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SEVERANCE 2.04 | Woe's Hollow

this is a very interesting article about the absolute absurdity of our total lack of preparedness for long covid and post-viral illness in general.

another enormously important quote from the article:

Our medical system is radically unequipped, practically and conceptually, to serve patients whose tests come back normal and whose chronic symptoms cannot be explained with a biological diagnosis or outsourced to a specialist.

and this:

“They would face skepticism from friends and family, not everyone, but as a general pattern. I knew that when they described their situation to healthy people, healthy people by and large wouldn’t get it,” Rehmeyer  [a science journalist with ME/CFS] told me. “The hardest part is the feeling of having fallen off the edge of the earth. All the usual ways you expect the world to work just stop working. You can’t describe your experience and have people relate. You feel like you’ve lost your citizenship in the world and now you’re a refugee.”

and finally:

This person writes fanfic about real life musicians from the 60s, including mpreg. They’re also openly homophobic. Someone made a post joking about Davy Jones from the band The Monkees being gay and OP went off on them about how disrespectful it is to headcanon real life people who are still alive as being gay. OP’s inbox got flooded by people pointing out that they themselves write fic about actual real life people who are still alive being mpreg’d but they insist it’s totally different you guys I swear and had a meltdown.