> All of the symptoms listed could be psychosomatic, due to fear around COVID.
The same can be said for a majority of cancer symptoms, autoimmune disorders, etc. Handwaving symptoms away as "that could be imagined" doesn't make it so.
Having seen horrific xrays of the lungs of some COVID survivors, I have trouble believing that symptoms like "chest pain" and "abnormal breathing" are psychosomatic for a majority those reporting them.
I was having palpitations the morning of my cardiologist visit. Had an ECG and found absolutely nothing wrong. That led us to believe I was suffering from anxiety as SARS-CoV-2 can cause your body to reduce tryptophan and thus create a serotonin imbalance. Went on an SSRI for 6 months and those things have returned to normal. Joint pain and numbness still randomly occurs but has been slowly resolving
It’s hard not to marvel at this virus if it wasn’t trying to fsck you up at every turn
After a week of physical troubles due to covid, as I started getting better, I found a sort of fear/anxiety of losing loved ones took over me. resuming Rigorous meditation and getting back to work help me beat it in a week or two.
Though I'm not fully convinced for needing vaccine if already gone through symptomatic covid. If I have got the real thing training the immune system, what real benefit a controlled training by vaccine would give over that?
>>Handwaving symptoms away as "that could be imagined" doesn't make it so.
Handwaving away the effects of psychological stress also makes no sense. I didn't say they were imagined. I said they were psychosomatic, which means due to psychological stress.
More generally, when all of the long-COVID symptoms could be due to a host of other confounding factors, it makes no sense to blame COVID and make people even more afraid, and thus potentially exacerbate the very symptoms you are sounding the alarm about.
As Bill Maher noted, people, especially Democrats, are already vastly over-estimating the risk posed by COVID. It's not wise to dismiss the potential unintended adverse effects of this misassessment, and focus exclusively on the risk posed by COVID. A one-dimensional focus on COVID risk is a simplistic and imbalanced way of approaching risk management.
>>I have trouble believing that symptoms like "chest pain" and "abnormal breathing" are psychosomatic for a majority those reporting them.
Both are very common results of anxiety. Given there is no indication of widespread heart or lung damage from the vast majority of COVID cases, attributing these to COVID makes no sense.
We have no idea what two weeks of total isolation, which all of these people who are diagnosed with COVID are subjected to, does to people. Incidentally, anxiety and depression - the most commonly reported "long-COVID" symptoms - are one of the most common effects of loneliness:
So you want to conclude that it's COVID doing this to people despite no evidence of widespread heart/lung damage that could explain these responses, and when there are more plausible explanations emanating from psychological stress?
These links contradict my assertion that there is "no indication of widespread heart or lung damage from the vast majority of COVID cases"?
My statement is not incorrect. Your links show no such thing.
The vast majority of covid cases have very mild acute symptoms, so the vast majority of the reports of chest pains and "abnormal breathing" months after the infection, that are attributed to "long COVID", could not possibly be due to heart or lung damage from COVID. That kind of pervasive damage would show up in the acute symptoms and in imaging scans and we would know about it.
COVID is not some magical disease. The long term complications emanate from the damage during infection, with severe infections more likely to have long term complications. Mild infections are very unlikely to have long term complications except in so far as the collective hysteria, which is confirmed by polls, and that vastly over-estimates the threat of COVID and leads to extreme over reactions like two week total isolation prescribed for all cases, or all in person classes being cancelled in universities that have a few mild cases, has psychosomatic effects.
The same can be said for a majority of cancer symptoms, autoimmune disorders, etc. Handwaving symptoms away as "that could be imagined" doesn't make it so.
Having seen horrific xrays of the lungs of some COVID survivors, I have trouble believing that symptoms like "chest pain" and "abnormal breathing" are psychosomatic for a majority those reporting them.