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Hadlock posted:3/4 of the way down they mention that this building was constructed before backdraft vent valves were mandated, and also it's a passive ventilation system Big gubmint  I’m curious if any building standards around ventilation will change as a result of the pandemic. It seems insane that every year tons of people get the flu or a severe cold and the reaction has been  what can ya do?
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GokuGoesSSJ3 posted:Probably shouldn't assume it's not, I'd guess cold and flu cases are way down this year. I remember flu cases were that way at the tail end of flu season last year due to covid precautions. Flu season in the southern hemisphere was also basically nonexistent this year. I'd expect similar results in the northern hemisphere, but probably not quite as good because of lockdown fatigue and the fact that the US is superspreader central.
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imandyyo posted:That’s the part that’s got me down lately. So many people just living life and having fun and still not getting it while I’m being ultra conservative and feeling like an rear end in a top hat. Kind of angry/resentful some days especially on behalf of my kids. The most infuriating part is that, because of their blind luck they're never going to acknowledge the damage covid-19 has done to just about every part of society and the absolutely mindblowing amount of families torn apart, and those who get it and survive probably won't learn it either 
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I know some distant relatives who had a 5 or 6 household, 20ish person gathering. Very few of them are taking even the simplest of precautions so I won't be shocked if there's some cases coming out of that.
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7of7 posted:Big gubmint I think a lot more people are going to wear masks on public transit going forward. And day care now force kids to wash and disinfect their hands entering/leaving the premises. That will probably stay with them up adult age. After the 1918 spanish flu they switched the materials on hand rails, doorknobs/pulls etc to brass as it has an antiseptic effect on flu virus Also I think that may have spurred soap dispensers in public restrooms, but not sure Coronavirus doesn't smear transmit very well but soap kills it pretty good so there's not much to do there Our lobby in our building now has a hepa filter that runs 24/7 as it's a high traffic area, and hepa filters are about 99% effective, I'm pushing for the HOA to install a second one because of the volume
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A big thing I hope happens after we get back into offices (if we even do) is that people will take spreading illness more seriously. I've worked with a lot of stupid fucks who take some weird pride into coming into work sick like they're true soldiers toughing it out. gently caress off, you're going to give us all strep, Greg.
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Antifa Spacemarine posted:A big thing I hope happens after we get back into offices (if we even do) is that people will take spreading illness more seriously. I've worked with a lot of stupid fucks who take some weird pride into coming into work sick like they're true soldiers toughing it out. gently caress off, you're going to give us all strep, Greg. Narrator: They learned nothing
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Antifa Spacemarine posted:A big thing I hope happens after we get back into offices (if we even do) is that people will take spreading illness more seriously. I've worked with a lot of stupid fucks who take some weird pride into coming into work sick like they're true soldiers toughing it out. gently caress off, you're going to give us all strep, Greg. Of course that's assuming white collar office with plenty of sick leave. I'm sure there are people coming into other types of work sick because they'll be fired or lose a day's pay otherwise. So yeah minimum required sick leave laws would be great.
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It'd be cool if nanobodies ended up working out too. Very cool tech with some interesting potential applications.
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Finally had to just deactivate my facebook like a lot of my friends have. Between pro-trump conspiracy nut relatives, relative and friend adjacent people posting memes about "People swarm into grocery stores why can't restaurants be open!" and the occasional "This is communism, our parents would have never allowed our freedoms to be stolen in fear!" I...just can't take it anymore, especially come home from a hospital around covid patients. Finding out so many people I thought I knew are in face grossly ignorant, stupid, and selfish has been the worst gut punch of 2020.
