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Forgot to mention,I think Peter Trewhitt did, that by the time you anxiously prep yourself to get out of the house (assuming that you can get dressed, walk to the car, drive the car, walk to the pool building, withstand the noise and confusion, handle the sensory overload, handle the...

It is very easy to get dehydrated and dizzy in a warm pool doing the mildest of exercises. Water that isn't just a few degrees below body temperature isn't comfortable for moving muscles, in my opinion. Also important is the noise level, usually high in pools. Lighting can be bright off the...

I thought last night that a barrage of letters to editors for personal opinion pieces in newspapers would get out the word about what having ME is like. I think people are glued to newspapers and other media. Is now a good opportunity to reach a lot of people and tell our personal stories and...

Can't export this video, but the gist of the Taiwanese handling of the virus is here http://www.dailymirror.lk/opinion/Is-Taiwans-impressive-response-to-COVID-19-possible-in-Sri-Lanka/172-185720

I wore a mask when I opened the door to my place when I got my groceries delivered three weeks ago. I told the man (who was Asian) that "I have a cold" which I did. He said he appreciated it and wished more people would wear them. Possibly because it is routine in parts of Asia, especially...

How Taiwan handled the virus. We didn't hear much about it because China has forbidden mention of it, and they clout at WHO. http://www.dailymirror.lk/opinion/Is-Taiwans-impressive-response-to-COVID-19-possible-in-Sri-Lanka/172-185720

San Diego newspaper article quoted a researcher of bacteria and viruses from a university's oceanography department warning that the wind at the beach (way too many surfers and bikes, people) can force the virus up your nasal passages from beyond a 6 foot distancing metric. . Stay even farther...

Historical perspective (gleaned from the microbe.tv virology podcast, i.e. the organization Gideon). https://www.gideononline.com/blog/

The upregulation of sensory input to the somatosensory cortex for whatever reason, results more and more noxious sensation which feed more sensory inputs to that brain center resulting in a feedback loop. This phenomenon as well as a ton of other research articles about CSS exist on PUBMED...

Pain amplification in the spinal cord and brain = central sensitizaton. The relevance of the term, theory, framework, whatever you call it is there. See article written for fibro patients in 1999 or so by Dr. Robert Bennet of OHSC emeritus...

As far as I know (and that is little) is it an hypothesis only.

Of the three authors of the paper, one has a PhD, the other two are physical therapists. They don't have the necessary scientific or medical credentials to pontificate on these hypotheses. I was grateful back in the late 1990s for any research, any hypothesis about fibro. Yunus was a hero to...

According to the head of the Chinese center for disease control (a corona virus researcher with impeccable credentials: Oxford, Harvard) said that the biggest mistake the West is making is not wearing masks. He said: The big mistake in the U.S. and Europe, in my opinion, is that people aren’t...

Her interventions are exercise for cancer patients. She lectures in kinesiology. Should someone set her straight about use of terminology?

Update this morning 3/26 from Governor Como: Average length of time a Covid-19 patient is on a ventilator is 11-21 days (normal patients use is 3-4 days average, according to him).

I watched Andrew Como, Governor of New York propose that other USA states send a lot of ventilators to NY now. The state is short tens of thousands of ventilators. And then Como said he would send the ventilators back to the states from which they came and send his hospital staff and along...

I heard the head of the doctors' union in France speak on national news the other night in Paris, in French about the 4 young men who had serious cases of the virus and were very young men. The only thing that those 4 had in common was that they had taken ibuprofen for fever reduction early in...

What a US federal health official said yesterday is that the number of US cases (and that's with some serious lack of testing) is at the level Italy was at, two weeks ago. Sobering.

if there is a manpower shortage, I'd like some warning. Because of earthquake preparedness (un- in my case) I have saved gallon empty jugs and can fill them up with tap water with advance warning and add some bleach (forget the dilution but it's online...emergency disaster water something) and...

Kind of reminds me of my sister. She reported to jury duty today and stayed there for six hours in a tiny room with 35 others. And then went before a judge to declare her excuse ("I cannot sit for two hours."). I would have left as soon as I saw the tiny room filled with people. Damn the...