Parent: Doctor! Doctor! My child is lethargic and depressed, do you think it’s long Covid? I’m sure that’s what it is!

Doctor: Um, nope. Your child was lethargic and depressed before 2020. Don’t you remember? I prescribed more exercise, less TV and better nutrition at the time. That still holds. Beside he didn’t have Covid. That was you. Stop projecting on to your child. Besides, you don’t have long Covid either. You were lethargic and depressed before, too.

Sadly, I doubt that conversation ever happens.