Thanks for the link; added to my reading queue
danohu
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Are you familiar with the idea of Speech Acts?
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/speech-acts/
Some of the ideas there seem very relevant to your Actor/Scribe distinction. [I only have a very superficial knowledge of this stuff myself, so can’t say more than that it might be worth a look]
That seems like a good opportunity to separate out the effects of covid itself. Collect symptoms from a bunch of these self-reporters, then use antibody tests to determine which actually had corona.