Been meaning to post this for a little while, but got distracted.
My friend Nasim recently blogged about an impending doco; it looks like it’s going to be excellent. Nasim and others are interviewed, and our long-time champion Professor Malcolm Hooper is absolutely sterling.
Watch the trailer!
And if you’re inspired, you can get involved.
I don’t want to detract from the trailer, but if you’re interested in some historical context about the Lake Tahoe outbreak, here’s a longer Prime Time Live story on ME/CFS, circa 1996. When it was shown in the US I’d been sick for a year - I wish I knew all this stuff back then, rather than feeling stranded in the wilderness of illness, trying to understand how I’d evaporated from my normal life and become a wraith who drifted in and out of a bedroom.
Watching both bits of film, one made so many years later, it’s bizarre to see how little has changed. Why do we persist with advocacy, despite the decades of apathy? I like what the first trailer says:
“Why should we care?
Because it could be you.”
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