COVID-19 Pandemic @lemmy.ml makeasnek @sopuli.xyz 7mo ago

A powerful video update on Diana (Physics Girl on YouTube) who is battling Long COVID.

Stories like this are why I donate my CPU/GPU time to SiDock/Rosetta/Folding@home. We all can make a difference, even if our contributions are small.

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I'm still constantly weirded out by Destin when he talks about anything relating to personal life. Gives me "creepy preacher that beats his children for not saying yes sir" vibes

Glad she is doing better and has a very supportive spouse.
- Destin just creeps me out all the time to be honest. I like his content but I just cannot believe that's who he really is.
  
  I genuinely believe him to be exactly how he presents himself.
  
  That being said if he was found out to be like a necrophilic pedophile that doesn't put carts back in the corral, just an absolutely sick inhuman monster I would not be shocked.
- He is catholic, which honestly given his content I find strange.. I've never understood how people can maintain their religions in such a field.
  
  I'm not sure how religious he is, but it must be very to maintain it after all of his research and education.
  
  Religon and science aren't necessarily incompatible. Some religons say a higher power did stuff and it happened "because they're god, science is witchcraft" Some religions say a higher power did stuff "because they're god" and science is just figuring out how they did it.
  Knowing how stuff happened doesn't necessarily make a higher power impossible, nor less powerful. It's just cool.
  
  The Catholic Church has been a lot more open to science than other flavors of Christianity. Early biology sciences had plenty of contribution from catholic scientists and the church is by and large cool with evolution. They even teach it in catholic school.
  
  similarly to Zack Nelson from jerryrigseverything, who’s Mormon, that’s not stopping him from making cool tech related content, anyway, I’m (as a non practicing European Catholic) wondering where you got your views on Catholicism, are they different in US? you have a few more Christianity denominations in US i’d call more conservative and anti science, than Catholicism, like Pentacostals, JWs, said Mormons, Baptists, hell, even looking at your politics whole protestant branch related to Republicans seem anti-science
  
  i think majority wouldn't dare to show their personal take on eternal-life in public, being afraid to receive bad comments. So, kudo's to him to do so here and there, in the face of being bullied. personally, i think how he does it is appropriate and not over the top.
  
  Regarding how serious he's about it; He actually quoted Galatians 5:22-23, at 11:20 with a passion. i.m.o., he isn't "being religious" but he makes it practical.
- Yes! There’s nothing indicating anything but him being a good or at least decent dude but man does he give me bad vibes.
  
  Always trust your instincts about people (e: specific people and situations).
  
  After all, humans evolved over millions of years to accurately predict the actions of fellow humans. Since humans can be extremely violent apes, the ones that were good at predicting didn't get murdered by psychos and were more likely to pass on their genes.
  
  (E: to clarify, if you get a bad vibe or an urge to GTFO or similar, listen to it and stay safe)
- I'm amused that I'm not the only one that he bothers.
- God I thought it was just me!
- I really didn't like his bringing god into this, because all I can think when christians bring it up during tragedy is "Where's your god now?"
  
  Is his god somewhere jerking off while a priest molests a child?
  
  Certainly not here being useful.
  
  Just doesn't seem like something to worship to me...
  
  That's more or less what drove me away from religion.
  
  You're telling me an all knowing, all powerful god has a plan that involves children OD'ing on the baggies of drugs their "guardian" made them swallow, just so that heroin could get from point A to point B? Or a plan that involves a newborn baby being born with it's heart outside it's chest, so it will immediately rupture and bleed to death?
- I feel like he's just a good person with some great ideas that isn't natural infront of a camera - we are flooded by naturally photogenic people that normal people seem off.
  
  I also really hope this comment doesn't age badly.
- Yeah I had to stop following his content a few years ago because it became clear that this is 100% true, along with his clear obsession with everything american military.
- I think he just tries to smile too hard. A warning sign in-person, but something many presenters do.
- Whenever I discosed my religion I would start behaving like I did in church. Fake smiles, preachy, just awful to be around. I don't think Destin is evil. It's just fake church vibes drilled into a good guy.
- I've got Long Covid (not as bad as she seems to be, but almost) as well and I think his energy and got-to-do-something attitude would tire me out pretty quickly, even if he was someone I'd like to hold my hand. But Diana and Kyle certainly know what's best. And a visit is always nice for the mental health.
I am a fairly heavy smoker and have managed to get Covid twice, years apart, different variants.

Quadruple vaccinated.

I consider myself extremely lucky to be alive at all, much less not suffering any of the effects of long covid.

Hope she gets well eventually.

Also reminder that Trump's promotion of vaccine skepticism and nonsense 'cures' actually literally caused enough deaths of likely voters... for him... that it caused him to lose the election.
Was she vaccinated? If not, why would I care.

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