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crepeface posted:i still remember when one of the doctors broke up with olivia wilde's characters and house was like "yeah, good move, not like she's the hottest woman in the world" when she was just on the cover of some men's mag as the hottest woman in the world. I used to watch a series called "Body of Proof" about a top-flight surgeon that lost her nerve and became a coroner after she couldn't cut it operating on real patients anymore. The protagonist was played by Dana Delaney, and her boss was Jeri Ryan.
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Shear Modulus posted:the vaccines might get better but what's the plan to get the half the country that's refusing to take them out of spite to stop doing that tell them to get vaccinated. maybe some bluecheck guys on twitter will scold them in a counterproductive way and some others will complain that we can't scold them because it's counterproductive. no leadership to be seen
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Asproigerosis posted:also disclosing exposure to infectious disease is not at all a violation of any privacy rights as it is a public health issue and also an immediate risk to other persons health. See also: TB. I remember when the news published detailed dates, times, and places people with measles had been. Those were the days.
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McNugget Buddy posted:Your wife had an allergic reaction or something with the first shot, right? Could she get J&J as a booster? Yeah. They don't want to give J&J either. The two allergists she went to see (her allergist that she'd been seeing for a few years and another referral at the University of Washington) said they aren't really sure what caused her reaction and it could be any component of the vaccines that she's allergic to - which J&J and Moderna and Pfizer might all share. They're afraid she'll have anaphylaxis again with another vaccine, which would be catastrophic for the baby. Their plan is to give her multiple days of steroids before giving a vaccine shot, which will probably be done in the first few days after giving birth.
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Shear Modulus posted:the vaccines might get better but what's the plan to get the half the country that's refusing to take them out of spite to stop doing that They've gone from ingesting fish tank cleaner to bleach to horse paste to herbicide* so if we just give it enough time it'll become a self correcting problem *I don't actually know if people drinking weed killer is a thing but I'm willing to believe it
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Asproigerosis posted:also disclosing exposure to infectious disease is not at all a violation of any privacy rights as it is a public health issue and also an immediate risk to other persons health. See also: TB. one of my personal favorite patients was a dude with TB who refused meds and quarantine so the health department locked him in his house and forced meds in his throat with sheriffs outside 😂
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Shear Modulus posted:the vaccines might get better but what's the plan to get the half the country that's refusing to take them out of spite to stop doing that there is no plan. they'll die and the problem sort of solved itself then didn't it
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Zokari posted:i had appendicitis, it sucks I had weird appendicitis where I only had symptoms one night. I felt terrible and was shaking really badly, thinking 'okay if this doesn't get better in an hour I gotta go to the ER', but it got better. The next day I felt totally fine but read up on symptoms and freaked the gently caress out and went to a doctor. He basically refused to believe I had a problem because I had no abdominal pain but sent me for a scan 'for my peace of mind'. While driving away from the radiologist the doctor calls and says just go straight to the hospital lol because I had incredible insurance I only owed $3k! A high school friend I ran into a few years later had his out and owed $20k. 
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genericnick posted:Why would they? Covid is over In all seriousness though. Covid mass death has been normalized and public sentiment has been drowned in horse paste. In the early days we had both Joe Biden and Ursula von der Leyen publicly state that they wouldn't lock up the Covid vaccines behind IP law. But the public consensus has been shot to pieces by astroturfed pro-covid voices, sapping terms of public health policy of all meaning, and cooked up culture war bullshit. Business interests are back to being unchallenged and they insist that this one weird trick will solve the crisis and their commercial real estate portfolio is actually only going up in value. That one trick was herd immunity first, now it's those specific vaccines solving all problems shut the gently caress up live with the virus. I fear the political environment that got us functioning vaccines in a reasonable time frame is dead now. Throwing real resources at a new vaccination approach would mean that Covid isn't over and commercial real estate is vastly overvalued.
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Solarin posted:I had weird appendicitis where I only had symptoms one night. I felt terrible and was shaking really badly, thinking 'okay if this doesn't get better in an hour I gotta go to the ER', but it got better. The next day I felt totally fine but read up on symptoms and freaked the gently caress out and went to a doctor. Lmao just how the gently caress do you owe money for getting life saving surgery, I can't fukkn believe America honestly.
