Walk softly and carry a big stick

About this episode

Marcia discusses the challenges of advocating for public awareness and action regarding long covid and its implications on society and individuals.

where I'm thinking I'm going to have to do different strategy in really start getting a public officials to understand that if they are thinking that stonewalling me and waiting for me to die will make the problem go away. that it isn't just horrifying it isn't true. absolutely things will go terribly for them if I die. at some point somebody's going to cudgel them with my story. And truthfully if they allow that, it's as well they should. But it's a million times better to work with me, to use my experience and my ability to see all of the different sides and communicate them to course correct a huge loss of talent and tax base to unnecessary disability via long covid and all kinds of other long viral ME just being diagnosed in a timely way with correct instructions to stay inside one's energy envelope can be dramatic. And that's just aiming at the financial impact politically not the human rights atrocity of the kind of abdication I'm experiencing anyway, I'm hanging in. Just barely. by my fingernails Sick times republish of op-ed March 20th 2025 https://l.gourl.es/l/56898fa8ccf060b8bf79b817ad9fabd986f4a62f?u=11010884 gfm https://gofund.me/6d981312 My email if you think that…

People in this episode

Host: Marcia Doherty

Topics covered

• public officials
• long covid
• disability
• human rights
• advocacy
• healthcare

Keywords

• long covid
• public officials
• advocacy
• disability
• healthcare
• human rights
• tax base

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CTV, gofund.me

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