Sorry, guys. But, my wife has had long COVID for 2+ years and counting. It's not a myth. It's not propaganda. From an active, healthy 58 YO to someone who had a hard time walking out to the mailbox and back without stopping to rest. When at her lowest point, she had barely enough energy to get out of bed, walk to the couch and remain there the rest of the day. She had the first 2 shots and one booster. Whether the shots/booster caused the affliction (which one doctor hinted at), I don't know. But, 'long COVID' is NOT BS. It's real and hundreds of thousands of individuals have experienced it to varying degrees. Several doctors who treated her have opined that the virus/vaccine/both triggered a response in her system that has presented itself as chronic fatigue syndrome. They're probably guessing but that's what we've been told.
A quick Google search debunks this post on X (I know it's from AP News but there are several others that state the same thing):
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-australia-study-vaccine-immunodeficiency-vaids-188567674141.
When I type "long covid," I'm not asserting that the illness called "long covid" doesn't exist. I just think it's an inappropriate label. It's not covid and it won't make you test positive for it. It's symptomatically like some aspects of covid, but I think even most of what was called/labeled covid wasn't covid.
We know now (and did before the end of 2020) that the PCR testing protocol was so flawed that false positive results approached 100%. The cycle rate for the tests was way too high. The protocol was peer reviewed in spring of 2020 and then suppressed/hidden by the press, social media, and the govt until Nov 2020. My friend in healthcare received documentation of it in April or May and forwarded it to me.
The govt agencies recognized the study in early 2021 but said they wouldn't revise the protocol until Dec 2021. They never published the data and specs for the new protocol and it wasn't allowed to be peer reviewed, if they even changed anything with it.
Covid could have been anything. flu, another coronavirus, or other environmental factors like metals toxicity. They waited so long in the testing and treatment phase that it could have been anything, as the protocol COULD NOT differentiate between coronaviruses AT ALL, and the symptoms by then were so severe for many that treatment was more urgent and immune systems were in overdrive.
I know 2 people with "long covid" symptoms and no one in the standard health care system has been able to help either of them. One had monoclonal antibodies as a treatment or preventative against covid, and they have had "long covid" ever since. The other has had shot after shot and their symptoms come and go every 6 months. They refuse to tell me when they go them and when symptoms relapse, which tells me the relapses are likely due to the boosters.
Neither will see a naturopath or try holistic/functional approaches. No reason given. They are just too heavily invested psychologically and spiritually in the system. At least one person I know through a friend has seen benefits from heavy metals detoxing and naturopathic supplements. Their "long covid" hasn't returned (and their associated CFS has dissipated) though they do have an occasional dry/tickling cough if they are around certain things that didn't use to bother them before getting the treatments.
There is a covid/long covid study with a huge dataset and international scope that centered around how nicotine users were universally much less likely to suffer the effects of covid. I'm still in the middle of reading into it and watching all of the information broken down.
A Dr by the name of Bryan Ardis has published information and videos on the topic, though I don't think he took part in the study directly. He has successfully used nicotine as a treatment to combat illnesses that relate to nicotine receptors in human cells. Some of these are on the spectrum, some are adhd related, some are heart and curculatory related (like carditis), and some are coronavirus related illnesses. There are others I can't remember off hand right now.
Will be praying for you and your wife, and I hope she finds relief.
Edit- Parkinsons was one of the others that responded to such treatment in some people diagnosed with the disease. A friend locally is trying to get a relative with Parkinsons to at least give it a try, as other treatments have proved unstable or made it worse after initial improvement.
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