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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 2d

No one is responsible for this. Nothing is being done about it with the scale and urgency that is needed.

No one is responsible for the fact that no one is responsible and nothing is being done about it.

No leadership to be found anywhere. Just pure failure all-around.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 2d

In part because there is a decades-long record of this being neglected to disastrous outcomes and mass misery.

Thousands of people loudly warned in early 2020 that this would be significant. Millions more have since.

Still nothing at all. Zero progress made because of systemic negligence.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 2d

The mass of data showing how significant the problem of Long Covid, itself on top of decades of negligence and dereliction of duty with similar illnesses, is indisputable.

Medical authorities and experts know more than enough, they just choose to do nothing.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes the obvious has to be said, but: one of the reasons why chronic illnesses like Long Covid are so ruinous is precisely because medicine denies and dismisses them.

Illness is terrible in itself. Illness with zero meaningful support is just cruelty and ruin.

Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 2d

Long Covid Is Real — And It’s Changing an Entire Generation

Hundreds of thousands of kids in America are struggling with an illness that many doctors and schools refuse to recognize.e

Feature: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

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John Dupuis @dupuisj.bsky.social · 3d

Hear me out on this one, but maybe this really means that we're not "post-pandemic"

Post-Pandemic COVID-19 linked with high numbers of workforce absences and exits

ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

Post-Pandemic COVID-19 linked with high numbers of workforce absences and exits

Well after the United States government declared the pandemic emergency over, COVID-19 continued to cause about the same number of monthly work absences

ysph.yale.edu

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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 5d

Reminder: The DecodeME team want to do a related genetic study with the samples they have collected already but unfortunately don’t have the funding yet:
megenetics.org.uk/our-projects...
#MEcfs #PwME #CFS

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ME/CFS Science @mecfsskeptic.bsky.social · 5d

1) We’ve just published our second instalment on the DecodeME results, this timing zooming in on the genes associated with ME/CFS.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 10d

But quacks like Wessely only do what's good for quacks like Wessely. No different than Musk in this regard. Just a fool elevated far above his meagre talent.

It explains a lot that he is celebrated by his peers, when you consider medicine's massive failure in dealing with ME/CFS and Long Covid.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 10d

The appearance of saving money, anyway.

It would have actually saved money to solve the problem. The costs incurred would have been turned into income years ago. In addition to the misery toll.

Quacks like Wessely save governments money the same way Musk's DOGE does: not at all.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 11d

Yup. None of that "history will judge them" crap.

When history "judges" people, it's because no justice was done.

Judge them, with actual judges, for all the harm they committed. We can end this cycle of nightmarish misery, even if they insist on continuing.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 11d

Book smart people can be dumb as hell. This guy is a hubristic fool, and he has always been happy making life worse for as many people as possible.

It's amazing how even in medicine awful people get promoted ass-backward, not in spite of their incompetence, but because of it.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 11d

But a lot of what there is to complain about here, especially "psychosomatic mental illness" that does not improve with any treatment, because the idea & treatments are wrong, has been the natural outcome of his awful work.

Same thing as Trump voters who got what they voted for and hate it.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 11d

This asshole has been happily misdiagnosing people with chronic illnesses as mentally ill for decades. He bears huge responsibility for this.

Real mental illness is not over-diagnosed, if anything it's significantly under-diagnosed.

Adam @abrokenbattery.bsky.social · 12d

Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...

Controversial professor to investigate overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence for Labour

Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...

www.benefitsandwork.co.uk

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Martin Grimshaw Has Long Covid @thrivingplanet.bsky.social · 12d

"The evidence has been building for years and has been consistent; COVID causes brain damage.

Despite the clear evidence, we’ve continued to infect the population, not once, but repeatedly, with no plan to end the onslaught of reinfections."

#LongCovid

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 13d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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ME/CFS Science @mecfsskeptic.bsky.social · 14d

1) We’ve written an article about the DecodeME results: what the study measured, what the results show, and why its findings are important.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 14d

It has been disastrous from the start.

It has been disastrous for decades.

It's not 9 months of a failed government that recently did that.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 14d

Basically: the medical profession has performed equally poorly on an open book exam with unlimited time and interim gradings as they are doing under a demolished medical research and health care infrastructure.

Frankly, I find that nothing but a cheap excuse.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 14d

That point would be much more convincing if anything good was being done about Long Covid elsewhere, or in the 4 years of normal operations under the Biden administration.

Instead there is literally no difference: Long Covid is ignored same as it was, same as chronic illness for decades before.

Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 14d

48 Hills: “RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine madness will make America sick again”

“Long COVID isn’t an abstract data point—it’s millions of people trying, and often failing, to get their lives back” - infectious disease epidemiologist Beth Linas

48hills.org/2025/10/rfk-...

RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine madness will make America sick again - 48 hills

The Health and Human Services Secretary's rampage at the CDC this summer exposed the dangers of his ignorance.

48hills.org

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 17d

Disinformation straight from experts and authorities themselves.

Disinformation barely any different than what the conspiracy fantasy communities have been saying.

Failure by design, their refusal to do anything amply recorded. Those systems deserve to be smashed into the ground.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 17d

When some governments want to pretend that they did something about Long Covid, know that that 'something' was often listening to and gifting overt deniers with funding so they could corruptly produce garbage-tier research covering it up.

Experts failed us. Governments failed us. Total failure.

Lucibee @lucibee.bsky.social · 17d

At the end of Sammie McFarland's evidence session, we are shown this extract from a government meeting of 9 June 2020.

Dr Shamez Ladhani from PHE advises against using the label "long covid" on children.

#UKCovidInquiry

Extract reads:
"Cases in children do not give us an indication of the general population. The pandemic has taken a huge toll on children and families, irrespective of whether they have had the virus or if it is due to lockdowns or school closures. Dr Ladhani was clear that children should not be labelled with long COVID (i.e., a medical condition) as this has potential to cause longer-term, psychological harm."

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 18d

People need to be punished for this. There is no reasonable case to make otherwise. This cycle of failure, decades long and extremely destructive for millions of people, will not end until a heavy price is paid for this malfeasance.

Things should never have gotten this bad, it's not acceptable.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 18d

Failures never get any more intentional than this, and have never come with more warnings and data to back them up.

We could have had treatments for this years ago, but the work has not been done, promoting instead weird alternative medicine pseudoscience while insisting it doesn't even exist.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 18d

Nothing will change until the medical profession is held accountable for this miserable intentional failure.

Thousands of people warned them from early 2020, and so many times since then. It was brushed aside until it started making the news, and zero progress has been made since.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 18d

Rich of the Lancet to publish this, part of why this crisis has been ignored comes from an awful clinical trial they published in 2011, which fraudulently claimed that therapy and exercise are all that's needed to deal with this.

This is ignored because chronic illness has been ignored for decades.

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Richard Vallée @richardvallee.bsky.social · 18d

All of this was predicted. Authorities and experts were warned and are on record as having knowledge of it, and having dismissed it.

It was largely avoidable, and we should have treatment for this. We could have. The medical profession chose not to.

This is their fault. This needs accountability.

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