(2 articles) Fatigue Can Shatter a Person | These are the most liveable cities in Europe

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You Might Like � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Fatigue Can Shatter a Person    Everyday tiredness is nothing like the depleting symptom that people with long COVID and ME/CFS experience. Alexis Misko’s health has improved enough that, once a month, she can leave her house for a few hours. First, she needs to build up her energy by lying in a dark room for the better part of two days, doing little more than listening to audiobooks. Then she needs a driver, a quiet destination where she can lie down, and days of rest to recover afterward. The brief outdoor joy “never quite feels like enough,” she told me, but it’s so much more than what she managed in her first year of long COVID, when she couldn’t sit upright for more than an hour or stand for more than 10 minutes. Now, at least, she can watch TV on the same day she takes a shower. In her previous life, she pulled all-nighters in graduate school and rough shifts at her hospital as an occupational therapist; she went for long runs and sagged after long flights. None of that compares with what she has endured since getting COVID-19 almost three years ago. The fatigue she now feels is “like a complete depletion of the essence of who you are, of your life force,” she told me in an email. Continued here These are the most liveable cities in Europe    EUROPEANS HAVE it pretty good. Their cities, especially in the western half of the continent, are in general splendid places to live. EIU, our sister company, assesses the “liveability” of cities globally by measuring how they stack up in five categories: culture and environment, education, health care, infrastructure, and stability. European cities consistently top the rankings and continue to do so. The region has more cities in the global top ten than any other region. But the relative ranking of some cities has declined, mainly because living standards in Asia and Australasia have at last recovered from a pandemic slump. Our charts below show which European cities scored the highest, and which are slipping. The chart-toppers have not changed in the latest index. Vienna retained its place as the world’s most liveable city, scoring 98.4 out of a possible 100 points in EIU’s index. Copenhagen, Zurich and Geneva were unsurprising runners-up. The picturesque cities of Budapest, Prague and Bratislava had the highest scores in eastern Europe. The eastern cities of Bratislava, Bucharest and Warsaw, along with Stuttgart in western Germany, were the European cities whose scores improved most in 2022, mostly thanks to higher standards of health care (see map). More surprising is that several European cities were among the biggest decliners in global rankings. This has more to do with improvements elsewhere than with problems in Europe. Edinburgh dropped by 23 places in the global pecking order, more than any other city. But its index score declined by less than one point. The rankings of other British cities, including Manchester and London, also declined (see chart). Life in London, which fell by 12 places globally, actually got better. But the scores of non-European cities ranked just below it improved by more. Continued here

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