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Bina posted:I'm pretty sure I got it through the break room at work. A few weeks prior to my infection I had changed my eating habits and chose to sit in the break room because I had access to a microwave and a fridge. Not doing that again... The break room at work:
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Elea posted:I think being critical would be productive if another pandemic happened or we wanted to respond more effectively to the ongoing one. Why would you not be critical of the government after failing to prevent a million deaths? And if we were being critical of the government two years ago, that tweet would be relevant.
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# ? Dec 3, 2021 20:38 |
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NecroBob posted:And if we were being critical of the government two years ago, that tweet would be relevant. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/whos-tedros-warns-against-over-reaction-to-omicron/ar-AARiQwP
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# ? Dec 3, 2021 20:48 |
Well first reliable data on Omicron transmissibility is in and......... it's not great folks! https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/1...ientists-report quote:Underscoring growing concerns about Omicron, scientists in South Africa said on Friday that the newest coronavirus variant appears to spread more than twice as quickly as Delta, until now the most contagious version of the virus. So if Delta was R 5-9, this is looking at an R 10-18. IIRC measles is R 12-18 so... Welcome to hellworld EDIT: I did just read that this was posted in twitter and not like, peer reviewed so I'm not sure why the NYT is running with this but here's something at least
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# ? Dec 3, 2021 20:48 |
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wilderthanmild posted:So I wear n95 kn95 pretty much exclusively, but man, the disposable procedure masks are really garbage in my experience unless you really go out of your way to modify them. That study posted above seems to confirm that with the unmodified, but otherwise properly worn one performing roughly on par with the bad cotton masks. They always seem to leave giant gaps and I don't think I've seen a single person wearing them any way other than the first unmodified, or an incorrect version of the second where they don't tuck the sides so the twist actually makes the gaps bigger. yeah that’s why i’ve never worn one. i see some that wear them with a tight and snug fit, and i assume, “eh ok i guess.” we’re lucky to see people wear A Mask so discussion of quality of mask, seal, proper usage etc. has never happened. so thats cool.
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/whos-tedros-warns-against-over-reaction-to-omicron/ar-AARiQwP Yeah, see this is a much more relevant link than a 2 year old tweet. I'm also not finding anything particularly controversial about the desire to "stick to 'rational, proportional' measures."
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# ? Dec 3, 2021 21:09 |
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Is the WHO worth anything anymore? I haven't followed them on general health topics but regarding Covid-19 they kinda hosed up quite seriously. Do they gently caress up this bad with everything these days?
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# ? Dec 3, 2021 21:11 |
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Is the WHO worth anything anymore? I haven't followed them on general health topics but regarding Covid-19 they kinda hosed up quite seriously. Do they gently caress up this bad with everything these days? From what I’ve seen, they don’t really have any power and past two years proved them to be as fallible as any govt institution; that was my point, but apparently we’re not supposed to criticize institutions
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# ? Dec 3, 2021 21:47 |
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Show Me State governor hid data showing that masks workquote:As the delta wave rose in Missouri last summer, much of the state remained unmasked. Four jurisdictions, though, restored their mask mandates, creating a natural experiment that was studied by the state’s Department of Health and Senior Services. It confirmed that, in cities and counties with mandates, masks significantly reduced infections and deaths from COVID.
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# ? Dec 3, 2021 21:50 |
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Another Bill posted:Just settle down and wear a mask, Beavis. You're letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. This is not a perfect is the enemy of the good thing. This is a "read the mask research for like 10 minutes" thing. Cloth and surgical masks are not that good. N95 and better are both affordable and good. If you're going to wear a mask, wear the best mask. Heck, the best masks, elastomeric respirators with cartridge filters, are also the cheapest masks on a per-use basis. And a proper N95 or KN95 isn't exactly breaking the bank, they're $1-$2 a mask.
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# ? Dec 3, 2021 22:32 |
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Dren posted:This is not a perfect is the enemy of the good thing. This is a "read the mask research for like 10 minutes" thing. Cloth and surgical masks are not that good. N95 and better are both affordable and good. If you're going to wear a mask, wear the best mask. Heck, the best masks, elastomeric respirators with cartridge filters, are also the cheapest masks on a per-use basis. And a proper N95 or KN95 isn't exactly breaking the bank, they're $1-$2 a mask. People claiming they can't breath with surgical masks are mostly being dramatic, but for anyone with lung issues breathing through an n95 can be a struggle. Yes people with lung issues are the ones who should avoid covid the hardest, but not everyone with asthma or COPD can stay home for 2+ years either.
