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zone posted:Man imagine the scale of misery if we brewed up our own Marek's disease, because lmfao we are well on our way, and it is the only reasonable eventual outcome.
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:07 |
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Doctor posted:Alright I guess I need to submit myself for help, thread. Any recommendations for a mask and/or respirator for an instructor who basically has no choice but to go back in January and won't be boosted until like February. I have KN95s but they fit so tightly that its extremely difficult to lecture in for any sustained amount of time.
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:07 |
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Doctor posted:Alright I guess I need to submit myself for help, thread. Any recommendations for a mask and/or respirator for an instructor who basically has no choice but to go back in January and won't be boosted until like February. I have KN95s but they fit so tightly that its extremely difficult to lecture in for any sustained amount of time. i talk all day in an n95... first 2 or 3 weeks will suck poo poo until the bridge of your nose hardens up, then it's fine
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:08 |
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Speaking from experience, when you're a teacher and you can't teach, employment becomes a fun adventure. I love that capitalism is such that we have to choose between starving to death or dying of the plague. gently caress yeah.
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:08 |
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kalensc posted:Thanks to this thread I was able to warn the fam about omicron on day 1, and we officially kiboshed in-person stuff for the foreseeable future. I did the same and I've been ignored, ridiculed, and bargained with as if I am actually COVID-19.
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:09 |
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speng31b posted:I think what really fucks with people the most about omicron is that it tilts hard on the individual selfishness scale. For people who have been told repeatedly all they need to do it vaxx, there's now a variant that will probably break through their vaxx, but in so doing less likely to seriously gently caress them up. It's this and a combination of people just not knowing what is actually going on and that without a booster you are basically naked. I have very well informed and dialed in colleagues who basically told me yeah I'm not getting the booster I don't need it. I don't think the people in this thread understand how loving deep into the weeds we are with the raw data and how limited the average person's capacity to understand this poo poo is. Also after Trump lost a sizable portion of the global population just stopped paying attention to the news because they didn't have to hang global events on a loving tweet.
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:09 |
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Doctor posted:Alright I guess I need to submit myself for help, thread. Any recommendations for a mask and/or respirator for an instructor who basically has no choice but to go back in January and won't be boosted until like February. I have KN95s but they fit so tightly that its extremely difficult to lecture in for any sustained amount of time. 3m Auras are pretty great. They're snug but not uncomfortable. The nose piece is huge and stays put.
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Mr. Pizza posted:I did the same and I've been ignored, ridiculed, and bargained with as if I am actually COVID-19. If you were actually COVID-19 you would not only be allowed to do whatever you want at all times, but you would have Republican politicians approaching you constantly asking what they could do to make your time here in America more enjoyable and comfortable, and please whatever you do don't leave; we want you here as long as possible.
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:10 |
Non comedy option north Honeywell half mask with a speech diaphragm and a lav mic on your collar
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:11 |
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A Bakers Cousin posted:lol intellectual property rights are hilarious imagine getting tapped to play The Thing when you know it's just to keep IP rights. at least they don't HAVE to do traditional makeup and prosthetics anymore but I bet they force some actors to do it anyway if they are actually being punished by being in the next FF film.
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:11 |
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Doctor posted:Alright I guess I need to submit myself for help, thread. Any recommendations for a mask and/or respirator for an instructor who basically has no choice but to go back in January and won't be boosted until like February. I have KN95s but they fit so tightly that its extremely difficult to lecture in for any sustained amount of time.
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:14 |
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cr0y posted:It's this and a combination of people just not knowing what is actually going on and that without a booster you are basically naked. I have very well informed and dialed in colleagues who basically told me yeah I'm not getting the booster I don't need it. I don't think the people in this thread understand how loving deep into the weeds we are with the raw data and how limited the average person's capacity to understand this poo poo is. Even with a booster. Like again, Omicron has changed things for people in this thread because we were staying on top of our vaccinations and getting jabbed every 3-5 months, but for most of the world, they either got their first full dose and called it there, or got boosted 2-3 months ago. Hitherto the primary different between the liberals and the fascists as far as the plague went was that the former were vaccinated. But as of late January or mid February, even with only Delta running around, that would no longer be the case, since the vast majority of Americans would be effectively unvaccinated thanks to it having been 4 or more months since their last jab. Now with Omicron, we're all basically already there. Like it's not a question of having a booster or not. The booster boosts titers as I recall, but still the most important factor in vaccine efficacy is - assuming you have had at least 2 doses - not how many jabs you've had, but when you had them. If you're 4+ months out from your booster, you're in a much worse position than someone only 2 months out from their second shot of the first full dose. And none of this has been communicated to the public - not that many would listen - because the CDC and Biden have deliberately been sharing the lie that vaccines alone can and will save us, and thus anything that reveals the fact that the vaccines are not perfect - like, say, waning efficacy and the need for continual booster shots - is ignored and buried. If people knew that the rest of their lives would be getting a COVID vaccine ever 3-4 months until they finally get a breakthrough and die or get maimed, I think even a sizable subset of liberals might start making noise about maybe NPIs being preferable to a vaccine-only approach.
