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by progrus 904 days ago
One mechanism is physiological stress when people believe they’ve been cursed:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1447278/

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You keep bringing that up, but Long Covid is exceptionally well documented at this point. We can't pretend it's entirely in peoples heads like you seem to be doing.
People have staked their whole identity on the whole thing being a hoax. I have a (ex) friend convinced that billions of people died of heart failure specifically due to the vaccine and the whole thing was covered up, and his evidence is basically that he believes the virus wasn’t real and the vaccine was some kind of government plan to murder everyone. What can you say to that? He will just keep doubling down forever at this point.
Absolutely not what I’m doing… I used the phrase “one of” for a reason
So that would affect people who are anti-vaccination (believe it's a curse) and got it anyway?

I think there's far more reports of the 'long covid' symptoms than there are people in that camp.

That camp has the people who had a bad reaction to the vaccine or booster, mostly. Not sure how they compare numbers wise.

Maybe the vaccine caused a similar hit to the immune system for some people, this stuff is complicated.