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They finally figured out why Russia's covid death toll was way way down compared to most other countries: they were just plain lying about the numbers and they'd reclassified two thirds of their covid deaths under other causes.quote:The Rosstat statistics agency said that the number of deaths from all causes recorded between January and November had risen by 229,700 compared to the previous year. Edit: oh and they've already detected a case of the new South African strain in Australia, and they'd already found the new UK strain here as well. Both cases were detected in returned travelers who were already in hotel quarantine so hopefully they've been contained. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-29/coronavirus-queensland-records-first-case-south-african-strain/13010534 Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 05:01 on Dec 29, 2020 |
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Antifa Spacemarine posted:A big thing I hope happens after we get back into offices (if we even do) is that people will take spreading illness more seriously. I've worked with a lot of stupid fucks who take some weird pride into coming into work sick like they're true soldiers toughing it out. gently caress off, you're going to give us all strep, Greg. Anyways, I think this problem is the fault of lovely employers not allowing time-off. When I was in a union position we had 12 paid sick days a year, increasing vacation time with seniority (I had 15 days per year,) and also 14 paid holidays a year. So when I was union I didn't use my sick time unless I was sick because I had vacation time and plenty of holidays. When I lost all that becoming non-union, yeah I gotta admit, I came to work loving sick.
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Why do I feel that pandemics are going to be increasingly common due to climate change?
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My boss: “you don’t have health insurance?!” Motherfucker, you were the one who hired me as a freelancer so you didn’t have to provide it.
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Antifa Spacemarine posted:A big thing I hope happens after we get back into offices (if we even do) is that people will take spreading illness more seriously. I've worked with a lot of stupid fucks who take some weird pride into coming into work sick like they're true soldiers toughing it out. gently caress off, you're going to give us all strep, Greg. i mean i hope so but don't count on it from 1914 to 1945 like 100 million people were killed due to global wars and humanity learned ????? from all that
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ruddiger posted:My boss: “you don’t have health insurance?!” For all the shittiness of internships (even paid ones) I am genuinely pleased that my company decided that we would pay extra this year (and hopefully all years moving forward) to offer insurance to the interns we're taking on in a few weeks. It would have been loving monstrous to not do that... so the bar was pretty low, but I'm happy that the powers that be saw a need and decided to fill it nevertheless.
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Enos Shenk posted:I'm starting to think my entire extended family is a bunch of utter idiots.
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So, my family member working a VA hospital in the US reports: 40 nurses in her hospital are out of work with COVID symptoms ... including the nurse who trained her, who is on a ventilator and on full oxygen They're so short-staffed they're covering literally double the number of COVID ICU patients than usual. So even the "available ICU beds" metric being tracked isn't exactly accurate, because they are not receiving the normal standard of care. They haven't been accepting diversions for weeks. Their hospital tells the other hospital, sorry, please tell your patient to die somewhere else edit: https://www.azdhs.gov/preparedness/epidemiology-disease-control/infectious-disease-epidemiology/covid-19/dashboards/index.php  To that regular population of ~1100 non-COVID patients who need ICU beds in the middle of the year, half of them are just not being treated. canyoneer fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Dec 29, 2020 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Speaking of the Sydney outbreak .... Update on this: not only are they going to fine these people, they're looking into cancelling their visas and deporting them.  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-29/bronte-beach-backpackers-face-deportation-breach-nsw-covid-rules/13018976
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7of7 posted:These are the same asshats sending IMs at 11pm to show that they're still working. gently caress off, you're setting a bad example, Greg Even in worker's paradise Australia where we get a minimum of 10 sick days per year, the common cold lasts 7-10 days and most people under ordinary circumstances catch a cold two or three times a year, so...
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freebooter posted:Even in worker's paradise Australia where we get a minimum of 10 sick days per year, the common cold lasts 7-10 days and most people under ordinary circumstances catch a cold two or three times a year, so... Part timers and full timers get a minimum of 10 days sick leave. Casuals get gently caress all (and wage theft is so rife that many aren't getting any loading to make up for the loss of accrued leave, and our federal government is gearing up to reclassify as many jobs to casual as they possibly can). I get that the 'worker's paradise' was tongue in cheek, but Americans won't know that.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:
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Z the IVth posted:They're all going to Christmas island aren't they? Nah they're white, they'll get a ride home on a comfy plane.  It's actually way more likely that the LNP will just make a lot of noise and do some TV interviews about how they're taking the pandemic seriously but never actually follow up on it.
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Antifa Spacemarine posted:A big thing I hope happens after we get back into offices (if we even do) is that people will take spreading illness more seriously. I've worked with a lot of stupid fucks who take some weird pride into coming into work sick like they're true soldiers toughing it out. gently caress off, you're going to give us all strep, Greg. Some will. Some are going to do the illness-management equivalent of riding coal just to spite everyone else, like they're 12 years old. Except you know, with voting rights.
