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

It reminds me of when some Britain First/BNP far right party erected a sign in memorial to a girl who was run over and killed by a guy who wasn’t British. They did it for clout/attention and the girl’s family were disgusted her name and memory was being used to promote something she and they disapproved of (racial hatred/division).

Actually, writing that out I can see exactly why I feel so repulsed.
The strategies and morality of those groups are the same. Side by side they show a similarly hateful agenda. Every day it's impossible not to see it. Reactionaries, all of them.
 
I’m not going to write what I think as I will just make work for the mods. Suffice to say, he is a sea lion.

I’m glad Sarah has called out the grief hijacking and clout chasing.

No need to use my feed for self-promotion Paul Garner. I am very well aware of your position and we all know how some of you tried to use Maeve’s entirely preventable death and inquest into how it happened to promote your views….
 

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There's something wrong with these people. Garner seems to be stuck in a ruminative cycle. The irony being that CBT is highly effective for that.
Even deluded (or pretend-deluded) people thinking violin-playing magic could help wouldn't write what he chose to ie what has been written regarding the new guideline rather than blathering on deludedly about 'try this' so it doesn't fit the mould for that excuse [of any good intentions - interesting to see if he or any of them choose to attend said meet up and listen if so?].

If someone died due to a faulty car or fairground ride and then a seller of the same thing put a post selling it on a family members thread or comment then it would be seen as terrible.

But of course this is kind of worse isn't it because it is about trying to insinuate and then frustrate, still, even after all the investigations via a 3yr guideline process and inquest and prevention of future death report underlining that change is needed to be effectively campaigning for something that had these adverse consequences and prevents access to care to continue to be enforced and the default ie it is about preventing access to something and preventing those changes?


I struggle even to put this down to 'just' being deluded and can only say that this post confirms callousness to the consequences of 'something' (and let's be honest it isn't just the product, it's something much more political and isn't a belief that the ideology cures anymore as I'm not sure they care if it does just that's what is deserved or correct for 'this/these people') he wants to push for some reason I also don't believe is because it helped him given even he knows he didn't do it himself.
 
Even deluded (or pretend-deluded) people thinking violin-playing magic could help wouldn't write what he chose to ie what has been written regarding the new guideline rather than blathering on deludedly about 'try this' so it doesn't fit the mould for that excuse [of any good intentions - interesting to see if he or any of them choose to attend said meet up and listen if so?].

If someone died due to a faulty car or fairground ride and then a seller of the same thing put a post selling it on a family members thread or comment then it would be seen as terrible.
Dunno if this will veer into politics, but to me this is closer to Alex Jones, taunting the victims of a horrible tragedy while denying it even happened as it did. A sign of a deeply disturbed moral compass, and extremely creepy. The kind of thing that will shock consciences years from now, but right now would barely rate a shrug. In fact, best as I can tell, leads to enthusiastic kudos from most of the profession.

When history is the judge of a disaster, you have the absolute worst case of it: it was such a disaster that it was impossible to stop it, slow it down, let alone punish those responsible. Given where we are, punishment for this tragedy would have to be especially strong, make examples out of those most responsible, or it will simply never stop.
 
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