Australia: $4.7 million for UNSW researchers to investigate long COVID
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The lion's share ($3m) goes to research into "Symptom-focused physical rehabilitation and psychological support strategies" lead by Dr Caroline Sandler PhD (UNSW), BSc (Health & Sport, UNSW), Accredited Exercise Physiologist
What a sad waste of money and effort. Why does every country and rehab research team think they have to keep re-researching psychobehavioural rubbish? All they are doing with their so called research is tweaking what is essentially a failed model. 4.7 million dollars allocated, and less than a million of that for biomedical research. I'm sorry, Australia. What a waste.
Sorry world. But not in the slightest bit surprised. This is the reality here too, always has been.
Clearly the Anglosphere is just a complete fucking disaster on this. We created the disaster, and are doing everything we can to perpetuate and exacerbate it. Don't rely on us to save you.
All you need to know about the value of this work. Just condemning another generation of patients to failure and despair and worse.
Clearly the Anglosphere is just a complete fucking disaster on this. We created the disaster, and are doing everything we can to perpetuate and exacerbate it. Don't rely on us to save you.
She is part of the Fatigue Research program at the Kirby Institute working with Professor Andrew Lloyd.
All you need to know about the value of this work. Just condemning another generation of patients to failure and despair and worse.
V.R.T.
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I just don't understand how it isn't crystal clear to everyone at this point that exercise doesn't help treat ME or LC.
If this wasn't ideological, it would have ceased to be recommended everywhere after the PACE reanalysis. Instead we now have nearly another decade of low quality studies pulling the exact same bullshit tricks as ever.
If we ever get out of this catch-22 and there's a breakthrough, a lot of people are going to look very gullible indeed.
If this wasn't ideological, it would have ceased to be recommended everywhere after the PACE reanalysis. Instead we now have nearly another decade of low quality studies pulling the exact same bullshit tricks as ever.
If we ever get out of this catch-22 and there's a breakthrough, a lot of people are going to look very gullible indeed.
NelliePledge
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Money for old rope. Nauseating.
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rvallee
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Those are two blatant lies, and actually contradict one another. No system can deliver good outcomes by lying so much about what they do, this is completely incompatible with the general mission of health care, and specifically of the aims of this program. Might as well just go to a casino and lose it all in two minutes. It would literally be preferable here, that's how bad this whole disaster is.
If we lived in sane societies, other people with zero relation to us or any of this would sue the people responsible for so obviously mismanaging research funding. This is insulting to the entire idea of what science is about. It's not supposed to be used to prop up failed ideologies and flatter the egos of people who are completely wrong and have ruined millions of lives in the process.
Does anyone else remember the ‘totaliser’ type thing on programmes like blue Peter etc where they were raising money
It feels like one thing we could be doing to make a point in this is having totals for money thrown away onto either iterated research into something already proven as a dead end
Or apps or services only offering treatments that harm
Where it is gov funding
And particularly after a set date where new guideline would have made it clear this path was useless before anyone signed it off
It really is shocking the bs of ‘can’t afford’ for basic essential things that are common sense or just saving a life etc
When what is done instead costs exponentially times more - whether it’s people going in for a procedure to be done in a day getting trapped into hospital for months ‘because someone questioned it’ or courses or apps so useless no one completes them or if they do they end up harmed
I suspect now some of these things are used to to back cover and pretend that it isn’t 100% that someone over working gets iller or no adjustments etc by suggesting there’s always a ‘can’t prove it unless you do the same thing again that doesn’t work but has a different name’
Which is still stupid because people being mild and having to have smaller adjustments vs harming them to the point of losing independence and needing care
Is only ‘money saving’ as long as you make em so ill they did it can’t fight enough that the fight costs the other side money
And you are talking about being in a context where they and their families productivity they would have had doesn’t matter to you
I find it bamboozling, other than it showing how concentrated power is and how happy to be callously indifferent those after a cushy number for themselves are - and to how extreme an extent society will sponsor that being directed at a vulnerable group as long as it ‘keeps those types out of everyone else’s hair’
It feels like one thing we could be doing to make a point in this is having totals for money thrown away onto either iterated research into something already proven as a dead end
Or apps or services only offering treatments that harm
Where it is gov funding
And particularly after a set date where new guideline would have made it clear this path was useless before anyone signed it off
It really is shocking the bs of ‘can’t afford’ for basic essential things that are common sense or just saving a life etc
When what is done instead costs exponentially times more - whether it’s people going in for a procedure to be done in a day getting trapped into hospital for months ‘because someone questioned it’ or courses or apps so useless no one completes them or if they do they end up harmed
I suspect now some of these things are used to to back cover and pretend that it isn’t 100% that someone over working gets iller or no adjustments etc by suggesting there’s always a ‘can’t prove it unless you do the same thing again that doesn’t work but has a different name’
Which is still stupid because people being mild and having to have smaller adjustments vs harming them to the point of losing independence and needing care
Is only ‘money saving’ as long as you make em so ill they did it can’t fight enough that the fight costs the other side money
And you are talking about being in a context where they and their families productivity they would have had doesn’t matter to you
I find it bamboozling, other than it showing how concentrated power is and how happy to be callously indifferent those after a cushy number for themselves are - and to how extreme an extent society will sponsor that being directed at a vulnerable group as long as it ‘keeps those types out of everyone else’s hair’
In brighter news relating to this fund, an OMF email sent today said —