silicone thrills posted:

I cant stop laughing at this. It's like precut for the eventual documentary

https://twitter.com/accnetwork/status/1433916233599143944?s=20

LionArcher posted:

this is from today.

enter the sandman was so two days ago.

https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1434227610393972737?s=20

Salt Fish posted:

I need a shirt that says "COVID is over" to wear with the half mask. Maybe with some palm trees and poo poo.

Tzen posted:

lmao would buy that shirt in a second

Louisgod posted:

pretty cool to see the concerted effort by mass media to condition people to expect there’s no other altervative to fixing the pandemic than giving in.

Rubby posted:

HELLO FRIENDS

Since my unemployment runs out tomorrow and nobody at any level of government has talked about extending it COVID MUST WELL AND TRULY BE OVER!!



If you want to celebrate labor day with a capitalism - buy shirt here: https://rubby.threadless.com/designs/open-biden/mens/t-shirt/regular?variation=front&color=black

It is also available as a Greeting card! or a ....zip pouch ...I don't know why, that's super loving weird BUT IT MAKES AN INCREDIBLE GIFT FOR THE BRUNCH LIB IN YOUR LIFE to acknowledge and celebrate that COVID IS OVER

I am INCREDIBLY EXCITED to GET BACK OUT THERE secure in the knowledge that there is not a much more transmissible variant floating about and that our miracle vaccines will SAVE THE DAY no this is NOT me having a mental break PRAISE BE TO OPEN BIDEN

not_superiority posted:

i am extremely excited for this to show up in the mail

has anyone stretched a neck gaiter over a respirator or should i just stick to using it as an extra fun layer over my kn95s?

Thoguh posted:

America has completely surrendered to COVID.

Quanta posted:

Did Viruses Create the Nucleus? The Answer May Be Near.

Christie Wilcox
Contributing Writer
November 25, 2020

Different as the cells from animals, plants, fungi and protozoa can be, they all share one prominent feature: a nucleus. They have other organelles, too, like the energy-producing mitochondria, but the presence of a nucleus — a well-defined porous pouch full of genetic material — is what inspired the biologist Édouard Chatton in 1925 to coin the term eukaryotes, which referred to living things with a “true kernel.” All the rest he labeled prokaryotes, for life “before kernel.” This dichotomy between nucleated and nonnucleated life became fundamental to biology.
...

He believes an ancient giant virus infected an archaeon and set up a viral factory but didn’t kill its host cell. Instead, the structure managed to stick around. “And then the virus, which is a gene thief, stole the genes from the archaea and completely destroyed its genome,” he explained. That’s a common theme with viruses, especially giant ones — they take genes from their hosts, which makes them less dependent on their hosts. That might even help explain why so many mitochondrial genes have moved to the nucleus: “Over the years it has been stealing the genes from the mitochondria and starting to control it as well.”

So in a way, “the virus just wears the archaeon’s cell as a cloak,” Bell said. And if that model is right, he pointed out, “you could say at the heart of every human cell is a virus.”
...

Piggy Smalls posted:

realize why food tastes like trash. I lost my sense of smell. great.

Greg Legg posted:

Yeah when I was teaching in the room last year I had a gaiter over the respirator.

Nocturtle posted:

Reminded of a (really far out there) theory that eukaryotic cells have a deeply viral origin:

Maybe we didn't surrender to the virus but instead are on the virus' side because at heart we're ourselves viruses. Makes as much sense as whatever stated motivations of the US pandemic response.

edit:

Man. When were you vaccinated? Seriously reconsidering waiting for boosters to become official.

Chamale posted:

The covid-19 death rate is somewhere between 0.05% and 0.18% in fully vaccinated people.

euphronius posted:

PA made dark red !!!

mastershakeman posted:

What site is this from? My wife just got some "comfortable" n95s from the Masketeers (supposedly a real place with real equipment) and it seems completely bogus

Petey posted:

MIT has been running a lab to test imported N95s/KN95s for the state to see which ones actually live up to their claims

https://news.mit.edu/2020/testing-kn95-respirators-rutledge-health-0430
https://news.mit.edu/2020/massachusetts-emergency-response-ppe-0609
https://news.mit.edu/2020/mit-lincoln-laboratory-tests-verify-if-uncertified-n95-masks-are-effective-0513https://affoa.org/covid-19/

i wrote to the prof running the testing about (of course) airpops. here's something he wrote back:

sharing for the insight re: electrostatic filtration mechanisms. their lab is a few buildings over from my office so i dropped off some airpops the other day for testing.

they've also released results for all their tests of various KN95 masks (including some thread favorites like powecoms) here: https://www.mass.gov/doc/kn95-respirator-test-results/download. see more here: https://www.mass.gov/info-details/ppe-testing-and-vaccine-supply-resources-during-covid-19

Impkins Patootie posted:

im glad those people finally got to jump around there mental health must be really good

Gunshow Poophole posted:

this is rapidly becoming less relevant than over what timeframe a person is to consider themselves being "fully vaccinated" imo

Rubby posted:

HELLO FRIENDS

Since my unemployment runs out tomorrow and nobody at any level of government has talked about extending it COVID MUST WELL AND TRULY BE OVER!!



