To say aloud a thought that seems worth saying aloud: My inner Science Genre-Savvy guesser, has a suspicion that long Covid / post-Covid syndrome, might turn out to be *real but not special*. By which I mean that if our science-larping establishment manages to...
...LARP realistically enough to gather the relevant data at all, it could turn out that influenza that lays you out in the hospital, is liable to cause "post-influenza syndrome" at a similar rate due to lingering organ damage... or, maybe, that there are many people who had a...
...common cold one year and spent the rest of their life mostly bedridden; with doctors telling them it was all in their head, because people's Just-World Hypothesis declares a common cold "shouldn't" be able to lay you out permanently like that. And that Covid-19 was just...
...the first time that an illness like that was sufficiently big, scary, a violation of the felt sense of order, and causing sufficiently severe cases to enough people at once, that the long-term aftermaths got noticed and reported. Or, of course, it could be that...
...Covid-19 *is* special, and lays people out in a special way due to getting into the bloodstream or something. I have no evidence for any of this. Just an inner Genre Savvy voice, guessing what would feel like a genre-typical result to end up reading about 5 years later.
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