An Update on Dianna's Health (Physics Girl) [video]

Post by aflag » Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 8:23 AM UTC

trogdor wrote: post #81

mat_epice wrote: post #77

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Let me tell you: $325k/yr is not enough to manage a debilitating health condition that requires constant care. For a creator of her size, patreon takes 12% right off the top. ($39k) In addition, there is a transaction fee of 2.9% + $0.30. ($9.5k + $32.5k = $42k) Then you have to pay taxes. Self employment taxes on $283k are $26.5k. Federal/state/local income taxes are $82k. 189k of your earnings are GONE. So, you’re…

Even assuming that your figures are correct, I am not sure how you can conclude that $135k/year take-home is insufficient to support a couple through a catastrophic health issue. She is apparently in her 30s. Same with me. I pay for an excellent Marketplace health insurance policy. My premium, annualized, is around $6,500, and my annual out-of-pocket maximum is $8,000. That’s $14,500 a year. Double that to liberally…

Post by keizo » Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 9:15 AM UTC

taylorfinley wrote: post #54

I went to high school with Dianna and was good friends with her older sis. They were both super genuine and truly wonderful people back then. I saw this on social media a few days ago from mutual friends, it's really sad to hear how much she's been impacted. Really heartening to see this community cares too. I've seen a lot of go-fund-me grift over the years and am usually an extremely skeptical person, but if Dianna…

Post by PaulKeeble » Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 11:05 AM UTC

zamnos wrote: post #73

quenched wrote: post #62

This is very sad to see and I wish Dianna and her family the very best for her recovery. I'm into year three of long COVID (ME/CFS) and was fortunate to not reach this level of severity, and to have improved slowly with time to mostly housebound rather than bedbound, but it is a remarkable disease. The name does it little justice, and fatigue - while certainly pathological and disabling - is not the primary feature.…

That was a heartbreaking video to watch. My heart goes out to this woman and her family. In my experience, having caught covid in March 2020, fatigue is the problem. It's just that calling it "fatigue" doesn't spell out how dehabilitating that aspect is. It's maybe 100 ft/30 meters from my bed to the kitchen. At the worst of my long covid, I was getting winded walking from my bed to the kitchen. So then I'm in the ki…

Post by cbeach » Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 12:17 PM UTC

53739920 wrote: post #39

cbeach wrote: post #28

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This always pops up when someone says they have long covid. My favorite is when someone got long covid after contracting covid in April 2020, and people came out of the woodwork to blame the vaccine--almost a year before the vaccine was rolled out to the general public.

Post by aflag » Fri, Mar 10, 2023, 1:23 PM UTC

trogdor wrote: post #94

aflag wrote: post #91

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Also worth noting that before the video was released she had a little less than 1k patreons and wasn't releasing new videos. So, she's probably been going through her savings for the past 6 months or so. She's not getting better any time soon either. So, this 9k number will probably decrease a lot in the following months.

I’m not sure how that is relevant. My comment was a rebuttal to someone who argued that $135k/year in take-home is insufficient to support a couple - any couple - through a catastrophic health issue.