Robert 1973
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Miranda Hart (UK comedian) has posted two posts on Instagram about ME/CFS and other chronic illness.
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2 (video): https://www.instagram.com/tv/B-XggCGFgmr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
She starts talking about chronic illness and ME at about 10 min 30 sec.
In the video she shows a lot of empathy for people with ME and says she hopes that one of the positives that may come from the Covid-19 pandemic is a better understanding of what people with ME and other chronic illnesses experience. She also implies that she has some personal experience of chronic illness but doesn't go into any detail.
She mentions the ME Association and AfME. However, the two chronic illness charities she says she is going to be donating to are Astriid (www.astriid.org.uk) and CISAF UK (www.cisfauk.com). I don't know anything about either of them, but I feel slightly nervous about any charity which is trying to help to get people with ME/CFS back to work. If I was able to communicate with Miranda I would try to persuade her to give some money a charity funding high quality biomedical ME research, as that is what we need more than anything.
1:
2 (video): https://www.instagram.com/tv/B-XggCGFgmr/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
She starts talking about chronic illness and ME at about 10 min 30 sec.
In the video she shows a lot of empathy for people with ME and says she hopes that one of the positives that may come from the Covid-19 pandemic is a better understanding of what people with ME and other chronic illnesses experience. She also implies that she has some personal experience of chronic illness but doesn't go into any detail.
She mentions the ME Association and AfME. However, the two chronic illness charities she says she is going to be donating to are Astriid (www.astriid.org.uk) and CISAF UK (www.cisfauk.com). I don't know anything about either of them, but I feel slightly nervous about any charity which is trying to help to get people with ME/CFS back to work. If I was able to communicate with Miranda I would try to persuade her to give some money a charity funding high quality biomedical ME research, as that is what we need more than anything.
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