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This only happens if you have AIDS--that is, your infection is so advanced that your immune system is seriously weakened. At the point, people start getting opportunistic infections or cancers that are rare in healthy people. But if you're on antivirals that work, you're fine. Generally, there's...

I shouldn't have read that, now I feel horrible. I feel like I waded through a sewage pond.

And even if we knew the risk factors, they wouldn't mean much to someone who already has ME. Though I'm sure some people will enjoy finding out what genes the have for curiosity's sake.

Chalder and Sharpe still at it? Sigh. Also, we need to stop treating ME as a diagnosis of exclusion.

Context: These figures are for the US. For reference, our population is 332M, around 160M of whom work. Let's consider the implications of some of these stats: 2.88M completely out of work due to long Covid (That's 0.87% or 1 in 115 Americans, 1.8% or 1 in 56 workers) 1.60M forced to work...

There's also plenty of places in America hardly did anything about Covid, even in early 2020, like Florida and Arizona.

If ME was contagious we probably would have found out by now. ME is neglected but we do a lot of surveillance of infectious diseases.

This is horrifying. 4%--1 in 25--of the papers she reviewed appeared obviously edited?! We need fundamental reforms to the scientific process, if people are even tempted to do this. For example, encouraging published work to be quality over quantity, or regarding negative results as equally...

A good example of how autistic traits can be valuable to society.

That's absolutely true. The study revealed a dumpster fire, but when you zoom out, you realize the whole city is burning. It's not just doctors ranting on the Internet. Intolerant doctors psychologized ME, which caused neglect from science and medicine, and the awful outcomes resulting from a...

You're exactly right here. In the distant past, nothing was medically explained. We just gave people herbs to balance their humors (or whatever) and hoped for the best. Then we began attacking disease more scientifically and began discovering causative agents and biomarkers. The diseases we...

IDK man, I just love the secondary gains. Living on 20% of what I'd be making if I wasn't disabled is super fun /s

I'm shocked that depression is the second most-stigmatized condition. We like to believe doctors take it seriously nowadays. My healthcare team always seemed to. How can you hate people for being depressed? That's horrifying. Also, how did fibro lose to depression in this sordid race?

I wonder why social insurance agencies around the world don't fund more research frankly. If they did good research, it could be a win-win. People with disabilities don't want to sit around and be a cost to society, they want to be healthy again and work.

Video transcript: Brian Bennett (Senior White House Correspondent, TIME): Parents who have children going through long Covid around the country and a lot of parents are finding out that their doctors don't know much about long Covid. There are only about a dozen clinics around the country that...

This is a person discussing long Covid on the BBC. The headline is "How is the government going to tackle the NHS and social care crisis?" Video transcript: Helen Oakleigh: As someone who has been left disabled by long Covid--I was completely fit and health before, and now my life as I knew it...

Depressing all around. They wasted a bunch of money, and traumatized a bunch of poor rats to write a junk science paper about quack medicine. (I'm not against animal research in general but this was for nothing)

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If you view the image directly, it's fairly readable.

The text of the Tweet (from Google translate) The infographic is in English. Edit: No mention of PEM unfortunately.