Had a long talk with a friend who is an ICU nurse. She said that “long covid” is actually just bacterial pneumonia in people who work in places that require them to wear masks for 8-10 hours at a time. But these people would come in with a cough, test positive for the virus and be designated as covid patients. Their symptoms were identical to pneumonia so she asked her supervisors why they were designating these people as covid patients when they were clearly suffering from pneumonia. She was told that this is just how they were doing things out of an abundance of caution. She began asking the patients how often they used new masks and over half of them had been wearing the same dirty mask for days and weeks on end that would accumulate moisture and become breeding grounds for harmful bacteria.

Covid = souped up flu

Long covid = bacterial pneumonia caused by dirty repeat use masks

Don’t let them change the language of medicine. There is no such thing as “long covid.”