lotta dunking like "lol not everyone speaks english" but then i checked the japanese wikipedia page and it actually calls it "long covid" in english rather than like ロングコビッド or something related to 新型コロナウイルス https://t.co/cN1mhirrqH

— prime minister of the united kingdom bonar law (@jpmeyer) October 26, 2022

I suspect most Long Covid is really medium to short Covid, and that it is vastly more prevalent in countries with already-unhealthy populations with lots of obesity where those pops are beset with pre-existing physiological disease as well as psychological issues.

Long Covid is real (for some), but it’s mostly a phantom in which any one group can see what they wish to see.