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Sucrose posted:I think I'm gonna lose my nice office job, fellow goons. My job performance is really poor, I'm not getting the stuff done that I should get done, I don't/can't keep track of things. We've been working from home for the last couple months (again) after our state's cases went way up, I live by myself and so am alone essentially 24/7, for weeks, and I guess I'm just falling apart mentally. Can't go visit my parents either, because of the risk of covid. Call up your doctor and let them know about your mental health and get yourself on short term disability A) six weeks off will do wonders for your health B) you can look for another job to transition to before you "get back"
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rotinaj posted:ALready gone, what was it? The initial post was misleading but it stated that Nunes has covid antibodies which means that he had covid at one point... but recovered.
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TV Zombie posted:The initial post was misleading but it stated that Nunes has covid antibodies which means that he had covid at one point... but recovered. Further proof there is no God.
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Hadlock posted:Call up your doctor and let them know about your mental health and get yourself on short term disability Adding the stress of job-hunting during a pandemic to Sucrose's current travails seems counterproductive, but this might be an option if things worsen despite their efforts.
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A friend if mine inherited a work team, identified a really useless employee who was dragging on their one project That employee figured out pretty quickly that their new manager was looking for ways to can them. Within a week they filled for short term disability, and then extended it twice, came back from disability for one day, and quit at lunch that day and started at a new job two weeks later It's definitely doable, and lets you handle things on your own terms which helps you feel in control of the situation But yeah it's not for everyone, and now you have a weird psych thing on your medical record forever, if that matters to you
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Sucrose posted:I don't see what good taking vacation days would do me, I'd just still be sitting here by myself, but on vacation. I don't think me not being able to get my head straight is something that I could get short-term disability for either. You could wear a festive hat and listen to some Tom Jones! That fixes everything!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Win5nErh7zA The pandemic is an ongoing traumatic experience and this response you're experiencing is completely understandable and natural. You've been in a continual state of alertness for months now and even if your adrenaline is only slightly raised on average over an entire day, having that happening continuously for months on end would mentally and emotionally exhaust anyone. Worse yet, you've been isolated the entire time and all those little daily rituals and pick-me-ups that used to incrementally supply you with all the the dopamine and serotonin to get through the day (usually without you even realising it) were taken away from you all in one hit, so even if you're perfectly aware of why this traumatic experience is happening and why it's actually good that you continue isolating yourself your brain chemicals are going to betray you and affect your mood regardless. It's a lovely stressful situation without end, and it's understandable that you'd constantly feel lovely and stressful in response. The world pretty much abandoned you and didn't offer any help, and most human brains aren't built to withstand extreme isolation. NASA had to train their astronauts to deal with it, and prisons use it as punishment. It loving sucks. As other goons have said, finding new activities is key even if it feels artificial and forced to start with. Giving yourself something to look forwards to each day is pretty important otherwise you'll feel that the day was wasted, and stacking hundreds of 'wasted' days on top of each other will gently caress you up. Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Dec 12, 2020 |
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Melbourne Australia just broke their 42 day streak without cases and picked up 5 new infections https://twitter.com/VicGovDHHS/status/1337513774627098624 The good news is that these were all international travelers who were already in quarantine and not new local infections. We just recently opened up again to international travelers so this was expected and pretty much inevitable, hopefully the quarantine system works as intended and keeps the virus contained.
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COVID is stored in the balls? https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19741-6
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Tagra posted:COVID is stored in the balls? Balls and kidneys are the two biggest location of ACE2 enzymes, which is what covid uses to replicate
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Hadlock posted:Call up your doctor and let them know about your mental health and get yourself on short term disability I actually like my job and my coworkers, I think I would suck at any job right now. Anyway my parents live nearby and have apparently decided that since I'm no longer going anywhere that I probably won't infect them if I visit, so I went and stayed with them today. So at least there's that. Hopefully this weekend will recharge me. I'll try and find something to do so I don't just sink further into depression. Snowglobe of Doom posted:The pandemic is an ongoing traumatic experience and this response you're experiencing is completely understandable and natural. You've been in a continual state of alertness for months now and even if your adrenaline is only slightly raised on average over an entire day, having that happening continuously for months on end would mentally and emotionally exhaust anyone. Worse yet, you've been isolated the entire time and all those little daily rituals and pick-me-ups that used to incrementally supply you with all the the dopamine and serotonin to get through the day (usually without you even realising it) were taken away from you all in one hit, so even if you're perfectly aware of why this traumatic experience is happening and why it's actually good that you continue isolating yourself your brain chemicals are going to betray you and affect your mood regardless. Yeah, when I moved into an apartment with just myself and no roommates I didn't anticipate that I would ever not be going into work and be completely isolated. I'm a natural loner but this is too much even for me.
