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For the benefit of the two people who saw my post yesterday, and as some anecdotal for NHS discussion, my partner is out of her surgery where they literally took out a bit of her spine to remove a growth, cleaned it and put it back in again without any nerve damage. Just to reiterate, that there was any problem at all was only even discovered 6 days ago. It’s all a bit weird to be relived when it all happened so fast, but also praise are boyz in da NHS
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Glad it went well for you both.
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Jul 9, 2021 08:47
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Aidan_702 posted:For the benefit of the two people who saw my post yesterday, and as some anecdotal for NHS discussion, my partner is out of her surgery where they literally took out a bit of her spine to remove a growth, cleaned it and put it back in again without any nerve damage. Happy for you both. I hope she recovers quickly.
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Jul 9, 2021 08:54
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They put the growth back in? I mean I'm glad it's all sparkly clean and everything, but
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Jul 9, 2021 08:55
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Aidan_702 posted:For the benefit of the two people who saw my post yesterday, and as some anecdotal for NHS discussion, my partner is out of her surgery where they literally took out a bit of her spine to remove a growth, cleaned it and put it back in again without any nerve damage. That's gnarly. But also awesome they were able to do that. Hope she makes a full recovery!
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Jul 9, 2021 09:03
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Z the IVth posted:You can also intervene (relatively) easily in Covid by enforcing lockdowns that are proven to work, but how would you go about managing preventable heart disease? Party Boat posted:Two toes as in one per foot, like a horse? 
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Jul 9, 2021 09:18
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Hey, ThomasPaine, what degree in epidemiology, biochemistry or a related field do you hold? You're eagerly discard the observations of frontline workers who are seeing this poo poo happen firsthand, but then also confidently make your own assertions about how it'll all be great - what's the basis for that?
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Jul 9, 2021 09:18
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Camrath posted:Got pissed with her and the rest of Chumbawumba after a gig many years ago. Quality people, and never has a band’s reality been so divorced from the popular view of them. Late to the party, and I'm sure they're decent folk, but their music is absolute dogshit. Sure they've done some good things with them Tubthumping royalties but having to listen to them at Leeds Festival before Iggy Pop came on in 2002 was audible torture. A ticky ticky timebomb.
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Jul 9, 2021 09:19
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learnincurve posted:450 people die a day from preventable heart disease, for 16 months doctors have been gatekeeped and hospital appointments cancelled “because of covid”. The death toll from that neglect in 2021 is going to far outstrip covid. This is where I also bring up the fact that long COVID inflicts lasting (possibly permanent) damage on your cardiopulmonary system, so that number is going to go up, up, up.
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Jul 9, 2021 09:23
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Congratulations! Hope that she makes a full recovery! Keep safe!
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Jul 9, 2021 09:41
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Idk if it's worth weighing in on the "are nurses allowed have opinions" debate - but fwiw I would consider them the definitive source on what's happening on the wards (in aggregate, at least), but would probably get my epidemiological modelling elsewhere. As a biologist, I don't seen a full escape-variant being a foregone conclusion, at least not for the mRNA vaccines. It's gonna be a bad time for hospitalisations with the VOCs we have though
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Jul 9, 2021 09:43
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Lunar Suite posted:Hey, ThomasPaine, what degree in epidemiology, biochemistry or a related field do you hold? You're eagerly discard the observations of frontline workers who are seeing this poo poo happen firsthand, but then also confidently make your own assertions about how it'll all be great - what's the basis for that? He's been pretty open about being covid optimistic not on any particular scientific or medical basis but because it's better for his mental health
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Jul 9, 2021 09:59
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There is no reason to expect vaccine escape, and what "long covid" is and how it relates to vaccinates is completely unknown, so anyone saying that X will or won't happen when a vaccinated person gets covid is talking with too much confidence.
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Jul 9, 2021 10:11
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Nothingtoseehere posted:There is no reason to expect vaccine escape, and what "long covid" is and how it relates to vaccinates is completely unknown, so anyone saying that X will or won't happen when a vaccinated person gets covid is talking with too much confidence. I completely agree. Which is why a cautious approach seems sensible to me.
