To perpetuate fear based on a guess is just wrong.
Don - I believe you were one of the ones accusing me of fear mongering when I made predictions about the death toll from Covid back in February - I said 200,000 to 600,000 deaths, maybe as many as 1 million in the US before it was all over, and we are at 400,000 right now. Using math and statistics that were available is NOT guessing and I was pretty much right on the nose. And it's not a "guess" that people genuinely suffer from Long Covid and that the incidence is not that rare - I have numbers from my own practice that are shocking to me, it's not a guess. My point is that your ASSumption that Long Covid patients are just anxious or making it up IS WRONG and very detrimental to the poor people suffering from this. Please rethink your position on this as I can assure you these people are genuinely, severely ill with a post viral syndrome caused by Covid.
As for the addiction drug you say is being wrongly blamed for symptoms, I don't know which one you are referencing. But I can tell you that genetic differences exist in how some people respond to certain drugs. Floxin antibiotics like Cipro are used commonly without problems for most people - but in some people they can cause tendon ruptures, and in even rarer cases they can cause a neuropathy that can't be treated (I have one of these patients in my practice- none of the usual treatments for neuropathy have helped at all). It took quite some time for the research literature to catch up with these facts. Most likely these people have genetic quirks that predispose them to these side effects. Propecia can cause permanent sexual dysfunction in some young men who take it for baldness. It's rare but it can happen. Took about 15 years for it to be acknowledged. It's now on the package insert. Prior to that, the guys online talking about it were written off as "anxious".
So please don't blame Covid victims for not recovering the way you think they should. Please don't call facts about the reality of Covid "fear mongering". New variants are appearing that are more contagious and one of them is showing signs in the laboratory of possibly being able to evade the antibodies of people who previously had Covid. We are nowhere near done with this virus. Widespread vaccination however is our best hope of getting back to normal life and slowing the rate of mutations (the more people infected with Covid, the more opportunities for it to mutate).
