The Economics of Survival
Fred RossiLiving with Long COVID and ME/CFS means every decision runs through a cost-benefit analysis you never asked for. This publication applies that framework to chronic illness, disability, politics, and culture. Not inspirational. Honest.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 22 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | a month ago |
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The Small Things, Counted
I have written a lot about what this disease subtracts. I keep a careful ledger of it, because precision is the only dignity available when your life gets this small, and because I refuse to lie about the size of the loss. The loss is real....
The Patient Who Isn’t Supposed to Exist
WIRED ran a piece by Alan Levinovitz called “The Painful Truth About Long Covid.” The frame is one I have seen many times now. There is a way forward, the argument goes, a set of mind-body tools that could help people like me, and the only...
The Tools That Fit
There is a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from driving when you have Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). Not the physical act of turning the wheel or pressing the pedal. Those are small things. The exhaustio...
The Inventory of Loss
There is a specific kind of grief that does not get a name.
Not the grief of a death, which the world at least has language for. Not the grief of a breakup, which comes with a social script. This grief is quieter and longer and harder to e...
A Direct Ask
I want to be straightforward with you.
The Economics of Survival exists because I write it. And I write it because this work matters to me, even on the days when it costs more than I have. Essays like “The Debt Came Due” don’t come from a...
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What if your body ran like a failing economy? Shrinking reserves. Impossible trade-offs. I write about Long Covid and ME/CFS with brutal honesty and zero fluff. Also: Star Wars, comics, cats, and Penguins goals. \ud83d\udea8
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