Imagine a Lyme Manhattan Project

I've just been thinking about how much of a travesty all of this is. How, we're all here, taking guesses as to what's gonna make us better and how long we need to treat ourselves etc. Even the LLMDs are feeling around in the dark in a lot of ways, how many people have had their LLMD fail them?

So moving on, I've found this article, $1.3 Billion is spent, annually by the average joe on treating lyme in the US alone.
https://undark.org/2018/09/06/lyme-research-funding/

Mean while, the Crooked Doctors Club (I mean Centre for Disease Control...) spends a measly $10 million or so. on lyme research - all of which conforms to their narrative of easy to treat hard to catch. TBD get approximately $56 million annually.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/04/long-underfunded-lyme-disease-research-gets-injection-money-and-ideas

Imagine, how much better, things would be, if that $1.3 billion went into lyme research? This is a pipe dream, I know that much, it's a business and I will not apologise for my cynicism. Medicine as it stands is about profit far more than it is about treating people and anyone that wants to disagree just look at the stats for how many people die due to needless treatments and improper treatments. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/medical-errors-third-leading-cause-of-death-in-america.html

Dirt cheap treatments for cancer are coming about (disulfiram has been proven to be effective against several cancers.) Now that is something that I am certain there will be resistance to as we.

There will be a point in time where lyme and co will be looked at in the same way we look at syphilis now. Until then, we're all left here to suffer, some of us remortgaging houses, borrowing from friends and family. This stuff really is shameful and I hope it changes soon.

Just thought I'd post something interesting, if anyone has anything to add then please do. Always good to have a discussion

Great topic Cygnet.

I personally think Lyme disease needs an investigation into its origins. If it really originated on Plum Island, which I believe it did, then certain answers (which could lead to medical answers) are to be found in more of a forensic type of investigation. I mentioned Willy Burgdorfer in a post earlier today, I'm convinced he took several secrets to his grave.

We should be thoroughly going through (think federal investigation) every note the man ever wrote. Dig up all the records that were ever written at the hands of *anyone* at the PIADC. When we understand how this disease was created (in actual detail) we would have the blueprint on how it works. Granted, it's not a guarantee to find the cure but it's better than throwing everything at the wall towards a blind target, and hoping something sticks.

None of this will happen without the government even admitting it's real though, so that would be a starting point.

Are we (Lyme patients) just phase two of the tuskegee experiment? Sometimes it feels that way.

The Corona virus certainly could have come from man and not a bat at a fish market. This article is from 2017.

https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-chinese-lab-poised-to-study-world-s-most-dangerous-pathogens-1.21487
Anyone else a little concerned about Corona? My immune system is non-existent at the moment. I have been sick with the regular flu since December. I can't shake it this year. It seems like the Corona virus is going to get much worse before it gets better.