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Uber 'The Most Diseased' Gruber.
I think time will unravel the clusterfuckery that's hindered proper research/treatment of people, the thing is that the UK blindly borrowed its scientific understanding of the illness from the CDC in America and has never deviated from that, resulting in our own shitey backward understanding of it that is entirely separate from biowarfare conspiracies and wholly attributable to institutional arrogance and a lack of empathy or interest.
Thankfully more awareness and more research is peeling this away and seeing improvements in treatment. But still, almost four years in I feel shot to pieces and incredibly sad for the time lost.
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There's no question Lyme existed hundreds of years before the US military got its hands on it (if at all..) and land management and climate changes have definitely assisted its prevalence... but....
What started as something I immediately dismissed as a conspiracy theory apparently has some very real meat on its bones in the way that Lyme has developed and spread in the USA and become the silent pandemic that it has. The way that the CDC and medical institutes have responded is in itself totally inexplicable in the scope of its total denial that there's a problem.
Still, even in my own afflicted state, I can't bring myself to believe it's entirely true.