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Lyme disease is a real thing but usually (especially in "left" context) when someone says "lyme" there is a 90% chance that is NOT what they are talking about. It's a conspiracy theory promoted by anti-science grifters to entice people to travel to spend weeks or months at retreats getting long term antibiotics infusions or whatever else.
The suffering on the ground is real but total misdirection. It's kind of like the satanic panic or something.
I posted recent recent clinical practice guidelines, this stuff is addressed in there. They know its fake.
AFAIK lyme disease has a pretty good prognosis assuming you have access to health care. And if you don't that is a different thing and whether "they" do know how to treat it or not, doesn't matter much to you .