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As of two months ago, Physics Girl is getting better again from long covid (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au to c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I feel so mixed when I hear about her getting better. I'm glad she is, but I also think about all the people who aren't fairly famous who don't have support networks that will handle everything for them who also had the same problems. I'm assuming most of them just died, and we don't hear about it. Also, sure, the government has programs to take care of people with disabilities like this, but from what I've heard of her symptoms, she wouldn't even have had the energy to fill out the paperwork to get on disability probably.

It sucks that I can't just be happy about this news and my mind wanders to these other people, but I can't help it. Anyway, I'm happy for her.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I agree with you.

but on the flip side, her publicly documenting how utterly fucking ruined she was by the covid after effects did probably help people who were suffering from the same feel less alone and may have even increased understanding for them, even if in some marginal degree.

and iirc , she didnt even have the energy to listen to anything.much less fill out paperwork, at her worse.. i think for a long stretch of this she basically laid in a dark, silent room cause any stimulation at all was exhausting in the extreme.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 20 minutes ago

Yeah there are a lot of fucking Covid deniers shouting out that long Covid wasn't a thing. Some degenerate was trying to tell me about 3 months in that she was just faking it for the disability checks.

Her openness, and the other YouTubers that have posted on her behalf are making sure this stays based in reality. I'm sure there will still be people that say she has something not related to COVID but she is actually getting the word out there.

And honestly, perhaps because of her visibility some people have a little bit of hope for recovery. The treatment she's using does not work for everyone but for everyone that it works for that finds it because she's talking about it, she is making life worth living for a lot of people.

[–] Cocopanda@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

I feel so bad for her. But I’m so happy she’s making it through this.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 10 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 29 minutes ago)

I've been following this so closely for so damn long. When they started her on the new medical regiment and she turned the corner and came back so far it was f****** amazing. I'd love if she got back to regular video making but I'd be perfectly happy if she just gets to live her best life again.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

2 years? Those are rookie numbers.

Anyway, good for her.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 25 points 21 hours ago

finally some good fucking news.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 22 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

There are some fucking ridiculous people in these comments lol

[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Unfortunately, just referring to Covid still acts like an activation phrase for some people, sending them into a locust frenzy and shutting off their critical thinking or empathy.

You can’t get a word in edgewise that one of the reasons Covid is so bad for you is that it fucks with your immune system in a way that wasn’t expected of similar diseases and can have horrible combined effects with other pre-existing diseases. No, you must be insisting that someone got a coma from what basically felt like the common cold to them, and you must be a gullible moron.

Lemmy is growing, and like any large enough user base, you will get these people.

Also, good on you for posting this, I didn’t know there were any updates over the past year.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 1 points 1 hour ago

Oooooh! That hadn't even occurred to me. I thought it was just garden variety shitty behavior. I think you're right, though.

I also see the appearance of thelemmy.club (which as far as I can tell is now, whatever it started out as, a full-time conservative troll instance at this point) as interesting there.