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scary ghost dog posted:if im still symptomatic ill be hanging out at fireworks stands til sunset then running the rounds between wild wing cafe and any other sufficiently crowded bars. if i dont have symptoms ill just stay home and play death stranding you need a reverse vaccine to make you spread better (mildly) (safely) I've got my best scientists on this
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Pillowpants posted:Will New Years at Times Square be cancelled? planet fitness will stage a coup, they will not be denied this ad space another year
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scary ghost dog posted:hell yes. im glad i kissed all those babies at the christmas party. theyll never know what ive done to them, even if their parents somehow find out i think you meant to post this in the mod forum
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Iron Crowned posted:My rotten cat got over her UTI but had been puking a lot and eating little this week. Physical, urinalysis, and the red and white cell counts are fine. She needs more anime in her diet. Give her 2 one pieces and a naruto then call me in the morning.
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Dec 27, 2021 18:23
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Crunchy Black posted:why OP when I was younger I had bad mental health issues and drug problems, and they were there for me 100%, despite the entirely self inflicted nature of my fuckups. I mean, I still have issues, I just don’t depend on them like that anymore. so if I can do something to keep them from a torturous death on a vent in some hospital, it’s like the least I can do. they’re avid consumers of liberal media, and going into the holidays (and still) it was all “COVID is over, also mild, pay no attention to the horrible reality behind the curtain,” and they were totally buying it. it was pretty alarming to watch them go from reasonably cautious to “open Biden”
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Wang Commander posted:I don't think cspam is incredibly correct really, just not actively denying the potential of anything ever again occurring like end of history neoliberals.. but it's definitely a bunch of hooting apes chucking poo poo at the wall seeing what sticks while acknowledging stuff that's common sense for millennia That and a bit of schadenfreude, and providing a mental outlet to a bunch of traumatized hooting apes, yes. Jeff can gently caress off if he thinks I'm gonna pay a second-time fee for the rest of the privileges though.
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Asproigerosis posted:She needs more anime in her diet. Give her 2 one pieces and a naruto then call me in the morning. The cure can't be worse than the disease 
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Failson posted:It is also outright depression. what isn't these days? there's a difference between being sad due to the deep realization of species ending cataclysmic events, and a chemical imbalance that can be reduced with medication. am I depressed that COVID is here to stay and that people are going to continue to suffer and die? absolutely. does it stop me from going about my daily poo poo? no.
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Oh and I did apologize to my MIL this morning before leaving for my "panic attack" last night but I also have a scratchy throat so the damage is done if it's COVID loving hell
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Paradoxish posted:I love how trying to force our way through this is just leading to everyone being sad, stressed out, and angry all the time it's really dumb because literally a month of everything locking down and taking a break would have solved this stupidity
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Haha holy poo poo Don’t Look Up was written before the pandemic. It was originally about climate change.
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Iron Crowned posted:My rotten cat got over her UTI but had been puking a lot and eating little this week. Physical, urinalysis, and the red and white cell counts are fine. i like your cat's soul patch. very early 2000s.
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Orbis Tertius posted:when I was younger I had bad mental health issues and drug problems, and they were there for me 100%, despite the entirely self inflicted nature of my fuckups. I mean, I still have issues, I just don’t depend on them like that anymore. so if I can do something to keep them from a torturous death on a vent in some hospital, it’s like the least I can do. my father openly chastised me for "supporting" Bush in 2000 when I was in 5th grade, yet gleefully owns the libs and voted for Trump twice. They are old dumb reactionary racists. Anyone over 40 has terminal lead poisoning, ignore them and let them die.
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kreeningsons posted:honestly at this point, it's a new disease and we don't know what treatments for persistent symptoms may be on the horizon, so it may be be wise to wait it out and not immediately texas roadhouse yourself a "wait and see" approach is dumb as gently caress considering we can see in real time the damage COVID is causing. you don't wait until poo poo is bad to do something about it, you do it now while you have the opportunity. it's like how the biden admin is trying to spool up million of tests at the same time millions of people are getting infected: it's not going to help and it's too late. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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kreeningsons posted:honestly at this point, it's a new disease and we don't know what treatments for persistent symptoms may be on the horizon, so it may be be wise to wait it out and not immediately texas roadhouse yourself This remains my viewpoint. It probably is inevitable that I’ll get it, but there is value in delaying it as long as I can. Especially since re-infections are a thing so it isn’t like you get COVID once and then you are done.
