Glad to see that @mmasnick -- unlike huge but, sadly, too-timid journalism orgs like Reuters -- isn't bowing and scraping to satisfy corporate censorship demands.
For those of you not familiar with the medical term “fatigue,” let me describe it. I experienced it while having mono, undergoing chemotherapy, and again now with #LongCovid.
Think back to a time when you were as tired as you’ve ever been. Not sleepy, but completely physically exhausted, to where you couldn’t wait to get into bed.
Now imagine that you’re in bed, but you don’t feel as if you’ve laid down yet. You’re still that tired. Hours pass. Maybe you sleep all night. You wake up, and you’re still that exhausted. The exhaustion is deep in your bones, and nothing can relieve it.
You can’t think straight. You can’t hold a conversation. You can’t read because holding a book or tablet is too tiring and you can’t focus anyway. You can’t watch anything.
You don’t let yourself cry because then you’d have to blow your nose afterwards, and you’re too tired to do that.
Maybe in a day or two you start feeling as if you can get up and do something, so you tackle the most urgent thing. Or you get a burst of adrenaline and manage to deal with a crisis. Then you’re back to being that exhausted. It goes on for days, or weeks, or months.
You feel as if you should just make yourself exercise a little, and then it’ll get better. You do something small, like a walk. Or you get online for a couple of rousing discussions. The next morning, you wake up exhausted again. You overdid it. Of course you hide this from your friends and colleagues, because nobody wants to hear the same thing every day: “I’m completely exhausted.”
This is what millions of people with #LongCovid are experiencing, and we don’t know yet how to treat it or when it will end.
Oh yeah sure, right, like I am ever going to find anyone to sleep in the bed with me like this when I am wearing this loud Dumbo-meets-Darth-Vader costume.
Chinese military hackers have penetrated two dozen U.S. infrastructure facilities, looking to maintain access and the ability to cause disruptive attacks in case of a conflict over Taiwan, officials told me and Ellen Nakashima. Free link (with email) https://wapo.st/3RC0Nbz
A story I worked on for months is at the top of the Washington Post homepage. Please do not read it. We are on strike today and want to show they don’t have a newspaper without us, and they don’t get us without a fair contract.
@mpoletiek Huh. It works for me on a new browser, I get some subscription offers and just X out of them and then I see story. You do have to use the shortened link instead of the expanded WaPo one.
Experts discover flaw leaving $1 billion in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies exposed for stealing from early software wallets. Free link to my story in the The Post: https://wapo.st/478Av5W