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Re: Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs

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Post by xyst »

TreetopPlace wrote: post #118
dataengineer56 wrote: post #99

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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.

This is honestly shocking and I don't know how to process this information.

What’s more “shocking” is how these services (patreon,gofundme) essentially acts as long term disability and health insurance plans.

American healthcare is a massive price fixing scam and a complete joke.

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Post by gadders »

TreetopPlace wrote: post #118
dataengineer56 wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This is honestly shocking and I don't know how to process this information.

I'm not saying it's a grift, but I'm not saying I'd be surprised if it turned out to be one as well.

Internet people are weird. Not all of us though, obviously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Gibson

Re: Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs

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Post by exabrial »

Tade0 wrote: post #69

That's great to hear. I remember Simone Giertz breaking out the bad news to her followers and sounding no less serious than when she was talking about her own brain surgery. My former co-worker got COVID twice, as preventive measures didn't fit into his moral framework, and the second time resulted in a mild case of long COVID. I'm saying "mild" as he was not bedridden, but the cognitive decline was noticeable. Long…

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Post by thesuitonym »

exabrial wrote: post #143
Tade0 wrote: post #69

That's great to hear. I remember Simone Giertz breaking out the bad news to her followers and sounding no less serious than when she was talking about her own brain surgery. My former co-worker got COVID twice, as preventive measures didn't fit into his moral framework, and the second time resulted in a mild case of long COVID. I'm saying "mild" as he was not bedridden, but the cognitive decline was noticeable. Long…

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Post by qiine »

penjelly wrote: post #86
tunn3l wrote: post #52

I'm 22 years old and suffer from Long COVID for 3 years now. I've written a bout my experience on my blog: https://tunn3l.pro . although not bedridden, my life got totally flipped upside down. I just want to live a normal live again. To all ME/CFS and LC sufferers: Don't give up!

Hi, I couldn't glean from the articles. But it sounds like you have breathing issues from long covid? it may sound ridiculous, but I developed gluten/lactose sensitivity during covid times. If I avoid gluten, lactose, canola oil I get far fewer symptoms. I know this likely isn't your issue but I do experience positive airway pressure, coughing, burping, chronic fatigue, exessive yawning. If that sounds like you maybe…

> "its in your head"

insane that it's still so common...

Re: Science YouTuber physicsgirl (Dianna Cowern) stands for the first time in 2 yrs

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Post by leandrod »

Tade0 wrote: post #69

That's great to hear. I remember Simone Giertz breaking out the bad news to her followers and sounding no less serious than when she was talking about her own brain surgery. My former co-worker got COVID twice, as preventive measures didn't fit into his moral framework, and the second time resulted in a mild case of long COVID. I'm saying "mild" as he was not bedridden, but the cognitive decline was noticeable. Long…

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Post by trompetenaccoun »

kvdveer wrote: post #80
lupusreal wrote: post #73

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"Ignore your illness, and just keep working" is not a viable course of action, especially not with long-covid, speaking from experience here. In third-world countries without a socialized healthcare, this simply means these people work themselves to death, starve themselves to death, or need to rely on others for their survival. It is an absurd illusion that one can just ignore a serious health issue this way. Or, in…

I live in Kenya and have not heard of a single person who got "long covid", or knows someone who does. It has nothing to do with working oneself to death as you imagine, this is a phenomenon that does not exist outside a certain social bubble.

You say you speak from experience. What exactly is your third world experience based on?

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Post by lolinder »

plagiarist wrote: post #135
2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #114

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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.

This was always true before covid. Some of us reset our expectations during covid to expect people to be better than before, but many of us apparently didn't, which shouldn't be entirely surprising. It takes a long time to totally change a culture, and a lot of people were very happy to revert to the way things were before.

Reverting back to the way things were when life was simpler doesn't make them bad people, it just makes them human.

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Post by y-curious »

thesuitonym wrote: post #144
exabrial wrote: post #143

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This is literally the definition of victim-blaming:

"Victim blaming occurs when the victim of a crime or any wrongful act is held entirely or partially at fault for the harm that befell them."

Imagine if I said "She always wore low-cut dresses. Her lack of preventative measures caused her to get raped. She did it to herself!"

Lots of people masking up still get COVID.

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Post by philipov »

y-curious wrote: post #149
thesuitonym wrote: post #144

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This is literally the definition of victim-blaming: "Victim blaming occurs when the victim of a crime or any wrongful act is held entirely or partially at fault for the harm that befell them." Imagine if I said "She always wore low-cut dresses. Her lack of preventative measures caused her to get raped. She did it to herself!" Lots of people masking up still get COVID.

Getting sick with COVID isn't a crime or wrongful act. There is no perpetrator.
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