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Crazypoops posted:But can we get some cool gamer esthetic masks? 3m is like Logitech back in the 90s I want LEDs and poo poo on my cyberpunk mask Razer makes masks that have LEDs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP_rbaHPkes
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Louisgod posted:a "wait and see" approach is dumb as gently caress considering we can see in real time the damage COVID is causing. you don't wait until poo poo is bad to do something about it, you do it now while you have the opportunity. it's like how the biden admin is trying to spool up million of tests at the same time millions of people are getting infected: it's not going to help and it's too late. It’s dumb rear end gently caress for that to be the public health response but on a personal level it’s about all you can do.
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Louisgod posted:a "wait and see" approach is dumb as gently caress considering we can see in real time the damage COVID is causing. you don't wait until poo poo is bad to do something about it, you do it now while you have the opportunity. it's like how the biden admin is trying to spool up million of tests at the same time millions of people are getting infected: it's not going to help and it's too late. I mean we could have a better government response and also not have the individual response be suicide. Normalizing suicide is insanely hosed and a terrible sign about the direction this forum is headed in
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Wang Commander posted:I mean we could have a better government response and also not have the individual response be suicide. Normalizing suicide is insanely hosed and a terrible sign about the direction this forum is headed in uhhh have you, idk, looked at climate/PFAS, plastics/everything, lately?
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fermun posted:Razer makes masks that have LEDs A goon got one of these, and reported to the thread about how dogshit awful it is. I can't find the post ATM, but do not buy this stupid mask
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Death By The Blues posted:lol people here arguing about my comment. All you do is post that the world is getting undeniably worse and untenable. Sorry if I don't want to live with a chronic illness during societal collapse and how mass death for disabled people has become societally acceptable. Good on you, if you want to live through it but I am not lol. From your posts it doesn't sound like you already have a horrible chronic disease that requires complex medical treatment. The idea of someone electing to end their life, rather than live with a horrible chronic disease during medical collapse, on the face of it, seems quite rational for me. Preparing for that eventuality now to the point that you're having "the suicide talk" with your parents seems, uh, premature and very weird to me. Everyone in this thread has the same basic information as you and we have a growing number of people who have had COVID, some of whom have problems of varying seriousness that they are already aware of. I haven't seen anyone in that position decide to have "the suicide talk", nor have I seem people who consistently come down on the most doomer-take side of things mostly decide they need to have "the suicide talk". This is not to suggest you're "right" or "wrong"; those are abstract concepts which have little to do with the decision one individual makes about basically anything. But, even in this thread of people taking COVID seriously and more pessimistically than 99.9% of society, your comment and way of thinking about this is a significant outlier, and I would encourage you to think about reasons that might be before doing anything permanent. If you're just blowing off steam, carry on. I just lost a close friend to suicide and while I ultimately have refrained from questioning or judging their decision, it sucked for everyone else involved and I take this stuff very seriously.
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Thoguh posted:It’s dumb rear end gently caress for that to be the public health response but on a personal level it’s about all you can do. true true, maybe I misread the op as the healthcare response and not personal response. Wang Commander posted:I mean we could have a better government response and also not have the individual response be suicide. Normalizing suicide is insanely hosed and a terrible sign about the direction this forum is headed in thinking I totally misread the op, my bad
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Louisgod posted:a "wait and see" approach is dumb as gently caress considering we can see in real time the damage COVID is causing. you don't wait until poo poo is bad to do something about it, you do it now while you have the opportunity. it's like how the biden admin is trying to spool up million of tests at the same time millions of people are getting infected: it's not going to help and it's too late. This was in the context of whether an individual should kill themselves or persist in hopes of treatments if they end up with long covid. I should have quoted because it may have been unclear. Absolutely agreed that our institutions should not be waiting to see how severe the outcomes are since this is gambling with people's health and lives -- the Biden admin should be doing everything possible to prevent infections in the first place, even if it turns out later those measures were overkill.
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Crazypoops posted:But can we get some cool gamer esthetic masks? 3m is like Logitech back in the 90s I want LEDs and poo poo on my cyberpunk mask  no idea if there is any filter though (absolutely not there isnt)
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Joementum posted:test positivity in VT was 12% on Christmas day, 15% the day after My boosted but elderly parents drove here from WNY; they are able to drive straight through and we'd all isolated for quite a while on both sides; we pulled our kid out of preschool for a week and did the last shopping stuff as curbside and/or Envo'd quick stops. I feel like we did everything as responsibly as possible, interacted with no one and didn't go out into the world while they were here, but I am still not gonna relax about it until they're home! They are probably at more risk back in Monroe County where they do occaisionally have to go inside stores and stuff, WNY is popping off hard now, too
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Same and it was a minor which made it worse but at the same time, I couldn't blame the dude. Honestly going to the funeral and hearing everyone, literally everyone, repeat, "it was selfish" pissed me off more. gently caress YOU! Who are you to judge what it was like inside his mind!?
