I do not want to get into a general political discussion, or expose my opinions on a wide range of issues where I differ with the President-elect, so far as I can make sense of opinions he has expressed.
What I want people to understand is that, so far, HHS policy has not done much good for people with ME/CFS. What treatments will they recommend or support? Antidepressants, counseling and exercise. If you are hospitalized there is a real chance you will end up in a locked ward. You can have gastroparesis, dysphagia or IBS. This will likely be considered an eating disorder. Here's
the conventional wisdom on that subject. Do not expect anyone else to pay for treatment with Ampligen or Rituximab. Don't expect financial assistance to get you out of water-damaged housing. Don't expect government assistance in testing for mycotoxins or unusual autoantibodies (unless you can show you have cancer). Don't expect a hospital to supply any supplements you have been taking, or even allow them.
Note: any M.D. or police officer who suspects you are a danger to yourself, even if not a danger to others, can start involuntary commitment for observation by psychiatrists. There is nothing in current legal restrictions requiring any consideration of the possibility of organic disease precipitating secondary mental illness, though examples of this are well known.
What about research? Well, so far we have the promise that research will ultimately find the cause of something called either CFS or SEID, (which has ambiguous diagnostic criteria that have not been "operationalized" for clinical use,) at some unspecified time in the future. Nothing has been said or done that cannot be walked back.
Yes, we may face open hostility from a new administration. If so, I think we are now better prepared to expose hypocrisy and absurdities. None of our true allies are going to change their opinions because of political pressure.