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T-Paine posted:You start out in 1984 by saying, “Homo, homo homo.” By 2022 you can’t say “homo”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced gender reassignment for kids, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, gays get hurt worse than straights.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the trans thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “homo, homo.” quoting this so I can find it later and also covid is over, which makes it weird that case counts keep going up in my idyllic little county
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toggle posted:ba.2 update still in beta? making a very exciting rollout in hong kong rn apparently
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Mar 7, 2022 17:24
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whenever i read an article about the hong kong covid outbreak the comments section always has someone named Glenn or some poo poo with an upvoted comment that says "you can't beat covid! china's turn to suffer  ! life, death, taxes, and covid!"the funny part is that both parties in the US agree unanimously on this. the extra funny part is that same analogy was a common public perception of measles, it was thought to be as inevitable as life and death. until the US eradicated it.
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toggle posted:ba.2 update still in beta? unpatched release that'll be taken seriously a few months after release with lots of planned DLC.
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Mar 7, 2022 17:43
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kreeningsons posted:whenever i read an article about the hong kong covid outbreak the comments section always has someone named Glenn or some poo poo with an upvoted comment that says "you can't beat covid! china's turn to suffer The only thing the US is going to eradicate any time soon is itself
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Judakel posted:china needs to rein in the unruly hker u bet ur rear end mainland is trying their damndest https://www.ft.com/content/209e06e8-8d64-4ebe-9b2d-9244e378e707 quote:February 18 2022
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After I told my parents that it was silly to visit Austria (my niece/sister/grandma live there), niece and sister have covid, and probably exposed my grandma a few days before her 93rd birthday. Bonus point sfor them talking down to be about how I was overreacting and people need to live their life.
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Mar 7, 2022 17:49
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Just spotted my boss, who was "out sick" all last week, wearing a lovely cloth mask.
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Masks off at America's museums. https://twitter.com/DCist/status/1500869012875579393 Kind of cool that these national community spaces will now be effectively off-limits to those at risk of severe disease or the immunocompromised. (Not that attending even with mask mandates was that great an idea, but still.)
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Regarding understanding COVID long-term impacts and their effect on the labor market, I found the analysis summarized in this previously posted news report useful. A key plot: Estimating that half the US labor force or ~100 million workers was been infected by Oct 2021 is very plausible. Estimating 30% have "long COVID" is in line with PASC research, though estimates do vary a lot (maybe 10%-60%). However one big question is how severe is long COVID for your average worker, is it minor or completely debilitating? The author eventually very roughly estimates ~1.1 million people out of work due to long COVID at any given time. This is suggested as a possible contributor to the ~10 million unfilled positions in the job market. Coming at it from a different angle, this analysis calculated an additional 1.2 million people in the civilian institutional population with a registered disability in 2021 compared to 2020.  The implication is a large fraction of these people have a new disability due to long COVID. I don't know how long it takes to get registered as disabled, and what fraction of disabled people successfully register, but it suggests around 1 million people workers developed a disability in 2020-2021 due to long COVID. This is the conclusion of the article. Both of these analysis point, in a handwaving manner, to on the order of 1 million of the 100 million American workers infected in the first two years of the pandemic experiencing severe enough long COVID symptoms to either temporarily/permanently drop out of the labor force or be registered as disabled. A COVID infection having a >1% chance of inducing a "significant" disability seems like a real possibility. Compare this with PASC research, which suggests >10% of COVID infections result in some type of "long COVID". Nocturtle fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Mar 7, 2022 |
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Pingui posted:Unsurprising, but here is an illustration:
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Why science fiction is really just fantasy Actually. we can't manage the poo poo we have now. We're hell on wheels when it comes to improving our tools. But managing the geometrically increasing complexity of the world our tools have made? Not so much. That, in two sentences, is our terminal dilemma.
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this time the virus is in PERMANENT decline it's OVER as per current data cases will be down to 0 in the USA by april. it's done. the decline is permanent
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empty whippet box posted:this time the virus is in PERMANENT decline  That one doesn't really need a "sarcasm" tag.
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empty whippet box posted:this time the virus is in PERMANENT decline i can't wait for our first negative case and death day
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[placeholder for kurt vonnegut slaughterhouse five quote except it's bodies being wheeled out of freeze morgue trucks, nurses miraculously closing the holes in their swiss cheese lungs and dissolving blood clots, and these people reporting straight back to applebees where the virus is sucked out of their bodies over appetizers by a small group of selfless volunteers, a cycle that repeats until the virus is concentrated in just one person who spits it into a bat's mouth that flies safely back into a cave never to contact humanity ever again and the world is back to normal]
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Inspector Hound posted:https://twitter.com/Ted_Howze/status/1500568900609531904?t=7DLGNWrAzFJKf_fbRcJnqA&s=19 I want to drop people like this in the middle of the jungle to test thier fitness for survival
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kreeningsons posted:i can't wait for our first negative case and death day so if we wait long enough, all the people who died will come back to life!
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 That feeling when you're not a walking heart attack and stroke
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kreeningsons posted:[placeholder for kurt vonnegut slaughterhouse five quote except it's bodies being wheeled out of freeze morgue trucks, nurses miraculously closing the holes in their swiss cheese lungs and dissolving blood clots, and these people reporting straight back to applebees where the virus is sucked out of their bodies over appetizers by a small group of selfless volunteers, a cycle that repeats until the virus is concentrated in just one person who spits it into a bat's mouth that flies safely back into a cave never to contact humanity ever again and the world is back to normal]  but it's a rona ball shedding a single tear
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Inspector Hound posted:https://twitter.com/Ted_Howze/status/1500568900609531904?t=7DLGNWrAzFJKf_fbRcJnqA&s=19 "official". Has the excess deaths eclipsed spanish flu yet
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SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank is this good?
