Paul Garner on Long Covid and ME/CFS - BMJ articles and other media.

SNT Gatchaman said:
I guess we'll see.
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Paul believes he had Long Covid and (coz someone said he met Canadian Consensus Criteria) ME and he cured it by thinking differently, so I don’t put much stock in what he believes will or won’t happen.
He is also closer to “three score years and ten” so he’s on a more limited timeframe than say, me, to see if a drug or test pops up. N.B. This is a statement of fact, not a threat. I wouldn’t want anyone to get those mixed up.
 
https://meassociation.org.uk/2025/0...ation-applies-to-me-cfs-or-indeed-long-covid/

"The ME Association fervently refutes the psychosomatic model of causation applies to ME/CFS or indeed Long Covid"

Unfortunately, just saying you don't believe something isn't the same as refuting it.

It's a shame Charles Shepherd wasn't able to give some reasons why the psychosomatic version doesn't hold up, rather than just saying he doesn't believe it works for everyone.
 
MrMagoo said:
Garner was ill with Covid in April and recovered by the end of 2020.

Except he was taking military fitness classes and running distances by July, and travelled to the Caribbean for a scuba diving holiday in October where he caught dengue fever. If the article is tweeted there should be a “community note”

nobody who knows someone with Long Covid or ME will buy what he’s selling when they hear that.
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If I recall, the scuba dooba trip,was also a professional conference trip, so a Multi tasker to boot! Will check this out, but if I recall, also a lot of interviews and broadcasts too!
No PEM on Paul!
 
Just as a reminder: the first post in this thread is this article from May 5th, 2020.
https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/05/0...ith-the-constantly-shifting-bizarre-symptoms/
Paul Garner: For 7 weeks I have been through a roller coaster of ill health, extreme emotions, and utter exhaustion

May 5, 2020
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In mid March I developed covid-19. For almost seven weeks I have been through a roller coaster of ill health, extreme emotions, and utter exhaustion.
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And today the disease has lifted. For the first time, I do not feel awful.
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Still sick in September 2020:
https://www.s4me.info/threads/paul-...cles-and-other-media.15629/page-6#post-286593
I thought this was going to be a short illness. I wrote my first opinion piece after six weeks of unrelenting illness, and am now writing at six months, with an illness that resembles ME/CSF. What will I write in six years? Will I be better, with memories of a dystopic world when I became infected as part of a government strategy to develop herd immunity? Or will I be reflecting wistfully on my lovely life that vanished one day in March 2020?
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Something happened in October 2020 and he was was «cured» by GET in three weeks.
https://www.s4me.info/threads/paul-...cles-and-other-media.15629/page-7#post-309072
 
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Utsikt said:
Here is a summary by Sissel Sunde in response to an article by the Norwegian tabloid (and LP-cheer squad) Dagbladet about PG:
https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=no&tl=en&u=https://lifewithmebysissel.wordpress.com/2021/09/15/hva-dagbladet-visste-om-paul-garner/
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sadly the Google translate wouldn’t turn it into English and I don’t really understand much Norwegian, so I treated myself to Dave Tuller’s excoriating blog which was linked in the article.
 
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