If you take a whole bunch of people that you have blood samples for, and ask them if they have a list of symptoms like 'fatigue' then theres no correlation between those symptoms and whether tests show they had covid at that time.

Except for losing the sense of smell, because thats a fairly unique symptom. All the others are things that happen to people for various reasons, some very covid adjacent, like a virus, and some just random like genetics.

This is all true and useful and factual, but people seem to be leaping to the conclusions that 'covid' is fake, 'long covid is fake' when the only real conclusion is:

'If you have a bunch of long covid symptoms right now, then you are more likely to think you had covid last year than actually had covid last year'. Which is a neat result, but not exactly surprising.

But if you're big on the 'plandemic' then this probably feels like supporting evidence for that, when it's clearly not.

When the real takeaway is 'check for other causes in people reporting long covid' which I hope was happening anyway, even for those with a confirmed case of covid.