[proto-n]

The "so called Long COVID" really just means "I got covid and I remain unwell in some way, long term". I'm not sure it needs to be questioned if those two qualifying things are given. Very well might be the same thing as ME/CFS, or might not, I don't think we have a conclusive answer yet about what causes either.

[jdietrich]

"Long COVID" encompasses several very distinct nosological categories, which makes it a difficult term to talk about. There are at least four distinct subtypes - people who had severe acute illness and suffered respiratory injury, people who had severe acute illness and suffered cardiovascular or renal injury, people who had a relatively mild acute illness but developed long-term neurological or musculoskeletal sequelae, and people who developed those latter symptoms during the COVID pandemic without actually being infected with COVID. All of those types of suffering are very real, but may have very different causes and require different treatments.

[davidt84]

Without knowingly being infected with COVID is probably a better way to phrase that.

[krageon]

It's not that it sucks to have this brought up, it's that the people who do are pretty consistently dismissive and infantilising about it. Naturally, folks that this happens to develop an aversion to people that say the same thing for the millionth time. It's not novel, it's not interesting (in that it never leads anywhere novel either) and it's frequently hostile.

[theoreticalmal]

Doesn’t the Bible specifically mention against this line of thinking?

[ta20240528]

… along with mental/emotional disorders being a character fault.