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pro starcraft loser posted:As long as the vaccines work for it. The current vaccines aren't approved for use under 16, iirc
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Dec 23, 2020 18:15
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So not only are we actually in Musk’s theorized simulation computer, some rear end in a top hat really is playing Plague, Inc
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Dec 23, 2020 18:25
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mr_jolly posted:ah cool! jesus christ. I live in loving third world land and we got no 20 new super covids like them, what hell?
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Dec 23, 2020 18:30
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Alright, one of you science motherfucks can probably explain this to someone dumb like me. Where did this virus come from? Like is it similar to hiv where it was present for who knows how long in monkeys (siv?) and mutated enough to jump the species barrier?
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Dec 23, 2020 18:32
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wesleywillis posted:Alright, one of you science motherfucks can probably explain this to someone dumb like me. Where did this virus come from? Like is it similar to hiv where it was present for who knows how long in monkeys (siv?) and mutated enough to jump the species barrier? God created everything, and God clearly hates us.
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Dec 23, 2020 18:42
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pro starcraft loser posted:As long as the vaccines work for it. They won't, but politicians will tell us they do! Then they'll blame people who get infected for not being careful or some poo poo
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Dec 23, 2020 18:45
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Pangolin catches a cold that is transferred to the bats that suckle upon their milky titties and eventually humans ate both. Or the chinese had the russians who built the winter olympics village a few years back construct their high level government virus lab in the heart of Wuhan.
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Dec 23, 2020 18:46
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Pangolin catches a cold that is transferred to the bats that suckle upon their milky titties and eventually humans ate both. Or the chinese had the russians who built the winter olympics village a few years back construct their high level government virus lab in the heart of Wuhan. what kind of insane country would allow that kind of research to take place in a major metro area, anyway
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Dec 23, 2020 18:51
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LloydDobler posted:God created everything, and God clearly hates us. But I was told god made dirt, and dirt don’t hurt. Someone lied.
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Dec 23, 2020 18:52
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does anyone know someone who got it and had disorientation/confusion constantly (so tired they couldnt bother to eat)? Someone I know got it and I wanted to know how serious this is
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Dec 23, 2020 19:01
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wesleywillis posted:Alright, one of you science motherfucks can probably explain this to someone dumb like me. Where did this virus come from? Like is it similar to hiv where it was present for who knows how long in monkeys (siv?) and mutated enough to jump the species barrier? There will never be definitive proof but we have strong evidence: - The first identified cases originated in China, specifically the city of Wuhan. - There are markets in Wuhan that sell live animals, including bats; it's possible the virus was transmitted through direct consumption, or being bit, or through an intermediate host (ex. bat -> cat -> human) - Coronaviruses in bats are familiar to us and the COVID-19 genome is almost identical to other bat coronavirus samples. It wouldn't surprise me if there are hundreds or thousands of potential pandemic viruses lurking in various animals. But it takes a very specific combination of transmissibility, lethality, and inactivity to hurt us this bad. If it were deadlier we would take it more serious and be able to better identify infected/spreaders. If it were less deadly it would be "just another flu". And it has to survive in a non-human host well enough to get to us first. For all our shortcomings humans are very cautious about being clean and purifying what we eat/drink. Polio Vax Scene fucked around with this message at 19:06 on Dec 23, 2020 |
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Dec 23, 2020 19:02
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devmd01 posted:My wife is a teacher and statistically at least in her school district being in school is one of the safest environments for kids. mandatory masks, separation of chairs as much as is feasibly possible, heavy contact tracing/awareness of who is sitting where, sending anyone home that is possibly exposed, etc etc has gone a long way. From everything the school district and department of health are saying, there have been very, very few cases of infection due to being at school. It’s all happening outside of school where people are less careful.
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Dec 23, 2020 19:04
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poverty goat posted:what kind of insane country would allow that kind of research to take place in a major metro area, anyway There was a decent docudrama a few years ago about this with Julianne Marguiles and Topher Grace. E: it was on natgeo, I think called The Hot Zone. I spent about 4 months at Edgewood Arsenal in the early 00s for training (now a mechanical maintenance army TRADOC base). Imagine my surprise at the rich history that place had with troop experiments from the 40s through the 70s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgewood_Arsenal_human_experiments Also a bunch of rapes in the 90s by drill sergeants iirc. America.
