The Coronavirus Is Here Forever

Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by Alex3917 on Monday August 23, 2021 @03:48PM (#28281020)

Muscle weakness is a standardized medical diagnosis. When you see the term being used in a medical paper, it always means the same thing. C.f.: https://www.aafp.org/afp/2005/0401/p1327.html

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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by lp0_on_fire on Monday August 23, 2021 @04:37PM (#28281588)

This is basically the same argument that gets trotted out whenever someone points out Telsa's deceptive advertising wrt "autopilot".

"Real pilots know that autopilot means you still have to pay attention - nevermind that 99.9% of society thinks that idiom means they can sleep behind the wheel while it's turned on"

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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by josephcsible on Monday August 23, 2021 @05:14PM (#28282043)

This is worse than that. With that, the argument sticks with that one definition throughout. Here, one meaning of "muscle weakness" is being used to make it sound scary, and another meaning is used to say COVID causes it. It's the equivocation fallacy.

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Re:The Coronavirus Is Here Forever by Alex3917 on Monday August 23, 2021 @09:49PM (#28284294)

So you're arguing that the New England Journal of Medicine article is using the word "weakness" in a colloquial sense, rather than in the medical sense, in the same sentence that the words "dyspnea" and "myalgia" appear?:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2109072

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