Jeffrey Dahmer posted:

https://globalnews.ca/news/7119856/coronavirus-sewage-barcelona-march-2019/



I have no evidence at all but I beleive this is somehow linked to Madeleine McCann

big cummers ONLY posted:

We have a union who appears to be stepping up. And HR has agreed that everyone needs to be wearing masks in public spaces, ie outside of their own personal desk office.

But last week I decided that I will lose this job if I have to protect myself from COVID. If I lose the income, I will qualify for Medicaid to take care of needed healthcare. Not as good as my current plan but the most effective plan right now is the one where I don't get COVID.

e: I have $200 in savings but I'm still ahead of all those minimum wage workers who don't have jobs anymore.

Jeza posted:

And even if that were to happen in some freak circumstance, it would be the biggest scandal in American political history for the government to pump hundreds of millions into churning out a dangerous vaccine that nowhere else adopts. Hellworld or not, no government would survive that. The level of scrutiny on any COVID vaccine will be bigger than any other vaccine in history.

quote:

Kroger Health announced Wednesday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted Emergency Use Authorization for the COVID-19 Test Home Collection Kit.

The kits will allow users to collect a sample for testing for the virus from home, with the help of a health professional via video conference. Patients will then ship their sample to a laboratory for processing, with results coming back in 24-48 hours.

The home collection kits are currently only available to Kroger's frontline associates, based on medical need. However, company officials said they plan to rapidly expand the availability of the home collection kits in the coming weeks, with a goal of processing up to 60,000 tests per week by the end of July.

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So how do the home collection kits work?

- Patients will be provided access to a website where they will answer screening questions, input their organization's benefit code and an individual code, like an employee ID, and complete a clinical assessment. If a patient qualifies, a healthcare professional will issue a prescription and the home collection kit is shipped to their home within 24-48 hours.

- The home collection kit includes a nasal swab, transport vial, instruction sheet, prepaid shipping label, and packing materials for return shipment of the sample to the laboratory.

- Upon receipt of the home collection kit, a healthcare professional guides the home collection process via telehealth – a two-way video chat. The direct observation helps to ensure the proper technique is used for sample collection.

- The patient will then overnight ship their sample to the laboratory for processing, which on average will take 24-48 hours.

- At the laboratory, the collection undergoes a molecular diagnostic test – a test that detects parts of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and can be used to diagnose active infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

- If test results are negative for an active infection, results are released to the patient's electronic medical record portal. Alternatively, patients may be called if they do not consent to use of the portal. For a patient whose test result is positive, a healthcare professional will contact them via phone to provide a recommended course of care.

- Test results will only be accessible to the patient and only shared with their organization if the patient authorizes the release of his or her results. All results are reported to government health agencies as required by law.

johncandy posted:

Do you have a family? You are fighting the good fight, but man, you are already in a very tough spot with no savings to speak of. Hopefully the right people back you up at work. Do you have somewhere you can move into rent free if you lose your income?

Schadenboner posted:

I truly truly want to believe this.

Helios Grime posted:

We are well on our way to catch that second wave, hell yeah



At least they realized that leaving it to the people if they want to wear a mask in public transport or not isn't gonna work, so it's mandatory now like it should have been from the start.


Next monday

Jeza posted:

I think WRT vaccines, there are many legitimate worries about timing and efficacy, but the chance that a dangerous vaccine is adopted worldwide which is somehow worse than COVID is as close to nil as something can be. If something that is claimed to work arises, this is not a situation where only America will start pumping it out and using it while the rest of the world watches and waits. It will be hitting everywhere at once (well, rich countries first).

And even if that were to happen in some freak circumstance, it would be the biggest scandal in American political history for the government to pump hundreds of millions into churning out a dangerous vaccine that nowhere else adopts. Hellworld or not, no government would survive that. The level of scrutiny on any COVID vaccine will be bigger than any other vaccine in history.

big cummers ONLY posted:

I refuse to believe that now. I will fight.

MarcusSA posted:

I am not anti vaccine in anyway shape or form but fuckin lol at being one of the first people to get the quickest vaccine made in human history.

They can pound sand with that poo poo.

