A friend was bemoaning (justly) we haven't been dreaming and imagining for a while. I think we've all been kinda head down surviving the winter and *waves hand at everything*
But it's spring now, and time for hope to come back to life at least.
Thusly I present a new tag:
#ifIHadABillionDollars
What would you do with a billion dollars? What would you build, create, solve, cultivate...?
[social cue: this is not the place to rant politics, we've got the rest of the Internet for that]
@vlrny My dream would be to use it for ME/CFS research (and some for Long Covid) because they are so underfunded compared to other chronic illnesess.
source = https://www.nature.com/articles/s43856-026-01516-7
"Long COVID received 14% of its disability commensurate funding"
"ME/CFS is the most under-funded condition, receiving <1% of its YLD proportionate funding"
(YLD = years lived with disability)
Bonuck et al. quantified the disability burden of Long COVID in U.S. adults using years lived with disability and compared its NIH funding to that of 68 other conditions by sex predominance. Long COVID receives far less funding than warranted by its burden, with female predominant conditions consistently underfunded, implying that both disability impact and sex disparities should play a greater role in research funding decisions.
Valerie Roney
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