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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
And again, maybe
There is no way to quantify fatigue, brain fog and loss of taste/smell. It is 100% subjective. That doesn't mean it isn't true, it just means we don't know
It's sort of like the guy in a car accident complaining of back pain and can't work. His x-rays, CT and MRI are all negative, the neurologist finds nothing objective, neither does the orthopedist. So now he goes to 2 places----a chiropractor (yuk) and Dan Newlin while he applies for SSDI. He goes to court for disability with testimony from the chiropractor (again yuk), conveniently not presenting the x rays, CTs, MRIs, nor the opinion of the orthopedist or neurologist as evidence. The judge then grants him disability, and the rest of us are supporting him for the rest of his life (or until age 65).
The last one of these I got drawn into I later saw working on the roof of a building hauling 75 pound bundles of shingles up a 20 foot ladder.
So the moral of the story is we still don't know. But from experience, I always look at these cases where there is substantial secondary gain with a jaded eye.
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If he's caught, he is brought up on disability fraud and made to pay back every single cent he received for disability.
Happened to someone we know. The guy injured his back. The injury was legit, the back problem was legit. He had surgery, and received disability for years. But someone who knew him, was in the area investigating a different disability case, and saw him - working on his roof.
It got reported, the person we know pleaded no contest, and spent the next 20 years paying back all the disability he wasn't entitled to receive. No jail time since it was the first and only time he'd ever gotten in trouble with the law.