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(Originally posted to my GoFundMe, and backdated to the date of that original post. This is basically copied verbatim (modulo formatting), including the fundraising stuff at the end; I *was* posting to GoFundMe after all. Feel free to ignore those bits if you want. Link to the fundraiser will be provided in the comments and upon request.)
If I sound down in this post, there's a ready explanation. A friend of mine died yesterday. Not from COVID-19; he'd actually been tested and gotten a totally clean result. Something else got him instead, the details of which I won't go into here.
Anyway... Today's episode of "SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 related PSA meets the traditional begging post" takes a look at a longer-form video, and an article on what scientists are finding about the various effects this virus can have on the human body (including more than one way it can kill). WARNING: some folks may find either the video or the article a bit more than they want to deal with right now. It's not that either is overly graphic, but the picture they paint is not necessarily pretty.
"How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes"
"Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic? - with Peter Piot"
Note that the video was posted in OCTOBER 2018. A year and a half ago.
And now it's time for the usual begging stuff. If you've read these posts in the past few weeks, you probably know that next, before and in addition to the usual plea for help for ourselves, I'm going to ask those of you who can to SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES that are still open. Help keep your local economy a little bit more afloat, as and if you can. And remember that once the worst of this has passed, locally owned businesses will be struggling to get back on their feet, so please be ready to patronize them as much as you can when it's time for them to reopen. One way to do this is via the #LeftoversChallenge as I discussed last week. There are other ways, which are likely to vary depending on where you are located.
( Rest of the begging section is behind the cut. )
If I sound down in this post, there's a ready explanation. A friend of mine died yesterday. Not from COVID-19; he'd actually been tested and gotten a totally clean result. Something else got him instead, the details of which I won't go into here.
Anyway... Today's episode of "SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 related PSA meets the traditional begging post" takes a look at a longer-form video, and an article on what scientists are finding about the various effects this virus can have on the human body (including more than one way it can kill). WARNING: some folks may find either the video or the article a bit more than they want to deal with right now. It's not that either is overly graphic, but the picture they paint is not necessarily pretty.
"How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage through the body, from brain to toes"
"Are We Ready for the Next Pandemic? - with Peter Piot"
Note that the video was posted in OCTOBER 2018. A year and a half ago.
And now it's time for the usual begging stuff. If you've read these posts in the past few weeks, you probably know that next, before and in addition to the usual plea for help for ourselves, I'm going to ask those of you who can to SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BUSINESSES that are still open. Help keep your local economy a little bit more afloat, as and if you can. And remember that once the worst of this has passed, locally owned businesses will be struggling to get back on their feet, so please be ready to patronize them as much as you can when it's time for them to reopen. One way to do this is via the #LeftoversChallenge as I discussed last week. There are other ways, which are likely to vary depending on where you are located.
( Rest of the begging section is behind the cut. )
