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Yes. That's how anecdata works. If enough people observe they don't know anyone either with or post long covid, it starts to move significance. I've known two people with ME over 50 years and it doesn't alter my sense of their personal anguish or its economic and wider health consequences.

I have no doubt long covid exists and will need significant funding in research and targeted health care. It won't need as much as, or return as much as the spend on paediatrics or obstetrics, per capita.




I’ve never known anyone to justify an argument explicitly using anecdata unironically. Amazing, no notes.


You don't seem to care that the COVID alarmists are only using anecdata as well. I think if is clear where your sympathies lie.




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