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Katamari Democracy posted:As someone who works in the medical logistics field. Our Covid kit production and shipment has increased by 650%. Just curious, what does a “Covid kit” consist of?
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liz posted:Just curious, what does a “Covid kit” consist of? Basically a naval swab, and a prefill with a solution to keep the specimen in. This is all tied together with an Item number, Lot number, and because its a prefill; an expiration date. Thankfully the contents of the prefill do not expire for years after it is produced so in case if the demand isnt high it can be stored away for later use. The Covid kits are also the same kits used to test for other certain illness used to determine if the patient has any other illness. In this case the Covid kits perfectly align and can be used as other testing kits.
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Aug 6, 2021 01:43
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Hard A. During the worst parts of the pandemic before vaccination I didn’t leave my apartment for 6 months straight. Just today I thought about maybe scheduling a dental appointment as it’s been a couple years but decided I didn’t want to risk going into an enclosed space for a couple hours. People in Quebec are acting like the pandemic is over now since vaccination rates are so high, but cases are going up again so I’m getting back into hermit mode.
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Aug 6, 2021 02:01
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Honest questions, how does Nate make money? He seems to just post random bullshit on twitter all day. Is he like a rich failson or something?
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Ccs posted:Hard A. During the worst parts of the pandemic before vaccination I didn’t leave my apartment for 6 months straight. Just today I thought about maybe scheduling a dental appointment as it’s been a couple years but decided I didn’t want to risk going into an enclosed space for a couple hours. People in Quebec are acting like the pandemic is over now since vaccination rates are so high, but cases are going up again so I’m getting back into hermit mode. I'm a hard A too but I have been making my normal dental visits. You really don't want to put that off. Dental health is overall health, it's not just a your teeth. For example I had an abscess under a tooth that was badly infected and it could have spread to my blood so I bit the bullet and went to the dentist to get the tooth pulled last year during the height of the pandemic. And yeah I had massive anxiety the whole time. Also my dentist is really good about precautions. For example, no one is allowed into the waiting room anymore. People have to wait in their call until they are called in. So maybe check around your local dentists to see who's taking it seriously.
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Aug 6, 2021 02:14
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Objective Action posted:Honest questions, how does Nate make money? He has a political rag at FiveThirtyEight.com. It’s now owned by Disney. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 02:19 on Aug 6, 2021 |
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Aug 6, 2021 02:16
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Platystemon posted:He has a political rag at ThirtyEight.com. It’s now owned by Disney. Ah so a well connected idiot then. Thanks, good to know.
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Aug 6, 2021 02:18
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Objective Action posted:Honest questions, how does Nate make money? FiveThirtyEight was genuinely innovative back in the day when most media election forecasting consisted of some network stooge saying “Well when I was a diner in Cedar Rapids I saw an Al Gore sign across the street, so the Democrats can look forward to 4 more years!” He parlayed doing the barest amount of actual statistical work (and running a shitload of Monte Carlo simulations) into a major deal with the NYTimes. Then when things soured with them he was able to sell to ABC/ESPN/Disney. He’s a tragic case of buying way too much into your own hype.
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Aug 6, 2021 02:21
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Just post the long image where Nate is all "Trump won't win lol cmon" to "How could this happen"
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Aug 6, 2021 02:32
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Just post the long image where Nate is all "Trump won't win lol cmon" to "How could this happen" Nate (and FiveThirtyEight) did a lot better than some of the nascent competitors that were around in 2016. Like, Huffington Post said Hillary had a 98.0% chance of winning, and Trump only had a 1.7% chance because there was a 0.3% chance for a tie (also, I'm extremely amused that they still have this page up). Part of the problem is that polling in general has gotten significantly worse over the last decade, in part because people began to care less about the individual polls because of FiveThirtyEight and its imitators. But all these statistical forecasting places rely on those polls. (In fact, I remember listening to a FiveThirtyEight podcast shortly after election day 2020 where one of the reporters laments how bad polling has gotten. Nate chimes in that it doesn't really matter to them, and out of frustration this other reporter shouts at him "Our entire product is built on top of these polls!")