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Tagra posted:COVID is stored in the balls? Hopefully those faux-macho chuds will take this seriously, now that COVID affects their manhood. (They won't) Kaiju Cage Match fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Dec 12, 2020 |
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I'm curious about that post I copied from another thread:quote:Apparently not having a vaccinated populace leads to mutations of viruses which makes vaccinated people at risk. The whole thing continues to suck because people are making it suck acting in bad faith constantly. Is this a thing ?
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unpacked robinhood posted:I'm curious about that post I copied from another thread: It can be a thing in that we don’t know what happens when a virus mutates. It could start causing seizures, or early abortions, or anything. The more people it infects, the higher the chance of mutation. Coronavirus is itself a mutation of a mutation of a mutation. It could also get less lethal and more infectious. Or vice versa. Vaccines mean less people get infected, which lowers the amount of opportunities to mutate.
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unpacked robinhood posted:I'm curious about that post I copied from another thread: purely mathematically, yes. just as with humans, mutation of individuals is part of reproduction. a lot of mutations change irrelevant things or make the being unviable. the more reproduction you have, the more chances at a mutation that is viable and dangerous to us
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unpacked robinhood posted:I'm curious about that post I copied from another thread: One thing viruses excel at is mutating, the more people that catch it, the more viruses there are out there multiplying, each one with a chance of randomly mutating during each round of reproduction. All it takes is for one to get a beneficial mutation that gives it a benefit in reproduction for it to start taking hold over the primary strain in an area. It's very worth noting that there isn't '1' covid-19. The reason they can track it's spread, and say that 'oh outbreak x, in y, was a european strain' is that there are already like 8? primary strains being tracked.
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So the part about making vaccinated people at risk is to be understood as 'being vaccinated doesn't mean you're immune to all mutations', not 'you're more likely to develop symptoms when exposed to a mutated strain than a non vaccinated person', is that correct ?
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unpacked robinhood posted:So the part about making vaccinated people at risk is to be understood as 'being vaccinated doesn't mean you're immune to all mutations', not 'you're more likely to develop symptoms when exposed to a mutated strain than a non vaccinated person', is that correct ? correct. that's also why "the flu shot" is different literally every year
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Coronaviruses mutate more slowly than influenza, but it doesn't mean that mutations aren't a concern. The strain that infected minks in Denmark has a mutation (or mutations) that potentially makes it less susceptible to neutralizing antibodies, which are the kind that, well, neutralize the virus.
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Zugzwang posted:Coronaviruses mutate more slowly than influenza, but it doesn't mean that mutations aren't a concern. The strain that infected minks in Denmark has a mutation (or mutations) that potentially makes it less susceptible to neutralizing antibodies, which are the kind that, well, neutralize the virus. It turns out that a thousands of mustelids housed in extremely close proximity to each other is the perfect venue for forcing speed runs on coronavirus mutations, there were at least five new mutations in Denmark alone. If the virus had just been passed back and forth between humans and a handful of pets then mutations should never really have been an issue. There's also been outbreaks in mink farms in Utah, Wisconsin, Michigan, Oregon and British Columbia.
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:Hopefully those faux-macho chuds will take this seriously, now that COVID affects their manhood. <watches even younger jail-bait porn> <beats wife twice as hard> <watches even more explicit videos of cops shooting black people> <doesn't get an erection> "This usually works"
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Hahaha remember when Fauci warned we might hit 100,000 cases a day in December? Miss those days.
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Here is my strange trip report. I don't know yet if I had COVID-19, but I intend to get an antibody test soon. I've been very careful about wearing KN-95 masks when it is necessary to leave the house, and I've only had groceries delivered to my porch, etc. I've been able to mitigate risk pretty well with the exception that I had a necessary dental appointment where a crown was replaced. I was the only patient in the office, and both the dentist and dental assistant were seriously geared up in PPE. It so happens that my symptoms began the day after the visit, so I don't think I was exposed at the appointment, because the incubation period would have been less than 24 hours. I spent most of November in bed with a fever that came and went. It was weird - I'd sleep for like 2 full days, alternating between shivering and sweating, feeling too exhausted to sit up in bed, and at some point I'd wake up feeling better, with no temperature. Then, I'd be sitting at my desk, catching up with work stuff, thinking I was finally out of the woods, and inevitably, at some point I'd feel this intense sensation of warm blood rushing to my face and head. I'd check my temp and it would be anywhere from 99.x to 102.x or so. Soon after that, I would begin to feel strange and my energy would fade, leading for me to return to bed, repeating the cycle. I've been feeling much better since around the 2nd of this month, but I noticed a weird thing: when it is really quiet I can sometimes hear this faint sound that resembles a flexi straw being bent with each heart beat. At first I thought I had a crackle or wheeze in my lungs, but I can hold my breath and the sound reliably occurs with each heart beat (when audible). I never had much of a cough while all this was going on, and I didn't feel congested or anything - I could breathe fine. My first symptom was a sudden sinus drip, except it wasn't a drip, it was a steady and gentle stream of clear fluids from my nose. It eventually turned from a stream to a drip over the course of the day, and I have had no sinus issues since the day that happened, but that's how it started. The day after the sinus thing I woke up feeling like poo poo and was running a temp, and the cycle I described above began. I wanted to get tested for COVID-19 while I was feverish, but I was so lethargic and brain fogged that I didn't think I could safely drive to a testing location. On days that I felt better, it was only 2 to 5 hours of being out of bed before the blood rushing to my head feeling would happen and from there I was toast. For what it's worth, I've been taking 2k to 8k IU of Vitamin D-3, 500mg of Vitamin C, and 50mg of Zinc Picolinate daily since mid May of this year. While I was sick I added a Vitamin B complex with all the B vitamins, and took Vitamin C 4x a day. Just kinda curious if anyone else has had something like this happen. It also occurs to me now in hind sight that I may have had some sort of infection from the dental work causing the temperature? I will be seeing my doctor next week. I wanted to go at least 10 days without fever before getting out there and potentially exposing anyone to whatever I was sick with.
