I'm seeing this fucking article everywhere. Capital loves this so hard.
The asshole didn't publish his findings. There's no link anywhere to the article. I did a good faith search in Google Scholar and Pubmed, and can't find his findings. He's going to present his findings to a fucking conference in a months time. For those of you who don't know, the bar of entry to academic conferences is much lower than an academic journal. ECCMID isn't even a prestigious conference, they'll accept nearly everyone that submits and pays. Conferences are considered just the beginning of the scientific journey, before the research goes further and gets actual peer review in an actual journal.
For those of you who don't know, John Gerrard was brought in as chief health minister to Queensland specifically to transition to open the country up and forget about COVID. Nearly 100% of the COVID cases and deaths happened after his tenure started. Fuck him
Sorry for the pedantic formatting, but this upsets me so hard.
My partner still can’t go upstairs without being out of breath for an hour and her heart just randomly acts fucking bizarrely, I want to [redacted] this man so badly
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Currently dealing with a lot of non-specific malaise that's probably due to bi-polar + adhd, but it could also be long covid exhaustion. And like i want to be able to function and live a life and not be confined to bed. And that's already been a struggle bc of life long severe depression. And now there's this virus that can cause all the same symptoms - fatigue, brain fog, cognitive problems - that i already have. And if i don't want to catch the disease that has a very serious chance of compounding and multiplying the debilitating symptoms i already have i am unreasonable, ruled by fear, insane, weird, whatever.
It is wrong that we have been treated like this, that we continue to be treated like this, that so many of us find no support even from the people closest to us.
Sorry comrade. I'm fairly healthy, and still I'm really depressed over the state of things. It must be hard for you. I'm sorry that the system treats you so shitty, but at least you're one of my favourite people.
Imagine hearing the opinion of an Australian "chief health officer" and not immediately dismissing it as dangerously irresponsible drunken ramblings.
Queensland is our Florida equivalent state to top it off as well
"I mean, who are you going to believe: Tens of millions of people who are struggling just to exist because of this disease, or one dude with an official sounding title whose six-figure salary depends on tricking enough of the peasants back to work to keep us happy?"hope this asshole gets long covid at the conference
If I hypothetically had connections to the Queensland government health department, is there anything I could do to make this situation better for denizens?
It does sound plausible enough, with the problem then being that basically everyone is repeatedly getting Covid whereas flu is far less common and people with compromised immune systems can more effectively vaccinate against it. So that serious complications from Covid are still far more prevalent. Not sure why that would mean we should dismiss the term ‘long Covid’ though, when the vast majority of people having post-infection problems are going to have contracted them via Covid.
The study afaik was based off results from a phone survey too, so it’s interesting but it obviously needs a lot more investigation.thing is there's been a lot more investigation that has indicated the severity and distinctiveness of long covid compared to other post-viral illnesses. At this point it's only in the realm of public opinion and media propaganda that long covid does not or might not exist - in the scientific community long covid has become a relatively well-accepted diagnosis. This is a single unpublished study from a guy who has been trying to manufacture an end to this pandemic since he was brought in; there's plenty of studies out there that are better done and refute the conclusions to which this study seems to have come.
