Respectfully, no. I had Covid-19 in March 2020 and had long covid and... "just suck it up and push through" is basically the worst possible advice. Saying it causes fatigue just doesn't describe how utterly disabling it can be. I would get tired walking from my bedroom to the kitchen and I live in a small apartment. When I would push through, I'd be bedridden for days after. Seriously! We're talking too exhausted to have Netflix on in the background, not even watching it. I'm sure it's not psychosomatic because this was all new at the time, and I was far too exhausted for months after to even just surf the Internet.

The most disabling part of the illness was learning that I can't just "push through" without paying for it for days afterwards. For months after, a single beer and a big meal would lay me out. You don't usually think of digesting food as strenuous, but in my weakened state, I'd start seeing stars and almost black out.

Now, it would be easy to dismiss me, blame me for not being healthier, but when young athletes who are fit have having these symptoms, and doctors (with better access to healthcare then I) are recording their own symptoms as scientists, it's not made up.

The worst part of having long covid is people (including doctors!) who don't believe long covid is real. Thankfully for long covid, there are biomarkers that can be tested for now so unbelievers don't have to take it on faith. After the medical gaslighting I've experienced, I really feel for people that suffer from fibromyalgia or other mysterious un-seeable maladies that there are not tests for.