If you want to celebrate labor day with a capitalism - buy shirt here: https://rubby.threadless.com/designs/open-biden/mens/t-shirt/regular?variation=front&color=black

It is also available as a Greeting card! or a ....zip pouch ...I don't know why, that's super loving weird BUT IT MAKES AN INCREDIBLE GIFT FOR THE BRUNCH LIB IN YOUR LIFE to acknowledge and celebrate that COVID IS OVER

I am INCREDIBLY EXCITED to GET BACK OUT THERE secure in the knowledge that there is not a much more transmissible variant floating about and that our miracle vaccines will SAVE THE DAY no this is NOT me having a mental break PRAISE BE TO OPEN BIDEN

etalian posted:

lmao how the US Media is running a booster shot "shame / Wait for the science" campaign despite the vast pre-clinical date from Israel for
what happens if you don't booster shot the vaccinated populated.

BONGHITZ posted:

this document needs to not be a .docx

Rubby posted:

HELLO FRIENDS

Since my unemployment runs out tomorrow and nobody at any level of government has talked about extending it COVID MUST WELL AND TRULY BE OVER!!



If you want to celebrate labor day with a capitalism - buy shirt here: https://rubby.threadless.com/designs/open-biden/mens/t-shirt/regular?variation=front&color=black

It is also available as a Greeting card! or a ....zip pouch ...I don't know why, that's super loving weird BUT IT MAKES AN INCREDIBLE GIFT FOR THE BRUNCH LIB IN YOUR LIFE to acknowledge and celebrate that COVID IS OVER

I am INCREDIBLY EXCITED to GET BACK OUT THERE secure in the knowledge that there is not a much more transmissible variant floating about and that our miracle vaccines will SAVE THE DAY no this is NOT me having a mental break PRAISE BE TO OPEN BIDEN

Nocturtle posted:

Reminded of a (really far out there) theory that eukaryotic cells have a deeply viral origin:

Maybe we didn't surrender to the virus but instead are on the virus' side because at heart we're ourselves viruses. Makes as much sense as whatever stated motivations of the US pandemic response.

edit:

Man. When were you vaccinated? Seriously reconsidering waiting for boosters to become official.

BONGHITZ posted:

super sweet best pal posted:

Modernized version of the Seinfeld wedding arc that ends with George killing everyone off with those KN28s

BONGHITZ posted:

this document needs to not be a .docx

Loucks posted:

Yeah, no way am I going to go boot up my actual computer to read that thing. Luckily I have a pile of respirators and P100 filters so I’ll never need to know whether those powecom (sp?) masks are decent.

Also I order that COVID is over shirt when i finally stopped laughing. Going to go great with a full face respirator.

BONGHITZ posted:

it opens with wordpad, but most of the pictures are missing. idk about phones.

Rubby posted:

HELLO FRIENDS

Since my unemployment runs out tomorrow and nobody at any level of government has talked about extending it COVID MUST WELL AND TRULY BE OVER!!



If you want to celebrate labor day with a capitalism - buy shirt here: https://rubby.threadless.com/designs/open-biden/mens/t-shirt/regular?variation=front&color=black

It is also available as a Greeting card! or a ....zip pouch ...I don't know why, that's super loving weird BUT IT MAKES AN INCREDIBLE GIFT FOR THE BRUNCH LIB IN YOUR LIFE to acknowledge and celebrate that COVID IS OVER

I am INCREDIBLY EXCITED to GET BACK OUT THERE secure in the knowledge that there is not a much more transmissible variant floating about and that our miracle vaccines will SAVE THE DAY no this is NOT me having a mental break PRAISE BE TO OPEN BIDEN

etalian posted:

lmao how the US Media is running a booster shot "shame / Wait for the science" campaign despite the vast pre-clinical date from Israel for
what happens if you don't booster shot the vaccinated populated.

quote:

“We attribute that to the fact that most of our adult population is vaccinated with two doses, and more than one million people have received the third booster dose,” he said.

quote:

According to an internal CDC briefing reviewed by ABC News, an estimated 1.1 million people have already gotten unauthorized booster shots. The number is most likely an undercount because it includes Moderna and Pfizer recipients who have re-upped but not those who received the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine and then sought out another shot.

quote:

Nearly 1 million Covid-19 vaccine booster shots have already been administered in the U.S. since health officials authorized administering extra shots of Pfizer or Moderna’s vaccines to people with weakened immune systems on Aug. 12, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Petey posted:

here is your pdf https://p12.p2.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/rRub1z9z/0d7b2caa-fd4a-45ee-9fed-3125a8010d0b.pdf?v=94f6c686945352b3a4b8c36e839efd0c

Rubby posted:

HELLO FRIENDS

Since my unemployment runs out tomorrow and nobody at any level of government has talked about extending it COVID MUST WELL AND TRULY BE OVER!!



If you want to celebrate labor day with a capitalism - buy shirt here: https://rubby.threadless.com/designs/open-biden/mens/t-shirt/regular?variation=front&color=black

It is also available as a Greeting card! or a ....zip pouch ...I don't know why, that's super loving weird BUT IT MAKES AN INCREDIBLE GIFT FOR THE BRUNCH LIB IN YOUR LIFE to acknowledge and celebrate that COVID IS OVER

I am INCREDIBLY EXCITED to GET BACK OUT THERE secure in the knowledge that there is not a much more transmissible variant floating about and that our miracle vaccines will SAVE THE DAY no this is NOT me having a mental break PRAISE BE TO OPEN BIDEN