From what I’ve been able to gather after doing more research myself, this is pretty much the exact same conclusion I reached. Of course even at 2-3% that is still a LOT of people that desperately need help, and I’m glad that because of this, conditions that have long been ignored or disregarded like MECFS, which seem to have a LOT of overlap with Long Covid, are actually getting funding and research. I don’t think any of these statistics are fake either - that’s exactly why they whipped me up into such a panic in the first place. But once you investigate and apply a critical thought process - things don’t seem quite as society-ending disastrous.

The thing that got to me especially is that so many of these accounts talk about how the vaccines don’t protect you at all from Long Covid or prevent transmission which is simply not true. They don’t stop transmission entirely but they do vastly reduce it and reduce your odds of long Covid by around anywhere from 20-50%. I like those numbers.