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# ? Dec 3, 2021 22:45 |
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Dren posted:This is not a perfect is the enemy of the good thing. This is a "read the mask research for like 10 minutes" thing. Cloth and surgical masks are not that good. N95 and better are both affordable and good. If you're going to wear a mask, wear the best mask. Heck, the best masks, elastomeric respirators with cartridge filters, are also the cheapest masks on a per-use basis. And a proper N95 or KN95 isn't exactly breaking the bank, they're $1-$2 a mask. Posting "wear a respirator or nothing at all" like gio did is textbook 'letting the perfect be the enemy of the good' sorry not sorry. e: It's simply not reasonable to expect every person to wear a fitted respirator everytime they leave their house. Have you not been paying attention for the last 2 years? A lot people can't even be bothered to wear anything, anywhere. Another Bill fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Dec 3, 2021 |
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Another Bill posted:Posting "wear a respirator or nothing at all" like gio did is textbook 'letting the perfect be the enemy of the good' sorry not sorry
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Dren posted:This is not a perfect is the enemy of the good thing. This is a "read the mask research for like 10 minutes" thing. Cloth and surgical masks are not that good. N95 and better are both affordable and good. If you're going to wear a mask, wear the best mask. Heck, the best masks, elastomeric respirators with cartridge filters, are also the cheapest masks on a per-use basis. And a proper N95 or KN95 isn't exactly breaking the bank, they're $1-$2 a mask. We have proper respirators, but Stanford (hospital) makes everyone wear only surgical masks. Nothing over allowed.
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# ? Dec 3, 2021 23:03 |
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I for one hope the pandemic goes on forever, feeling more responsible than other people had really done wonders for my mental health *spends months at a time alone in a three room apartment*
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# ? Dec 3, 2021 23:04 |
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Another Bill posted:Posting "wear a respirator or nothing at all" like gio did is textbook 'letting the perfect be the enemy of the good' sorry not sorry. I don't expect people to do it any more than I expect everyone to wear a seatbelt. I imagine the biggest hurdle is the decision to wear a mask at all. So for people who choose to wear a mask in the first place, it would be good if the common advice were "wear an N95 or better" since there is a massive increase in effectiveness for about the same cost and comfort.
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# ? Dec 3, 2021 23:06 |
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TheGreyGhost posted:
Every recorded case in the US as of last night (many more have surfaced since then) was double vaccinated We don't know for sure yet but my hope that being double vaccinated provides 90% effacacy is a lot less dim than it was the day after Thanksgiving It's not a definitive data set by any measure but it's been a week and not seeing any positive news so far except a lot of use of the word "mild" always being wrapped in quotes. The situation in South Africa is definitely not improving right now and it's not improving at a much faster rate than the first three waves recorded there
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# ? Dec 3, 2021 23:09 |
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Another Bill posted:Yeah lets keep relitigating things that happened almost 2 years ago. It's very productive! Yeah I agree. We learned that COVID-19 is an ærosol-spread disease and we should adopt measures that stop ærosols, not return to droplet and facetouch theory.
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# ? Dec 3, 2021 23:32 |
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Platystemon posted:Yeah I agree. did we ever get verification of covid spread by farts
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# ? Dec 3, 2021 23:35 |
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Seth Pecksniff posted:So if Delta was R 5-9, this is looking at an R 10-18. IIRC measles is R 12-18 so... If that's the case, and if the lethality is up, we are so hosed lol.
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# ? Dec 3, 2021 23:38 |
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Fritz the Horse posted:did we ever get verification of covid spread by farts We need to do challenge trials with infected butts partially ensconced in air tight chambers continuously farting but the cowardly CDC is afraid of the results.
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# ? Dec 3, 2021 23:40 |
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Hamster fart study when
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# ? Dec 3, 2021 23:44 |
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I'll do it. I'll huff the hamster farts for science.
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# ? Dec 3, 2021 23:58 |
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Another Bill posted:Posting "wear a respirator or nothing at all" like gio did is textbook 'letting the perfect be the enemy of the good' sorry not sorry. but regardless, yeah we should and can expect everyone to wear respirators. last year social media gave the impression that every store was filled with chuds throwing hissy fits, but guess what? state mandates (depending on the area) actually peer pressured most people to wear them that otherwise wouldn’t in a lot of areas. not everywhere, i know. last fall and winter, i can personally attest to compliance being drat near 100% before the CDC’s Masks Off May and gov whitmer lifting all restrictions. mask compliance plummeted after the CDC’s announcement. so yeah, it’s possible to expect something better than half or fewer people “masked” in indoor public settings. we havent even tried.
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Seth Pecksniff posted:So if Delta was R 5-9, this is looking at an R 10-18. IIRC measles is R 12-18 Talorat posted:If that's the case, and if the lethality is up, we are so hosed lol. Naem posted:*slow heavy metal music*
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# ? Dec 4, 2021 00:04 |
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At least it's not highly contagious if you're vacc... https://mobile.twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1466891208081428486 Just over half of UK cases so far have been double vaccinated too.
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# ? Dec 4, 2021 00:08 |
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mr_jolly posted:At least it's not highly contagious if you're vacc... you left out the most important tweet https://twitter.com/theKentopolis/status/1466906706760318983?s=20
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# ? Dec 4, 2021 00:13 |
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Couldn't be happier being able to work from home right now.
