I don’t care how funding works! I want data to analyse!
Sorry but the budget, blablabla and other boring time consuming stuff are for you.

literally a sign of allegiance to an antivax ideology.

I’m sorry but I disagree here. You clearly seem to underestimate how language shapes our way of thinking and how using terminology linked to an ideology contributes to treating the beliefs system in question as unquestionable truth.
When “natural immunity” is used in a scientific paper, it is

Not just among MAHA adherents and conservatives. Have you met the French far left ?

We can’t answer this question like that, it deserves a real investigation and methodologically sound studies.
But I wouldn’t be surprised if Brexit impacted people’s mental health.

Not any science literate person.
If it’s a neuro paper, don’t ask me to read it.

Adverse effects can result in sick leave.
The pandemic was a collective trauma that we didn’t collectively cope with. It affects mental health, that means sick leave. If you had mental health issue that wasn’t detected on top of that, that means higher impact on both mental & physical health.

procedure. That means longer sick leave, more potential complications. You had high cholesterol levels that weren’t checked. You weren’t treated soon enough. It could have been lowered with diet alone. But you didn’t know so it worsened and now you need medication. Medication has adverse effects.

Anecdote, there were people who didn’t know which day it was, they forgot to eat, so they forgot their meds too and didn’t take their treatment properly. All of this can have long term effects. You have a fibroid, it’s not diagnosed on time, it grows, and removing it requires now more invasive