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Cheesus posted:Anyone else finding themselves in a situation where their spouse is buying into the Biden propaganda and those irritating and increasingly uncomfortable facts are becoming more meaningless? If so, how are you handling it? Tracking probable exposure timeframes in my calendar to adequately assign blame if and when we catch it because of "got to live your life" activities, because the deterring effectiveness of a family member recently having a pretty severe case a month ago has apparently already worn off. You know, healthy relationship stuff.  Nocturtle posted:The possibility that SARs-COV-2 potentially persists in certain tissues and bodily reservoirs is something I hadn't paid attention to in the past, in part because the acute phase of the disease was bad enough but also because the majority of people appeared to fully recover from infection and presumably cleared the virus. However observations of potential viral persistence keeps coming up in PASC research with speculation that this could help explain long-term symptoms in at least some people. Here's one example, from a review article: Hmm, persistent coronaviruses. Let's see if there's precedent for that... vet.cornell.edu posted:Most cats infected with a FCoV eliminate virus following infection, but some cats may develop a persistent infection. These cats are generally asymptomatic, can shed large amounts of virus in feces, and serve as a continual source of infection for other cats in the environment. Continual circulation of FCoV within a cat population may increase the chance that a virulent FIP strain might emerge. While the pathogenesis of FIP is poorly understood, it is now believed that detection and removal of persistently infected and shedding cats in a multi-cat household can reduce the risk of FIP emergence within that population. https://www.vet.cornell.edu/animal-health-diagnostic-center/veterinary-support/disease-information/feline-coronavirus lol and lmeowo
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kreeningsons posted:[placeholder for kurt vonnegut slaughterhouse five quote except it's bodies being wheeled out of freeze morgue trucks, nurses miraculously closing the holes in their swiss cheese lungs and dissolving blood clots, and these people reporting straight back to applebees where the virus is sucked out of their bodies over appetizers by a small group of selfless volunteers, a cycle that repeats until the virus is concentrated in just one person who spits it into a bat's mouth that flies safely back into a cave never to contact humanity ever again and the world is back to normal] covid goes.
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how much of back to work is justifying real estate purchases vs. management needing to see their fiefdom instead of just doing nothing and letting the money roll in from excess labor
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dxt posted:https://mobile.twitter.com/StarTribune/status/1500835912225370112 "Predictable and manageable" well we're halfway there.
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zegermans posted:how much of back to work is justifying real estate purchases vs. management needing to see their fiefdom instead of just doing nothing and letting the money roll in from excess labor it's always gonna be whatever serves accumulated capital best, but por que no los dos?
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it's because labor must never be seen as having the upper hand so daddy biden needs to step in and "crack" the "whip"
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I'm sure there's not many of them, but I bet there are people who like going to the office. Pathetic, stupid, loser people, but people nonetheless
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Wrex Ruckus posted:went to Target this morning in the DC burbs, still like ~80% customers wearing masks but workers were probably 50/50 to 2/3 must be nice
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T-Paine posted:I'm sure there's not many of them, but I bet there are people who like going to the office. Pathetic, stupid, loser people, but people nonetheless when we were pushed back into the office full time, I definitely overheard people talking about how great it was that they could "go home" now
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Iron Crowned posted:must be nice it's because we hate FREEDOM around these parts
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The preschool that I support dropped their mask mandate and both of the kids I was there to work with are out sick. Huh.
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kreeningsons posted:it's because labor must never be seen as having the upper hand so daddy biden needs to step in and "crack" the "whip" lol yeah hope you enjoyed the enhanced unemployment and the stimulus checks if you got any of it, because they will never happen again.
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zegermans posted:how much of back to work is justifying real estate purchases vs. management needing to see their fiefdom instead of just doing nothing and letting the money roll in from excess labor I thought it was letting workers know their place.
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T-Paine posted:I'm sure there's not many of them, but I bet there are people who like going to the office. Pathetic, stupid, loser people, but people nonetheless They're just called parents.
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Joementum posted:FYI, I just successfully ordered four more tests (aka two boxes lol) from covidtests.gov  even though I'm still sitting on about 8 tests, may as well get a few more also lol I haven't seen any free n95s in any of my drugstores this past week
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HHS DATA Since COVID Is you know, over, these numbers and maps will clearly show that right? Especially since this update is including weekend numbers which are notorious for just missing information. BNO March cases: 38,842 March Deaths 6,663 Total Beds: 768,660 (its been bouncing between 765 and 790 for a month) Beds Used: 574,415 7 DAy Average: 576,662 COVID Beds: 34,077 https://twitter.com/patricklsimpson/status/1500897196878663687?s=20&t=8HeGRByubgZx5KF2nQevwA Total ICU Beds ICU Beds Used: 57,408 COVID ICU Beds Used: 6,313 https://twitter.com/patricklsimpson/status/1500897676736413696?s=20&t=8HeGRByubgZx5KF2nQevwA COVID Admissions: 7,226 Adults - 6,590 (-200 from a week ago) Kids - 636 (up 103 from a week ago) Per Admissions - COVID is over! https://twitter.com/patricklsimpson/status/1500897196878663687?s=20&t=8HeGRByubgZx5KF2nQevwA
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