One thing you're missing here is that covid infection is not verified by a positive test. I know that's the accepted standard, but we need to remember that those tests are completely and utterly meaningless. A positive test (or a negative test, for that matter) doesn't verify anything whatsoever. Those tests have never been validated in any way, but even the CDC has admitted that positive results are not correlated to any kind of illness (i.e. 95% or more of positive tests are in people who were not sick in any way).

You're right that standards need to be established, but the fact is that the standard for diagnosing covid is complete BS - i.e. a meaningless lab test, without reference to any clinical diagnosis. This seems to be where we are: you get a lab test, which signifies nothing, and if you come down with any kind of illness at any time after that, we call it long covid. With the experimental gene therapies, a person at least knows without a doubt that he got a shot in his arm at some point.