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pretty fascinating article about "Russian flu" in the 1890s, and how it might well have been a coronavirus with similar symptoms to Covid thetyee.ca/News/2022/02/14/Pandemic-Ghost-Russian-Flu/Permalink Look on archive.org
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which generally supports the whole Long Covid vibe of being an Edwardian invalid, lying propped up in a bed with lots of pillows and being forbidden to do anything interesting for fear of over-straining yourselfPermalink Look on archive.org
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If anyone knew the word, definitely my preferred name for this disease is "neurasthenia". Very glad to have got it after they invented the Internet, so I could still have a social life and not just read endless paperbacks.Permalink Look on archive.org
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I mean, I'm not convinced by Freud's argument that it's caused by not cumming enough, but it's not like there's especially convincing medical accounts of it today.Look on archive.org