Bobcaygeon, Ont. Isabel McLaughlin 1928

9-year anniversary of reanalysis paper on recovery in £5m #PACEtrial, with data the PACE team fought so hard to keep to themselves. Shows recovery rates in all trial arms were low, using the criteria the PIs promised in their own protocol tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #MEcfs #CFS

Calibri is out at the State Department while Times New Roman is in.

1) A recent review on assessing ME/CFS symptoms recommended the following questionnaires and tools. It focuses on assessment tools that have been used the most in the past, but few are actually specific to ME/CFS, and some (such as the HADS and CFQ) are highly problematic.

Rhys ab Owen MS shares the story of a woman with #MECFS who spent decades housebound & bedbound. Her mother describes >30 years of neglect, abuse & being ignored because professionals would not set aside their beliefs, e.g. a child protection referral that caused years of stress.

Can you actually lie to participants in a clinical trial and still pass ethical review? It seems so, at least at Western University in Ontario, Canada. virology.ws/2025/12/11/t...

BLITZ: “.. the Fed and Treasury balance sheets are essentially one .. What Bessent/Trump want is cheap funding – flood the short end and starve the long end .. Today, the Fed announced it will be there to buy the short end. Put this one in the column for why inflation will be higher in 2026.”

😷The real scandal isn’t masks - it’s how many people need them and are denied cultural permission to use them without ridicule. It shows a culture deeply rooted in ableism. Disabled people had reinforced (again) that adaptions are not normalised, they are stigmatised. /13

😷 Masks aren't traumatising. Abandonment is. Airborne denial is. Hospital-acquired infection is. Long Covid and severe ME is. The most traumatising part of the ongoing pandemic and current flu surge is the refusal to care. /14

🧵PUBLIC HEALTH SHOULD NOT BE A CULTURE WAR 😷 It’s bizarre watching politicians, like Kemi Badenoch perform trauma around masks while millions live with the reality of not masking; death, disability, ME, Long Covid. The Guardian are asking for opinions on masking 🖇️👇 /1

This is Levi. He encountered a forbidden stick while on his walk. Decided to go for it anyway. 13/10 (TT: levisgoldenworld)

If that was headed for China, watch out.

Bank of Canada plays the Goldilocks card, keeps interest rates policy steady at 2.25% www.bankofcanada.ca/2025/12/fad-... Expect higher rates in 2026 due to price inflation from tariff impacts? Depends on how many more jobs are lost because of tariffs. Wouldn't want to be a central banker rn

Representative Haley Stevens of Michigan, a Democrat running for Senate, filed articles of impeachment on Wednesday against Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Democratic leaders haven’t backed the move, and it’s all but certain to fail.

BofAI: Not O"K"? Lower-income households' spending growth was 0.6% YoY in November. +2.6% YoY for higher-income peers

NEW investigative report: "Things will get really nasty." Hedge funds. Brokerages. Billionaires. Jeffrey Epstein’s financial ties on and off Wall Street were broader than previously known, a cache of emails @bloomberg.com obtained earlier this year reveals 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

3/ Heard of #LongCOVID? The only surefire way to prevent Long COVID is to avoid COVID. And the risk of developing this chronically, debilitating condition, for which there still is no cure, stacks up with each #Reinfection - Justin's Long Covid Story: youtu.be/p8HPBmtHzEg?...

1/ #yukoners, it's -40 degrees Celsius today in Whitehorse, with a wind chill that feels like -44. Dress warmly, stay safe, & please consider masking (with an #N95) BEFORE you get infected (rather than once you are infected) -

Rutgers Univ.: 'Could Hidden Infections Be Fueling Long COVID?' 'A review published in eLife by 17 experts, including those from Rutgers Health, argues that co-infections acquired before or during COVID could cause symptoms to persist indefinitely for many people' www.newswise.com/articles/cou...

just riffing on this, in 1944 my grandad's friend Paddy, who would go on to become a very distinguished writer, kidnapped a German general in occupied Crete and took him up into the mountains with a resistance team, from where he was sent on to the UK by submarine. Now, up in the mountains ...

Terrific thread

NEW investigative report: "Things will get really nasty." Hedge funds. Brokerages. Billionaires. Jeffrey Epstein’s financial ties on and off Wall Street were broader than previously known, a cache of emails @bloomberg.com obtained earlier this year reveals 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

The Sick Times: 'Doctors who refuse to engage with administrative work are abandoning their poorest and sickest patients' Written by Miranda DeNovo 'For more than a year, I’ve been helping take care of multiple community members with very severe Long COVID & ME..' thesicktimes.org/2025/12/09/d...

