Women outnumber men for Long COVID by four to one, which is about the average across a range of made up illnesses:
"Hysteria is a mimetic disorder; it mimics culturally permissible expressions of distress"
This would explain the recent rash of affluent women in the press feeling "exhaustion" from imagined racism
Hysteria is neither created nor destroyed, merely transmuted into socially acceptable narratives
An imagined illness can create community and ritual in a world where we've lost most community and most rituals.
I wonder if hysterias are more common in industrialized societies, and in societies where women have fewer children?
How to explain the thousands of doctors who thought their empty hospitals were overwhelmed in 2020, or that their every patient was a political enemy?
Doctors are just people, and they too go mad in crowds
Since this thread went viral again today, here is an apropos headline:
Latest data from UK shows "long COVID" is disproportionately found among the young, the white, and among females
This is despite COVID disproportionately killing old, non-white men
Still seems like a largely fake diagnosis.
These datasets are all over the place. But I think this one finds a 3.3:1 gender skew
This study hasn't been published yet, but this article (translated from German) suggests Long COVID among the hospitalized is highly psychosomatic
Then there's the French study finding that many Long COVID sufferers never actually had COVID
Of course, Long COVID is real in the sense that any nasty bug can have sequelae, but the extent of Long COVID is greatly exaggerated
dailysceptic.org/2021/11/17/fre…
Long COVID: yes it exists, but it's mostly psychosomatic
cc @a_centrism
Followup to the French study
Emil has written a comprehensive overview. Summary: Long COVID is mostly a psychosomatic affliction in neurotic females.
kirkegaard.substack.com/p/how-unreal-i…
Inadvertently clever way of getting funding for nonsense: find an imaginary illness suffered by affluent white women, use this statistical implausibility as evidence for "disparities in care and access" for "people of color"
Perfect distillation of the thread:
Mental illness has its own positive manifold:
Long COVID: study after study finds it's mostly a made-up illness
Amazing. They are appointing a fake woman to investigate a fake affliction:
Finally, a mechanistic explanation of Long COVID!
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