxiety & depression. (This is partly because a lot of that proneness to anxiety & depression is situational. ) Science as practiced by doctors isn't even great at ruling out the spectacularly obvious in the face of symptoms of anxiety & depression in female patients: nutritional deficiencies, hormone imbalances, thyroid issues, etc. Far easier to prescribe Big Pharma psych drugs.
We also tend to rely overly on complete blood counts and comprehensive metabolic panels (which are anything frigging but). We do not look directly at many markers of inflammation outside of CRP. Maybe complement proteins, on occasion. In other words, there may be markers indicating fibro, ME/CFS or even Long COVID, but we're too cheap and lazy to find them, primarily because they are mostly affecting women.
But I do fear that the psyops around Long COVID are going to cause an outsized number of purely psychosomatic cases, and that is incredibly sad and infuriating. Particularly given that the main reasons Long COVID has been so hyped is to sell subpar "vaccines" and to disguise the harms of said "vaccines."
Totally disagree. This is a lab mutant and we live in toxic soup. Many things can tip people over into ME/CFS and CoVid is one of them. It’s an uphill battle to remain physically and mentally well in our current world. It’s a multi factorial problem but dismissing it as “in their heads” isn’t helpful. Will agree that this idea of long CoVid has been carrying a lot of water for vax injury since the vax roll out. But LC was happening before vax roll out and it’s very real.
I suffer from acute Long Libtarditis. The enduring suffering and complete realization that this country is full of fucking lefty, chicken little, fearmongering, dipshits.
If you're asymptomatic...then why GAFF what you have. It's the SYMPTOMS that matter. If you don't have symptoms, then whatever you have, is form over substance.
On a separate note, egm, I like that you provide screenshots of morons' twitter accounts. Makes it very easy to post links to your columns directly on their Twitter accounts for all the world to see (well, until they delete them, anyway).
This over-testing of corona makes me think of those people who go to casinos and give the slot machine "just one more try."
Long Covid is one of the many varieties of reignited EBV. Most people carry it and don’t even realise. Cold sores, fatigue, endo, adrenal and thyroid, fibromyalgia, and many more. Long Covid doesn’t exist, it’s just a name/ pigeon hole for more stuff they don’t understand!
Blame the einsteins who decided to use PCR for diagnosis.
Beware those who proclaim asymptomatic disease - simply a mechanism for assigning infectious status to anyone of any age, health background or economic status; purely political diagnoses for high jacking any and all civil rights under the guise of public health. There are physical pro dromal such as cardiopathies or tia's that can be silent for long periods of time, but I know of no infectious process which after the incubation process is entirely symptom free. Thanks for the great data.
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