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@BethanyBlack I think it because there was simply so much immigration. Immigrant stories are more recent and powerful. My husband's family has immigrants and natitive New Mexican roots, so culturally New Mexico and Mexico is very strong, talked about and obvious.

By contrast I am mostly American English. My earliest ancestor came over in 1688. The most recent immigrant I could find was Irish and came over in 1792. Scottish. Welsh. Maybe French Huguenot. We don't have the same strong cultural traditions, like making tamales after Thanksgiving.

@breadandcircuses It's like the British landlords during the Irish Potato famine. People starved while Ireland produced a grain surplus. The rights of the rich to earn their money was more important than the lives of the starving Irish. Food was exported while people died of starvation.

All the excuses you hear about climate change were used against the Irish - they are lazy and not minding their personal carbon foot print, oh sorry, farming their potatoes well. The Irish need to pull themselves up by their boot straps so they don't starve. The market needs to rule and famines are natural. Even: it is good and natural to reduce overpopulation.

I'm far too cynical today to think that things will change before crops start to fail, given what it took to get Britian off corn subsidies. The corn laws subsiding grain exports didn't end until 1 in 10 people died.

@thomasfuchs Personally I think there are several underlying causes, which is why diet and meds work differently in different people.

Antihistamines for mast cell activation did squat for me, but work wonders for others.

But in retrospect for me, every measure I took that helped control my insulin levels helped, while others failed. Most of my symptoms aligned with hyperglycemia, down to the incredible thirst, 130 oz a day. But without the high blood sugar or A1C.

Covid left my lungs scarred so I will never be what I was, but that is easier to deal with than that fatigue.

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@thomasfuchs You do need a balance though, without the hard science available yet. I'm an engineer, and the woo-woo stuff drives me nuts. So much BS out there

My story. Long covid made me bed bound for months. I could not stand more than a minute or two, and they looked at giving me oxygen. I was living and working from bed.

Over time, I found that a careful diet avoiding carbs and sugar controlled it. If I cheated the fatigue would return like clock work, along with heat palpitations. I absolutely hated it but it worked.

Metformin has been shown to help reduce long covid risk by controlling insulin, so it is likely I hacked my way there. Who knows yet. The science can't happen fast enough.

I then got covid again and it cleared out my long covid. I like to think my diet helped but who knows.

I hate the randomness of this disease.

@feditips Any chance for the fiber arts? Knitting, sewing, quilting, weaving, and embroidery are all art forms.

It is so strange to me that the things we are most familiar with, clothing and fabrics, are so neglected as crafts and arts.

Yet many people can't tell hand embroidery from what is produced by machine. Imagine not being able to appreciate a painting vs. its print.