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You are attacking me for saying "lyme people" even as you use "lyme patients" in the same sentence. There is no difference: both use lyme as an adjective to define a subpopulation using a completely innocuous starting population ("people" v "patients"). I'm just starting with a bigger group, because unaffected family, friends, etc can have these opinions too.
In reality, patients with Lyme have a worse quality of life than those with AIDS or cancer. It's that bad. And what you wrote tells me that you, as a doctor, don't seem to understand that.