@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca Found this gem: "I was surprised to find during my research into the # Pots community that many individuals also experienced autism, Tourette’s, Long Covid, chronic Lyme and so on. It would require incredibly bad luck indeed for so many of these women to be afflicted by so many" (my emphasis here) "completely different illnesses with totally different medical causes." Yeah, it would, if they were in fact "completely different illnesses with totally different medical causes". But they're not. POTS is one of the most prominent Long Covid diagnoses, caused by dysautonomia triggered by Covid. Chronic Lyme symptoms and Long Covid symptoms have lots of overlap, including POTS. These illnesses aren't mutually exclusive or psychosomatic. They're linked *at the root causes*. From Johns Hopkins: "Secondary POTS means that POTS is associated with another condition known to potentially cause autonomic neuropathy, such as diabetes, Lyme disease, or autoimmune disorders such as lupus or Sjögren’s syndrome." If they could do the research to find out these people had co-occurring illnesses, presumably they could do the research to find out that these co-occurring illnesses are not in fact "totally different". The author is lying to the reader to undermine the article's subjects' trustworthiness. It should be taken down or have highly visible mandatory disclaimers that it contains lies.