You know guys, It saddens me someone could be so ill as Whitney, yet few influential people in medical practice question
themselves regarding the ethics and morals of not exposing in public, the rubber stamped medico political neglect the CDC's horrific creation: CFS has caused in regards to severe ME.
I link below to the short video about Whitney which was really moving and very useful to send people (to educate them on about very severe ME). All people hear about in the media, is Chronic Fatigue. Very few people know that a subset of extremely sick patients
can look like they are dying, and have large weight loss, and muscle wasting, when the old lie is ''you don't look ill''. There was another very unfortunate young man on video a while ago, Ben Di Pasquale someone. He also was extremely thin and looked dreadfully sick.
So ''but you don't look sick'' may be true in more moderate illness or in severe illness for a few years, but I know of many PWME who do look dreadfully ill, but it takes
time to look like this. For example, long term severe ME patients tend to have sunken eyes, panda rings under the eyes, palor (or post exertional palor), dry/oily skin, droopy eyelids, and a 'stoned' look about them as if they look dehydrated/insomniacs/infected. And if they don't, they will visually look worse if you talk to them and you'll see how quickly they neurologically deteriorate, simply from the effort of talking!
One of the first sensible doctors I heard of who noticed this phenomena in patients was Dr Byron Hyde. He explained how patients can enter his office on nervous energy, seemingly talking ten to a dozen but hours later they are zoned out and displaying all the characteristic neurocognitive traits of ME (by using their brains to talk and think). So severe long term PWME can and do look sick. (Displaying the myth ME is always a 'hidden illness').
If we return back to Whitney once more, and the video linked below, I was struck by the plight of his poor elderly besieged parents who reminded me of other parents of severe ME kids I know of who have to sacrifice
everything to look after their children with severe ME, be they 12, or 22, or 42. Being forced to live indoor in a bedroom for decades and surviving that long with ME, is an incredible experience, incredibly terrifying.
So...
In my view, we should try not to forget other minority groups excellent social movements to demand they aren't ignored.
Other minorites don't describe themselves with a bigoted, discriminating label that
invites more discrimination
For us, it's 'CFS' for others it's the N-Word or homosexual slurs. It always astounds me, some influential people still use the word 'Chronic Fatigue' in reference to those with a clearly devastating, multi systemic disease process when one doesn't have to do this. (Fatigue is normal, and experienced by healthy humans every day). ME isn't, and the diseases inside 'CFS' also.
Whitney and others like him are laying in a half coma of devastating neurological/infectious/autoimmune/inflammation and clearly desperately ill, but as I said, very few influential people stop and ask themselves is it
sensible to continue to use a damaging, discriminating, medically false label (Chronic Fatigue) in someone who suffers the same disabilities as someone terminally ill?
As people with very severe ME can die, I would not like to think I was destroyed by a disease (apparently post vaccinations, which if so happened to Sophia Mirza also) or my neighbour, relatives, doctor, or wider society thought I suffering from a syndrome, of 'Chronic Fatigue'.
It's heartbreaking, truly, what the CDC has done to people all over the world (aided by their military partner the UK), and the more ill you get with
systematic
inflammatory
disease , the more dangerous it is, to use the 'F' word (Fatigue), or to tolerate it. I wish I could write to this guy and send him my love, and all the other patients who are so incredibly ill. It's so wrong to see patients like this labelled with 'CFS' and I pray someone will help them in the future and they will survive.
In case people missed it, here's the video again about Whitney with bedridden extreme ME. It sums up the situation of those with life long disease, perfectly, mostly by showing the utter abandonment by the medical profession and parents having to sacrifice their own freedoms to keep their children alive. (Most in society have no idea, parents have to 'retire' at 40/50 and grow old with their kids, trapped inside all day, every day),
all together,
all living in hell).
This CDC manufactured tragedy of destroying families is not a 'CFS', it's state sponsored neglect, via refusal to fund research and refusal to split Chronic Fatigue (in research) away from a militant psychiatry pincer movement. ME and organic disease 'CFS' could easily be removed from Fukuda CFS and into severe neuroimmune disease categories, which is blatantly what these very very ill patients have. Patients, who are first and foremost, innocent human beings with a right to life.
We've been discussing the PACE trial recently. Read the claims of CBT GET and watch this video, and witness the ongoing scientific fraud (via social psychiatry) the British and their partners are engaged in.
Whitney and Ben (in video above) your parents and all others affected, we salute you.