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alganet[dead post] ◴[] No.44645032[source]
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klabb3 ◴[] No.44645789[source]
> I wonder if, in parts, the effects of the so called "mild covid" and "long covid" […] are nothing but psychological. There seems to be quite a cloud of uncertainty around the vast array of reported possible symptoms.

Uncertainty does not imply psychological. It’s like saying ”our users report a lot of different bugs that we can’t reproduce, they must be all imagined”, except the body is OOMs more complex than even the most carelessly developed enterprise application. There is uncertainty in every part of medicine, all the time. That’s why it takes time and is difficult (often too difficult) to root cause everything that happens.

If you have a novel pathogen with neurological effects (see olfactory impacts - people literally losing their sense of smell), it would be my first guess of mysterious symptoms rather than.. checks notes the war in Ukraine? Honestly I’m not sure how to connect your first sentence to the next.

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1. inglor_cz ◴[] No.44645975[source]
Me neither, but there is a theory that Putin grew increasingly disconnected from reality when isolating himself from a potential Covid infection, and that this might have contributed to his decision to go all in.

Should this be the truth, there would be an actual connection between the virus and the war.

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2. alganet ◴[] No.44646019[source]
That's very original but not the kind of thing I proposed.

I am sure there are many ways one could be disconnected from reality.

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3. IAmBroom ◴[] No.44647416[source]
Ironically.