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Your symptoms sound like covid to a tee, especially the brain fog and fatigue. I'd be surprised if you had something else.
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Sucrose posted:I actually like my job and my coworkers, I think I would suck at any job right now. Anyway my parents live nearby and have apparently decided that since I'm no longer going anywhere that I probably won't infect them if I visit, so I went and stayed with them today. So at least there's that. Hopefully this weekend will recharge me. I'll try and find something to do so I don't just sink further into depression. If your job is actually nice (white collar, with decent security otherwise), you might as well raise your hand and ask for help within the company. Most companies have resources available. They’re not supposed to hold them against you, but if the alternatives are some extended scheme to quit while on disability or to continue having a hard time till they let you go, what do you have to lose?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It turns out that a thousands of mustelids housed in extremely close proximity to each other is the perfect venue for forcing speed runs on coronavirus mutations, there were at least five new mutations in Denmark alone. If the virus had just been passed back and forth between humans and a handful of pets then mutations should never really have been an issue. I'm just glad that - so far - dogs and cats haven't been transmitting covid to humans.
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Sucrose posted:I think I'm gonna lose my nice office job, fellow goons. My job performance is really poor, I'm not getting the stuff done that I should get done, I don't/can't keep track of things. We've been working from home for the last couple months (again) after our state's cases went way up, I live by myself and so am alone essentially 24/7, for weeks, and I guess I'm just falling apart mentally. Can't go visit my parents either, because of the risk of covid. As someone in the exact same situation sans job issue yet still somehow sane, lemme know if you need someone to talk to.
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I was exposed to a positive person last week and just tested negative via RT-PCR. I took the test 8 days post-exposure, so the risk of false negatives is relatively low. Still taking another one tomorrow. But whew.
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GRECOROMANGRABASS posted:Here is my strange trip report. I don't know yet if I had COVID-19, but I intend to get an antibody test soon. I've been very careful about wearing KN-95 masks when it is necessary to leave the house, and I've only had groceries delivered to my porch, etc. I've been able to mitigate risk pretty well with the exception that I had a necessary dental appointment where a crown was replaced. I was the only patient in the office, and both the dentist and dental assistant were seriously geared up in PPE. It so happens that my symptoms began the day after the visit, so I don't think I was exposed at the appointment, because the incubation period would have been less than 24 hours. The blood rushing to the head sounds very much like a niacin flush from your vitamin b supplements. It is an awful sensation and very common. https://www.thehealthy.com/heart-disease/what-is-niacin-flush/
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Mithaldu posted:correct. that's also why "the flu shot" is different literally every year Ok, thank you.
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Oh great, Quebec was above 1k a day for a while now and today's number is nearly 2k... Initially people would've been allowed to gather over the holidays. (no, it didn't make any sense but people are loving babies so you gotta give them something so they stop crying) Number kept going up so they backtracked on that and gatherings will be forbidden. Of course there's still gonna be assholes who do it and our january numbers will see 2k as the new baseline.
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Bronze Fonz posted:Oh great, Quebec was above 1k a day for a while now and today's number is nearly 2k... I know of at least 12 families that plan on defying the order. You're being very generous with a 2k baseline. I'm expecting 3-4k with a "you loving idiots" from Legault with a lockdown until the vaccines come so we can stop being loving morons.
