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Jul 30, 2021 15:59
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I still feel very confused about whether a mask can protect you from getting it or not Like I see people say “well I’m worried about it so I’m still wearing my mask” but I thought wearing a mask stopped you from spreading it to other people, not the other way around
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Jul 30, 2021 16:12
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Badger of Basra posted:I still feel very confused about whether a mask can protect you from getting it or not A mask will help keep you from getting it, we just can't say for sure exactly what the reduction in risk is because there are a lot of variables involved (the filtration ability of the mask fabric, the amount of air that leaks, the path that leaking air takes, etc) and because measuring how effective a typically worn mask is at filtering inhaled air is a lot harder than measuring how effective a mask is at filtering exhaled air (can't fit a particle counter inside someone's nose) A tight fitting mask with a filter layer is likely a huge help. Mask guidance has been a mess. The cdc and medical experts really hosed us by pushing the idea that non-respirator masks don't help the wearer at all in an attempt to keep hospitals supplied with PPE.
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Jul 30, 2021 16:30
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zoux posted:
Don't freak out but still be responsible and vigilant. You know, unlike these dipshits: https://twitter.com/Fritschner/status/1420864720962297862?s=19
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Jul 30, 2021 16:34
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No Safe Word posted:Don't freak out but still be responsible and vigilant. Well good news, they won't be getting salaries after September 1
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Jul 30, 2021 16:40
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I'm masking again because my wife is a caretaker for people that aren't vaccinated.
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Jul 30, 2021 17:11
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https://twitter.com/MikeBoard1200/status/1421139473664983049 womp womp Cancel cultured right into the mountain west
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Jul 30, 2021 17:26
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/MikeBoard1200/status/1421139473664983049 Lmao
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Jul 30, 2021 17:35
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/MikeBoard1200/status/1421139473664983049 aaaaahahahaha
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Jul 30, 2021 17:56
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Badger of Basra posted:I still feel very confused about whether a mask can protect you from getting it or not I think the big issue came from the fact that facemasks are most effective at keeping mask-wearers from spreading the disease, which was already a norm about facemasks was in Asia, but in America they were trying to construct that norm from scratch, and from that perspective it was more important to try getting everybody to wear a mask instead of just the people who didn't think they were immortal or that the pandemic was a hoax. Wearing a mask does reduce your own odds of infection, although not as much as it prevents you spreading your own infection, and on top of that, they later figured out that when you do get infected after wearing a mask, the reduced amount of infectious particles leads to a less severe case. And then there was the whole weird thing where the CDC was very unprepared for the whole thing. The epidemic experts had been fired in 2018, there were no plans for this, the whitehouse was running interference for some god-knows-why reason, and everybody could see that medical supplies for dealing with the pandemic were already running out over in Asia and American hospitals were in danger of running out themselves (especially without any unified agency being given the power to manage hospitals on the national level). So it kinda makes sense why the CDC used what little power they had to briefly try heading off all of those shortages by telling the public at large to cool it. Which was a bad idea. But also the seeming contradiction from that announcement versus later advice is seized on by the pro-virus camp trying to arbitrarily fight against masks and vaccines and lockdowns.
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Jul 30, 2021 19:00
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Welp. My wife's aunt in Corpus Christi died today from non-COVID issues, and apparently the funeral is in a couple of weeks because the funeral home out there is too backed up from COVID deaths to do it sooner. We're already back to that. Oh, Arkansas' governor (which has even lower vaccination rates) is finally scaling back some of the conservative anti-mask orders and redeclaring a public health emergency. I really wonder how far poo poo has to go here before we stop destroying every measure that would save us.
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Jul 30, 2021 20:07
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jokes posted:The incidence of severe consequences for vaccinated people being so low, I feel like wearing a mask is for the benefit of the worst people in Texas. I don’t like it but I’ll do it to like help my fellow man or whatever but I feel there’s about a 0% chance they’d do the same if roles were reversed. They won’t even wear a mask to save their own life. There are plenty of people who are immunocompromised, under 12 years old, or cannot afford time to take off work to recover from the vaccine that you are helping. It doesn't help anyone to think of any of this as personal responsibility, even if a lot of people who are getting really sick are to some degree at fault.