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Wang Commander posted:I mean we could have a better government response and also not have the individual response be suicide. Normalizing suicide is insanely hosed and a terrible sign about the direction this forum is headed in bro your blood is ragu chunky vegetable marinara perhaps fall back 500 steps
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Iron Crowned posted:My rotten cat got over her UTI but had been puking a lot and eating little this week. Physical, urinalysis, and the red and white cell counts are fine. yeah, cats won't eat or drink if their nauseous, especially with dehydration. if you can get them out of that loop, they bounce back. edit: wrong info Rauros fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Dec 27, 2021 |
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Crunchy Black posted:my father openly chastised me for "supporting" Bush in 2000 when I was in 5th grade, yet gleefully owns the libs and voted for Trump twice. They are old dumb reactionary racists. I hear you. I’m fully aware that I’m extremely fortunate my relationship with my parentals is what it is, and that it’s not common. they somehow avoided catching the worst aspects of boomer brain.
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Asproigerosis posted:Fyi if you go to the hospital to get tested just because of contact/exposure you are a rear end in a top hat wasting our time and extremely stretched resources. it's good to get tested if you think you might have covid IMO
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https://www.razer.com/gear-accessories/razer-zephyr how the gently caress did Razer make this thing and not manage to put any real filtration in it? What the gently caress?? Crunchy Black posted:Same and it was a minor which made it worse but at the same time, I couldn't blame the dude. Condolences. Ire from the living towards the dead, I think, generally reflects an inability to look our own death in the eye. I do not have this problem because I have had the problem of suicidal ideation myself on and off for a long time, have come very close to being ended or worse in cars twice and a train wreck once, and I'm over thinking I'm smarter than anyone else about their own poo poo. Part of me wants to believe my friend was on the verge of turning a major corner and his life would have gotten much much better, but, who the gently caress am I to make assumptions like that? Maybe all he did was shave 30-40 years more chronic depression and anxiety off, and it would be pretty loving selfish of me to get bent about anything in that case. Since I can never know, it seems dumb. A band called Purple Mountains released an album of the same name right before COVID, it's clearly a suicide note, and the writer killed themselves before the planned tour started. A line that keeps coming back to me, in light of my friend's death David Berman posted:When the dyin's finally over, and the suffering is done, all the suffering is left for the ones we leave behind/ This is universally true, no matter how people die.
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Rauros posted:yeah, cats won't eat or drink if their nauseous, especially with dehydration. if you can get them out of that loop, they bounce back. Had to get this for my little cat when he got a stomach bug. Gave him the appetite drug a few days and he snarfed up his food and was happy as a clam in no time
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mystes posted:Honestly the only real reason to get tested is to protect other people anyway and I wonder if it's really a good idea for most people to even try to get tested anywhere if they don't have rapid tests on hand or something right now. yes, this!!! isolate yourself for 14 days every time you have a runny nose. stay away from your family/household members and take 2 weeks off from work. get everything delivered by amazon, instacart and door dash
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AppleNippleBOB posted:A goon got one of these, and reported to the thread about how dogshit awful it is. I almost jumped in on this stupidity too but then they removed the mic and speaker from it. What the gently caress is even the point without that. I just want someone to make a badass looking respirator with a mic and speakers. I would pay too much money for this.
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fermun posted:Razer makes masks that have LEDs  I forgot which goon it was but you can look up the time stamp
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mystes posted:Honestly the only real reason to get tested is to protect other people anyway and I wonder if it's really a good idea for most people to even try to get tested anywhere if they don't have rapid tests on hand or something right now. A positive test result is documented evidence of your disease, which is always useful when you need to tell your boss that you’re sick, telling people that you’re isolating from that you’re sick, or telling your doctor that you’re sick, or even telling yourself that you’re sick, and it’s not just in your head. I can’t imagine going to the ER for a covid test, but there are home tests and relatively safe public testing sites. It’s a lot easier to do the right thing when you have the test result, it’s hard to completely isolate for a week or two just based on a hunch. Most people would have to get pretty sick to isolate without a test result, and generally you get that sick after having been contagious for a while, so aggressively testing when you start to feel sick or you think you got exposed can be very helpful. Also the pills and the antibody treatments only work if administered early and that kind of relies on getting a positive test result, as far as I know. I agree that if you’re sick right now, you probably have covid, but I’ve noticed that some people outside this thread have kind of the opposite view, that if you only have flu or cold symptoms than it’s only the cold or the flu. People have these contradictory ideas that covid is only the flu, but if you think you might have it, surely the dangerous pandemic disease would be extra severe or exotic right? Anyway I think most people who catch covid could benefit from getting an early positive test result.
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