I really put the blame on the medical authorities and the NIH and the CDC to be honest

because if you leave very sick people to their own devices and without treatments and without even proper acknowledgement, right?

And their only way of connecting to one another is online.

Of course they're going to just connect with each other online, which is perfectly fine.

But what you have happened is that a large number of people who are not sick and who are just writing an online wave. They're like influencers.

Pray on these people.

I'm John Favreau. Welcome to offline.

I'm John Favreau. I'm Max Fisher and you just heard from this week's guest Princeton

Sociologist and New York Times opinion columnist Zayneptu Fetchi.

Love Zayam.

She's great.

I've wanted to talk to her for a while because she writes brilliantly about the impact of

technology on society, which we love here.

We love that here.

But over the last few years, she's also become an expert on the impact of the pandemic on society.

So I wanted to bring around to discuss a topic that combines both those areas of expertise, how the online

discourse around COVID impacts the offline reality of the people who are still

struggling with its effects. A few weeks ago, Zaynet published a piece for the

Times where she posed the question,

could Long COVID be the Senate's bipartisan cause?

It was about the Senate's first ever hearing on Long COVID, which she attended,

and at a time when politics is angry polarized shit show

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