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Synthetic Dreams posted:I'm well aware of the happenings within California. I live there too, but I kinda balk at the idea of this state being socialist. It's milquetoast liberal at best. I was in Venice Beach getting a tooth yanked out earlier this week and that area was bustling with idiots ignoring the shelter at home orders. Many pedestrians were not wearing face masks. It was terrifying to consider the likelihood of some of those people being dead in a month or so. A couple of chud business owners are campaigning so hard to reopen- I posted at them like twice and one of them got my account suspended because I had an obvious fake name 😂 NO one wears masks when jogging or walking or biking ever and they were just a few weeks ago. Governor might be a faker but I'm drat glad of him rn.
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NEJM had a good data dive article on covid hospitalizations and what factors increase or decrease your chance of death once hospitalized. Patients who entered the hospital on ACE Inhibitors (lisinopril, enalapril, various others -prils, used for blood pressure and kidney protection) had a 2.1% death rate versus 6.1% for those not on ACE-Is. The only other drug class to show a noticeable benefit was Statins (cholesterol meds such as Simvastatin), they reduced the death rate down to 4.2%. Don't overread those stats though because they haven't been adjusted for confounding variables, but it's still pretty impressive. So keep taking those ACE-Inhibitors or Statins if you got them.
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Subvisual Haze posted:NEJM had a good data dive article on covid hospitalizations and what factors increase or decrease your chance of death once hospitalized. Patients who entered the hospital on ACE Inhibitors (lisinopril, enalapril, various others -prils, used for blood pressure and kidney protection) had a 2.1% death rate versus 6.1% for those not on ACE-Is. The only other drug class to show a noticeable benefit was Statins (cholesterol meds such as Simvastatin), they reduced the death rate down to 4.2%. Don't overread those stats though because they haven't been adjusted for confounding variables, but it's still pretty impressive. I take lisinopril for high blood pressure so remember to PM me your account passwords before you pass into the great beyond
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Synthetic Dreams posted:I'm well aware of the happenings within California. I live there too, but I kinda balk at the idea of this state being socialist. It's milquetoast liberal at best yeah that was sarcasm friend
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oh good the whitehouse will be blocking Dr. Fauci from testifying on Capitol Hill next week cool, cool
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Pitdragon posted:oh good the whitehouse will be blocking Dr. Fauci from testifying on Capitol Hill next week Does he even have time for that yet?
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Soooo I started having horrible diarrhea Tuesday and it is now better than the previous pissing-out-of-my-rear end variety I was experiencing then but still not even close to normal. Had a 99.9 fever at one point and bad chills. No vomiting just nausea. My dumb rear end tried to go back to work after having wednesday off, felt ok yesterday but then today I almost passed out at work. Like I had to catch myself or I would have hit the floor. Probably didn't help I didn't eat breakfast (thanks nausea) and only drank a couple cups of water, then just had protein shake for lunch. Anyway I came home early from work and I called urgent care and they are seeing me by telephone because of my symptoms. Expecting a call back in the next hour or so. I bet I'm gonna get tested! Oh joy! I keep posting false alarms in this thread. I dunno why I want goons to know about my explosive diarrhea but I don't really wanna talk to friends about it so yeah. I guess I heard that GI signs can also be covid so I'm wondering if that's what's up. Here I thought I just had food poisoning. I haven't been able to shelter at home because I am ~essential~ and multiple people at my work have had it already so would not be surprised at all if I test positive.
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Subvisual Haze posted:NEJM had a good data dive article on covid hospitalizations and what factors increase or decrease your chance of death once hospitalized. Patients who entered the hospital on ACE Inhibitors (lisinopril, enalapril, various others -prils, used for blood pressure and kidney protection) had a 2.1% death rate versus 6.1% for those not on ACE-Is. The only other drug class to show a noticeable benefit was Statins (cholesterol meds such as Simvastatin), they reduced the death rate down to 4.2%. Don't overread those stats though because they haven't been adjusted for confounding variables, but it's still pretty impressive. Lisinopril made me cough so much I had to stop taking it Can you link it please? Nm, I found it. No benefit from an ARB Spinz fucked around with this message at 01:16 on May 2, 2020 |
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I'm in Florida, where most of the state is following DeSantis' plan for "phased re-opening." Phase 1 starts on Monday. Basically everything is back open except for night clubs, bars, vacation rentals, and theme parks. Social gatherings up to 10 people are allowed. Some types of businesses (restaurants, bowling alleys, concerts, movie theaters, retail stores) are supposed to limit capacity to 25-50% and enforce social distancing. Salons, barbershops, etc. are also allowed to open if the employees all wear face masks and sanitize their stations between customers. There are a lot of "businesses should consider"-type recommendations in the plan that will be almost universally disregarded. Meanwhile, in preparation for the grand re-opening, DeSantis has ordered coroners to stop reporting corona virus death figures. I'm fully expecting a huge spike in fatalities here within 2-3 weeks.
