Real Mean Queen posted:

I thought endemicity was just where everyone used the word “endemic” as every element of speech for long enough that the virus got impressed by our vocabulary and agreed to become the common cold. That’s what everyone said, endem they celebrated, ically.

Angryhead posted:

Thanks thread, for convincing me to order a 3M 7500 respirator.
Let's see if I'm bold enough to actually wear it.

Cup Runneth Over posted:

The difference between COVID and the flu:

- I've never had the flu
- I will definitely get COVID if I stop isolating

zone posted:

Wonder what copium people crying about using n95s instead of cloth and lovely blue masks will have to say now

Iron Crowned posted:

I have to take my cat to the vet, again, today, she probably has bladder stones

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

That sucks. Happened to one of my cats and we were scared as hell. We switched him to a medical diet though and he hasn't had an episode since, though

zone posted:

bad time to be anyone that isn't obscenely rich or can't afford to hit the bricks, really

Iron Crowned posted:

I have to take my cat to the vet, again, today, she probably has bladder stones

Iron Crowned posted:

Yeah, 11 years ago now, she had surgery to remove 9 of them from her bladder, and has been on prescription food since, with no incidents until now. She just got over a UTI, and nausea from the medicine, and is back at litter problems, so I'm pretty sure that's what it is.

Didn't help that after I noticed the symptoms last night, I had a dream her eyes were bleeding

gooby pls posted:

have a friend with a weird mask requirement. duckbill style masks with ear loops, anyone seen them?

frankee posted:

https://twitter.com/oscarthegrouch/status/1476617581163384838?s=21

Salt Fish posted:

I wasn't supposed to tell anyone this but judakel and owl of cream cheese made a bet about who would be higher placed on the all time ignore-list high score by the end of the year and thats why the D&D thread looks like that. It's actually a very close competition:

https://forums.somethingawful.com/stats.php?statid=4&all=#jump

WrasslorMonkey posted:

I'm about to find out. I cannot get a good seal on the area around the bridge of my nose with the kf94's. I just think my beak is too pronounced. I have some n95's on the way (got them from the place the op recommends).

Petey posted:

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Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Ah that's a bummer, but at least you caught it super early from the sounds of it.
Hopefully they can resolve it quickly and your cat can spend many more happy years with you

Crazyweasel posted:

There is likely only one way to think about endemicity of this virus and it was coined by thread saint Dr. Leonardi

Like probably the other common cold viruses, SARS-COV2 is just going to kill or maim all the susceptible people over the next 80 years and then it will be 2100 and it will be “like” a common cold because anyone whose genes say it would be worse will be dead or not have reproduced

CoolCab posted:

Ice Phisherman posted:

Entirely fair. Last night I just loaded up on nyquil and today I just finished up the remnants of a bag of tortilla chips.

Ground beef, lettuce, tomato, diced onions, sour cream, salsa verde, non-salsa homemade green sauce, tortilla. Pretty simple. Also some refried beans that gets mixed with bacon fat.

Where it shines is in two places. First is a green sauce that consists of boiling jalapenos, onions and garlic, adding oil and then blending it into a green sauce. It's really creamy and delicious. So that goes on everything.

Second is that I have around 25ish kinds of hot sauce to choose from. At the moment I'm rocking a reaper style hot sauce, but one of the milder version of it if that makes sense. It's definitely spicy but I'm not actively dying from it like people who ate that single tortilla chip out of a little coffin.

Some goon did a serious effortpost on hot sauces here in the covid thread when it devolved into food chat for a while a year or so back. I've always liked hot sauce but I got hooked on the stuff after their recommendations.

zone posted:

Man I wish I was stupid enough to think that not drinking cheap drinks at a bar or not sucking and loving at applebee's was cruel.

Verus posted:

the endemocrats are worthless

jetz0r posted:

i tell people that i get my info from internet communists

Strep Vote posted:

I say "a bunch of depressed communists" lol

Feste posted:

“Can I got back two wearing cloth masks once the case numbers go down?”

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

alarumklok posted:

if you're depressed you just need to get some achievable goals. i suggest playing fallout new vegas and think about what you want your stat spread to be in the nuclear wasteland

Topo Chico Debarge posted:

https://twitter.com/theemfndolphin/status/1476722600176881666?t=QZ4btNVWfac7N2pt_gEPtg&s=19

Real Mean Queen posted:

Putting the respirator on will make an immediate case for wearing it. It will make all other masks seem foolish.

Wearing it out around others will feel very weird and probably bad at first. There will be comments. You will have to learn to tune those out, and think about this in the terms that apply to it. You will look odd, you will need to talk a little louder, but you’ll also have spent what a box or two of disposables costs in exchange for some gear that actually no-poo poo works. I think we’ve all caught some poo poo socially for making a smart choice at one point or another, this is just another one of those. I’m sure the first guy that wore shoes caught hell for it too. I once made fun of a friend for showing up with one of those backpacks that has the metal rack. The first people who masked up for covid looked a little silly. History vindicated all of those people, and it’ll vindicate you too.

Some tips:

if you want to look friendly, reeaaalllly telegraph it. Do a big wave hello and actually smile under the mask so they can see it in your eyes, be good about friendly chitchat, play it up a little. People are going to be a little freaked out at first, meet them in the middle if you’re planning on seeing them again.

If you have questions, look em up. These are extremely well documented pieces of industrial equipment that have been used for years across many industries, any question you have is likely to have been asked and answered and have a video about it. You can also always ask the thread.

You probably bought the boxy p100 filters if you’re reading this thread, the 7093s in the states or whatever the local equivalent is. Those kick rear end, they’re what I usually use, you’ve done nothing wrong there. They can be a little tricky to do a pressure check with, but you can do it by pinching the filters about 2/3s or 3/4s of the way back from your face. They’ll creak and compress a little and become impossible to breathe through and the mask should collapse on your face a bit. Once that’s working, you just cover your exhaust valve with your hand and exhale normally and make sure no air escapes, and you’re good to go. This takes a couple tries to get the feel of, but you’ll get it down to a couple of seconds before you know it.

If you went for the fancier filters that cover organic vapors, those will block most smells. Dumpster smells become optional. They’re also good for litter boxes, tear gas, some fires, and many other modern problems. They also block stuff like the smell of rain or snow, or flowers, or forest, so you can get to a safe spot where a nice smell is and pop that poo poo off to get a total olfactory assault. Playing around with different filters has given me a new appreciation and perspective for my sense of smell and how it works. Even the filters that only do particulates will be interesting. You can still smell a cigarette but it doesn’t smell exactly like a cigarette, for example.

It’ll be weird at first, but it’s worth getting over the hump for. At this point I’m about a year in and I’m fully socially acclimated to it. Sometimes a guy at the grocery store is clearly laughing at me, and I kind of laugh with him. It’s an absurd reflection of the realities of life in an absurd world. It’s funny that he’s seeing it, it’s funny that I’m doing it, it’s funny that this is what it’s come to. It is certainly an eccentric’s approach to a common problem, but it’s a harmless eccentricity that objectively does what it’s supposed to do, and most people are cool about it once they realize there’s a good-intentioned person under there.