i don't know that it would be fair of me to bemoan the slow progress of long covid research given how new it is by medical standards, but at the very least i am glad that mainstream awareness and reporting seem to be increasing

it's quite scary that everyone who catches covid is rolling the dice on potentially debilitating, poorly understood complications, and i have to imagine people in general would behave very differently if they were mindful of this. and there's the systemic difficulty forced on current long covid sufferers, who have an uphill battle in persuading those around them (including, often, medical professionals!) that they have a real and sometimes severe condition