DR FRASIER KRANG posted:I'm going to an (outdoor at a park) kids birthday party today for my niece and there are going to be people there that I haven't seen in like 18 months and the last thing they saw me say was either "gently caress cops" or "covids bad still". Have fun being the only semi-responsible adult in attendance
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fosborb posted:what's your source data? I might have time to script something later https://healthdata.gov/dataset/COVID-19-Reported-Patient-Impact-and-Hospital-Capa/6xf2-c3ie I pull this daily
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Cloaked posted:and it’s not fun to do any activities unless we can do them exactly how we did them pre-pandemic. a request I made earlier on to watch a show together in a small group with masks (because for some reason doing a watch remotely would be too weird apparently, wtf) fell completely flat and they just started watching the show together without me a few weeks later. wouldn’t be quite the same if we had to wear masks, you know? nobody interested in hanging out on the outdoor covered porch thing I have access to, because that’d apparently also be weird. we didn’t do that before, right? and it’s cold now. Why Am I So Tired posted:This is the same exact situation I'm in. My wife and I have been 100% isolating since the start of the pandemic and are largely on the same page, but because I have even stronger feelings about it I'm a monster to her friends and family - they actually try to convince her that it's a sign of abuse that I "won't let her" join them in going out to eat, going to concerts, hanging out, flying all over the place, attend superspreading weddings, etc. Meanwhile, there's zero effort to do Zoom hangouts or anything. One couple will do a zoom call with her maybe once every four months where they just tell her about all of the weddings they went to and ask her "if she's ok." this right here has been driving me up the wall. recommending things that are "safer" like outdoor hangouts, dayhikes, snowshoeing, whatever--always ultimately dismissed or ignored because it's not sitting inside and watching movies or playing board games. it's like making up for lost socialization isn't even the point--it's going through the motions of pre-pandemic life in spite of our reality now. Insanite fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Dec 11, 2021 |
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Dec 11, 2021 20:20
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had the super chills and some joint pain but feeling better, definitely didn't feel as bad as the first two shots
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Dec 11, 2021 20:21
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Why Am I So Tired posted:This is the same exact situation I'm in. My wife and I have been 100% isolating since the start of the pandemic and are largely on the same page, but because I have even stronger feelings about it I'm a monster to her friends and family - they actually try to convince her that it's a sign of abuse that I "won't let her" join them in going out to eat, going to concerts, hanging out, flying all over the place, attend superspreading weddings, etc. Meanwhile, there's zero effort to do Zoom hangouts or anything. One couple will do a zoom call with her maybe once every four months where they just tell her about all of the weddings they went to and ask her "if she's ok." feeling really glad that my husband and I were hermits before COVID and could only be dragged to like 2-3 holidays per year at most and so everyone basically wrote us off real loving quick.
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Dec 11, 2021 20:23
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Every time we fail to pump the brakes at an inflection point the length of the pandemic doubles. lol
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Dec 11, 2021 20:24
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Dec 11, 2021 20:25
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silicone thrills posted:feeling really glad that my husband and I were hermits before COVID and could only be dragged to like 2-3 holidays per year at most and so everyone basically wrote us off real loving quick. fuckin a'
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Dec 11, 2021 20:27
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Dec 11, 2021 20:28
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need to slam my head into a brick wall a few times to become one of those people that thinks feb 2020 was the halcyon days and hop on a cruise ship
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Dec 11, 2021 20:29
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Mr Hootington posted:He is right though. You should be questioning what these ghouls decree. They have been wrong or lied to us so often. That is his point with this tweet. I think you're confused. This isn't the thread where we carry water for brain damaged libs like greenwald.
