Science writer. Author of AN IMMENSE WORLD. Not on Twitter any more. Find me on Bluesky or through my newsletter: https://teapawt.net/t.co/sUMoqFWZWg.
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🛑I wrote about what “fatigue” really means for people with long COVID and ME/CFS, and why this profoundly debilitating symptom is so often misunderstood and trivialized.
(This piece also covers PEM.) 1/
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I absolutely adored CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS, by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
A devastating satire about the US carceral state taken to its logical conclusion: televised gladiatorial combat.
A profound love story about finding hope & dignity amid oppression.
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ALT A copy of the book Chain Gang All Stars
The paperback of AN IMMENSE WORLD is out in just a few weeks (Aug 29), and you can preorder it now!
Cast includes: 🐝🦆🐒🦖🐬🦑🐘🦚🦦🐕🦂🕷️🦇🦉🐍🦅🪱🐋🐊🦭🦈🐟🦟
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An important essay by @julialmv in the @latimes today on the urgency to find treatments that help people suffering from #LongCovid
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Whenever I write about long-covid or ME, I get waves of emails from chronically ill folk who feel seen/heard. But with this piece, I'm *also* hearing from healthy people saying they finally get what their loved ones are going through. Which feels amazing.
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I'd always hoped these pieces could function in this way, that they'd act as an empathy bridge--a tool that long-haulers could use to open up conversations with dismissive, skeptical, or well-intentioned-but-confused people in their circles.
And to that end, this offer still stands. teapawt.net/edyong209/status/16845…
Sigh. Some of you seem to be able to read this during the 24-hr free period, & some are still bumping into the paywall.
Look, if anyone w/ long COVID or ME/CFS needs to read this and can't, email [email protected] and I'll personally send you a copy.
teapawt.net/edyong209/status/16845…
Ed Yong is not here retweeted
🛑I wrote about what “fatigue” really means for people with long COVID and ME/CFS, and why this profoundly debilitating symptom is so often misunderstood and trivialized.
(This piece also covers PEM.) 1/
theatlantic.com/health/archi…
Oh and I have recorded an audio version of the fatigue piece for people whose symptoms make it hard to read long pieces. There's some processing to do which is out of my hands but I hope it goes up later today. End/
So, the audio version is now up on the piece's webpage... but so is the full paywall.🫤 Sorry, folks. I had hoped that there'd be a window when the former was freely available.
For the written version, my offer stands indefinitely: teapawt.net/edyong209/status/16845…
Sigh. Some of you seem to be able to read this during the 24-hr free period, & some are still bumping into the paywall.
Look, if anyone w/ long COVID or ME/CFS needs to read this and can't, email [email protected] and I'll personally send you a copy.
teapawt.net/edyong209/status/16845…
Ed Yong is not here retweeted
Sigh. Some of you seem to be able to read this during the 24-hr free period, & some are still bumping into the paywall.
Look, if anyone w/ long COVID or ME/CFS needs to read this and can't, email [email protected] and I'll personally send you a copy.
teapawt.net/edyong209/status/16845…
🛑I wrote about what “fatigue” really means for people with long COVID and ME/CFS, and why this profoundly debilitating symptom is so often misunderstood and trivialized.
(This piece also covers PEM.) 1/
theatlantic.com/health/archi…
Some news: After 8 years & 750 stories, I've decided to leave The Atlantic. Today's my last day.
Being a writer means you can’t say things like "I can’t tell you what this means" cos, well, I can. That's kind of the point of me. So here’s an attempt at looking back & forward: 1/
Endings are hard.
Blank pages are harder--but also exciting and full of possibility.
Onward. TKTK
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Oh, and, pls read this piece on what "fatigue" really means while you're at it. 10/ teapawt.net/edyong209/status/16845…
🛑I wrote about what “fatigue” really means for people with long COVID and ME/CFS, and why this profoundly debilitating symptom is so often misunderstood and trivialized.
(This piece also covers PEM.) 1/
theatlantic.com/health/archi…