The thing for someone like me who is immunocrompromised is. I need to wear a mask because I have a medical condition.
But also my immediate family and anyone interacting with me needs to wear a mask when in public. Covid is a death sentence for me. So this law doesn’t cover that.
Either they’re browsing reddit through a third party service that puts posts based on relevance without counting age, like scrollr. Or they are falling upon posts in google search results.
This summary says “he” as if it’s her father but “he” is an ME expert who worked on the government guidelines who is criticising how the hospital is mistreating Carla.
I think one of the first things you’ll be interested to hear is modern definitions of ME/CFS don’t note fatigue as the most disabling symptom but a disease process called post-exertional malaise, wherein a person’s entire disease can worsen (sometimes permanently) based on the amount of energy they use.
It’s really fascinating, A recent study by Wust et al. found muscle clotting and abnormalities following exertion in people with ME/CFS.
Also people with ME are the only known disease group to preform markeldy worse in specific markers on a 2 day CPET. Which would serve as a biomarker if it were not for the fact doing the test can worsen people’s disease permanently.
If you are genuinely curious, I’d invite you to join a community of Long Covid and ME/CFS patients and researchers online, and ask any questions you have.