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mold illness

  1. E

    Should I test/treat for mold, when exposure was decade+ ago?

    I'm pretty sure that mold was the origin story of my ME/CFS although I've only realised it in the last year! My question is if I should still be looking to test / treat this, even though it was so long ago? I lived in a London basement flat 2009 - 2011. We had a damp storage cupboard under the...
  2. Thebirdman333

    URGENT: Anyone in New Mexico? Need help for a friend ASAP!

    I have a friend from New Mexico who is extremely sick and she is looking for some desperate assistance. Her profile: "Living in Albuquerque New Mexico with mecfs suspect that there is a mold problem that I'm dealing with that is exacerbating my symptoms. Looking for help with navigating this...
  3. frozenborderline

    Why we should end the "war on fire " and why it would be better for people with environmental sensitivities

    This is a favorite pet issue for me, my primary political concerns are ecological, but as mike davis pointed out in [The Case for Letting Malibu Burn](https://longreads.com/2018/12/04/the-case-for-letting-malibu-burn/), the class aspects are not totally separable from the ecology. I'm mostly...