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.
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.
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.
