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Went to my local Publix in FL, curious to see what mask usage was like now as the company is following the CDC thing of not requiring masks for vaxd people. It’s not a store I’ve ever seen anyone not wear a mask on, or any kind of commotion. Yet I was still surprised to see about 80% or more masked up today. Hard to know the split between vaxd and not wanting to take it off yet, or unvaxd and being honest. And undoubtedly a percentage who assume it’s still mandated in there.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Went to my local Publix in FL, curious to see what mask usage was like now as the company is following the CDC thing of not requiring masks for vaxd people. It’s not a store I’ve ever seen anyone not wear a mask on, or any kind of commotion. Where in Florida? I grew up in Pinellas and my brother still lives in relative chudville in central Pasco, and he says most people are still wearing masks in the Greenwise Publix they shop at, too. I'm in Seattle now and I bounce between, it's a very easy NPI to continue doing, and I don't want people to think I'm a republican. Also, King county has "strongly suggested" that we keep wearing masks indoors.
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May 24, 2021 02:25
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South East, Broward county. Ha I wonder what the difference between Greenwise and Regular publix is. Pay the extra cost to not be surrounded by anti Vaxers!
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May 24, 2021 03:02
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learnincurve posted:The journey from front door to drive through entails you touching your jacket (potential bird poo poo) and your shoes (potential dog poo poo) then your front door (potential pissy handed neighbour) and then your car (bird poo poo again). if you're the kind of person that just keeps wearing a jacket with bird poo poo on it, I don't think worrying about getting germs on your fries is your top concern
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May 24, 2021 03:05
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EL BROMANCE posted:South East, Broward county. Ha I wonder what the difference between Greenwise and Regular publix is. Pay the extra cost to not be surrounded by anti Vaxers! Actually, I would bet it's popular with anti vaxxers! They started the Greenwise store thing when I still lived there, it's basically Publix branded Whole Foods. Looks like there's 2-3 in Broward.
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May 24, 2021 03:45
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That's good news, but Sunday reports are historically low. I hope the trend continues this week!
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May 24, 2021 04:35
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spouse posted:My state lifted all restrictions, and, as I've been vaccinated for 3 full months now (healthcare), I decided to go to the store without a mask (I figured lots of people would be). My area has like a 30% vax rate cause it’s full of chuds and you better believe right after the announcement people stopped wearing masks. It was perhaps the dumbest and most dangerous thing the cdc could have done. I assume there was a lot of political pressure but there’s no way any sweeping policy based on pinky swears should have been implemented until vaccine rates were already high enough. A whole bunch of people are getting the vaccine later because work logistics and terrible PTO make sick days impractical, it’s not humane to risk all their lives to make things a bit easier on white collar people who scheduled their doctor appointments for wed morning and took thur/Friday off to recover because they feel like everyone else should already have their shots by now too.
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May 24, 2021 04:38
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Even if everyone age sixteen and up had gotten the Pfizer vaccine the first day it was “open season”, they still wouldn’t be fully vaccinated by the time CDC precipitated the mad dash to masklessness. If they had gotten the Moderna vaccine, they wouldn’t have even had their second shot. If they had the J&J vaccine, they’d be fully vaccinated on paper, but only because no one respects the chart. 
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May 24, 2021 05:23
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Platystemon posted:Even if everyone age sixteen and up had gotten the Pfizer vaccine the first day it was “open season”, they still wouldn’t be fully vaccinated by the time CDC precipitated the mad dash to masklessness. graph is a dick dude for real
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May 24, 2021 05:25
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Platystemon posted:Even if everyone age sixteen and up had gotten the Pfizer vaccine the first day it was “open season”, they still wouldn’t be fully vaccinated by the time CDC precipitated the mad dash to masklessness. wanna suck that chart off
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May 24, 2021 05:27
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Even in Winn-Dixie in Miami people are 100% masked and Winn-Dixie is way trashier than Publix, I go there after all
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May 24, 2021 05:55
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Lolie posted:Today's "covid is coming" statement comes from the Australian Medical Association. It's already here, there's an ongoing breakout in Melbourne's northern suburbs right now. Four members of a family have tested positive and the medical authorities are scrambling to contact trace the source of their infection, and have provided a list of exposure sites they visited at certain times and are asking anyone who also visited those sites to isolate and get tested. One of the sites was Highpoint shopping centre, one of the biggest malls in the state. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-24/victoria-four-covid-19-cases-in-melbourne-north/100160012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1ilCy6XrmI In other news I dropped by a vaxx hub in Melbourne even though I'm not in the current vaccine age bracket just in case they had any spare doses (there's been news reports of people jumping the queue successfully) and got turned away. The only two options are AstraZeneca and Pfizer and they're not giving AZ to anyone under 50 and they're not giving Pfizer to walk-ins, you have to ring the hotline and make a booking for the good juice and there's no point in me trying that until they open up my age bracket. The vaxx hub was pretty much a ghost town, there was hardly anyone there. It was in a gigantic convention centre and there was maybe 20 people total in that massive space. Also my elderly father who lives in a small country town doesn't have any vaxx centres near him and when he asked the local GP when they'd have shots available they told him they'd maybe have some in 5 weeks, and of course there's no guarantee he'll be first in line so it might be even longer than that. Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 07:17 on May 24, 2021 |
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May 24, 2021 06:59
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Inept posted:if you're the kind of person that just keeps wearing a jacket with bird poo poo on it, I don't think worrying about getting germs on your fries is your top concern Look at this lucky bastard who lives in an area without pigeons or seagulls.