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My Aussie apartment gets all air via a split system intake (don't know the proper word) on the balcony. This is still ok I think? Pretty sure there are no internal ducts other than exhaust above the stove/dryer/shower. I guess those could suck air in from the hallway though.
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I work with a guy who prides himself on never having taken a sick day in 20 years. gently caress off, dude.
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I'm on day 5 so far - I started feeling ill on Christmas morning with a pounding headache which progressed to a fever and general body aches. Probably the worst thing was really bad lower back pain, it was excruciating. The fever was gone after two days, and since then I've mostly been feeling better. It's deceptive because I'll wake and feel mostly fine, but any exertion at all makes me feel so tired. So sometimes I kinda feel like I'm already over it, but then a wave of dizziness comes over me or I'll go downstairs to make some tea and feel like I just ran a mile when I get back upstairs. Also some pins and needles and weird bruised feeling inside my left arm. I haven't had many respiratory symptoms at all - coughing up a little gunk today, but I never had a bad cough or anything. What a weird disease this thing is - I'm thankful that I seem to have mostly got off light though.
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All of this is caused by the respiratory stuff being a side effect. It is no a respiratory but a blood vessel disease. The symptoms you experience are the virus loving about in your blood vessels and whatever organs it reaches through those.
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Achtane posted:I work with a guy who prides himself on never having taken a sick day in 20 years. Maybe he never got sick in 20 years?
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John F Bennett posted:Maybe he never got sick in 20 years? Maybe, except for when I've seen him almost pass out from working while he's sick.
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Bardeh posted:Also some pins and needles and weird bruised feeling inside my left arm. This is one of the symptoms I had right before I went to the ER and they found a 90% blockage in my heart. I dodged "the widowmaker" Consistent with Mithaldu posted:All of this is caused by the respiratory stuff being a side effect. It is no a respiratory but a blood vessel disease. The symptoms you experience are the virus loving about in your blood vessels and whatever organs it reaches through those. Telehealth my dude, call them.
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freebooter posted:Even in worker's paradise Australia where we get a minimum of 10 sick days per year, the common cold lasts 7-10 days and most people under ordinary circumstances catch a cold two or three times a year, so... You guys have sick days???? Honestly in the places I worked we didn't, or it was really hard to convince the boss to give you at least a day off. Only if the illness was too severe then you could take a few days. We had to go, even with a fever, so the flu and other crap would be circulating among all the employees for months. That's how they all got Covid-19 after I got fired. Scary poo poo and infuriating considering that lots of families got endangered. (My boss got light symptoms so she might believe is not a big deal).
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Achtane posted:I work with a guy who prides himself on never having taken a sick day in 20 years. my dad got cancer and was off work for one and a half years, while remaining employed, continuing to be paid, and having income-based state health insurance cover all medical costs. due to privacy laws his employer never learned what he had and was legally barred from even asking. when my dad was fully recovered and healed from the operation and treatments he returned to work, worked 2 months, reached pension age and went into retirement with the state paying him a pension and his health insurance also being covered by the state us workers really need to start doing that collective action thing in order to transform the usa away from being a third world hellhole Kerosene19 posted:This is one of the symptoms I had right before I went to the ER and they found a 90% blockage in my heart. I dodged "the widowmaker" holy poo poo, nice that they caught it for you, and good advice Mithaldu fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Jan 1, 2021 |
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Mithaldu posted:my dad got cancer and was off work for a year (maybe even half a year more, memory is dim), while remaining employed, continuing to be paid, and having income-based state health insurance cover all medical costs. due to privacy laws his employer never learned what he had and was legally barred from even asking. when my dad was fully recovered and healed from the operation and treatments he returned to work, worked 2 months, reached pension age and went into retirement with the state paying him a pension and his health insurance also being covered by the state Man, that sounds like a fantasy.
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Now my chud inlaws' oldest son has covid. They were planning a big family gathering this coming weekend. Apparently their first hint was that he couldn't catch his breath at wrestling practice. Why the gently caress is there wrestling practice. Fuckin Indiana.
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