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snake and bake posted:I'm in Florida, where most of the state is following DeSantis' plan for "phased re-opening." I'm also laughing at the idea that employers are going to do any kind of employee screening
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Spinz posted:Nm, I was on an angiotensin one Lisonopril was scary at the beginning of the spread because I wasn't ever sure if I had the cough from it or if I should self isolate. Then, one day, it changed from a dry to a wet cough and I pulled the kids from school. That was almost two months ago... I still have the cough. Some weird illnesses going around besides Covid19
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I just went back to work on Monday after taking two months off (used up all of my sick time and vacation). I work at a pet retail store where I normally do dog grooming and training, but because neither of those services are available right now, I've been working on the floor running register, stocking, and helping customers. It has been interesting to say the least. The amount of people who seem to just not care about the virus is disturbing, and the ones that are most vocal about it are almost always in the high risk age range. I've had three women it their 60's complain to me about the precautionary measures being too strict, that the virus wasn't really all that bad, etc. People are up in arms because they can't make returns or use our restrooms. The first thing I saw when I walked in the door on Monday was a sign in front of the register that said "PLEASE BE NICE TO YOUR ESSENTIAL WORKERS. THEY ARE HERE FOR YOUR ESSENTIAL ITEMS" which pretty much says it all. We're doomed.
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Warm Fish Salad posted:The amount of people who seem to just not care about the virus is disturbing, and the ones that are most vocal about it are almost always in the high risk age range. Yeah, I've noticed that when I'm at the grocery store and see someone without a mask the chances of them being an overweight man in the 50-75 age range is about 75%. It's weird that they just don't give a poo poo.
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Drunk Nerds posted:Lisonopril was scary at the beginning of the spread because I wasn't ever sure if I had the cough from it or if I should self isolate. A persistent cough is a massively common side effect of Lisinopril, I got it right away when I was prescribed it a couple years ago and they immediately switched me to losartan which didn't have any side effects for me. ? Oc ianad
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Inept posted:lmao they even allowed them to have their guns in the gallery that overlooks the state senate floor Same page, as well as,two pages before. Don’t clutter plz
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monkeytennis posted:Your president reckons he’s seen the smoking gun: Any gun dumb enough to take up smoking these days deserves it's cancer.
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Supreme Allah posted:I wish toyota would sex these up a bit, anytime I consider a pick-up all the good looking ones are garbage quality-wise and vice versa ive got a 2019 tacoma and i like the way it looks a lot. that ones an older model, i think they've jazzed it up pretty well in recent years
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aw yeah lisinopril crew. Used to have normal blood pressure and hair before stress and cigarettes, but oh well ... guess at least I got that lower mortality rate. Silver linings and all that
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Well I went to urgent care and they gave me antibiotics so they weren't thinking covid. I guess it's easy to get worried about it since it's on everyone's mind right now. Hopefully I will improve on the antibiotics.
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Dixville posted:Well I went to urgent care and they gave me antibiotics so they weren't thinking covid. I guess it's easy to get worried about it since it's on everyone's mind right now. Hopefully I will improve on the antibiotics. Hopefully!! From everything you've posted I thought for sure you had Covid
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Dixville posted:Well I went to urgent care and they gave me antibiotics so they weren't thinking covid. I guess it's easy to get worried about it since it's on everyone's mind right now. Hopefully I will improve on the antibiotics. My 70yo ex-colleague was treated by his family doctor with antibiotics, cough medicine and pain killers. Spent three weeks at home in bed but got better in the end. All the symptoms minus fever. No tests available in his country. It started after he had spent the week partying at the carnaval, so my guess is either covid19 or deadly withdrawals from too much samba. One week was critical, but they decided not to go to hospital because it would be worse there.
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WTF how did you get an X‐ray image of Governor Kemp’s mansion?
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I hate poo poo like this because who's going to be auditing and enforcing this poo poo? I mean I get that the point is to provide a pretext of doing something while not having to actually do anything, but it does annoy me.
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Ocean Book posted:I hate poo poo like this because who's going to be auditing and enforcing this poo poo? I mean I get that the point is to provide a pretext of doing something while not having to actually do anything, but it does annoy me. lol remember that the EPA and USDA have suspended inspections? Good times.
