It's strange that the phrase "long covid" has suddenly jumped into our lexicon, when there has been a similar tiny minority of patients reporting similar symptoms from the other coronaviruses for decades now.

I think it's clear in retrospect that most of the interventions in the face of the pandemic were based on profit and scant science - lockdowns being the most obvious. But increased study and awareness of post-infection syndromes without the kind of high-brow dismissal that these patients have received up until now... well, that's certainly an acceptable silver lining.

Yeah, it's a rebranding of what we used to call "post-viral fatigue" or "post-viral syndrome", except specific to this one virus.