True. I agree. Besides this forum, where I'm sure by now everyone has seen this thread (and others) to vote, I don't personally know of anyone who suffers from ME/CFS. That's why I sent it out to the list of my synagogue members with a letter explaining how important this is to me and others who are suffering. I signed my name to it. They all know who I am.
I put myself out there and am pretty disappointed.
I hope at least everyone who is a member of this forum and all the guests who are reading this take the few minutes to vote.
I don't know about here but I know a lot of people with ME/CFS must have seen it by now on Facebook either through seeing it on Facebook pages or their friends with ME/CFS voting and passing it on. In terms of FB groups, I don't know what the combined number would be before duplicates are removed - probably 50,000-100,000+. Hard to guess how many would be duplicates but it has been posted on sites for groups in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, Italy, Denmark, Venuzuela, etc. as well as French-, Dutch- and (IIRC) Spanish-language sites (covering a few countries). Of course, some sites might not be visited that frequently - some of the sites I visited were fairly dead with few posts this year but lots of people would have seen it but only a fraction have voted.
On the "dead sites" point: for round 2, in some circumstances, like the way it was done this time with the WPI, it is probably doing a bit of pre-publicity so people are primed and also to allow for the fact that people might not check FB sites that regularly. That's of course the advantage of E-mails and private messages - presumably they will be checked more frequently. Pre-publicity might be less useful/important for a longer contest e.g. if the one later in the year is a month long.
Well done to everyone with whatever initiatives they have tried.
ETA:
More people could put it in their signatures on PR
