The easiest way to explain to outsiders CFS-ME and the versions of long-covid that present with years of chronic fatigue is that you are now instantly 80 years

The easiest way to explain to outsiders CFS-ME and the versions of long-covid that present with years of chronic fatigue is that you are now instantly 80 years old overnight. You can still barely function, it's just that everything is 100 times harder and slower. The part you can still function is what confuses people who have never been seriously ill and never even experienced post-viral fatigue for a few weeks. And the age reference is apparently right in other ways, many diseases seem to leave long-term if not permanent DNA methylation problems which is exactly like "old age" https://clinicalepigeneticsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13148-022-01313-8 https://clinicalepigeneticsjournal.biomedcentral.com/article... There's no cure for this because it would be like curing aging.