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:15 |
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Nah. They don't need the gloves.
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:16 |
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:Even with a booster. Most people i talk to now who i consider somewhat reasonable are 100% banking on just getting vaccine boosters forever and the new pill treatments for breakthroughs Basically "it'll be inconvenient but manageable"
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:20 |
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Stereotype posted:the spike in cases literally just started lmao. we still have at least a month before people who are getting infected right now will die. the hospitals still have weeks before this hoard of newly infected start clogging their hallways and parking lots. and more people are traveling to spread the disease than have ever traveled in history lol yeah it seems a little crazy imo
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:20 |
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this whole covid dealie seems to not be goin great
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:21 |
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https://thehill.com/homenews/coronavirus-report/587061-fauci-says-large-holiday-gatherings-not-safe-even-with-booster posted:White House chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci said large gatherings this holiday season are not safe from the coronavirus, even for those fully vaccinated with a booster shot. huh that's a pretty specific numeric range https://twitter.com/WillieMcNabb/status/1158045307562856448
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:22 |
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speng31b posted:It basically took everyone's "what am I willing to risk" calculus and created a variant under the threshold where most people just can't give a poo poo anymore I’m never not going to give a poo poo
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:22 |
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:If I recall, aren't local funerary rites that involve touching the dead part of, along with sanitation issues, why ebola is so able to gently caress up parts of West Africa, despite ebola making you super sick super fast? Yes it in fact was this. All you really had to do was keep substantial amounts of infected bodily fluids out of your eyes or mouth you were fine. As soon as I learned how hard it was to spread I was immediately not concerned about ebola anymore! 🙂 Now this other virus that's popping around lately... i am harry posted:if you haven’t at least once stared at your ceiling in the middle of the night and honestly imagined what it’s like to be ventilated and conscious and maybe dying within the next few days and your final view is the floor and the corner of the hospital room you’ve been staring at while lying prone and suffocating for the last several days… It's still a numbers game though and people are strangely able to throw covid on the pile of any other billion things that could kill you in horrifying ways. People can hand wave away one in 100 or 1 in 1,000 shots very very easily. cr0y fucked around with this message at 07:27 on Dec 24, 2021 |
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If you're not coughing blood just come in to work, it's fine https://twitter.com/haithamahmedmd/status/1474216726199947289?s=20
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i am harry posted:if you haven’t at least once stared at your ceiling in the middle of the night and honestly imagined what it’s like to be ventilated and conscious and maybe dying within the next few days and your final view is the floor and the corner of the hospital room you’ve been staring at while lying prone and suffocating for the last several days… But morons think that no matter how often they roll the dice, they can keep getting away with it, until it happens to them and they go something like this https://twitter.com/screaminbutcalm/status/1105577845642878976?lang=en
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:24 |
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Helith posted:I wonder what Snowglobe of Doom and his Covid Tree have in store for us today I read the rest of the thread in anticipation and it was nothing. Tree 😡
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:24 |
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shackleford posted:huh that's a pretty specific numeric range
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:25 |
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I need this in case I need to wear it to the hospital.
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:27 |
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Zugzwang posted:Nice of Fauci to inform people of this just a few days before Christmas, when tons of gatherings have already happened or are effectively locked in. I mean it's terrible advice anyway so who loving cares? 'If you want, you can drive with your eyes shut going 80 miles per hour against traffic." is not meaningfully better advice than 'If you want, you can drive with your eyes shut going 160 miles per hour against traffic." It's wildly dangerous non-advice that can and will get thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people killed and maimed. That Fauci can say this without having whatever staffers it is that are responsible for issuing it in writing/tweets not immediately refusing and asking him if he's loving lost his goddamn mind is a sign of systemic failure.
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:27 |
there's always some idiot who missed a key piece of info and today that idiot is me: what does NPI stand for?
