Caveat: People suffering from long-term sequelae from SARS-CoV2, or any virus, deserve respect both from the medical community as well as the public at large. Whether there are biological, psychological or immunological reasons behind it, the symptoms _are_ real. We can't say depression is real and long-covid isn't.<p>With that said, I think we do the patients a disservice by assuming that this is a purely biological impact of COVID. We are _all_ suffering from various psychological, physical or emotional impacts from the entire world being flipped around over the past three years. Couple this with the fact that _literally almost everyone will get COVID_ either in the past three years for the years to come, we can't use correlation with infection at all.<p>Most people recover from all sorts of shit. Most people can do a bump of coke and not turn into Stevie Nicks. Most people can have a few drinks. That doesn't mean we _ignore_ the people who get addicted, who drive drunk or who have long-term symptoms. But we understand that it isn't one thing that causes it in most people. It is a lot of things, and we do the folks suffering from these issues a disservice when we limit it to One Thing.