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Aug 6, 2021 02:46
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Nah he's a dork Unrelated: https://twitter.com/rise_alien/status/1423011131841470470?s=20 Edit: (it’s fake) Comfy Fleece Sweater fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Aug 6, 2021 |
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Aug 6, 2021 03:05
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I feel real bad for all the kids going back to school right now, and of course for their parents. This whole generation is having to learn at a young age that adults don’t know what the gently caress they’re doing and that no one is actually in charge. A valuable lesson, but what a poo poo way to get it.
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Aug 6, 2021 03:08
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Nah he's a dork As much as I cheer the first policy, doesn't the 2nd encourage unvaxxed covid people to go to work as long as possible to try and shake the sickness and hope it doesn't get worse? I do applaud the "yeah, we're done with the antivax poo poo and go be stupid somewhere else "attitude that's surfacing.
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Aug 6, 2021 03:14
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Blitter posted:Yet again, garbage numbers for people who like good news about bad news. No one said anything about CFR. The CDC slide deck has a chart showing that the weekly death incidence is 0.04 / 100k vaccinated individuals, which is about 1/2.5M. The uncaccinated rate was 0.96 / 100k, e.g. 24x higher. These numbers were through late July, so pretty recent These numbers are relevant because nearly 170M Americans have been vaccinated, roughly 80% of adults (18+).
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Aug 6, 2021 03:27
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Nah he's a dork that's kind of hosed up but also hell yeah 
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Aug 6, 2021 04:07
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QuarkJets posted:nearly 170M Americans have been vaccinated*, roughly 80% of adults** (18+). *With one dose **If we count persons twelve through seventeen years of age in the numerator but not in the denominator
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Aug 6, 2021 04:11
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Platystemon posted:*With one dose Over 168M adults are fully vaccinated; it's 190M individuals if you include teenagers. But that's beside the point, which is that the ratio of vaccinated to unvaccinated population size is large while the ratio of vaccinated to unvaccinated hospitalizations and deaths is small. That's a good thing.
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Aug 6, 2021 04:22
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I don’t know what you’re getting these numbers, but they don’t agree with CDC’s tracker. You can remove my “With one dose” qualifier because without counting partials, the U.S. is within five million of one hundred and seventy million, but the percentages sure don’t check out.
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CNN  Either way, the exact number does not effect the point. Vaccinated adults far outnumber unvaccinated adults but are showing up at the hospital far less often QuarkJets fucked around with this message at 04:44 on Aug 6, 2021 |
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Aug 6, 2021 04:40
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ben shapino posted:that's kind of hosed up but also hell yeah guys Lowes official account already replied saying none of that was true lol. This is just a troll. https://twitter.com/Lowes/status/1423344564178493444
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Aug 6, 2021 05:00
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Platystemon posted:He has a political rag at FiveThirtyEight.com. It’s now owned by Disney. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americas-best-burrito/ That was their high water mark.
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Aug 6, 2021 05:34
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I'd be a B with some A tendencies on that scale. I think the CDC dropping the mask mandate mid-week in mid-June was a massive clusterfuck and significantly contributed to the state we're in now.
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CaptainSarcastic posted:I'd be a B with some A tendencies on that scale. I think the CDC dropping the mask mandate mid-week in mid-June was a massive clusterfuck and significantly contributed to the state we're in now. but they made everyone PINKIE SWEAR! how were they to know?
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Nah he's a dork In Florida, we (teachers) were informed yesterday that if we get COVID and can prove that we got it at work, our leave is covered. If we can't prove that, it's not. They are literally pushing a policy that encourages teachers to go to school when they have COVID. This is the worst state in the Union and it's not even close.