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:28 |
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pancake rabbit posted:there's always some idiot who missed a key piece of info and today that idiot is me: what does NPI stand for? Non
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:28 |
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One thing this pandemic has taught me is that every viral or zombie apocalypse movie ever has been totally wrong about the CDC They all depict them as a competent organization overwhelmed by stunning odds Actually what would happen is the shattered remains of our society would be littered with pamphlets that say stuff like "new guideline for workplace safety shows that most zombies can be safely readmitted to the workforce, and many zombie bites are in fact extremely mild"
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:Non ahhhh ty
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:29 |
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speng31b posted:One thing this pandemic has taught me is that every viral or zombie apocalypse movie ever has been totally wrong about the CDC It's the exact same as military ooh rah garbage in movies, except people are more easily swindled by the belief that all doctors are noble
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:30 |
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good loving god you know things are going well when Dr. Eric Feigl Ding calls your province the gently caress out. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1474261928172208133?s=20 remember that time Dr Bonnie Henry wrote a book about her COVID success before the pandemic even really started lmao
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:30 |
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pancake rabbit posted:there's always some idiot who missed a key piece of info and today that idiot is me: what does NPI stand for? It doesn't matter because we'll never have meaningful ones in America. Non Pharmaceutical Interventions. Basically surveillance testing and contact tracing - with enforced quarantines resulting from them, masking mandates, lockdowns and quarantines, and so on. All the stuff that isn't medicine - therepuetic or preventative - designed to stop people from getting sick and limit spread. The means by which China brought COVID to heel and the means by which the vast majority of epidemics in human history have been successfully combated.
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:31 |
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I got into an argument online (lol) where I ended up writing this:quote:If you are in a situation like the Philippines is in right now, where cases are very low, then you can do things like: and almost immediately the post gets reported as spreading "vaccine misinformation"
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:32 |
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Platystemon posted:I read the rest of the thread in anticipation and it was nothing. what was the context for the angry face mask again
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:33 |
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:It's the exact same as military ooh rah garbage in movies, except people are more easily swindled by the belief that all doctors are noble I don't know much about the CDC in terms of membership and careers but, like, are many/most of them even doctors - that is to say healthcare workers? I was under the impression they were generally more scientists rather than doctors with fieldwork experience. Which is what you'd expect and probably want for such an organization, to be fair, but yeah. I think most people would say 'most doctors are good people' is a valid statement, but the public is definitely more ambivalent about scientists.
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:33 |
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Doctor posted:Alright I guess I need to submit myself for help, thread. Any recommendations for a mask and/or respirator for an instructor who basically has no choice but to go back in January and won't be boosted until like February. I have KN95s but they fit so tightly that its extremely difficult to lecture in for any sustained amount of time. Everyone will probably say 3M Aura, which you can test drive by picking them up at Home Depot. My recommendation is that after you find a mask that fits well, search Amazon for face mask tape. I use one by Pro Tape, under "Pro 1502 Self-adhering Face Mask Tape." It's double-sided skin-safe tape that prevents the mask from moving around when talking. It stops all the rubbing, slipping, moving, etc., that usually happens during the wear period, and it helps lessen whatever nose and cheek skin damage and creasing caused by thick fiber scrubbing the face for 9 hours a time. It doesn't hurt the mask and it lasts all day. It also helps form a tighter seal around the nose area. I've seen goons say they can't find the masks in Home Depot when they go in and wander the paint section. Just go to Home Depot's website and search the mask and then choose your local store to show availability. The exact aisle and shelf location will be listed there.
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:33 |
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Mr. Pizza posted:yeah it seems a little crazy imo I dunno everyone is acting like it’s just normal tho. this is only the second Covid Christmas and everyone is like “we can’t just have covid Christmas forever!”. like dudes we haven’t even had very many, in fact we’ve only had one! like breaking your leg sucks and you gotta not walk on it for awhile, but if you break it again you can’t just be like “gently caress this! I’m not doing broken leg hobbling forever!” I love thinking of analogies.
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:34 |
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:I mean it's terrible advice anyway so who loving cares?
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:35 |
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PITY BONER posted:Everyone will probably say 3M Aura, which you can test drive by picking them up at Home Depot. My recommendation is that after you find a mask that fits well, search Amazon for face mask tape. I use one by Pro Tape, under "Pro 1502 Self-adhering Face Mask Tape." It's double-sided skin-safe tape that prevents the mask from moving around when talking. It stops all the rubbing, slipping, moving, etc., that usually happens during the wear period, and it helps lessen whatever nose and cheek skin damage and creasing caused by thick fiber scrubbing the face for 9 hours a time. It doesn't hurt the mask and it lasts all day. It also helps form a tighter seal around the nose area. https://www.amazon.com/Pro-Self-adhering-friendly-resistant-reposition/dp/B08CJWDDS8 This?
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Shear Modulus posted:what was the context for the angry face mask again an idiot caught covid, went to a party, and replied to someone over the phone using the angry face and 'mask' below it when they expressed disbelief at why they would do something that stupid
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# ? Dec 24, 2021 07:39 |