mastodon 4.7.3Library ghost with a love of SFF.
Often low on energy due to #MECFS--may be slow to respond. #CripTime
#NEISvoid #Disabled #pwME #EDS #POTS
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HEADER: Two sculptures facing each other against a background of tress. Sculptures: white letters shaped & connected to look like humans sitting facing one another, with faces not filled in, suggesting openness.
When you're a #pwME, it far too often feels like the opinions offered by docs were written by AI, sourced from none of the literature about #MECFS, full of errors and prejudices, and containing danger in some circumstances.
Those wonderful docs who listen and research and check their biases, and know the history, are like veteran writers who rigorously check sources, read works that challenge and upend their thinking, and care about the quality they produce.
Article from Dec 2020:
"A century of COVID-19: what history tells us about the long-term effects of a pandemic"
https://gero.usc.edu/2020/12/08/century-covid-pandemic-risk/
“The fact that this cohort of people had elevated risks of disease even more than six decades after the pandemic indicates that maternal exposure to the infvirus appears to have had wide-ranging and long-lasting health effects on offspring"
#1918Flu #longCOVID #MECFS #COVID19 #Influenza #H1N1 #longFlu #NEISvoid #pwME
A new #PeopleOverProfits campaign has begun in #Nerdfighteria. This time the focus is price-gouging on tuberculosis tests, leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths for a curable disease.
See the video for and overview 👇🏼
Additional info: tbfighters.org
Background on Danaher, who their board members are, shareholders, etc:
https://www.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/DANAHER-CORPORATION-12295/company/
How will you help?