"The eventual American woman will be even more beautiful than the woman of to-day. Her claims to that distinction will result from a fine combination of the best points of all those many races which have helped to make our population." -- Charles Dana Gibson, 1910

This article argues that Canadian banking regulations are too tight because Canadian banks are safe, and since we haven't had a bank collapse in 40 years, we should just go ahead and loosen regulations. GEE, I WONDER WHY WE HAVEN'T HAD A BANK COLLAPSE IN 40 YEARS!

Silver absolutely flying...including vs gold. Noteworthy because silver outperf vs gold is correlated to (not synonymous with, correlated to) cyclical acceleration, for example see chart vs ISM manufacturing PMI.

🙏Thank you for listening Visible and for prioritising patient safety. 💙 This is ace trauma-aware governance. 💪 When digital health treats UX as curated space and epistemic harm as real, we all move forward - and Visible becomes an even stronger community partner.

Feeling extra pressure to push yourself past your limit? Wondering how to explain those limits to those around you? Wanting to join in the seasonal joy but not sure how to make it a SAFE reality for you? We've got you! www.meaction.net/post/facets-... #holidays #spoonie #pwME #spoonie

We're hosting a LoCITT-T update webinar on 12/17 at 2:30 eastern / 11:30 pacific. We've received a lot of questions about what the experience might be like for those who believe they're receiving the placebo. We'll answer those & more. Register here: scrippsresearch.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 1/2

Just a reminder of August in the garden from 5 years ago on this blustery damp December day.

www.canada.ca/en/housing-i... That’s the way we do it. strengthen 🇨🇦 economic independence. Budget 2025 is tackling that challenge. It lays out the federal government’s plan to build more homes and infrastructure 🇨🇦 needs. Together, we can take control and build the future we want for ourselves.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... This is quite sobering. Please read.

Breaking down some of the anti Vax stuff going at the CDC *before* this week's ACIP meeting on childhood vaccines. Notably their "finding" on COVID vaccines and children and a recent appointment... youtube.com/shorts/AR97l...

INIM:'Understanding ME/CFS & Post-Infectious Illnesses' Klimas: "one & a half billion dollars in committed funds..there's a tremendous amount of work which is so exciting..RECOVER..there wasn't a large university in the country that was left out of that application' www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKaN...

people.com/immigrants-a... America Try to walk in their shoes Unbelievable CRUELTY They completed the long process of becoming a U.S. citizen. They were taken out of line at their Naturalization Ceremony and told their oath-taking would canceled All due to their country of origin Outrage

www.canada.ca/en/innovatio... Digital Partnership anchored in the New EU-Canada Strategic Partnership of the Future, adopted at the Canada-EU Leaders Summit on June 23, 2025, and its links with the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and other key bilateral initiatives.

Dad got involved: “.. Larry Ellison, a Trump ally, called the president after the Netflix deal was announced and told him the transaction would hurt competition ..” @wsj.com $WBD $PSKY www.wsj.com/business/med...

FITCH RATINGS SAYS U.S. BANKS WITH BIG CRYPTO EXPOSURE FACE RISING RISKS

He singlehandedly fucked up the economy, and now he’s singlehandedly trying to hide all the evidence.

The German government will invest €500 million over 10 years to study long COVID and post-infection diseases. With at least 6% of COVID patients developing long COVID, researchers hope to uncover root causes and test targeted treatments. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you get PEM then you'll get this meme ... #MEcfs #PwME #LongCovid #PwLC

When you have a better day, and you're scared to do anything with the energy/clarity because you know how fast you can lose it and it just feels so good to *feel* more alive, you're happy just thinking and feeling. You truly know how sacred life is, and how relentless ME/CFS is. #MECFS

The holidays can be tough when you’re living with a chronic illness. 💙 Join our Support Group on Dec 9 at 1:00 pm MST as we talk about what this season is like, what makes it challenging, and what helps us get through it with more ease. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4npZ4Ud #BHCSupportGroup

New Medicaid work requirements will take effect at the end of 2026 - it will FAIL sick people and cut off their care. Tell HHS to recognize people with #MECFS and #LongCOVID as “medically frail” so our access to Medicaid is protected. SIGN THE LETTER: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fr...

Here’s everything you need to know from Europe tonight — including new statements from Trump and the latest developments from Zelenskyy’s diplomatic tour. www.onestnetwork.com/post/zelensk...

NEW: The Trump administration has been accusing political enemies of mortgage fraud for claiming more than one primary residence. Records show President Trump himself did the same thing. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Immigrant women PSWs keep Ontario’s home care afloat under exploitative conditions

1/ Science is certainly under siege in the US & elsewhere, & we need to talk about that. Anti-science sentiments, already there before the pandemic, have been politicised & amplified by this pandemic, which is still very much ongoing - open.substack.com/pub/joshuasw...

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