There's a frog in a boiling pot dynamic going on here, too. I've seen the slow degradation of health and it's like sometimes they get real close to realizing where it all started....but it's been too long in their mind and so they start looking for something that happened immediately before, say, the arthritis(my best friend). So then you go "Do you think that bout of COVID 6 weeks ago had anything to do with it?" and it's always "Nah, that was, like, months ago and my doctor said I'm over that."
Fast forward 6 more months and the conversation goes:
"Man, this arthritis is killing me. I've gained 50 pounds because I can't walk without pain, my doctor diagnosed me with some new autoimmune disorder that he can't quite pin down and the kids bring home a new virus every other week."
"Do you think..."
"Don't say COVID. It's not COVID."
"OK...."
