This is such great news! The best news of my day. She is standing in a brightly lit room and smiling! This is so much better than her condition before.
Keeping my fingers crossed for a quick recovery!
Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs
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Do we know the exact origins of every virus? Does it matter in the grand scheme? Perhaps it helps in developing treatments, but I would question what specific advantages you get knowing the exact origin of a mutating virus with multiple strains. I guess my point is that it seems like our time would be better spent developing treatments and protections against this and future pandemics instead.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the point being made was diseases can be difficult to diagnose. Some diseases don’t have explicit tests. ADHD is diagnosed by looking at just symptoms if I remember correctly. I’m not sure about autism. I knew someone who became sick. At first it was thought to be Lyme, it took a long while to determine and a bunch of other theories to determine it was lupus. Tests were not fully accurate and these illnesses…
Autism diagnosis requires (or at least should, for it to be done properly) a multidisciplinary evaluation. In the case of my children, there were certain tests that were absolutely definitive, and not reliant on interpretation - namely, idioms and metaphors. It's raining cats and dogs, for example.
Right, but that specific sign still doesn't give definitive info about all the other aspects of autism. Ignoring the name you give "literal-lnaguahe syndrome" , it is unknown if the menu of signs and symptoms is diagnostically clustered in imto one label in an effective way.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am not objecting to the general point that diseases are hard to diagnose. The wording OP used does not just say that - phrases like "so-called" come with an implication that the thing being referred to is just made up. That's why my comment asks if they would say the same thing about ADHD and Autism. They probably wouldn't, because it would carry an implication that they thought ADHD and Autism were somehow "fake".
ADHD and Autism are interesting, because they are entirely based on certain clinical presentations and the opinion of the diagnosing practitioner. There are a certain set of traits that are "classically" ADHD for example, so what happens if you show 80% of those traits and show the counter-case for 20% of the traits? I expect that neurodivergence is going to become far more nuanced in its assessment, with a better un…
Most of mental health is like this.
Re: Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs
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Cannot speak for the person before, but I gave up on any protection. With 3 children from 3-10 it will catch me anyhow.
The tragedy isn’t that we don’t wear masks routinely, it’s that people think they have a right to infect anyone because of their own sense of personal freedom. Immediately when restrictions ended here, you could be in a large department store or supermarket and hear people coughing badly, or sneezing. If you know you feel under the weather, pop on a mask. But no, “freedom”, “it’s a conspiracy”. I swear “freedom” is j…
I don't get it. People just hop on public transit and will be coughing every ten seconds. It is a pleasant surprise if they even go as far as coughing into their elbow.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is honestly shocking and I don't know how to process this information.
Why is that shocking? Her existing subscribers continued to support her, but also multiple other famous youtubers talked about her which got her new attention/subscribers. I've seen at least 3 other channels giving her a dedicated video and YouTube is still serving me her shorts.
Subscriber is the technical term but really it's donor, because they aren't paying for access to new work product.
Most people who suffer a GoFundMe-type catastrophe don't attract new long-term financial backers over time.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another Dutchie here. Anything not immediately fatal is indeed treated by just taking it easy and perhaps some paracetamol for the placebo effect. I have a chronic illness in the same kind of category and it took me years to find out what it was and to get proper treatment. Which has improved my quality of life dramatically ! But even now I travel halfway across the country to a university hospital where a specialist…
Are you sure you aren’t in the US? I find specialists here have zero intellectual curiosity. Sure, they recognize the most common condition in their field when blatantly obvious. When it comes to the second most common issue in their field or anything not blatantly obvious (significant test result and 10/10 excruciating pain), they will just offer no diagnosis and go no further. Just getting them to do an exam or eve…
It seems to depend on who you see and, probably, where you are in the country. Every time I go in to see my GP he seems to schedule a battery off lab work. And when I went to a dermatologist for an annual mole exam I left with prescriptions for dandruff and eczema.
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#138I’ve had long covid for a couple of years now. It’s a really difficult disease, in part because different people react very differently, and there may even be multiple mechanisms so it’s not exactly a single disease. What has really helped me has been wearing a nicotine patch occasionally. I was never a smoker, but I came across this very small study [1] and thought it was worth a go because a) I was getting desperat…
That nicotine patches help with focus is no surprise if you have been naive to nicotine before. I have been using patches on and off (like years of no usage in-between) for focus, and 7mg is actually a lot. Is there anything indicating that it is not just the effect of nicotine, and truly helps against whatever lingers inside your body (the spike protein)?
Given other people around me talking about treating their long covid with nicotine since it went through social media last year, I suppose you don't know about / didn't try the Natto (nattokinase) [1] / NAC route [2] (for which there were early studies showing they can dissolve the SARS-Cov2 spike protein)..? Or does the community consider that a dead end by now?
That there is a political echo chamber-driven division between those routes is a bit strange and dangerous, isn't it. With nicotine you will need to be careful about its effects on blood pressure, and it would be better to not even think about vaping (some of the flavoured products could be equally/more addictive to/than cigarettes [3]).
[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9458005/
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#140I’m following her progress on Patreon and the fact that she’s getting better is great! Can’t wait her comeback video!
I find it interesting that she's both kept her Patreon up during this time and has also become far more successful https://graphtreon.com/creator/physicsgirl , in spite of posting no content.
So patreon essentially acts as a health insurance and long term disability plan? I am unsure of “estimate earnings per month” accuracy given the wide range — “12K-147K” — but even at the low end that should be enough to get constantly seek treatments (traditional and non-orthodox) and still provide for basic necessities (food, rent, bills, …). American health system is a joke.
Glad she’s making progress and has a very supportive partner. Not sure what he does for a living but seems like he has been the primary care giver throughout this.