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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Yesterday NSW Australia logged in 3,763 new cases which broke all the records (before omicron I think the highest daily case number in any Aust state was 2,264 down in Vic, NSW has been setting a new record almost every day this week) and freaked everyone out a bit. Today they reported 5,715 new cases and everyone is Melbourne needs to do something; mum texted us saying she’s been exposed and going for a test now ‘ Xmas cancelled for her ; i think it would be idiocy to do Biz As Usual, we’re setting up for a shocking few months if we do.. Sydney needs a lockdown IMO right now.
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Dr Crackl Ping retweeted the “1 vaccine for all Covid” news and it’s apparently confirmed to be in trials, looking good well now that this dumbfuck tweeted about it my enthusiasm has dampened slightly lol. coelomate posted:A huge percentage of cases are asymptomatic or only present like a cold though; most deniers could get exposed and infected without it rocking their belief system. it's absolutely this. Also a good number of people could have had it in the first few months of 2020/late months of 2019 and mistook it for a flu. Many people will either get a mild cold or some other poo poo and might never realize they even had it. Reminds me of when I absolutely had a godawful flu for a few days in February last year but my flu test came back negative at the doctor, who knows if that was Covid or not.
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Redgrendel2001 posted:I can't afford to not go back tomorrow. Still have 8 months on my lease. Strongly considering an email containing multiple uses of the words"negligence" and "liability". Is there an HR department that you can reach out to? Like a phone number or something? Or a union? It's lovely that you have to deal with this on your own.
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:I also did some quick calculations and saw that in just 45 doublings, 40 trillion people will be infected. Seems plausible!! https://mobile.twitter.com/IHME_UW/status/1473690258965475334 (Sound on for ominous music) They updated their model, which historically has pretty much useless due to underestimation. Here's the US case forecast (including uncertainty) 
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  But how do they know it'll work on EVERY variant? 
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Blitter posted:Seems plausible!!
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Kirk Vikernes posted:If you're in the states, their reply will probably contain multiple uses of "lol" and "pack your poo poo". And my reply will be the litany of CAP/CLIA violations that they've hidden over the past 2 years.
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:Is there an HR department that you can reach out to? Like a phone number or something? Or a union? It's lovely that you have to deal with this on your own. Lol. HR is designed to protect them from liability. The second anyone suggests that you should go through HR is the moment you should be calling anyone you know who is a lawyer.
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Tunicate posted:
Apropos of nothing, it must really irritate Adidas that they can't somehow make money off people calling vaguely-spherical polygons "soccer ball shaped" because they actually mean "Adidas Telstar shaped". Hell if they'd released it in the 21st century they'd probably be suing makers of geodesic domes and apparently vaccines now for infringing their copyright.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Apropos of nothing, it must really irritate Adidas that they can't somehow make money off people calling vaguely-spherical polygons "soccer ball shaped" because they actually mean "Adidas Telstar shaped". Hell if they'd released it in the 21st century they'd probably be suing makers of geodesic domes and apparently vaccines now for infringing their copyright. Adidas goes hard after people who use any of the post 2006 designs for their balls, so yes.
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https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1473787869957267457?s=20 Good news, it’s like a hurricane Unfortunately, you’re all in the way 
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What is the survival rate of omicron?
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five nines reliability! /tech nerd making poo poo up about product up time
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vandalism posted:What is the survival rate of omicron? Some studies are noting differences in the risk of hospitalization, but roughly equal outcomes amongst the hospitalized. Meaning that O might not be as likely to land you in the hospital as D, but if it does, then the outcomes are similar. But we still don't know and I really don't like this talk about "mild" because it seems to be leading people to throw caution to the wind. After all, it's NBD!!
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Wendigee posted:five nines reliability! Nothing was reliable on the day of the 5/9 hacks.
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Zugzwang posted:People are still arguing about it. NB even if Omicron is 50% less likely to hospitalize you, it's still much more infectious. It's going to crush ICU capacity in hospitals and when that happens the CFR goes up considerably.
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get vaccinated and wear a mask and let it burn out? not much else we can do. since it doesn't seem to be a new ebola I'm hoping people that took precautions will mostly be fine.
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Zugzwang posted:People are still arguing about it. Fuk u I'm watching spiderman and matrix and hell, even kingsman 3 I'm free u can't imprison me
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Redgrendel2001 posted:Lol. Edit: n/m, just realized you were the same guy. That sucks. 
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Scarodactyl posted:It seems amazingly good, except they just can't make enough soon enough. It will make a difference but just isn't enough. Soon enough for what?
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Agents are GO! posted:Soon enough for what?
