Woodworker, gardener, bassist, former begrudging health tech. worker hoping to find less socially irresponsible employment. Mostly lurking.
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| Location | Southern Appalachia |
@vapaad Tacking on something I learned when my partner got Lymes disease: it doesn't always present as a bullseye rash! Sometimes you just get random red splotches all over your body, or a number of other possible presentations.
Also, you might have to fight against medical practitioners to make them prescribe you the antibiotics you need for treatment. Despite being in a career that exposes her to ticks on a regular basis and having a rash, it took seeing an infectious diseases specialist to actually get someone who went 'Oh yeah, that's Lymes disease' and started her on the course of treatment she needed. To say that was frustrating would be an understatement.
A bit more about "soft power" (trying to write more of this in my own threads rather than more annoyingly in someone elses): it's a new concept, starting in the US in 1985 and popularized by the late 80s. This is a really significant time and place!
tl/dr: It's a neoliberal concept that was always about treating the remains of ideological competition as if they would continue once the competition was over.
Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