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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the long-term effects of Covid are much more serious than we are being told.  [/quote]

I don't think this is a conspiracy theory - [b]we just don't know yet[/b]. I mean, is it a conspiracy theory if a longitudinal study shows in ten years that X% of people that suffered COVID will have permanent damage to their heart or lungs? Or something else? [b]A lack of data is not a conspiracy theory.[/b][/quote]

No, I think there is more data than we are being told.

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How could there be more data on long-term effects when we're only a year into the pandemic? I don't understand this.[/quote]

There is more information than we are being told.  What don't you understand about this?

Pick up a history book.  Didn't you ever wonder why people didn't realize what seems obvious to you, far in the future?  Didn't you ever study an event in history and wonder at the inability of the ordinary person to realize the full extent of whatever was occurring?  For a lot of reasons, it is in nobody's best interest to neutrally present all known information about a negative or controversial event that can't be changed.  This is true for every culture and society.

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Please give one example of a similar scenario to what you're talking about. [/quote]

As someone who lives in Europe, bovine spongiform encephalopathy comes to mind.  It was mishandled badly with information not released in a timely way or action taken early enough.  The public certainly were not made aware of the progressing situation from its origin in anything like 'real time.'  There is much information about this online, but here is the first thing that came up from my quick search: https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1990/may/21/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy

Or tuberculosis in the Victorian era.  It was known that consumption was contagious and it was known how it was spread well before this information was made clear to the entire public.  The reason is poor people lived close together and worked in miserable, crowded conditions in cities and there was no way to prevent spread among them.  That portion of the population simply weren't important as individuals to the political and social elite, only as a mass workforce, so there was less incentive to act in a way that would best prevent some of them from becoming ill.

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