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Dec 23, 2020 19:08
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wesleywillis posted:Alright, one of you science motherfucks can probably explain this to someone dumb like me. Where did this virus come from? Like is it similar to hiv where it was present for who knows how long in monkeys (siv?) and mutated enough to jump the species barrier? most likely bats or pangolins but i don’t think we’re sure more information about plagues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk
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Dec 23, 2020 19:10
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Looks like someone has been saving up all the mutation perks.
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Dec 23, 2020 19:20
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Report from the pharmacy: Someone pissed on the carpet in the atrium, which was nice. Less nice was getting a no foolin, point blank exposure to an unmasked potential covid infectee who was "going into self isolation" (after he got his drugs natch). Wound up standing right in front of him when he tried to run into the back shop after he got jumped outside, physically barring him from entry while he yelled that we had to let him hide there or a car full of people were going to kill him. Got home and spent half an hour jumping up and down yelling "gently caress" at nothing in particular, which was a nice flashback to my first potential exposure back in March.
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Dec 23, 2020 20:24
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Alan Smithee posted:does anyone know someone who got it and had disorientation/confusion constantly (so tired they couldnt bother to eat)? Someone I know got it and I wanted to know how serious this is Its one of the more serious symptoms and they should get medical advice asap. Its listed as part of the serious symptom list on our call script.  Have them call an advice nurse if they can't get their doc on the phone. Obviously call 911 if its really bad. A lot of people I talk to experience significant fatigue and loss of appetite though. DeadFatDuckFat fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Dec 23, 2020 |
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Dec 23, 2020 20:25
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I was in a work conference call today where everybody was talking about their family get togethers this year. The people on the call were hospital or health care industry employees. *internal screaming intensifies*
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Dec 23, 2020 20:32
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Xaintrailles posted:If she's exhibiting her dog you could give it a really bad haircut. You know what would probably prevent her from going to a dog show? Not having a dog to bring. Surely you must know someone who wouldn't mind taking care of a dog for a day? Or a boarding house for dogs? Then just tell your mom "Hey I know where your dog and he's totally fine but I'm not telling you where he is until the dog show is over". I mean it might sound cruel but unfortunately boomers need to be treated like the entitled toddlers they are these days in order to save them from themselves.
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Dec 23, 2020 23:09
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Alan Smithee posted:does anyone know someone who got it and had disorientation/confusion constantly (so tired they couldnt bother to eat)? Someone I know got it and I wanted to know how serious this is https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/need-extra-precautions/older-adults.html  Its one of the very worrying signs and you need to get this person asessed ASAP especially if they are older.
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Dec 23, 2020 23:09
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My mom (nurse in a nursing home) had covid real bad in March and she's scheduled to get the vaccine January 6. I'm glad because I worry about her getting reinfected or spreading it to my dad who may have been asymptomatic or not caught it at all. Hopefully I can get it in the near future because man eating lunch outside in the winter is not fun.
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Dec 23, 2020 23:35
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Surprised there hasn’t been more nasty mutations coming out of the US given the number of cases means there’s been plenty of opportunities for that to happen. Or maybe they have emerged and it’s just that no one there is doing enough testing and analysis to find them and see if they’re more deadly/contagious than earlier variants.
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Dec 23, 2020 23:43
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They have emerged and it’s just that no one here is doing enough testing and analysis to find them and see if they’re more deadly/contagious than earlier variants. 
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Dec 23, 2020 23:47
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gay picnic defence posted:Surprised there hasn’t been more nasty mutations coming out of the US given the number of cases means there’s been plenty of opportunities for that to happen. The UK is simply sequencing way more than other nations, that's why we hear about their mutations.
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Dec 23, 2020 23:47
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pro starcraft loser posted:As long as the vaccines work for it. just think of all the crazy variants that are being cooked up in the United States right now with our sky high transmission rate
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Dec 23, 2020 23:50
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Starks posted:I understand that. The original post said an entire nursing home got reinfected, not a single case. How could a single case prove reinfections aren't rare?
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Dec 24, 2020 00:01
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Colonel Cancer posted:Uhm it's still 2020, whaddya think Not for very much longer, now it's just a matter of time until we beat this drat year once and for all!!! (I mean yeah, 2021's probably still going to be pretty hosed, but I say we still take this as a victory)
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Dec 24, 2020 00:12
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dr_rat posted:Not for very much longer, now it's just a matter of time until we beat this drat year once and for all!!! Remember when everybody was happy to be done with 2019, when that was considered to have been a terrible year?