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Jul 30, 2021 20:32
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:Oh, Arkansas' governor (which has even lower vaccination rates) is finally scaling back some of the conservative anti-mask orders and redeclaring a public health emergency. I really wonder how far poo poo has to go here before we stop destroying every measure that would save us. It feels to me like Abbott, like DeSantis, is too tied into national politics on this, and has way more to gain by doubling down forever.
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Jul 30, 2021 20:34
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Yeah I have a ~1 year old at home so what was best practice June 2020 is still true today for everyone here. Thanks to everyone who still masks up.
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Jul 30, 2021 20:35
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zoux posted:
my kids are not vaccinated, i think i get to freak out
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Jul 30, 2021 20:40
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Why, it's barely a cold for kids? Less than 400 US deaths since March 2020. That's about how many die of the flu in a normal year.
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Jul 30, 2021 21:27
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/MikeBoard1200/status/1421139473664983049 https://mobile.twitter.com/projectspurs/status/1420919762322960387 Hidden below, super good tweet.
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Jul 30, 2021 21:45
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zoux posted:Why, it's barely a cold for kids? Less than 400 US deaths since March 2020. That's about how many die of the flu in a normal year. You know my feelings about flu deaths being downplayed (we could prevent them!). But also, I remember one of the strains being worse for kids, and additionally, long COVID has more disastrous health impacts not captured in death data. And...they keep shutting down the daycares every time there's a COVID case. I have at least one colleague whose work life is destroyed for a couple weeks every once in awhile because her son's daycare shuts down.
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Jul 30, 2021 21:46
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I'm not trying to downplay anything, I believe people are sincerely freaked out about their kids getting covid, but from every piece of data I've seen - and I've looked - it seems that a parent's fear should be about commensurate with the fear of their kid getting the flu. Do people constantly freak out about their kids getting the flu? The evidence for post viral covid syndrome in kids is anecdotal and extremely thin. Look, I'm a brutal hypochondriac, I'd be the first person to worry way too much about this stuff and before I was vaccinated I definitely did, but I think the data showing that vaccinated adults are safe from serious disease much less death is robust and compelling, and I haven't seen anything to indicate that kids are more at risk from covid than the host of mild childhood diseases that they are constantly getting. I'm not even arguing against broad covid mitigation protocols, more I'm just trying to help reassure the people who are really worried about this thing.
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Jul 30, 2021 21:59
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Its a lotto I'd rather not play with my kid's life. Number of children hospitalized with COVID-19 in Houston rising at worst time possible The article posted:Doctors say children sick with RSV and flu are adding even more hospital patients.
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Jul 30, 2021 22:00
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zoux posted:Why, it's barely a cold for kids? Less than 400 US deaths since March 2020. That's about how many die of the flu in a normal year. Ok, what about this coming school year when schools don't have the ability to do remote learning and prohibited from enacting mask requirements.
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Jul 30, 2021 22:10
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Dameius posted:Its a lotto I'd rather not play with my kid's life. The current RSV outbreak Is pretty crazy. Hand foot and mouth was spreading like gangbusters recently too.
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Jul 30, 2021 22:46
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the anti-vaxx crowd has pretty much decided theyre done with vaccinations and keeping sick people away period so expect to see a bunch of sick as gently caress kids and adults around everywhere to own the libs
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Jul 31, 2021 01:58
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very glad the daycare we send our kid to made its employees get the covid vaccine and makes them wear masks all day.