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Platystemon posted:Yeah I agree. May favorite part of that whole ordeal was that this wasn't like misunderstanding just covid, but like a thing they'd misunderstanding for years and being stubborn about admitting the same thing with chickenpox, flu, and a variety of other diseases. Basically the entire thing was all based on one wrong assumption that was treated as unassailable for 100 years.
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# ? Dec 4, 2021 00:28 |
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Facebook Aunt posted:People claiming they can't breath with surgical masks are mostly being dramatic, but for anyone with lung issues breathing through an n95 can be a struggle. Yes people with lung issues are the ones who should avoid covid the hardest, but not everyone with asthma or COPD can stay home for 2+ years either. IMO a good n95s is way easier to breath through than cloth masks. I can't stand cloth masks, they're super uncomfortable. If the only factor were comfort and breathability I would say out of my mask collection it goes powecom kn95 > aura n95 > hf-803 p100 > surgical > cloth. I think its a huge issue that most people haven't had a chance to try out the variety of masks available and the only reason they're still using gaiters or hand-sewns is because they haven't had a chance to learn about them / try them. I got my parents a selection and the first comment they had was that they couldn't believe how much easier a better mask is to breath through.
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# ? Dec 4, 2021 00:48 |
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Dren posted:I don't expect people to do it any more than I expect everyone to wear a seatbelt. I imagine the biggest hurdle is the decision to wear a mask at all. So for people who choose to wear a mask in the first place, it would be good if the common advice were "wear an N95 or better" since there is a massive increase in effectiveness for about the same cost and comfort. It wasn't until August 13 this year that that CDC quietly updated their advice to say that some N95s are acceptable but their primary recommendation is still washable fabric masks: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prevent-getting-sick/about-face-coverings.html Apparently some state health departments never got the memo are are still using the old CDC graphic: https://twitter.com/scdhec/status/1465757828149387271 (Someone challenges them in the comments and they clarify that 'commercial' N95s masks are allowable) Gio posted:so yeah, it’s possible to expect something better than half or fewer people “masked” in indoor public settings. we havent even tried. https://twitter.com/donmoyn/status/1306614873502224385
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Salt Fish posted:IMO a good n95s is way easier to breath through than cloth masks. I can't stand cloth masks, they're super uncomfortable. If the only factor were comfort and breathability I would say out of my mask collection it goes powecom kn95 > aura n95 > hf-803 p100 > surgical > cloth. The cloth masks I have used have a tendency to get wet from my breath, causing them to become more difficult to breathe in. To my understanding, once they are wet they become less effective as well. Respirators I have used (some KN95s and 3M Auras) do not have this issue.
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# ? Dec 4, 2021 01:04 |
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I got my 3rd shot today thanks to my job and so far I am feeling fine. A little sore arm but I am ok. First two shots were Moderna and today was Pfizer. What has me thrown for a loop is that someone at my job in my department was clearly anti vax and was saying how the whole Omnicron variant was a scare tactic to get people more scared to get the shot. I dont know how to respond to said person without causing conflict and I just hope that one day nature just takes its course and well. I am in a higher position than he is but I have been trained to respect their decision.
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# ? Dec 4, 2021 01:48 |
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Parsons is a shitbird of the highest caliber, I hate that he runs anything here.
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# ? Dec 4, 2021 01:53 |
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Dren posted:The cloth masks I have used have a tendency to get wet from my breath, causing them to become more difficult to breathe in. To my understanding, once they are wet they become less effective as well. Respirators I have used (some KN95s and 3M Auras) do not have this issue. Yeah I had similar experience with N95, I also found the head strap design to be more comfortable than ear straps for long days at work.
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# ? Dec 4, 2021 01:53 |
etalian posted:Yeah I had similar experience with N95, I also found the head strap design to be more comfortable than ear straps for long days at work. Head loop masks are better in both seal and comfort. Once I started using those I never went back.
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Katamari Democracy posted:I got my 3rd shot today thanks to my job and so far I am feeling fine. A little sore arm but I am ok. First two shots were Moderna and today was Pfizer. Yeah workplaces are very complicated/dangerous with that sort of thing. I'd ignore them.
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Facebook Aunt posted:Maybe in the US, this is new in Canada. It's a problem because if it was just one herd of deer or the deer in one geographic location that would be bad, but it's much worse if it is being found across the continent in many herds of deer. One herd infected could be they got it from a disney princess human who hangs out with wildlife, but if it's being found all over it is probably spreading between animals not from humans to animals. We've been told for ages that we don't need to mask up outdoors, but between deer it's obviously spreading outdoors. Wastewater surveillance in NYC found some unexpected covid mutation combos which didn't match anything in the global database which they suspect might be due to a mystery zoonotic source, but nothing has come from that yet as far as I'm aware. https://twitter.com/alykatzz/status/1420853190556323842 I hope they call it the TMNT variant
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wilderthanmild posted:Head loop masks are better in both seal and comfort. Once I started using those I never went back. This is reason alone to switch to N95
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13 cases in NSW now and we have confirmed community transmission.
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