If you work on #longCOVID and say “I’m not an #MECFS expert, I don’t know anything about it, it’s not my job to know about ME or ’fatigue’” then you really, REALLY need to learn about ME. This is what MANY infections can do, not just SARS2.

The ME community includes people who developed the above symptoms following Coxsackie B3 and B4, Echovirus, H1N1, EBV, CMV, Ross River virus, SARS, Dengue and many other, unknown infections, in addition to non-infectious onsets.

This is why, while medical experts around the world were advising people “at risk” of mortality (i.e., “old people”) to take care, we were frantically trying to get the word out to ALL people about the risks of long-term morbidity. https://twitter.com/jenbrea/status/1238988538844033024?s=20

Collectively, #COVID is our nth rodeo. And still, every time an outbreak causes the above symptoms, it and the people affected by it have gotten left behind. https://me-pedia.org/wiki/Epidemic_myalgic_encephalomyelitis

Worse, there is no institutional memory in medicine or science. It’s been a continual process of forgetting.

Or gaslighting. I’m not sure at this point there’s much of a difference.