[blueplum]

This study seems to refute a recent article suggesting long covid in women was 'just menopause', and re-establishes that long covid not only is real, it's worldwide and disproportionately affects women. I posted an article last week that pointed to covid infiltrating all the body systems, which may be the contributing factor of long-covid
meta-analysis is here
and original investigation with download PDF is at JAMA, here

[know.your.why]

This is why I havent had Long COVID, Short COVID, Crooked COVID, Sideways COVID, COVID COVID.

JUST DO IT!!!

[pepsionice]

I’ve watched a number of German news pieces on ‘long-covid’. Three things stand out.

1. For each guy who is diagnosed with long-covid....there’s two women.
2. Fitness level prior to Covid....doesn’t appear to influence long-covid odds.
3. Teenagers are just as likely to have long-covid, as people in their 40s/50s.

Oddly, most of the news pieces end with the doctors agreeing that there isn’t much joint research being done, and funds for research at present are marginal.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

It is fascinating that “Estimated Global Proportions” is now science. We watched the Gates-funded IMHE at the University of Washington's “always tomorrow” and “out into the future” projections always be moved beyond the day's actual stats. “Estimated” and “projected” began this “event” with Imperial College UK “forecasting” which was wildly wrong, after three years’ worth of hindsight. but just as Paul Ehrlich's trail of errors for decades is getting trotted out again as “science,” now the NIH is doing “meat” analysis on projections. The three card monte is in full sway, and the pea is never under the cup, for it was palmed. Such is today's news. Sing with me to the Ray Stevens' tune: "Everything is Covid now, in it's own way, like the deadly climate change, or crytpo's bankruptcy...."

One recalls a part of the Stevens' lyric, borrowed and well used: "There are none so blind as he who will not see."

[mewzilla]

What percentage of people with alleged Long COVID are vaxxed...?

[Da Coyote]

Ah, today’s first COVID fear porn. I’ve got to look around to find the first sure-to-be-there climate change fear porn.

[GranTorino]

My teen son had mild Covid two summers ago.
He is now getting over three weeks of pneumonia.
Coincidence?

[AppyPappy]

Sometimes it is heart damage that is ignored in favor of a virtue signal

[Revolutionary]

Funny thing: the unvaccinated don’t get long COVID.

[TalBlack]

This long Covid sounds a lot like that mysterious debilitating disease, the name of which I don’t recall, that no one could medically prove, which consisted mainly of some kind of chronic lassitude.

[glennaro]

Most people who ended up with long COVID started with a mild case, new study shows ...

... and many of them also started with the "vaccine" and neverending "boosters" that compromised -- if not damaged -- their immunue system's effectiveness in fighting infection.

[bray]

What is the Vax status of those with long Cold-19?

[absalom01]

I don't know if "long COVID" is an actual phenominon, though it wouldn't be that uncommon for a virus to have extended sequelae. 

But if you listen to the on-line left, not only is "long COVID" a real thing, it's a huge, giant, unprecedented threat.  

Even better from the left's perspective, it can be rolled up with another newish obsession of theirs, "Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS)", which has in common with "Long COVID" that it appears to be a highly subjective thing making it almost impossible to say with any certainty if a particular individual is merely suffering from a particulary vivid form of hypochondria, or a disease with an underlying physical pathology.  That's a feature, not a fault, as it has allowed the creation of a new identity of the 'immunocompromized" who believe themselves empowered to demand, well, just about anything from the government and society at large.  The list is impressive: endless universal mask mandates, universal vaccine mandates, retrofitting all existing buildings to provide additional ventilation, social distancing, paid time off (not kidding), socialized health care in the US etc etc etc.

Those opposing their latest demands are "ableist" who seek to "normalize our deaths".  These people seem to be mostly younger, millenials and gen Z, mostly female, though with a substantial cohort of self-identified homosexual males and "trans folx".  Kind of the same demographic that formed the core of the Antifa hordes burning down blue cities during the summer of love a couple of years ago.  But now they're big mad at the Democrat establishment for not continuing to lean in to the full COVID hysteria, which would seem to create a problem for the Democrat machine, and perhaps an opportunity for some monkeywrenching from the right.

The form of that monkeywrenching is not yet clear, but those old enought to remember all the way back to 2008 will recall the fun that was had with Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos", thought that was conceptualized in purely electoral terms.  What would be fun would be to find some way to use this split in the Democrat coalition to exacerbate chaos, discord, and division intheir ranks, both for the pure joy of watching the anthill boil in rage, and hopefully, for some electoral advantage down the road.