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Dec 24, 2020 00:24
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Fame Douglas posted:Remember when everybody was happy to be done with 2019, when that was considered to have been a terrible year? > I'm so tired of [KNOWN_DEVIL], [UNKNOWN_DEVIL] is going to be my time to shine <GETTING_TO_KNOW_YOU_PHASE> repeat ad nauseam
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Dec 24, 2020 00:37
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zgrowler2 posted:> I'm so tired of [KNOWN_DEVIL], [UNKNOWN_DEVIL] is going to be my time to shine It will be hard for biden to be even worse than trump but I wish him the best in his attempt
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Dec 24, 2020 00:43
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Fame Douglas posted:Remember when everybody was happy to be done with 2019, when that was considered to have been a terrible year?
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Dec 24, 2020 01:36
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Fame Douglas posted:Remember when everybody was happy to be done with 2019, when that was considered to have been a terrible year? I must have been one of the few people that was absolutely dreading 2020 on Dec 31st 2019. Because at that point the virus was raging through Wuhan and it was on the news but it wasn't headline news like it is now. And one of things they were talking about was how much Chinese people travel all around the world on New years and I just knew it was going to make it here (the US) and it was going to be really bad. And that it was the worst possible time ever for that to happen with the "leadership" we have.
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Dec 24, 2020 02:34
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FiskTireBoy posted:I must have been one of the few people that was absolutely dreading 2020 on Dec 31st 2019. Because at that point the virus was raging through Wuhan and it was on the news but it wasn't headline news like it is now. And one of things they were talking about was how much Chinese people travel all around the world on New years and I just knew it was going to make it here (the US) and it was going to be really bad. And that it was the worst possible time ever for that to happen with the "leadership" we have. Well you could have warned us  Australia paid very little attention to the virus in Wuhan because at the time most of our country was burning down and our PM had hosed off to Hawaii. Simpler times.
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Dec 24, 2020 03:21
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My husband, who follows Chinese news, was losing his poo poo about Covid in January. By February I was legit starting to worry about his mental health for the first time ever when he started talking about stockpiling canned food and masks and practically yelling stats at me. By March I was like, poo poo, you're right. Sorry.
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Dec 24, 2020 03:54
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OMFG FURRY posted:just think of all the crazy variants that are being cooked up in the United States right now with our sky high transmission rate Alabama: Asymptomatic while driving car and making left turns. Upon turning right, a wall of every known symptom, all at once.
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Dec 24, 2020 03:57
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I remember mid-February there was someone claiming to have already made the vaccine because I had this conversation with my co-worker next to me that as much as we gripe about our health care system, he didn't think socialized medicine would've been able to crank out something that quick. Like, yes our coverage sucks, yes our coverage is insecure if we get laid off, yes we pay way more, but this is what justifies it. Then we spent 10 months having the most consistently lovely first world infection/death numbers out there and the first vaccine to get approved actually came from Germany 
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Dec 24, 2020 04:31
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I haven't read an article this year that has absolutely broken my heart as much as this one. In her own words, Dr. Susan Moore explains her complications of COVID-19 and how the doctors refused to give her the proper treatment because she was black. https://www.facebook.com/susan.moore.33671748/posts/3459157600869878 https://www.facebook.com/susan.moore.33671748/videos/vb.100003270157867/3459156707536634/?type=3&theater She died on Sunday from the virus. The doctor refused to touch her, to do any type of evaluation, he literally told her to go home as she didn't have anything wrong. She later found out that the doctor has had problems treating patients going back at least three years. The NY Times posted the article explaining more, her last update on the post is that she was on a BiPAP and taken to the ICU after it was determined that yes, the doctor sent her home too early. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/us/susan-moore-black-doctor-indiana.html I don't know if he is just a lovely doctor...but it feels like she was right.
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Dec 24, 2020 06:15
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ThermoPhysical posted:I haven't read an article this year that has absolutely broken my heart as much as this one. there is hospitals in america that will let women die if they need an abortion to live even if they got airlifted there unconscious and it wasn't their idea to use that hospital, health care in america is hosed mate.
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ThermoPhysical posted:I haven't read an article this year that has absolutely broken my heart as much as this one. Racial disparities in health care quality due to race has been a long documented issue. There are still nurses and doctors who think black people have a higher tolerance for pain. Pregnant black people have a higher chance of death when delivering.
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