snowathlete
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Holderman: Maybe we should wait with further research until we iron out a true case definition?
How about he trades places with one of us, and then see how he feels about that.
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Holderman: Maybe we should wait with further research until we iron out a true case definition?
That's a she.
I suspect what she meant was, why do more research on Empirical or even Fukuda since it doesn't tell us anything about ME.
My question would be: who gets an upbeat feeling when they look at that? It's not the patients, they get downbeat because it trivializes the illness and portrays it as not being that bad. The only people who look at it and feel upbeat are these committee members because they can pretend that this is us, and not feel bad about it - not be faced with the reality of the illness.
If it is an innocent mistake then these people are shockingly insensitive and unthinking. That’s the best case scenario.
I think it is more likely that it is just spin to keep the reality suppressed.
Sing, I am going to have to watch all this on video when it comes out as its the wrong time for me, and I haven't seen the details of the CDC study, but ...
If the CDC are again choosing poor or useless tests to run, and ignoring the evidence in designing their study, then there are two choices as to why. The first is entrenched incompetance at the CDC. The second is deliberate incompetance at the CDC. Which is it?
They consider themselves to be THE authority on disease
What's happening next? Is it discussing the prioritisation stuff? I haven't heard everything today so I'm a bit at sea.