You're reading that wrong...that is talking about vaccines as a possible assist to people who already have long COVID (a.k.a. CFS/ME) and doesn't address the vaccines avoiding long COVID in the first place. Long COIVD risk doesn't appear to be related to the severity of the case of COVID.

The vaccines do a great job of keeping you out of the hospital and avoiding dying from COVID for those whose immune systems respond to them...but whether people avoid long COIVD from the mild cases, or asymptomatic cases they are still getting that go unreported, is still a very open question and way too early to know with the poor long COVID reporting, at least in the US.

Only my own data, but I've had a half dozen cats, all indoor, some on a vegan diet some not. The vegan ones lived longer and much better their last years. That is enough data for me.

For any indoor cat, their diet is nothing like natural anyway. The taurine is not naturally there anymore in any processed cat food meat based or vegan. (I know YOUR cat eats only the finest steak, but most cats eat kibble.)

Couldn't be said better. We all are irrational about what we eat...it is our FOOD after all. And it isn't a question of what some ancestor from 5,000 or 10,000 or 1,000,000 years ago did. It is a question of what is best for what is left of the planet now and for our own health.

The Standard American Diet of meat and cheese leads to our biggest killers for both ourselves and the environment.

But to each their own. I choose less harm, not no harm, to the world and myself.

6 minutes of Googling shows that Anonymous Coward has it all correct.

It really comes down to people are comfortable with and will fight to protect what they learned growing up. I did it as a child, it tastes good, EVERYONE does it, how could it be wrong, how could it be what kills most Americans?

I used to be a barbecue-loving steak-munching American; I still am, but without the steak...and my doctor gives me the highest health scores of anyone in his office. But I keep that to myself outside slashdot, because most people just want to keep doing what they have always done.