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Re:NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings by BjoernKW on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:11PM (#28067096)
The author of that comment obviously has quite some expertise in the matter (see their profile and some of their other comments linked to in this thread).

They didn't say that "Long COVID" symptoms aren't real. They just stated that this particular virus disappears after some time, that is once your immune system manages to cope with it and the infection clears out.

This statement is emphatically true. Otherwise, antigen and PCR tests would still yield positive results months after someone became infected.

An example of a virus not simply disappearing from your body anymore once you're infected with it would be HIV.

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Re:NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings by AndrewBissell on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:52PM (#28067481)
A potential mechanism for Covid to produce lingering symptoms would be some kind of mast cell activation syndrome. I believe that "long Covid" is probably a mix of that, actual lung or vascular damage that takes time to recover (we have a friend who suffered lung damage and referred to the recovery period as "long Covid"), and some (possibly quite large) amount of psychosomatic subjective experience and amplification of lingering symptoms caused by the relentless hype on this issue.

http://farid.jalali.one/MCAS_COVID.pdf?fbclid=IwAR08nCA9isig...

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Re:NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings by aplummer on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @06:42PM (#28067409)
I take “quietly” to mean “without causing havoc and long term symptoms” which appears to be the undefined term here. This is why I refer explicitly to long term symptoms as being what remains.

I stand by my comment, it does not “quietly” go away.

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Re:NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings by Talanes on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @07:41PM (#28067871)
>I stand by my comment, it does not “quietly” go away.

By the standards you yourself set two posts above, we cannot know that yet.

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Re:NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings by aplummer on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @08:40PM (#28068320)
I should have confirmed I was denying the claim and not making one, “we have not proved it goes away quietly eventually”.
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Re:NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings by systemvoltage on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @10:02PM (#28068907)
Censorship in the name of 'misinformation' isn't the answer. I know I've been wrong many times for things that I took as granted and as factual. I was so passionate about these facts, blindingly so - I just never saw the contrary evidence. Ever considered that you could be wrong and misled yourself? This is why we need to have a debate to get to the bottom of the truth.
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