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May 24, 2021 07:25
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Facebook Aunt posted:Only if they frequently have you changing or sanitizing the gloves. If you wear the same gloves for 4 hours those gloves aren't remotely sanitary. And then if you unconsciously wipe your eye or rub your nose? But then that's not "disposable gloves" anymore. That's "I wear these gloves for everything" which is completely useless, just like you noted. The point of disposable gloves is you put them on, do the dirty stuff, then take them off carefully and dispose of them. It is how they do things in healthcare and I see no reason it wouldn't work well in a library too.
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May 24, 2021 08:15
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Lolie posted:Today's "covid is coming" statement comes from the Australian Medical Association. I can accept this coming from medical experts if the ulterior motive behind the messaging is "get loving vaccinated you idiot boomers," but I'm tired of the business lobby gearing up the PR machine over the past few weeks to decide that Australia needs to go back to fully open borders pronto. It's not actually going to happen, so whatever, but it is getting really tedious.
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May 24, 2021 08:19
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Hey Australia. Have you considered vaccinating half of adults, no kids, and opening ‘er up?
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May 24, 2021 08:50
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Platystemon posted:Hey Australia. Have you considered vaccinating half of adults, no kids, and opening ‘er up? Our government has vaxx hesitancy and isolation psychosis LOL
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May 24, 2021 08:55
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Australia is hermit nation now gently caress off, we’re closed.
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May 24, 2021 09:00
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It was an incredible misstep by the government to advise against AZ for over-50s, but it has been funny watching boomers, who have lived their whole lives in this country having the red carpet laid out for them, lose their poo poo about suddenly not getting exactly what they want exactly when they want it.
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May 24, 2021 09:20
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had my 2nd dose a while back first thing im doing when poo poo reopens is getting a nandos and a pint
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May 24, 2021 11:50
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My wife and I went to the zoo this weekend. They don't require masks if you're vaccinated, and I think it was about 80% unmasked, 20% masked in there. There's an indoor aquarium and some indoor exhibits, and it was more like 50/50 in there. We went unmasked outside, masked up inside. It was definitely an adjustment but it was extremely nice to be outside doing something again. I had a few moments where I kept thinking to myself "oh poo poo, too many people" and we both kinda hung back when there was a mob of people lining up at an exhibit. But it was a good step towards going somewhere with a crowd again.
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May 24, 2021 12:48
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:But then that's not "disposable gloves" anymore. That's "I wear these gloves for everything" which is completely useless, just like you noted. Way back when I worked in a nursing home. When I started there, anything involving a resident, their room, or anything belonging to them needed to use gloves. Like you go in to make their bed while they are out, new pair of gloves on. Even if you were doing something like turning off the TV they left on, gloves. Eventually the owner decided we were "using too many gloves" and said that we needed to just wear one pair from the time we started, came back from break, etc. So like 3/4 pairs the whole shift. I'm pretty sure this was actually worse than just never using the gloves at that point.
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May 24, 2021 14:32
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Just got Pfizer shot number one. My next shot is supposed to be Sept 13 because lol Canada
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May 24, 2021 22:14
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Huh five September shot buddies
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May 24, 2021 22:18
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We got Pfizer #1 last Tuesday. We had one tiny bout of lightheadedness 5 hours in, and I had a sore arm (full motion but it hurt lifting it upward) the next day, and a bit of tenderness the third day. All gone after that. My husband is complaining about his arm and seems to think it is getting worse almost a full 7 days later. He has been working out pretty hard and worked out consistently every day since the shot. Nothing new or unusual, though. I honestly can't decide if he's having some kind of rare vaccine reaction or if he happened to coincidentally injure it in almost the exact place he got jabbed... Any tales of week-long arm pain that I can corroborate this with? Or should I inform him that he has necrotizing fasciitis and we have to amputate?
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May 24, 2021 23:28
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I had the AZ shot and my arm was sore for a week
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May 24, 2021 23:38
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Tagra posted:We got Pfizer #1 last Tuesday. We had one tiny bout of lightheadedness 5 hours in, and I had a sore arm (full motion but it hurt lifting it upward) the next day, and a bit of tenderness the third day. All gone after that. Arm pain after #1 definitely persisted for close to a week for me. More interestingly, when I got shot #2 (in my other arm), I had intermittent flair ups of pain in the original injection site for a few days. Bodies are weird.
