• LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
    26·
    6 days ago

    So I looked up the account on the screenshot and fell into a huge rabbit hole.
    The TL;DR is that the poster has a rare syndrome that makes it so his body simply doesn’t have energy to perform most tasks, and it progressed to a point where merely interacting with other people causes his brain to use too much “energy” and makes him crash.

    My TL;DR is a gross oversimplification of his story and doesn’t do it any justice. When you have the time, please read what he has to say, it’s eye opening: My Story by Whitney Dafoe

    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      12·
      6 days ago

      Thanks for sharing. I have ME/CFS too.

      It’s not even that rare over 2 million people in the US have it, just quite a marginalised illness, mostly because it majoritarily affects women and was therefore blamed on “hysteria” till the 80s. A lot of the medical system still has prejudicicial views towards it.

      A decent chunk of the more severe Long COVID cases fit ME diagnosis criteria, which makes sense, because most ME cases have historically been caused by viral infections.

  • AAA@feddit.org
    37·
    7 days ago

    Deregulation doesn’t means less rules to benefit the people. It means less of the rules which keep the rich and corporations in check. The less rules, the more free they are to exploit the people.

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Just because Trump won doesn’t mean he’s running things yet. Technically, the Biden administration is still in charge until January. This is happening on their watch.

  • minorkeys@lemmy.world
    11·
    6 days ago

    Psychopaths control important things and leverage them for money and power and influence so they can get away with being psychopaths without going to prison.

    • stringere@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      5 days ago

      Better yet, take my blood. I don’t process iron like others and it accumulates in my body. The only treatment is bloodletting (therapeutic phlebotomy).

  • savx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    6 days ago

    it’s efficiency for corporation to exploit the poor. when people like elon promotes deregulation = efficiency, they just leave the latter part on purpose.

    • MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      That’s nonsense, because whenever there is a product being sold at such massive markups, there is a HUGE opportunity to make money simply by undercutting the market (i.e. selling a cheaper alternative).

      Either this is the result of overregulation forbidding cheaper, imported alternatives to be sold, monopoly control, or there’s more to the story than OP is telling us (such as iron only being this cheap in Germany because it’s subsidized / covered by insurance, etc.)

    • Clevererhans@lemmynsfw.com
      11·
      7 days ago

      That’s only part of the answer. Without capitalism the infusion wouldn’t even exist. It’s unfettered, unregulated, fundamentalist capitalism that’s the problem.

      • abracaDavid@lemmy.today
        2·
        6 days ago

        Lmao so capitalism only works when it’s HEAVILY regulated.

        I hate to tell you this, but you’re saying that capitalism only works when it’s not capitalism.

  • computerscientistII@lemm.ee
    6·
    6 days ago

    I wonder if it is feasible to book a trip to Canada or Mexico and just buy it there. I guess pharmacies accept prescriptions of 'Murican doctors there, if patients pay themselves…

      • Vivendi@lemmy.zip
        3·
        6 days ago

        I’m not in the USA, so I guess that doesn’t concern me

        But I do smoke (or, well, did, been a month dry and clean as shit) so I don’t think they’d want my fucked up blood lol

        • door_in_the_face@feddit.nl
          3·
          6 days ago

          The red cross doesn’t exclude donors if they use cannabis. I don’t think it matters to other organizations either.