Thread by @CovidCastaways

Why’s it easier to deny COVID is persistent? #LongCOVID #pwLC

1. Admitting COVID is persistent & causing #LC puts the onus on the government to solve the problem.

Not admitting or addressing that it’s persistent allows them to put the blame on you & your body instead.

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2. Admitting persistence means the government has to deal with it. If they don’t admit it, they can call it post viral nothing new & just have Long Haulers do what other chronically ill have done & they don’t have to develop new testing, trials, & treatments.

3. Admitting persistence can put them at fault for allowing the spread & may put a spotlight on the vaccines.

4. Admitting persistent can put them more at fault for potentially contributing to the development of SARS-CoV-2 & all sickness that that chronic pathogen has caused.

5. Admitting persistence will come at a tremendous cost. HIV receives $42 billion in funding annually. There are 1.2 million with HIV & 32 effective antivirals.

There are 23 million plus with Long COVID. That’s an equivalent cost of hundreds of billions a year. 💰💰

6. Admitting persistence can open up a Pandora’s Box for other people with chronic illness who deal with unsolved chronic pathogens due to poor testing & treatments.

Chronic Lyme, currently called Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome by the CDC+, being one.

There are plenty more reasons, but you’re getting the picture.

It’s easier, cheaper, & brings less grief for the government to put Long Haulers into the post-viral, ME/CFS symptomatic syndrome umbrella land than deal with the problem head on.

Don’t let them do this BS to us.

#LongCOVID #pwLC #LC #TreatChronicPathogens