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Swiss Re: Expert Forum on secondary COVID-19 impacts, Feb 2021

Discussion in 'Psychosomatic news - ME/CFS and Long Covid' started by Sly Saint, Apr 4, 2021.

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    Reseaarchers into FND are not playing the game and actually referring to the "disease" as a new name for conversion disorder, which is a form of hysteria, in their published papers.

    The older BPWS people know to imply things rather than spell it out so you can disown it when people complain.
     
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    Guardian opinion piece by George Monbiot:

    Apparently just by talking about it, I’m super-spreading long Covid

    "Rejoice! A mystery has been solved. We now have an explanation for long Covid, a condition afflicting many thousands of people. A super-spreader has been identified. Important as this finding is, I’m reluctant to call for the vector to be eradicated. Why? Because it’s me.

    In a presentation to the reinsurance giant Swiss Re, Michael Sharpe, a professor of psychological medicine at the University of Oxford and founder of a long Covid clinic, proposed that one of the causes of the syndrome was “social factors”. The social factor at the top of his list was an article I wrote for the Guardian, describing the suffering of patients with the condition."

    Article: https://www.theguardian.com/comment...spreading-long-covid-professor-press-coverage
     
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    The thing that stood out for me most in the presentation was this (in the summary, at the end):
     
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