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So basically most long covid is a form of depression. It makes sense given the fact that most self reported long covid was white middle aged females over any other demographic

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Once again proving that any comment on the internet starting with "So" will go absolutely off the rails haha

Even if we accept it as truth there's so many reasons why you might only be seeing that demographic. Starting with the people you surround yourself with to the possibility that anyone else needs to get by and can't show weakness without worrying about losing their income. What other demographics are you missing?

Are they all also stay at home mothers who don't need to appease a boss for instance? I don't have a better example as I don't really buy your initial claim, but things like that

So are you saying that my wife got depressed 2 weeks after having Covid? That she just all of the sudden started to be breathless with oximeter showing levels below 80% due to a depression? She was in her best moment in life, earning a 6 figures salary, reading 50 books a year, learning a 5th language and studying a 2nd master degree.

After 2 years, she is now unable to leave home and read a single book of course this makes her depressed. But long covid is very real and it starts always a few weeks after the recovery. It impacting mostly women than men has probably something to do with the immune system differences and your comment is offensive to all the people suffering this terrible disease and all the scientist investigating it.

To be fair literally every single symptom here is a symptom of depression. Has she tried SSRIs? People get depressed from disease all the time, being sick is depressing.

Depression can cause dangerously low Blood Oxygen?

This isn't the gotcha you think it is. Lack of serotonin is correlated with depression. Mood and cognition are functions of the brain and the brain can malfunction due to pathogen. Saying this is depression isn't the same as saying it isn't a disease or that it isn't caused by covid-19.

The greatest demographic to report long covid symptoms are actually hispanic and black people trans people earning less than 25000 a year. [0]

0. https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/05/long-covid-19...

"Women were more likely than men to say they suffered long-lasting symptoms."

Like many other "diseases" like CFS or fibromyalgia.

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