Near the end of this month, on September 27th and 28th, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) is running their Bike MS: City to Shore event across New Jersey again, as they have done every year starting in 1980 other than 2015 (Hurrican Joaquin) and 2020 (COVID-19). This is a fundraiser event, which I am participating in, and I would like people who have the ability to donate to the NMSS.
Multiple Sclerosis, or MS, is a neurodegenerative disease. It cause the myelin sheaths that insulate neurons from each other to break down, limiting their ability to transmit signals. Because it is active in the central nervous system, it can cause almost any neurological symptom, including loss of coordination, muscle spasms, vision loss, slowed information processing, and depression, among many others. Nearly one million people have MS in the US alone.
The NMSS collects funds from donors and puts them toward research into new medicines to treat MS and toward direct aid to people with MS, helping them afford medicines and mobility aids they otherwise couldn't get. And progress has been made—we have much better treatments now than a few short decades ago, and at least before TFG's assault on health and medicine, we were moving towards a complete cure and/or vaccine.
Which brings us to the salient point: unlike in previous years, the US government is no longer funding medicine. That means that nonprofits like the NMSS need to provide the shortfall. That means that small donors like (hopefully) you are needed to protect the health of one million people.
Below is the link to donate to the event as a whole. I would put mine, but it has my real name, which I don't want to associate with this account publicly. If we've interacted before, you can DM me and I might give you my link, but it all goes to the same place anyway. Donate if you can, but BOOST REGARDLESS.
https://events.nationalmssociety.org/events/2389/donate
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