‘I could bench-press 100kg. Now, I can’t walk’: Lucy’s life with long Covid

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Eleanor

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[Binita Kane] thinks there are parallels with the way myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as chronic fatigue syndrome, is perceived. “The ME community have suffered terribly over the years,” she says. “As a doctor, I look back and I go: gosh, we were almost trained to believe that these conditions are psychological. That’s how we’re taught, because you can’t explain it. Anything that’s unexplained must be in a patient’s head, right? I look back and I go: wow, I was actually part of an infrastructure that taught us this wrongly. Not only do we not treat it, we are taught the wrong things about it.”
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Good article. The amalgam descriptions really emphasize how this is pretty much ME/CFS for the most part. This is what I saw from the start, after a few hundreds the pattern is obvious. I don't understand how thousands of medical professionals exposed to hundreds of those cases can't see them. It's frankly absurd. After 4 years, the profession is still stuck firmly in the 19th century. And it's impossible to win a single battle here, because they can just do whatever they feel like even when they're proven wrong.

Still ironic how The Guardian basically does both sides here: supports the discrimination and gaslighting on one hand, reports about its devastating impacts, sometimes competently, on the other. Bit like selling munitions to both sides in a war. As long as the fighting continues, you can make money. As long as you don't care much about what's right or moral.

Randomly thinking of a Lords of illness type of movie, similar to Lord of war with Nicolas Cage. I really don't see a difference in terms of immorality.
 
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