Maybe you and the other user (ljf) are both right, but we'll probably never know. All of the people I know who had covid, including my 84 and 87 year old grandmas had no lasting effects. It run through them like a flu.
I don't even know if I had it or not because I never got tested nor vaccinated for it. Same as my gf, her sister and her sister's boyfriend.
The only person who mentioned lasting effects was my uncle, who is a known hypochondriac, and it was all over the place: lack of strength and brain fog, and other weird symptoms. After a while he just stopped talking about it. I've seen lots of people claiming all sorts of symptoms for covid and long covid: impotence, menstruation issues, constipation, ear pain, tinnitus, etc. So many that it's impossible to really determine if that's what's causing it or if other million of things that could be going wrong in the human body (including suggestion/nocebo).
> It is so odd how people are so desperate to call bullshit on long covid
It's the other way around. This is something that didn't exist just a few years ago, that has no verifiable way to test it other than self-reports. Most of us have moved on, or weren't that scared of the virus itself.
I think some people are desperate for long covid to be a thing.
I don't even know if I had it or not because I never got tested nor vaccinated for it. Same as my gf, her sister and her sister's boyfriend.
The only person who mentioned lasting effects was my uncle, who is a known hypochondriac, and it was all over the place: lack of strength and brain fog, and other weird symptoms. After a while he just stopped talking about it. I've seen lots of people claiming all sorts of symptoms for covid and long covid: impotence, menstruation issues, constipation, ear pain, tinnitus, etc. So many that it's impossible to really determine if that's what's causing it or if other million of things that could be going wrong in the human body (including suggestion/nocebo).