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May 24, 2021 23:40
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Tagra posted:We got Pfizer #1 last Tuesday. We had one tiny bout of lightheadedness 5 hours in, and I had a sore arm (full motion but it hurt lifting it upward) the next day, and a bit of tenderness the third day. All gone after that. I've heard multiple reports along these lines, and experienced something similar with my second Moderna shot. Arm hurt, went away after a few days, then came back for a few days, then went away again. As far as I know it's nothing to worry about.
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May 24, 2021 23:49
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Picnic Princess posted:I had the AZ shot and my arm was sore for a week I had my AZ April 19th and I swear the muscle is still a bit sore if I flex it. e: Still a million times better than worrying bout COVID
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May 25, 2021 01:14
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It's already here, there's an ongoing breakout in Melbourne's northern suburbs right now. Four members of a family have tested positive and the medical authorities are scrambling to contact trace the source of their infection, and have provided a list of exposure sites they visited at certain times and are asking anyone who also visited those sites to isolate and get tested. One of the sites was Highpoint shopping centre, one of the biggest malls in the state. I think we're going to see more cases where we're unable to determine the intermediate connections.
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May 25, 2021 01:43
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Still in GA. Still low vaccination numbers. Almost every employee at Walmart had no mask on and were getting incredibly close to people. The greeter was standing against the wall between the entrance and the exit so there's not really a great way to avoid them. No masks. There is no way, statistically, even 1/4th of the people I saw today are vaccinated  The vaccination waiting area was completely empty and that sucks.
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May 25, 2021 02:31
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Would love to stand in a vaccine waiting area while dozens of unmasked unvaccinated people walk around and breath in my general area.
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May 25, 2021 02:33
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ArbitraryC posted:Would love to stand in a vaccine waiting area while dozens of unmasked unvaccinated people walk around and breath in my general area. Sounds like GA logic
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May 25, 2021 02:35
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I got Pfizer #2 on Saturday and struggled through Sunday with a mild fever, some aches, and sluggishness. This morning, I was good enough to go to work. I was still a bit tingly and chilly but after about 10:00 I was good. Then when I was leaving the office, I slipped and fell and hurt my thigh. Welp.
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May 25, 2021 02:45
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Scheduled for my first shot tomorrow. Not sure which one will be administered (probably Pfeizer-BioNTech). Suspect I'll be feeling an immense sense of relief afterwards, despite nothing changing in my day-to-day.
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May 25, 2021 02:48
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Lolie posted:And then there were 5. They seem to think the latest case identified might actually be the source. Genomic testing shows all of the cases trace back to SA hotel quarantine, but the actual links are yet to be established. Oh awesome it's the India strain  Also the new list of exposure sites pretty much draws a big circle around my house LOLI'm not worried, the spread is still super super low and we've already introduced restrictions. They're talking about opening up vaccinations because of all this so this might actually work in my favour in that sense and I might be able to finally get my goddamn jab
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May 25, 2021 04:03
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America cares more about its monkeys than its children. Via this weird news story about some Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. quote:According to the zookeeper, Libby and Sunday have a specialized diet, so being fed human food could cause stomach problems and bowel disruptions for the two spider monkeys.  Masks were REQUIRED (their emphasis), not encouraged till recently.  I’m so glad the CDC guidance only applies to individuals and doesn’t have corrosive effects at every level of society.
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May 25, 2021 04:38
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Platystemon posted:El Paso Zoo Spider Monkeys It was a huge issue when I worked there. The spider monkey enclosure is really open air and people used to throw poo poo to them all the time. We had one nearly choke to death on a straw and another that shot liquid poo poo for a While after someone got it some waffle fries, the poor thing. EPZ is very, very passionate about its collection and I have no doubt that they're trying to take care of those animals that may be compromised by this. If house cats can get covid, I'm sure the lions can. And Malaika deserves the best because she is the best (she was my favorite of the three girls so I'm bias)
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May 25, 2021 05:37
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Castaign posted:Arm pain after #1 definitely persisted for close to a week for me. More interestingly, when I got shot #2 (in my other arm), I had intermittent flair ups of pain in the original injection site for a few days. Bodies are weird. after shot #2 i've had pain from old wounds flare up for some reason. i can't lie on my left side cuz the rib i cracked coughing during shot #0 feels like it never healed!
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:If house cats can get covid, I'm sure the lions can. Yep, there's been quite a few cases of lions and tigers in zoos catching coronavirus. Here's some from last April: https://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Relea...m-COVID-19.aspx A bunch of zoo gorillas also caught it, they recently rolled out a coronavirus vaccine for animals and juiced up all the great apes in the San Diego zoo: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/first-great-apes-at-us-zoo-receive-coronavirus-vaccine-made-for-animals
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