Turns Out "Long COVID" Is Mostly Mythological

People who claimed to suffer from "Long COVID" are not only few and far between, but their "symptoms" might be largely related to other undiagnosed illnesses and diseases.

In the early stages of the pandemic, one of the scariest possibilities of catching coronavirus was the possibility of having ongoing symptoms that didn't seem to dissipate, which we began colloquially referring to as "Long COVID."

But the more we learn about "Long COVID" and the patients that claimed to be suffering from it, the more mythological the condition seems to be - and it certainly seems to be extremely rare, based on the data.

The Lancet published a study in which they followed 94% of all diagnosed COVID cases in New South Wales, Australia, and the results were fascinating. Of the 2,572 patients in the study, 80% of them had fully recovered from COVID within a month (and many had even recovered before then). Only 5% of patients had continued to experience symptoms of COVID 3 months after diagnosis. That said, it's noteworthy that the data shows that 96% of all the patients studied had made a full recovery at 120 days.

So, what about "Long COVID"? Is this actually a thing?

The data suggests... maybe, at best. The Mayo Clinic published a study in 2021 during the vaccine rollout, in which 108 patients seeking post-COVID were studied. Again, the results were fascinating.

The Mayo Clinic found that it was primarily men who complained of (perhaps) ongoing respiratory issues such as shortness of breath and chest pain. Most of the women studied, however, complained of other symptoms like "widespread pain," "fatigue," and "brain fog." But these symptoms might not have been specifically caused by "Long COVID." In fact, indicators like these have long been attributed to other diseases and conditions, such as fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, and arthritis, as well as your run-of-the-mill, everyday ailments like stress or exercising too vigorously. It surely seems, based on this data, that if "Long COVID" actually exists, it's far more likely to be men that actually display real symptoms of it; and if there are women out there suffering from "Long COVID," they're not showing signs of respiratory illness, but other symptoms that could be blamed on other undiagnosed diseases or conditions (and quite possibly might be completely unrelated to COVID-19 at all).

All this data is far and away from the left-leaning Brookings Institution, which published a "report" (even though the author, Katie Bach, admits in her "report" beneath the sixth paragraph that her "source" was "[her own] estimate based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau [LMFAO!], CDC, and UC Davis Health") claiming that "more than 30 million working-age Americans may have had long COVID." Of course, by her own admission, she bases this claim on absolutely nothing, and of course the actual data supplied by real health organizations easily debunk her entire report.

Lending any credibility to public health officials early on in the pandemic turned out to be a mistake for yet another reason, as we now know that "Long COVID" is extraordinarily rare and unprovable at best, and completely mythological at worst. The science and data have, once again, proven that are "public health officials" are not scientists, but politically-partisan hacks working on behalf of the Democratic Party, its power structure, and their partisanly-motivated political objectives (which as far as we can tell in 2023, are creating the largest upward transfers of wealth in human history, shutting down small businesses, creating a society that's completely run by the top Fortune 500 companies in America, and creating large, Third Reich-style forced-vaccination programs).