Paul Garner on Long Covid and ME/CFS - BMJ articles and other media.

[rvallee]

The MEA must be feeling that they can't do anything right. They are seemingly attempting to cosy up to the rehabilitation brigade and play nice with the establishment, but get flak from people with ME/CFS. And they are still are subjected to allegations of keeping people sick in order to get donations.

Tokens always get spent.

 

[Mij]

What's the woof about in his username - does anyone know ?

It could mean several things. I found this one applied in texting interesting:

WOOF​

Well Off Older Folks

 

[Mij]

PG has changed his profil pic on xitter and shared a page with this message:

Don't forget to mention badges and logos links to create your own 'badge of honour" to wear on Chronically Recovered Day, July 13th.

 

[Mij]

 

[Hutan]

Like I said, this thread is usually good for a laugh.

Paul, most people with persistent symptoms after an infection do recover in the first couple of years. That doesn't make them special or possessors of some superior knowledge. It certainly doesn't warrant the earning of a badge, not even an embarrassingly bad badge reminiscent of frog spawn or Bubble Guppies.

What next? A day for people who recover from Covid-19 without any persistent symptoms at all to wear a badge to celebrate their moral superiority over people who develop Long Covid, no matter for how short a time?

Or perhaps Garner's followers would like to display their wide ranging moral fortitude by earning more badges?

Went to the Gym
Don’t let your instagram followers be the only ones to know about your glorious achievement. Now everyone who sees your new gym bag patch will know that you Went to the Gym.

 

[Trish]

It is all remarkably childish and boastful, isn't it. I can't imagine what they are thinking. Can I have a badge for recovering from measles, mumps and chicken pox, all before the age of 7. I must be a very superior being.

 

[dave30th]

What's the woof about in his username - does anyone know ?

gay hook-up apps tend to have a "woof" function--like if you "woof" someone, that means you think they're a hottie. hopefully that is not what Garner means by it.

 

[Hutan]

Can I have a badge for recovering from measles, mumps and chicken pox, all before the age of 7.

Take 3, one for each illness.

And let's have three special days of the year to celebrate people like you who recovered from each of those diseases without complications. Don't worry that it might be upsetting to the people who developed shingles later as a result of their chicken pox and ended up with persistent nerve pain or losing their sight. Or the people who became deaf after mumps or the pregnant mother who got measles and miscarried. Clearly these people are not made of the same special recovery stuff as you are.

And, in any case, they have had the benefit of all those secondary gains of people fussing over them, and they cost the health system plenty. So, have those special days and wear your badges with pride - you deserve to be celebrated.