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Blackhawk posted:Lmao just how the gently caress do you owe money for getting life saving surgery, I can't fukkn believe America honestly. this country is poor af op
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Der Meister posted:this country is poor af op Man NZ is a really poor country in comparison, wages are mega low, food, housing and transport are all far more expensive than the USA or UK and the healthcare capacity is very limited but at least it's free if you need it! I'm not even a citizen (aussie, which is practically the same as being an NZ citizen once you live here really) but I've had a number of rheumatologist consultations including a script for some anti-inflammatories and some physio sessions, all free. My partner broke her ankle mountain biking, free, the government even offered free taxi rides for her to get to and from work every day for the duration of her time in a cast if she needed it. Just about the only medical expense that isn't covered here is dental lol, because your teeth aren't part of your body and they have zero effect on your overall heath right? Just blows my mind that even places with strong socialised health care still treat dental as a completely separate thing that you have to pay for.
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I paid $3k after having to spend a weekend in the hospital for multilobar pneumonia. I remember being really loving mad that even with this I wasn't anywhere close to the minimum amount needed for tax deductions on medical expenses. Any out of pocket cost should be deductible at the very absolute floor minimum you motherfuckers.
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Spoondick posted:the house fire has now entered the endemic phase where the occupants learn to live with the house fire 
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Blackhawk posted:Man NZ is a really poor country in comparison, wages are mega low, food, housing and transport are all far more expensive than the USA or UK and the healthcare capacity is very limited but at least it's free if you need it! wow that sounds awful. how do you know health care is good if you don’t worry about the potential bankruptcy from a surprise bill six months later
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At least here in america we aren't waiting months to see a doctor or get an mri like with socialized medicine. What's that? We're waiting months to see a doctor or get an mri now in america? You see what happens when you let communists win?!
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Solarin posted:I had weird appendicitis where I only had symptoms one night. I felt terrible and was shaking really badly, thinking 'okay if this doesn't get better in an hour I gotta go to the ER', but it got better. The next day I felt totally fine but read up on symptoms and freaked the gently caress out and went to a doctor. I waited in a hospital room on pain meds for over a day before a surgeon got to me, because apparently they had three even more severe cases come in around the same time. After surgery they showed me a picture of my swollen and grey appendix and said I probably had a few hours left before it popped, no need to worry. I was still a teenager at the time, no idea how much it cost
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FrancisFukyomama posted:any of you have minor air leakage in the ru8500 near the top of the nose when you talk and your jaw/nose shifts position? I imagine this means I have to tighten the straps? I don't know if this applies to your circumstances or that mask (we use 3M 6k FFR's), but girlfriend encountered a similar fit issue though on FFRs this amounts to air gaps on the side. It turned out to be her ponytail pushing the straps too high, so the top of the mask got slack no matter how much tightening was done. Putting the pony tail lower entirely removed the fit issue. We really should have a fit and troubleshooting guide in the OP.
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man, we really are just going to ignore covid just like we ignore literally every other problem aren't we.
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Stereotype posted:man, we really are just going to ignore covid just like we ignore literally every other problem aren't we. already have
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Watching 90 day fiance, we get seasons like 3 months after America, and an American brother and sister were simultaneously talking about how it's sad that he's going to miss his sister's AMERICAN BABY SHOWER and how dangerous it was to go to Mexico during covid in the same sentence. This was in like summer 2020. lmao
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Hope some McKinsey gently caress grifted a few cool millions for coming up with the "endemic" formulation for doing the same thing we've been doing for twelve months.
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Solarin posted:hmm looks like race baiting poo poo.. better take the information presented at face value There's a lot of race baiting poo poo in the Australian press about families "breaking quarantine" at the moment, with the cops enabling a lot of it. There was a recent case with 5 covid + people in NSW who apparently met up to sit around a table on the footpath outside a house and the press were OUTRAGED and the next day when the cops turned up in full head-to-toe PPE to do another check on them the press even had helicopters flying overhead to film the entire thing. Turns out the 5 men are all Muslim, they're all quarantining in the same house and the table had been inside the property line and not out on the footpath so they hadn't broken any quarantine rules. The ultra-orthodox Jewish community is also getting itself into the news a bit, there's been a lot of rabbis speaking out and saying "Don't meet up to hold prayer meetings, we need to stick to the lockdown rules, Judaism makes allowances for situations like this" but just a few days ago we had an incident where up to 100 people secretly met up to celebrate Rosh Hashanah and when the cops arrived they just refused to come out. The cops were of course NOT going to storm in there and drag people out because that would be Bad Optics but they nabbed people as they eventually started coming out, fining all the adults $5,000 each. A bunch of them apparently managed to escape by jumping fences and climbing over neighbouring roofs and the cops are asking them to come forwards and hand themselves in. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-07/victoria-police-responding-possible-breaches-religious-gathering/100441768 https://twitter.com/cassieemorgan/status/1435193827610882053 I'm sure that certain news sites and FB pages are having a racist field day over this as well. I'm also seeing a whole bunch of Jewish people going "Hey I know we're supposed to have each others back and never criticize each other publicly but gently caress me, can we cut this poo poo out please????"
