dSavannah note: Liz Burlingame, like Elke (whose story I posted on Tuesday), participated in ME/CFS Advocacy Day 2021 on Tuesday, April 20, an event sponsored by Solve ME. Liz, along with many others, urged our elected officials to support funding and research of post-viral illnesses like ME/CFS and long COVID, specifically to put pressure on Congress to pass the COVID-19 Longhaulers Act. She told me she wrote this essay because she's been sick for 30 years, and it took a pandemic to make ME/CFS relevant. She doesn't want the long-haulers to face the same stigma and alienation we have. And that's part of the raison d'etre for #MillionsMissing2021 - as #MEAction wrote in their Virtual Toolkit, "now, due to COVID-19, there will be #MillionsMore who will ... Continue reading →