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So we're still in "lockdown" till Monday, but skiing is open. Let's gooooo
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silicone thrills posted:feeling really glad that my husband and I were hermits before COVID and could only be dragged to like 2-3 holidays per year at most and so everyone basically wrote us off real loving quick. We're hermits too, which makes it even more fascinating and infuriating - the people pressuring her the most to hang out are people she never / rarely saw in real life in the first place! Maybe once or twice a year for coffee or something. I haven't seen my family in over 4 years now and they live 3000 miles away, but they're constantly on my case about staying in. I think our safety level makes it register to them on some level that their safety level isn't enough, so given that increasing their safety level is out of the question since that would get in the way of the life that they're used to / were promised, they have to attack ours. Plus this. Insanite posted:it's like making up for lost socialization isn't even the point--it's going through the motions of pre-pandemic life in spite of our reality now.
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Dec 11, 2021 20:36
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I used to have people over to my house every week, big gatherings every month. Now I'm doing it all over Zoom, and the number of friends willing to come to one of my internet parties has dwindled from about 100 to less than 10.
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Dec 11, 2021 20:38
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Gripweed posted:The other day I was at work, wearing a mask, a guy comes in and asks if he needs a mask to come in. I say no. He asks if he needs to show proof of vaccination, I say no. We talk about the business that brought him in, get that settled, he almost turns to leave but hesitates and asks if I'm vaccinated, I say yes. He asks if I had any side effects, I tell him just a sore arm. We talk about the side effects for a bit, he heard it can really knock some people on their rear end, etc. He seems oddly uncomfortable, I'm not really sure where this is going, but then he kinda reluctantly mentions he saw a video online that said some people got magnetized by the vaccine. I can’t remember who or when, didn’t a Dr Goon do a big, interesting effort post about how you can’t be magnetic and alive at the same time?
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Dec 11, 2021 20:40
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Chamale posted:I used to have people over to my house every week, big gatherings every month. Now I'm doing it all over Zoom, and the number of friends willing to come to one of my internet parties has dwindled from about 100 to less than 10. a 100 person zoom party sounds loving awful tbh, though I have seen something that big work over Gatherly
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navyjack posted:I can’t remember who or when, didn’t a Dr Goon do a big, interesting effort post about how you can’t be magnetic and alive at the same time? it sounds like it would do a number on your circulatory system, at the least
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Chamale posted:I used to have people over to my house every week, big gatherings every month. Now I'm doing it all over Zoom, and the number of friends willing to come to one of my internet parties has dwindled from about 100 to less than 10. That's because they're all back to living like its pre covid times. No need to internet party when you can succ n fucc irl
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Dec 11, 2021 20:43
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Don't you doomers know that Joe Biden defeated COVID on January 20th 2021‽
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Chamale posted:I used to have people over to my house every week, big gatherings every month. Now I'm doing it all over Zoom, and the number of friends willing to come to one of my internet parties has dwindled from about 100 to less than 10. tbf, zoom (and video conferencing in general) sucks. especially with more than a few people at once; everyone ends up talking over one another, whereas IRL you would just form smaller conversational groups you could freely switch between
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Dec 11, 2021 20:46
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T-Paine posted:Have fun being the only semi-responsible adult in attendance I'm gonna make my unvaccinated kid wear a mask and I'm sure he'll be the only one. at least it's outside.
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Dec 11, 2021 20:47
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The people I know seem to be somewhat more evenly divided on what's safe and what isn't, and the result is that it's just tearing everyone apart because the critical mass for huge social gatherings doesn't exist anymore and everyone is too old to find new friends.
