That is quite strange, given how frequently ME/CFS appears after viral infection, and given that even before Dr Chia's research around 2005 finding enteroviruses and ME/CFS, many early
British studies in the 1980s regularly detected enteroviruses at much higher levels in the muscle tissues of ME patients, compared to healthy controls, and Goldstein would surely have been aware of this.
That's not to deny that sensory gating deficits and/or central sensitization syndrome (which Goldstein was very interested in, but he called CSS neurosomatic disorders — see
here) may be playing a role in ME/CFS; but I cannot see why Goldstein would rule out the very likely possibility that under certain circumstances, viral infections might trigger sensory gating deficits or central sensitization.