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A square image with a black and purple/pink tone abstract background. There is a heart in the background and purple/pink gradient 3D-style text in the foreground that says: "Your value as a human does not change when you're sick and need to rest."
Image description: A square image with a black and purple/pink tone abstract background. There is a heart in the background and purple/pink gradient 3D-style text in the foreground that says: “Your value as a human does not change when you’re sick and need to rest.”

Value

by Berlin Buyers Club

“Your value as a human does not change when you’re sick and need to rest.” This kind reminder is for everyone navigating life with an energy-limiting chronic illness, which too often brings not only bring debilitating fatigue, but a barrage of symptoms and medical obligations to manage. With Long Covid capable of causing over 200 symptoms – including fatigue and post-exertional malaise* – rest for Covid survivors is essential to prevent further health damage.

* post-exertional malaise (PEM): a worsening of symptoms, or the onset of new/additional symptoms, triggered by trivial levels of physical or mental exertion (sometimes on a delay).

Berlin Buyers Club is an international grassroots art-activist collective that was founded in March 2023. They are a small group of skilled creatives doing what they can under very constrained circumstances after COVID-19 made them chronically ill — for some of them, dramatically altering the trajectory of their lives. They spend their limited energy on seeking awareness, treatments, and justice for Long Covid, ME/CFS, and other complex neuro-immune diseases.


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