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fosborb posted:a 100 person zoom party sounds loving awful tbh, though I have seen something that big work over Gatherly Fun zoom calls cap out at like, 5 people. Maybe
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I'm still on work calls with all the emergency medical systems people in my state and it is great hearing all of them talk about how understaffed they are and it's the governments fault for all the red tape and it has nothing to do with insufficient wages for a horribly demanding and emotionally draining job. No one is taking classes to become a paramedic and every private company is absolutely unmoveable in their belief that compensation is not the problem. One guy kept repeating "the median pay right now is $26/hour" as if that proved anything when you are talking exclusively about trying to onboard new kids who aren't going to make close to that starting out. 90% of new personnel are born after 1998 or something and they aren't stupid, they aren't going to scrape people off the highway and run Ubers for covid deaths for $15/hr and poo poo schedules. It's so insanely frustrating to actually be able to witness capital shove its head into the ground and cry about how unfair everything is when every rep on the call is an overpaid work-from-home little bitch. ANYWAY I've been coping with covid by sticking my head in the sand, what's the tldr for omicron? Watched British Doctor Man last week and he told me that omicron was spreading like a motherfucker but wasn't leading to increased hospital admissions, that still true?
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Dec 11, 2021 20:49
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it's wild that we're back up to 2k deaths per day and it's not even noteworthy lol hey, i wonder what's at the top of nytimes dot com toda-- 
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Salt Fish posted:His whole schtick, which I call "taint-reaping" is to pick something that's true, and then extend it in an obnoxious way trying to bait people into interacting with him so that he can get into an argument where specifically he will accuse you of contradicting the true thing even though you were pointing out that he was being obnoxious. Yeah it is super annoying. He is an odious man.
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Insanite posted:it's wild that we're back up to 2k deaths per day and it's not even noteworthy lol It's good that everyone needs to "heal" from the thing that's still happening, is getting worse, and that's also being made worse by this particular brand of healing. About to start a conspiracy theory that COVID was manufactured just so we could jolt the economy with "reopening." Forever.
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Why Am I So Tired posted:This is the same exact situation I'm in. My wife and I have been 100% isolating since the start of the pandemic and are largely on the same page, but because I have even stronger feelings about it I'm a monster to her friends and family - they actually try to convince her that it's a sign of abuse that I "won't let her" join them in going out to eat, going to concerts, hanging out, flying all over the place, attend superspreading weddings, etc. Meanwhile, there's zero effort to do Zoom hangouts or anything. One couple will do a zoom call with her maybe once every four months where they just tell her about all of the weddings they went to and ask her "if she's ok." Yeah all my friends and family are back to normal. They at least took boosters, but it might as well be 2019 again, with the exception that they're at least still wearing masks while out and about. But their social media and text chains are full of pictures of dining out together, getting drinks, going to the iMax, taking vacations. Meanwhile my spouse and I who had cautiously started going back into stores for groceries/hardware after our booster (and wearing N95s) have gone back to curbside groceries and delivery, and have had to break the news to our families that we won't be in attendance for another Christmas, while everyone tells us, "Omicron isn't that bad". And you know what? It may end up being milder, and I would *loving* love to be proven a paranoid crank and completely wrong. But until I actually see what happens a month or two from now, we're back on full lockdown mode, and probably will remain so until Paxlovid is widely available.
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Insanite posted:it's wild that we're back up to 2k deaths per day and it's not even noteworthy lol The magic 8 ball they're dancing inside of says... No.
