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Re:Belief in Having Had Covid-19 Linked with Long Covid Symp... by refurb on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:28AM (#30790285)
The mind is a hell of a drug.

Not surprised at all. Drastically alter people’s daily routines, restrict their movement, add stress and uncertainty plus the risk of death and do it for 2 years.

Why would anyone be surprised that psychological manifestations would result independent from actual covid-19 infection?

Psychogenic illness happens all by itself pre-Covid. Seems entirely reasonable it would be much worse during a global health crisis.

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Re:Belief in Having Had Covid-19 Linked with Long Covid Symp... by wutbrodo on Thursday March 24, 2022 @10:50AM (#30790671)
IMO you can find similarly strange phenomena without the unusual emotional stress of Covid. This finding is completely in line with my model of how the avg person reasons under normal circumstances. The impulse to check logical blindspots and fallacies simply doesn't exist, so "people are talking about Covid and I had a headache this morning" is all the evidence they need.
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