Point one: you can’t predict “long term” effects because we don’t have long terms of evidence here

Point two: when surveyed and tested, people’s beliefs they had long Covid had no correlation with whether they had Covid at all

Point 3: severity correlates with LC severity too

— Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter (@drethelin) April 9, 2022

I saw this too. I do believe Long Covid is real, but I also believe its eventual prevalence will be 99% less than what it claimed now. Most so-called Long Covid is pandemic trauma, sequelae that will go away over time, and those who believe they have Long Covid but it’s something else (also real, but not caused by Covid).

I suspect Long Covid will have a prevalence rate of around 0.2% to 0.4% of those with severe cases, which matches typical PIFS from other causes. That is still a lot of people, to be fair — but it’s not the mega-apocalypse the Covidians are claiming will occur.