@mrcompletely Yes I heard...turns out Billy and I share a doctor here on Kauai, a PA who is also a keyboardist who used to warm up Bill before he hit the road, so whenever I went in for a doc appt I'd get the Dead & Company update. Kauai is a small island.
Sometimes, all you have is the lesser of two evils. White people, please join the club and now rise to the occasion. The occasion is your own fucking life. That’s what you’re voting for.
"The Contestant" on Hulu, about the guy who spent a over a year in an empty room surviving on only what he could win in magazine contests, is quite good.
Has actually a few turns I wasn't expecting, which is lovely, because it could be a complete downer.
@TexasObserver Good article but no need to call long covid mysterious. About half of cases qualify for a diagnosis of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome, and most og the rest can be classified by damage to specific organs, lungs, heart etc.
We warned everyone back in spring of 2020 that this would happen if the pandemic was not kept under control.
I think the very broad definition of long covid used here is inflating numbers of people who are disabled...but no doubt many are & many more are less productive than before infection.
Ignoring post-viral illness continues to fuck us all up.
Today is the 2 month anniversary of the death of my partner, Beth Mazur, and it's also the publication day of an NIH study on ME/CFS that I took part in as a patient & that Beth was involved with as an advocate. She supported me during the 21 days I was at the Clinical Center & pushed the scientists to work faster & do better. I'm very happy reporter Jennifer Couzin-Frankel mentions Beth in her #Science article today.