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Ways to help, things to do, Eurovisions to watch
I'm watching the recordings of Eurovisions past...and 2015 opens with a montage of "people in all different home countries making long-distance connections with each other" that, if you're anything like me, will mean all of a sudden you need a minute, you've got something in your eyes.
A set of productive, helpful, or at least generally non-awful links:
Folding@home lets you donate your computer's spare processing power to disease-fighting research. Since March 10, that includes simulations to design potential treatments for COVID-19.
If the program gives you any trouble or doesn't pick up much to do, try World Community Grid, actively working on AIDS, tuberculosis, childhood cancer, and more. That's the one I've been running on-and-off for more than a decade. (Full disclosure, it's a referral link....but the only thing I get out of it is a 50x50px image to commemorate how many people I've referred.)
And if you have money to spare, Doctors Without Borders is one of the organizations that will make good use of it.
"History’s Deadliest Viruses Illustrated to Scale." (Illustration.)
Finally, some personal posts about people's medical experiences. Not an endorsement of specific treatments, just a recommendation to read them, and decide if any of it would be personally helpful for you to explore further.
"The important thing to note here is that lysine is not immune-system-boosting in the vague 'we hope it does something but we aren't sure what' way of many herbs; lysine, as an amino acid, is a basic building block for immune cells, particularly antibodies."
"I've been seeing a lot of people who don't normally worry about lung complexities ask questions about it, and my lungs are also going through their change of season crankiness, so now seems a really good time to write up some notes about things I've found helpful."
A set of productive, helpful, or at least generally non-awful links:
Folding@home lets you donate your computer's spare processing power to disease-fighting research. Since March 10, that includes simulations to design potential treatments for COVID-19.
If the program gives you any trouble or doesn't pick up much to do, try World Community Grid, actively working on AIDS, tuberculosis, childhood cancer, and more. That's the one I've been running on-and-off for more than a decade. (Full disclosure, it's a referral link....but the only thing I get out of it is a 50x50px image to commemorate how many people I've referred.)
And if you have money to spare, Doctors Without Borders is one of the organizations that will make good use of it.
"History’s Deadliest Viruses Illustrated to Scale." (Illustration.)
Finally, some personal posts about people's medical experiences. Not an endorsement of specific treatments, just a recommendation to read them, and decide if any of it would be personally helpful for you to explore further.
"The important thing to note here is that lysine is not immune-system-boosting in the vague 'we hope it does something but we aren't sure what' way of many herbs; lysine, as an amino acid, is a basic building block for immune cells, particularly antibodies."
"I've been seeing a lot of people who don't normally worry about lung complexities ask questions about it, and my lungs are also going through their change of season crankiness, so now seems a really good time to write up some notes about things I've found helpful."