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stab posted:I know of at least 12 families that plan on defying the order. Tabarnak. I saw my parents in october for the first time since the pandemic started... outside, with masks, at distance and fairly briefly. It sucks but it's what it is. How the gently caress do we still have to explain to these people that if you want to see them next christmas, it's a very good idea not to see them for a while? At least we haven't seen antimasker protests in months. In vaccine news: Liberals announce a vaccine-harms compensation program The federal Liberals have announced financial support for anyone who suffers an 'adverse reaction' from a COVID-19 vaccine approved by Health Canada https://nationalpost.com/news/liberals-announce-a-vaccine-harms-compensation-program quote:The federal Liberals have announced a compensation program for anyone who is harmed by the COVID-19 vaccine — or any other vaccine that’s approved by Health Canada.
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science pls poz my neg vaccine hole
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Sucrose posted:I think I'm gonna lose my nice office job, fellow goons. My job performance is really poor, I'm not getting the stuff done that I should get done, I don't/can't keep track of things. We've been working from home for the last couple months (again) after our state's cases went way up, I live by myself and so am alone essentially 24/7, for weeks, and I guess I'm just falling apart mentally. Can't go visit my parents either, because of the risk of covid. Hi. I wanted to make sure to respond to you and let you know that I've read what you've posted. Our situations sound very similar, but I'm about 6 months ahead of you along this track. First off, I want to commend you about all you're doing right , at the moment: you've recognized a problem and have taken steps to address it. That's a great level of self-awareness. In action, there is power, and with power...change. God drat that's deep. Same type of nice office set up for me as well, and everything was slowly going to pieces, but I was going to blow it all by saying something I shouldn't during a Zoom call. That's how I saw it happening in my mind's eye when I cracked. I just...had enough. And it was going to express itself at work at some point and it would be a point of no return. Work was always where I kept it together when I couldn't elsewhere. And now that was gonna change. So, I had to do something. I immediately contacted my doctor (I'm on meds as well), got an appointment, and took a week of medical leave. Told my immediate supervisor that I was on medical leave and that she would need to contact HR for any necessary details -- so that blabbermouth had no idea why I was out. Just a week off did wonders. No expectations; no clocks. It felt good to do something for myself and after that I felt much, much better. I did other things as well, like online classes and other medical self-help stuff, but it was chill and just what I needed to hit "reset" on things. I'll admit that what may have also helped was that I took a week off during a hugely busy part of the year. My prior self would have been aghast at taking this time off and leaving my coworkers in the lurch like that, but I realized that too, was part of the problem -- these weird expectations I set up for myself. This was a bit "transgressive" in that way; my getting better meant putting my interests over theirs. I don't know what that says about me, but I enjoyed not giving a gently caress about them for a week. Oh, I'm not out of the woods, but I feel I have tools to manage things better, and that's enough. And one last thing: don't get stuck in the trap of thinking "Why am I feeling this way when I've got it better than most?" When's the last time you heard someone say, "I can't believe Jack went and got cancer, he was rich!" Mental health is a medical condition that doesn't care "how good you've got it," so we all must try and knock that poo poo down whenever possible. Take care and let us know how you're doing. AARP LARPer fucked around with this message at 05:25 on Dec 13, 2020 |
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Zugzwang posted:I'm just glad that - so far - dogs and cats haven't been transmitting covid to humans. There were discussions in this thread about that way back in April with some people going "testing pets would be a waste of resources!" and others going "if it gets into the feral cat populations it'll be endemic forever!" but it's looking like it didn't amount to anything in the end. There's also been at least one idiot politician calling for bats in his electorate to be culled: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/expert-bats-away-call-for-ridiculous-cull-of-yarra-bend-flying-foxes-20200421-p54lvb.html Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 07:11 on Dec 13, 2020 |
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Sky burial on Splash Mountain.
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Sucrose posted:I think I'm gonna lose my nice office job, fellow goons. My job performance is really poor, I'm not getting the stuff done that I should get done, I don't/can't keep track of things. We've been working from home for the last couple months (again) after our state's cases went way up, I live by myself and so am alone essentially 24/7, for weeks, and I guess I'm just falling apart mentally. Can't go visit my parents either, because of the risk of covid. this may help. this is roughly the program i’ve been keeping myself for the past almost year now and it’s been keeping me somewhat sane. it’s still rough because of course it is but it’s at least prevented me from falling into a void https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snAhsXyO3Ck
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GRECOROMANGRABASS posted:I've been feeling much better since around the 2nd of this month, but I noticed a weird thing: when it is really quiet I can sometimes hear this faint sound that resembles a flexi straw being bent with each heart beat. At first I thought I had a crackle or wheeze in my lungs, but I can hold my breath and the sound reliably occurs with each heart beat (when audible). This sounds awful. Could it be something like this? https://www.ghs.org/healthcareservices/surgery/otolaryngology-head-neck/greenville-ear-nose-throat-ent/audiology/tinnitus-head-noise/ quote:
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