Amarcarts posted:

My Dad is retired now, but he used to work upper middle management in manufacturing quality control for a big pharma company. He had a lot of experience with improving yield and reducing impurities. Over the years he also had to do a lot of communication with the FDA for compliance purposes. The way he explains it to me is that (in his company at least) there was always a gentle underlying conflict between the business/marketing and science/safety side of things, but that the overall organizational culture favored the latter so this won out most out of time. The business/marketing people were not evil but they were not as familiar with regulatory hoops and were kind of just another voice at the table. Every now and then the company would get dinged for something but it was usually not a malevolent thing, just an oversight of some kind. The policing and regulation was so tight that it was usually something small that would not end up a catastrophic PR disaster. He described the FDA as akin to a court of law where as a pharma company you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent.

Basically from everything he's told me it sounds like a strong FDA is a good thing as it protects companies from themselves. I don't know much about the organizational culture at the FDA but it may change over time with different administrations and as new people come in while others retire.

As an aside my dad also did some consulting work with some Chinese companies and said that the culture there is completely different. Regulations are seen as something to get around rather than something to comply with. Falsifying quality control data is just another tool in the toolbox.

big cummers ONLY posted:

lol

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quote:

Ms. Robinson’s mother, who asked to be kept anonymous for fear of losing her job, said that in the last two to three weeks, fights over masks had become astonishingly frequent. It was not uncommon for the police to be called to her store three to four times a day, she said.

“We’ve had shoppers go after each other,” she said. “Pushing matches, running carts into each other, running over people’s feet, ankles.”

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In line at a Mini-Mart, he spotted a customer behind him not wearing a mask, he said, and he shook his head. The man asked why Mr. Rogers had been looking at him and Mr. Rogers, again, shook his head.

“I wear a full face guard, the mask that they use when they spray pesticides,” he said. “He reached for my mask and tried to pull it off.” Mr. Rogers said his “natural instinct” came out and he put his hand up and knocked the man to the floor.

greazeball posted:

Kaiju Cage Match posted:

Tell her not to move to Arizona, it's gonna get worse.

Lacrosse posted:

Or if she insists tell her to wait until after they burn all the bodies so she has a glut of cheap houses to choose from

greazeball posted:

Seriously, my parents have a buyer for their big rear end house inbetween Phoenix and Carefree and I am so desparate for this sale to get closed. They put it on the market in the second week in March so just about the worst timing possible but they may still be able to get ~80% of what they were asking. I try not to think about what the housing market is going to look like once those extra unemployment checks stop because I am extremely pessimistic about everything at that point.

naem posted:

how incredibly morally wrong is it that I quietly hope to find affordable housing, even real estate, in the next year or two thanks to this

naem posted:

how incredibly morally wrong is it that I quietly hope to find affordable housing, even real estate, in the next year or two thanks to this

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

Like dude, you know if people are dead or crippled with hospital bills, nobody’s gonna be buying houses right

greazeball posted:

boar guy posted:

the real estate market where i live is the hottest its been in 15 years. stuff is selling in half a day

John_A_Tallon posted:

or to rely on renters to pay the mortgage for the very property they are renting out.

poverty goat posted:

Before this is over any milennial will be able to get an extremely affordable apartment in an empty former nursing home for next to nothing

Fluffy Bunnies posted:

Can someone explain why this one is problematic to me? Because I mean, if you're literally not profiting off people who want to rent your home, I'm lost as to why that's bad. You're basically taking all the responsibility of home ownership on yourself while they just pay for the basic mortgage. You're still liable for repairs and everything; they aren't.

E: I'm not being snappy, I just honestly don't understand. Is the goal to do away with renting? Because some folks seem to want to rent rather than buy because of repairs and stuff like that? I really want to understand this.

Fluffy Bunnies posted:

Can someone explain why this one is problematic to me? Because I mean, if you're literally not profiting off people who want to rent your home, I'm lost as to why that's bad. You're basically taking all the responsibility of home ownership on yourself while they just pay for the basic mortgage. You're still liable for repairs and everything; they aren't.

E: I'm not being snappy, I just honestly don't understand. Is the goal to do away with renting? Because some folks seem to want to rent rather than buy because of repairs and stuff like that? I really want to understand this.

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/06/how-we-will-know-when-coronavirus-vaccine-is-ready-cvd/


I keep forgetting humans are unpredictable

no pubes yet sorry posted:

big cummers ONLY is a good username

MarcusSA posted:

Well so much for that!

Doggles posted:

https://twitter.com/axios/status/1278079248683728902

Konstantin posted:

My mother, who is in her late 60s, was considering selling her home in Nebraska and moving to her winter property in Arizona year round. She is retired and knows to practice social distancing. Should she hold off on the sale considering how hosed Arizona is right now, or will the whole country be like that in a month?