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Jul 9, 2021 10:13
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Aidan_702 posted:For the benefit of the two people who saw my post yesterday, and as some anecdotal for NHS discussion, my partner is out of her surgery where they literally took out a bit of her spine to remove a growth, cleaned it and put it back in again without any nerve damage. Glad it's gone ok!
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Jul 9, 2021 10:55
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Terrible news comradesJaeluni Asjil posted:Combining today's thread themes of football and music: Jakabite posted:Also if Led Zep don't win that there's no justice.   Obviously Led Zep are still the best even if you take "Euro" & "rock" out of the equation, but I'd have settled for Sabbath. wtf is wrong with people, honestly tempted to open 30 Twitter accounts and vote Maiden despite Queen being objectively better from an artistic standpoint, because who actually sits down & listens to a Queen album, seriously
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Jul 9, 2021 10:55
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Borrovan posted:Terrible news comrades Maybe I haven't listened to enough Thin Lizzy, but seriously, better then Floyd?
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Jul 9, 2021 11:01
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Actually... when I was 16, my folks forced me to go on holiday with them for the last time ever. It was the hottest summer ever in the history of the UK (1976) and I spent the entire week staying in the flat they had rented in a heavy purple cardigan and jeans 'just to show them'. I had Queen's Night at the Opera on repeat loop and read Dead Souls by Gogol. On the very last day, my dad threw me in the sea fully dressed. He bitterly regretted it as it was a 4-hour drive home with 4 teenage kids in the back of a cramped car and not only was I soaking wet but also I suffered very badly from motion sickness as a kid. At least I never had to go on holiday with them again. As the oldest I was always expected to be 'Deputy Parent' so I could never properly enjoy myself as I was always aware that I had to be 'a good example' (eg when we were living in Germany and in a youth hostel, all the German kids were smoking dope and I so desperately wanted to try it but I had this entourage of younger siblings following me around.) Hmph. I still maintain that My Dying Bride blew Iron Maiden off stage at Brixton in 1995... Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 11:06 on Jul 9, 2021 |
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Jul 9, 2021 11:01
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Goldskull posted:Late to the party, and I'm sure they're decent folk, but their music is absolute dogshit. Sure they've done some good things with them Tubthumping royalties but having to listen to them at Leeds Festival before Iggy Pop came on in 2002 was audible torture. A ticky ticky timebomb. I will literally fight you. (Jk) I just have a massive soft spot for them, and their acoustic stuff is absolutely fantastic. Also very very political in the best possible ways.
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Jul 9, 2021 11:07
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i also like a night at the opera and also listened to it on a loop on bholiday when I was about 16 (in oban in like 2007 I guess)
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Jul 9, 2021 11:07
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Nothingtoseehere posted:There is no reason to expect vaccine escape, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33743213/ quote:Five of the 10 pseudoviruses, harboring receptor-binding domain mutations, including K417N/T, E484K, and N501Y, were highly resistant to neutralization. Cross-neutralization of B.1.351 variants was comparable to SARS-CoV and bat-derived WIV1-CoV, suggesting that a relatively small number of mutations can mediate potent escape from vaccine responses. While the clinical impact of neutralization resistance remains uncertain, these results highlight the potential for variants to escape from neutralizing humoral immunity and emphasize the need to develop broadly protective interventions against the evolving pandemic.
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Jul 9, 2021 11:17
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1965917 posted:Maybe I haven't listened to enough Thin Lizzy, but seriously, better then Floyd? Thin Lizzy are classic rock, Floyd are prog. There is no way that audience was going to vote for proggies over Whiskey in the Jar.