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Jul 31, 2021 14:12
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zoux posted:I'm not trying to downplay anything, I believe people are sincerely freaked out about their kids getting covid, but from every piece of data I've seen - and I've looked - it seems that a parent's fear should be about commensurate with the fear of their kid getting the flu. Do people constantly freak out about their kids getting the flu? The evidence for post viral covid syndrome in kids is anecdotal and extremely thin. You can vaccinate your kid for the flu though and reduce the risk of severe illness to almost 0 as well as for most other deadly childhood diseases. We are keeping our kid (who was born may 2020) away from the world til he gets his shots because it's just not loving worth the risk. We kept him healthy for the last 14 months, what's another 4 or 6 til the pediatric vaccine is approved?
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Jul 31, 2021 15:30
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Well this is chill.
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Jul 31, 2021 18:29
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/MikeBoard1200/status/1421139473664983049  There is no school more deserving of this in the Big 12 than maybe UT itself.
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Jul 31, 2021 19:14
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Numlock posted:
Pays to be Texa$
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Jul 31, 2021 20:52
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I don't know what a big 12 even is, but I did find out that Allen West was in the latest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYKOLwt8pwo&t=884s Also the pinned comment on that video is "I love that Brace Belden is just lurking throughout this video like a gremlin. A dude who left his job as a florist in San Francisco in 2015 to fight ISIS with the Kurdish YPG, just crouching behind Andrew in a cowboy hat and suit while he interviews some Daily Beast journalist." so you know it's going to be good
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Aug 1, 2021 01:41
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https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1422256277523206150 This person wields a massive amount of power in this here state
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Aug 2, 2021 19:50
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1422256277523206150 https://mobile.twitter.com/dave_player/status/1422270131011522562
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Aug 2, 2021 20:01
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No didn't you read, it's the consequences of Chinese bioweaponeers deliberately targeting north Texas magalords
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Aug 2, 2021 20:09
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Does the modifier of N Tx. MagaLords mean we're the precursor to the Warhammer 40K universe?
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Aug 2, 2021 20:13
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https://twitter.com/BenjaminEW/status/1422291229094649859 *tugs collar* (Though I suspect that if you take just red states, Texas and Florida make up about 1/3 of that population, if not more) e: real rough math puts TX/FL at 30% of the total red state pop, so we're slightly beating a simple demographic distro zoux fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Aug 2, 2021 |
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Aug 2, 2021 21:23
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1422256277523206150 Northeast Tarrant Tea Party is responsible for more reprehensible poo poo that our legislature has done over the last 15 years than all other PAC and political organizations combined. They are basically the #1 target demo every state Republican is aiming for with every piece of batshit legislation. They aren't particularly big or super-well known, but they're just so insanely influential. Like, they're basically the Velvet Underground of CHUDs.
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Aug 2, 2021 21:30
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I'm glad Facebook's sophisticated algorithms are getting thwarted by things like "spaces" and "deliberate misspellings/soundalikes"
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Aug 2, 2021 21:35
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LanceHunter posted:Northeast Tarrant Tea Party is responsible for more reprehensible poo poo that our legislature has done over the last 15 years than all other PAC and political organizations combined. They are basically the #1 target demo every state Republican is aiming for with every piece of batshit legislation. They aren't particularly big or super-well known, but they're just so insanely influential. Like, they're basically the Velvet Underground of CHUDs. Does any major metropolitan area in Texas serve as a more significant political battleground than Dallas-Fort Worth? I know the other cities have their city progressive politics vs. state conservative politics dynamics, but Dallas-Fort Worth seems to be the most purple and most contentious. I say this as someone who has lived in Austin for my entire time in Texas (8 years), but I have heard some wild stories from Dallas colleagues and online.
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Aug 2, 2021 22:33
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Well, you have the sprawling suburbs which are where most of the problem is but Ft. Worth is far and away the reddest metro in the state. I think they're the only top 10 city in Texas with a GOP mayor
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Aug 2, 2021 22:37
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1422256277523206150 If only there was some sort of defense that western countries could develop to prevent many infections and stop the vast majority of severe outcomes. No, I will not take your vaccine.
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Aug 2, 2021 22:55
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1422256277523206150 Maybe horseshoe theory will bring the CHUDs around to nuclear disarmament…
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