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vandalism posted:What is the survival rate of omicron? It'll depend very heavily on your age and comorbidities, if any, and there are huge error bars because so much is simply not known. That said, if it's similar to the other COVID strains, you can make some plausible guesses. Honestly for the average member of this forum (30s?) your chance of death is probably a one-in-a-thousand or less, even unvaccinated. Vaccinated, add a zero. Now that risk is nothing to sneeze at. It's easily the most dangerous thing you'd likely experience this year. But it's not likely to kill you, and is probably very roughly comparable to your cumulative annual car crash death risk.
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Captain von Trapp posted:It'll depend very heavily on your age and comorbidities, if any, and there are huge error bars because so much is simply not known. forums users are more likely to die of heart attack or aneurysm from sitting too longgggghjdfsahhhggh asaghgrhklklll
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Captain von Trapp posted:It'll depend very heavily on your age and comorbidities, if any, and there are huge error bars because so much is simply not known. Counterpoint - goons have never been paragons of good health.
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Posting on a dead gay comedy forum is a comorbidity.
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Regular reminder that the risk of outright death might be low, but the risk of long covid/experiencing an exceptionally unpleasant illness is considerably higher. Also, the worst possible time to get sick is when everyone else is getting sick because hoo boy does the CFR go up when hospitals are overwhelmed.
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:forums users are more likely to die of heart attack or aneurysm from sitting too longgggghjdfsahhhggh asaghgrhklklll Not actually that far off. Out of the 3.35M deaths in the US in 2020, heart disease was the most common leading cause of death, with cancer just behind it. COVID-19 was the third 
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What a shy guy.
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i sit all day every day bitches  you will have to contend with this bullshit clown world while i am safely dead from a combination stroke/aneurysm/heart attack/covid
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^^ lolZugzwang posted:Regular reminder that the risk of outright death might be low, but the risk of long covid/experiencing an exceptionally unpleasant illness is considerably higher. Also, the worst possible time to get sick is when everyone else is getting sick because hoo boy does the CFR go up when hospitals are overwhelmed. The risk of long covid seems really poorly understood at this point, especially for vaccinated people. The definition of long covid is also really nebulous. I've seen people throw out really high statistics for long covid, like 20-30%, but then the definition in the study they're citing is that you have at least one symptom for 5 weeks after infection. That's not what I think of when I think of long covid. I'm not saying it's not real and not a consideration but I'm really not sure how common it is among vaccinated people, especially the really scary "my brain stopped working good" kind.
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prom candy posted:^^ lol The last time I went down a long covid rabbit hole, I think I saw a study that found like 60% of participants who joined because they had it were tested and had never been exposed to COVID in the first place. I don’t doubt that the virus can have serious long term consequences, but I think the probability is waaaaay lower than some of the breathless media reporting can make it seem.
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Has anyone researched how many people with chronic lyme have also developed long covid, it seems like a lot
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coelomate posted:The last time I went down a long covid rabbit hole, I think I saw a study that found like 60% of participants who joined because they had it were tested and had never been exposed to COVID in the first place. I don’t doubt that the virus can have serious long term consequences, but I think the probability is waaaaay lower than some of the breathless media reporting can make it seem. I thought I had long covid but it turned out it was actually on its side and that I had wide covid.
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Pinecone Sample posted:Has anyone researched how many people with chronic lyme have also developed long covid, it seems like a lot they are wrking on an mRNA vaccine for lyme and it seems to be working so far... further trials coming... so mRNA might be effective at Flu Covid SARS Lyme Cancer My fingers are so crossed you can't undo the knot mother fuckers
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Wendigee posted:they are wrking on an mRNA vaccine for lyme and it seems to be working so far... further trials coming... Moderna's got an HIV mRNA vaccine in human trials.
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:Not actually that far off. Out of the 3.35M deaths in the US in 2020, heart disease was the most common leading cause of death, with cancer just behind it. COVID-19 was the third Because the number of covid deaths fluctuated so much it was actually the leading cause of death for some months: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1254560/leading-causes-of-death-in-the-us-average-number-daily/
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Agents are GO! posted:I thought I had long covid but it turned out it was actually on its side and that I had wide covid. I thought wide COVID is what you get when you have a certain comorbidity that is very common in the US.
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DickParasite posted:NB even if Omicron is 50% less likely to hospitalize you, it's still much more infectious. It's going to crush ICU capacity in hospitals and when that happens the CFR goes up considerably. Yeah epidemiologists will often say that between a reduction in transmissability vs a reduction in severity, they'll take transmissibility every time. Something that spreads to 10x more people overall but hospitalizes at half the rate is still sending 5x as many people to the hospital as before. Omicron is insanely more transmissible, so hospitalizing at a lower rate is good but should not be taken as a sign that everything is fine. e: And this is a another reminder that death is not the only consequence to care about. Hospitalization is loving awful even if you don't wind up becoming an amputee or transplant recipient. Plus, 20% of hospitalized delta recoveries wound up with long-term symptoms that were described as "debilitating", not just the low-key annoying poo poo like loss of smell. QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Dec 23, 2021 |
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