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Jul 9, 2021 11:18
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1965917 posted:Maybe I haven't listened to enough Thin Lizzy, but seriously, better then Floyd? Yeah
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Jul 9, 2021 11:19
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Corbyn being investigated at the instigation of the repulsive Neil Coyle who has permanently fixated on Corbyn (why? did Corbyn shag his wife?) because he wrote "On his entry on the register of members’ interests, Mr Corbyn said he was “likely to benefit from a legal fund” set up in October 2020 “to help meet any legal costs which I or my supporters incur in relation to allegations of defamation”." and apparently that wasn't good enough for Coyle despite the fact that at the time the amount was unknown, whether it was possible to have the funds raised by a private individual via one of those crowdfunding platforms. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/corbyn-labour-sleaze-investigation-parliament-b1880720.html
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Jul 9, 2021 11:23
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how are you gonna do a "Euros of Rock" and not put Scorpions in there
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Corbyn being investigated at the instigation of the repulsive Neil Coyle who has permanently fixated on Corbyn (why? did Corbyn shag his wife?) because he wrote Jessflaps ran a gofundme to pay for her election costs in 19
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Jul 9, 2021 11:27
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Lunar Suite posted:Hey, ThomasPaine, what degree in epidemiology, biochemistry or a related field do you hold? You're eagerly discard the observations of frontline workers who are seeing this poo poo happen firsthand, but then also confidently make your own assertions about how it'll all be great - what's the basis for that? Barry Foster posted:He's been pretty open about being covid optimistic not on any particular scientific or medical basis but because it's better for his mental health Yes, I have been very careful to say 'this is what I think will happen, and here's why', rather than 'this will happen'. I am very aware that I might be talking out of my rear end. Listen to the experts, but make sure the people you're listening to are the experts, not anyone in scrubs. Also I am not a scientist but fwiw I do have a phd in the history of health and medicine and have spent a lot of time analysing public health data and government policy towards various related things etc. I don't know the ins and outs of the mechanics of viruses but I like to think I know a bit about how these kind of things tend to play out and the nature of expertise amongst medical professionals.
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Jul 9, 2021 11:30
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therattle posted:I completely agree. Which is why a cautious approach seems sensible to me. Which makes throwing everything out of the window at once on 'freedom day' all the more idiotic.
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Jul 9, 2021 11:32
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which one of you has infiltrated the telegraph https://twitter.com/pidg/status/1412896628479037441
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Jul 9, 2021 11:36
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If you put restrictions up and they prove to be unnecessary, you can remove them again. It is medically difficult and religiously controversial to un-kill the dead at scale.
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Jul 9, 2021 11:39
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Doccykins posted:which one of you has infiltrated the telegraph The goat man is the most culturally significant individual of the 21st century. Change my mind.
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Jul 9, 2021 11:50
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Borrovan posted:because who actually sits down & listens to a Queen album, seriously Me, regularly. Sheer Heart Attack & News of the World are loving quality. There's 3 Deep cut compilations on Spotify that are well worth a listen seeing as the average listener knows Greatest Hits I & II and that's about it. Camrath posted:I will literally fight you. Like I say, I wholeheartedly agree with their political stance but goddamn if it's not baby music. I assume they bought the entirety of Armley to put to good use with them royalties.
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Jul 9, 2021 11:52
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Doccykins posted:which one of you has infiltrated the telegraph No ring.
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Jul 9, 2021 12:02
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https://twitter.com/joindicebreaker/status/1413150977159405572 stay away from other nerds for a bit you nerds
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Jul 9, 2021 12:04
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I already avoid the warhams shop lest they take me for a mark and try to make me play. I had enough trouble trying to talk my way out of people asking me to play magic the gathering at uni.
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Jul 9, 2021 12:05
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Comrade Fakename posted:No ring. A ring is a mark of ambition. Kirk Johnson alarmed me by wearing one
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Jul 9, 2021 12:07
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Is the UK policy currently just "pray that a new variant that is more infectious, deadly and resistant to vaccines doesn't emerge (just like the last few times)"?
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Jul 9, 2021 12:08
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Lol the government continue to refuse to learn, when people are scared of the virus running riot they aren’t going to be going out spending whether the pubs are open or not and all they’ll end up achieving is spreading a ton more COVID I don’t think we’re heading for an apocalyptic scenario and the vaccines are doing a great job reducing the seriousness of cases but still we should clearly be taking a step BACK in the restrictions, not eliminating them completely
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Rabelais D posted:Is the UK policy currently just "pray that a new variant that is more infectious, deadly and resistant to vaccines doesn't emerge (just like the last few times)"? No, that'd involve actually thinking about something other than their pals in business making money. They just don't care.
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