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Stereotype posted:man, we really are just going to ignore covid just like we ignore literally every other problem aren't we. it's just a lot of individual crises now, not a societal crisis.
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UnfortunateSexFart posted:My country's affected cities went into lockdown right before our exponential growth and it didn't do poo poo Well, all except the most recent outbreak. By the time Sydney announced they were locking down they were already 1 week and 65 cases into the outbreak, and that was only a partial lockdown that included 4 LGAs and not the entire city. The exponential growth was already locked in at that point.
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Stereotype posted:i'm sad I'm sorry my dude, it might help to just attempt to live in the moment, be aware of what's around you here and now and the aspects of your life that you can immediately control. Give yourself some slack, make some time to chill out or w/e if you can etc. Not sure that I can do or say much to help but if you need it I'm willing to try! And I'm sure all the other fellow posters here have got ur back.
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Stereotype posted:i'm sad I'm sorry that you're sad.
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I guess theoretically you could get a carry-out order from applebee's idk I haven't tried because it's applebee's.
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McNugget Buddy posted:I'm just pissed that there's already businesses advertising drive-up flu shots I was thinking about booking a flu shot and I realised that almost all the chemists (drugstores) in my neighbourhood have recently been listed as covid exposure sites or are in shopping centres or malls which are also exposure sites, lol. Also I've got a parcel coming soon and the post office sent me an automated message saying "If no one is home to accept delivery you'll have to pick it up at the nearest post office", and my nearest post office was also listed as an exposure site.  It would most likely be safe for me to visit those sites now but it's still a weird feeling knowing that a covid positive person had definitely been in the store recently, touching all the stuff and breathing all over everyone.
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Volcott posted:I guess theoretically you could get a carry-out order from applebee's idk I haven't tried because it's applebee's. At some point, might as well just microwave some food from the store. fosborb posted:your friend of a friend is pretending he can predict the shadows on the cave wall (dr osterholm metaphor) States faking their data, I assume.
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Listen jack you gotta learn to live with the flu. It's not even bad, it's just a rhinovirus!
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Well, all except the most recent outbreak. By the time Sydney announced they were locking down they were already 1 week and 65 cases into the outbreak, and that was only a partial lockdown that included 4 LGAs and not the entire city. The exponential growth was already locked in at that point. Yes but I was replying to an American and I'm pretty sure they have slightly more than 65 cases.
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Asproigerosis posted:Listen jack you gotta learn to live with the flu. It's not even bad, it's just a rhinovirus! Rhinovirus sounds like something horse paste might defeat
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I was thinking about booking a flu shot and I realised that almost all the chemists (drugstores) in my neighbourhood have recently been listed as covid exposure sites or are in shopping centres or malls which are also exposure sites, lol. I've had a pet theory that a lot of the stories I hear of "the vaccine gives you COVID! My aunt got vaccinated and then she got hospitalized a week later!" stories are actually people getting infected by other people when they go get vaccinated
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i hate to do this but after being murdered with work (back to school!! lol) for the last 48 hours i'm 2200 posts behind, so i'm declaring thread bankruptcy, and if there is any actionable/pragmatic "you really need to know THIS" from the last few days i would appreciate a quick tl;dr either in the thread or via DM, tyvm friends
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Petey posted:i hate to do this but after being murdered with work (back to school!! lol) for the last 48 hours i'm 2200 posts behind, so i'm declaring thread bankruptcy, and if there is any actionable/pragmatic "you really need to know THIS" from the last few days i would appreciate a quick tl;dr either in the thread or via DM, tyvm friends Here's the only thing you need to know: OPEN BIDEN!
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Stereotype posted:i'm sad epic thisery
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