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like everyone knows the logic of paid work - unless someone is making you do things you cut every corner you can. extra cleaning is extra work. wearing a mask is annoying and your just gonna pull it down under your chin. your supervisor sees it but he doesnt want to deal with it either. no one follows the rules, everyone knows it, and since there are no consequences nothing happens
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Turrurrurrurrrrrrr posted:My 70yo ex-colleague was treated by his family doctor with antibiotics, cough medicine and pain killers. Spent three weeks at home in bed but got better in the end. All the symptoms minus fever. No tests available in his country. It started after he had spent the week partying at the carnaval, so my guess is either covid19 or deadly withdrawals from too much samba. One week was critical, but they decided not to go to hospital because it would be worse there. Yeah if I don't start getting better soon I'll probably go get tested. No sure what doctors would even do for coronarrhea anyway though
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Ocean Book posted:I hate poo poo like this because who's going to be auditing and enforcing this poo poo? I mean I get that the point is to provide a pretext of doing something while not having to actually do anything, but it does annoy me. i have a friend who is a manager at a lovely retail store that decided it was essential and apparently corporate expects the managers to put together some kind of plexiglass divider and take the temperatures of employees coming in to work by reaching their hand around the divider with a thermometer before clearing them for work customers may come and go as they please, no masks or gloves required! so yeah they don't give a gently caress it's just so when the smoke clears and the damage is fully revealed they can point to their half-measures and say "we did what we could, see? not our liability!"
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BlackIronHeart posted:Yeah, I've noticed that when I'm at the grocery store and see someone without a mask the chances of them being an overweight man in the 50-75 age range is about 75%. It's weird that they just don't give a poo poo. I mean, not wearing a mask is just another way of treating your body like poo poo. That's already par for the course for a lot of people (especially down where I live). That said, basically no one in my town has been wearing a mask the past two times I've ventured to the grocery. Georgians are loving morons.
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This article has a lot of pics of that Huntington Beach, CA protest: https://www.ocregister.com/2020/05/01/thousands-of-protesters-flock-to-huntington-beach-following-state-ordered-oc-beach-closures/  Bill Gates!
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Take the red pill, drat you just took prednisone. Welcome to the machine sheep
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meat police posted:Take the red pill, drat you just took prednisone. Welcome to the machine sheep its estradiol
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My brother had the roni. He nearly died. Over a month in a ventilator and induced coma. Multiple organ failure. He went home today. Still a long road of recovery ahead, but he went home.
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Cough Drop The Beat posted:Part of the reason why our health care system is so abysmal is because you have wealthy rear end in a top hat lawmakers like Lindsey Graham who have no interest in engaging with factual information or reality itself, which leads to him seriously contending that unemployed workers struggling during the worst epidemic in the past century were making $17/hour, instead of, uh, maybe $11/hour, after they lost their job working the front desk at their closed hotel... and that's a high wage for many workers in our terrible economy. The people who dictate health care policy in our hosed up horrible nation are so out-of-touch with actual society time and time again. That's one of many reasons why we've never thrown it in the trash. You know what's a really loving stupid thing? Lindsey Graham is not even close to rich enough to justify his position personally. As of 2018, his net worth was still under $1 million.
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I got an antibodies test through my work and it came back negative. I was really hoping I'd already had it and was asymptomatic. drat. I'm trying to see if my dad can get one, since he took care of my mom for a week at home before she went to the hospital and never got sick, I assume he caught it. Does anyone know if any clinics in Connecticut are offering testing? Google is not helpful. Here in Brooklyn some urgent care places have them but apparently the line can get long.
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Ultimate Mango posted:My brother had the roni. He nearly died. Over a month in a ventilator and induced coma. Multiple organ failure. Happy to hear this and I hope he recovers well
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Ultimate Mango posted:My brother had the roni. He nearly died. Over a month in a ventilator and induced coma. Multiple organ failure. That's great to hear, I hope the rest of his recovery goes well.
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Subvisual Haze posted:NEJM had a good data dive article on covid hospitalizations and what factors increase or decrease your chance of death once hospitalized. Patients who entered the hospital on ACE Inhibitors (lisinopril, enalapril, various others -prils, used for blood pressure and kidney protection) had a 2.1% death rate versus 6.1% for those not on ACE-Is. The only other drug class to show a noticeable benefit was Statins (cholesterol meds such as Simvastatin), they reduced the death rate down to 4.2%. Don't overread those stats though because they haven't been adjusted for confounding variables, but it's still pretty impressive. I just watched a webinar that showed a bunch of data from different studies showing that t-cells are depleted on admission, and the more they are depleted the more severe the infection will become. Also there are studies that have shown some efficacy of IL-6 inhibitors to prevent mortality from disease. The University of Virginia's remdesivir trial is showing a decrease in mortality from 11% down to 8%, with recovery times 31% faster.
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