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LanceHunter posted:Nate (and FiveThirtyEight) did a lot better than some of the nascent competitors that were around in 2016. Like, Huffington Post said Hillary had a 98.0% chance of winning, and Trump only had a 1.7% chance because there was a 0.3% chance for a tie (also, I'm extremely amused that they still have this page up). Part of the problem is that polling in general has gotten significantly worse over the last decade, in part because people began to care less about the individual polls because of FiveThirtyEight and its imitators. But all these statistical forecasting places rely on those polls. (In fact, I remember listening to a FiveThirtyEight podcast shortly after election day 2020 where one of the reporters laments how bad polling has gotten. Nate chimes in that it doesn't really matter to them, and out of frustration this other reporter shouts at him "Our entire product is built on top of these polls!") Their model is intentionally underconfident so that they can always say "aha! we only gave that a ~80% chance but it didn't happen. right again!" Nate's been a hard Group C since early Spring along with a lot of twitter 'intellectuals'. brugroffil fucked around with this message at 14:22 on Aug 6, 2021 |
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basically an A. like i still do a lot more than i did before i was vaxed, but generally speaking yes i think it's a simple fact at this point that states lifted restrictions far too soon. also my boyfriend's work is finally making them all mask up again, which i was hoping they would do for the past month so i'm pretty relieved
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Aug 6, 2021 15:23
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Nah he's a dork A good policy altogether, but might just drive some edge cases to forge a CDC vax card and be done with it.
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JonathonSpectre posted:In Florida, we (teachers) were informed yesterday that if we get COVID and can prove that we got it at work, our leave is covered. Remember when Floridians were all worried about New Yorkers moving to their state because they'd make Florida blue? Lol turns out all the New Yorkers that fled New York were chuds.
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Aug 6, 2021 16:24
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Blooster posted:Remember when Floridians were all worried about New Yorkers moving to their state because they'd make Florida blue? Lol turns out all the New Yorkers that fled New York were chuds. New York is a cool rear end place New York has a constant flood of people to Florida New York remains a cool rear end place QED the people who come from New York to Florida are not what makes New York cool.
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Okay, this is only my second post in this thread. I'm not sure why it has a 2 star rating and I don't really want to know. Anyway, as a left-leaning guy in N. Ireland I don't really trust the BBC very much. But they did do this interesting article: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-57928647?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB The short story; Two youtubers blew the whistle when they received offers to spread disinformation about high death rates among recipients of the astra-zeneca vaccine. These offers came from some mysterious backers that were eventually tracked back to AdNow, a company that has offices in both the UK and Russia. It was eventually tracked to a guy called Stanislav Fesenko. Google doesn't really have a lot of details on him.
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Get ready for a third shot! https://www.wsj.com/articles/fda-covid-19-vaccine-booster-plan-could-be-ready-within-weeks-11628194767?mod=latest_headlines Masks should never have come off.
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Quebec sounds like they are going to roll out a vaccine passport really quick. Will be interesting to see what Ontario does. BC, my city in particular, is full of tourists right now because the rest of the province is on fire. Luckily we have a very high double vax population but it's very busy and all the new cases are Delta variant lol.
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lifetime supply of Pocky posted:but they made everyone PINKIE SWEAR! how were they to know? I mis-typed the CDC clusterfuck as happening mid-week in mid-June - it was mid-week in mid-May. I was aghast at the time, and feeling vindicated by how much worse things got after that is cold comfort.
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CNN has a "zero tolerance" policy and fires employees for coming to work unvaccinated: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/08/05/1025319741/cnn-fires-three-employees-work-unvaccinated Almost certainly an incoming shitshow of lawsuits and lies, though...
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numberoneposter posted:Quebec sounds like they are going to roll out a vaccine passport really quick. Will be interesting to see what Ontario does. BC, my city in particular, is full of tourists right now because the rest of the province is on fire. Luckily we have a very high double vax population but it's very busy and all the new cases are Delta variant lol. Are enough in Kelowna or Whistler? Kelowna needs to get their poo poo together and make young people in restaurants get the shot. Whistler literally has 50 people who are not vaccinated, pretty amazing.
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Purgatory Glory posted:Are enough in Kelowna or Whistler? Kelowna needs to get their poo poo together and make young people in restaurants get the shot. Whistler literally has 50 people who are not vaccinated, pretty amazing.
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Tagra posted:CNN has a "zero tolerance" policy and fires employees for coming to work unvaccinated: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2021/08/05/1025319741/cnn-fires-three-employees-work-unvaccinated I heard they had them executed on the spot, but you won't hear that in the main stream media
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