Zooming With Congress For More Lyme Funding Which Will Yield Zilch for Patients

February 26, 2024

‘Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” ~ usually attributed to Alfred Einstein

https://www.lymedisease.org/zooming-with-congress-fly-in/

By Dorothy Kupcha Leland

2/22/24

Zooming with Congress for more Lyme funding

More than 380 Lyme disease advocates from 45 states put on their special green neck scarves and zoomed with congressional offices this week.

Their goal? To educate their elected representatives and urge them to increase federal funding for Lyme disease research.

This is the fifth year the Center for Lyme Action has sponsored the annual Lyme Fly-in, and the fourth year it’s been held virtually. Since the CLA formed in 2019, federal funding for Lyme disease has increased $282 million. (A good start, but much more is needed!)

The virtual Lyme Fly-In is also a chance for Lyme advocates to connect with each other–and spread the word on social media. Here are some of my favorite posts I found online: (Go to link for article)

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**Comment**

I’m all about educating.  That is rarely unfruitful unless your audience is so completely biased and/or corrupt that it refuses to entertain anything but a regurgitated narrative.  What is a waste of time is increasing government grant money for a highly polarized illness that hasn’t been dealt with properly since it was ‘discovered.’  Not sure when the memo will reach advocates, but it’s time to move on from this fruitless endeavor.

History has shown that the only forward progress in Lymeland has been from the hard work of independent researchers who are typically invested personally and who are driven and open-minded enough to find real answers.

The Senate rejected an inquiry into whether Lyme started in a Pentagon lab.  Do we really expect transparency from the very agencies that may be behind it all but refuse to be investigated?  Seriously?

Further, the old political debate over chronic/persistent infection has yet to be accepted in mainstream medicine and media – but is embraced by those who accept the world wide research and reality.  This fly in the proverbial ointment proves little has changed and funding the same agencies will yield nothing productive for patients.

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