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by Spod_Gaju 741 days ago
No, but when people say “Covid causes brain damage“ it’s incorrect. Because of Covid caused brain damage than everyone who caught Covid would have brain damage and they know that’s not the case. So it’s not just Covid that causes brain damage. It’s Covid and something that was wrong with the person who caught Covid.

Personally, and this is my own humble opinion, I think what was wrong with the person was they had low ATP and GTP. If you wanna know more about the science behind it, I’ll be glad to explain it.

This is important because this is how you cure diseases by making these distinctions.
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microtherion 741 days ago
Less than 1% of Polio infections cause paralysis. But Polio does cause paralysis.

Only about half of infected, untreated people die of bubonic plague. It's still a deadly disease.

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Spod_Gaju 741 days ago
Polio increases the risk of paralysis For a population. It only causes paralysis in the people who become paralyzed.

If I had long Covid, I would rightly say Covid caused my long Covid. But since I don’t have Covid, I can’t say that Covid caused my long Covid so for me Covid did not cause long Covid.

I’m more interested in the distinction of Outcomes and the wording they’re using pay no attention to distinction.

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tasty_freeze 741 days ago
You are being uselessly pedantic.

If there is a statistic that guns killed 40,000 people last year in the USA, everyone knows that it doesn't mean that every gun contributed to the deaths of those people. If someone says the Earth is spherical, the discussion is made worse by saying, "Actually, it is an oblate spheroid, blah blah". When some source states that polio paralyzed xxx thousand people in 1930, what is the value add of saying:

> It only causes paralysis in the people who become paralyzed.

Tautologies are by definition true, but don't really contribute much to an argument.

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microtherion 741 days ago
There's at least one known person who survived a fall from more than 33,000ft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulović

So by your logic, a fall from 33,000ft does not cause death.

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