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big cummers ONLY posted:I'm still on work calls with all the emergency medical systems people in my state and it is great hearing all of them talk about how understaffed they are and it's the governments fault for all the red tape and it has nothing to do with insufficient wages for a horribly demanding and emotionally draining job. No one is taking classes to become a paramedic and every private company is absolutely unmoveable in their belief that compensation is not the problem. One guy kept repeating "the median pay right now is $26/hour" as if that proved anything when you are talking exclusively about trying to onboard new kids who aren't going to make close to that starting out. 90% of new personnel are born after 1998 or something and they aren't stupid, they aren't going to scrape people off the highway and run Ubers for covid deaths for $15/hr and poo poo schedules. It's so insanely frustrating to actually be able to witness capital shove its head into the ground and cry about how unfair everything is when every rep on the call is an overpaid work-from-home little bitch. we know it’s more transmissible. (2 day doubling in England, similar in SA) We know it stunts the effectiveness of vaccines and monoclonal antibodies. We know reinfections are a thing. We know hospitalizations and icu bed usage started ticking up this week in South Africa. We know excess deaths doubled this week vs last week in SA. We know 20% of the healthcare workers in SA have been infected in 2.5 weeks. - This is one of the things that terrifies me the most. We also know that we are in the beginnings of another delta wave, a national wave rather than regional so things aren’t looking good as omicron blows up If you compare HHS data for December 2020 to 2021, you’ll see that we have 50,000 less staffed beds available due to burnout, anti vaxxers, and Covid deaths. You’ll also see that there are only 160,000 staffed beds left to fill and 40% of those are in CA/TX/FL/NY. You’ll also see that 1016 hospitals reported critical staffing shortages yesterday (and another 1100 didn’t report either way so it could be a lot worse) Now, imagine 20% of those beds disappear because omicron crippled the workforce. SA skews younger so it makes sense cases are more mild. It also makes sense that vaccinated people have more mild cases. We are about to see what happens when a nightmare strain (in terms of transmissibility) infects 100 million older, fatter, more unhealthy vaccine hesitant people in the US. I am wondering what they mean by saying the booster is offering protection. Do they mean that it’s because most people got boosters on October or November or that it permanently protects? I ask because I got a booster in august so I want to know if I need another booster next month (lol) or if I’m ok
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fosborb posted:a 100 person zoom party sounds loving awful tbh, though I have seen something that big work over Gatherly Not all at once, but like, 10 or 15 people would show up at one time and I'd see 100 people on Zoom over a couple months. Now most people are just living like covid is over and pretending our hospitals function
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Just wear a respirator and you'll be fine. I go to stores wearing a respirator. I go to the gym wearing a respirator. I've gone over to boardgame nights at friends' houses wearing a respirator. You can't eat or drink but you can absolutely be present with the people you care about. Covid isn't magic. It's a little particle of protein and RNA and a p100 filter will stop it.
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Kylaer posted:Just wear a respirator and you'll be fine. I go to stores wearing a respirator. I go to the gym wearing a respirator. I've gone over to boardgame nights at friends' houses wearing a respirator. You can't eat or drink but you can absolutely be present with the people you care about. Covid isn't magic. It's a little particle of protein and RNA and a p100 filter will stop it. My larger problem is that without daycare I don't have time/energy for any of those things. I was the first person to stop attending Discord chats because I don't like any of my friends as much as I need sleep. Edit: and other people talk about weddings or something and I get mad
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big cummers ONLY posted:I'm still on work calls with all the emergency medical systems people in my state and it is great hearing all of them talk about how understaffed they are and it's the governments fault for all the red tape and it has nothing to do with insufficient wages for a horribly demanding and emotionally draining job. No one is taking classes to become a paramedic and every private company is absolutely unmoveable in their belief that compensation is not the problem. One guy kept repeating "the median pay right now is $26/hour" as if that proved anything when you are talking exclusively about trying to onboard new kids who aren't going to make close to that starting out. 90% of new personnel are born after 1998 or something and they aren't stupid, they aren't going to scrape people off the highway and run Ubers for covid deaths for $15/hr and poo poo schedules. It's so insanely frustrating to actually be able to witness capital shove its head into the ground and cry about how unfair everything is when every rep on the call is an overpaid work-from-home little bitch. Citing median pay is insane. Who gives a poo poo what the 30 year vets are making when I'm trying to get a job and I know I'll be laid off in 6 months because crunch time ended
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big cummers ONLY posted:ANYWAY I've been coping with covid by sticking my head in the sand, what's the tldr for omicron? Watched British Doctor Man last week and he told me that omicron was spreading like a motherfucker but wasn't leading to increased hospital admissions, that still true? https://twitter.com/kallmemeg/status/1469351833416122369 no signs of decreased hospitalisation, lacking way too much data to make that assertion. it's spreading far faster than wildtype without precautions than now with vaccines and some precautions in place
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