Dr. Richard M. Stallman (RMS) on His Hobbies and Health
IN his public talks in recent years, RMS said he was immunocompromised. Answering a question from the audience in Germany, last month RMS said the following:
Outside of tech, what do you like to do? What are your hobbies?RMS: Well, I used to have some hobbies which I found inevitably I would give up. I used to love international folk dancing but an injury meant I couldn't do it any more or other kinds of dancing that I used to enjoy. I used to enjoy playing music on a recorder but ten years ago or so I found that even when I practiced up I couldn't play tunes and have them come out right that even the same tunes that I had loved and learned how to play. I don't know why that is. I gave up. I still enjoy eating delicious food. It's not as easy as it was because I don't dare eat indoors with other people around I can catch COVID that way and I could end up dead.
So I can only eat with people in outdoor restaurants at outdoor tables and that limits what's available. Or if they come to my house I can turn on the HEPA filter that I've got for this purpose. Ok, sometimes one or the other will work but it's a lot more constraining than it had been.
RMS has spoken to people about his poor health for about 2 decades already; I heard this from people who had spoken to him. But he's still alive, albeit even with cancer certain people still attack him (with lies). That says a lot about them, not him. █