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Salt Fish posted:Why not just fit and wear an n95 properly? Get one of those official niosh fit-test kits if you feel fancy. What are these tests and how much are they? And I'm always paranoid about my seals in general, but at least with the elastomerics I can do a quick and reliable test. It's harder with the N95s. I'm always worried when I have to wear them. Plus I remember seeing a tweet by Naomi Wu or someone posted in this thread that showed the battlegear worn by Chinese HCWs and I remember them surgical taping the N95 to their face. EDIT: And like yeah, may have to be going to a hospital for some imaging work. And given the horror stories I read in this thread about how nothing is done to safeguard patients from prior patients who are COVID positive, and how I doubt some of these places will let me wear my elastomeric even if I compromise and slap the surgical over it, yeah.
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External Organs posted:Huh. Just woke up and vomited. Congratulations! Have you given any thought to a name yet?
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Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:i've seen sub-12h turnaround from swab to results in scotland, the bottleneck is the lab tech analysing, and courier to collect them from the testing site Friends of mine here in Melbourne got an alert on their phone yesterday that they were a close contact to a known case and needed to get a PCR test within 24 hrs, they got turned away from multiple testing sites which were already at capacity but finally managed to get tested at a clinic at the local university in the afternoon and had their results texted to them at 6:30am today That's definitely an edge case in Australia right now, I'm hearing stories of people waiting 3 to 5 days for their results
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Schnorkles posted:we are really incredibly lucky that Omicron only has moderate immune escape. We want it to be as bad as possible because collapsing the US is the only way it can ever hope to improve. We're rotting away in our little local maximum where we're devoting all of our resources to a tiny handful whose only priority is monopoly. There's no way out without things getting much worse. The fact that there are still useful vax/mabs/paxlovid is the worst news possible.
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kreeningsons posted:the only people for me are the mild ones, the ones who are mild to live, mild to brunch, mild to applebees, mild of everything at the same time, the ones who never mask or close biden, but wheeze, wheeze, wheeze, like fabulous red covid dashboards exploding like spiders across this cracker demon nation and in the middle you see your whole family pop positive and everybody goes *cough*
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Wang Commander posted:We want it to be as bad as possible because collapsing the US is the only way it can ever hope to improve. We're rotting away in our little local maximum where we're devoting all of our resources to a tiny handful whose only priority is monopoly. There's no way out without things getting much worse. I'd say that there are moderately useful stuff is the worst news, which is what we have. If we had miraculous sterilizing or nearly sterilizing vaccines, then whatever. At a certain a point in hellworld you do have to look out for yourself and yours. And if we had complete vaccine escape, then yeah, things would be so bad capital would be compelled to act to safeguard their profits. But as it stands things are just apocalyptic enough to keep limping along until at least the end of January.
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Schnorkles posted:They are correct, but the reason why they are correct isn't what they think it is and is kind of the key. Yeah many of the mild symptomatic cases from omicron would have been asymptomatic or unaffected entirely by delta - the vaccinated and previously infected added to the pool of the unvaccinated and uninfected for possible hospitalizations. https://mobile.twitter.com/OYCar/status/1473369910512291840 Lotta demographic, reporting, lag in admission and death data confounding this right now too.
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Mr. Lobe posted:Frankly I think it was more useful idiocy on her part than any kind of conspiracy. If it was conspiracy, it's hard to tell what she got out of it. What she got was hung out to dry after she wasn't useful anymore. Yeah, she was probably pretty stupid to think she'd get a Cabinet seat or something out of it, but that doesn't excuse that hot mic stunt and other poo poo she tried to pull. She ain't the worst, but I'd say she's pretty far from being one of the "least terrible." kazmeyer fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Dec 23, 2021 |
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Apparently I got higher than I thought and made the same bad joke twice. I expected antivaxxers to be the challenge. I didn’t expect the constant pressure of people in your life wanting you to pretend covid is over. External Organs posted:Huh. Just woke up and vomited. Keep a positive outlook, there’s a lot of food contamination going around, could just be listeria.
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kazmeyer posted:What she got was hung out to dry after she wasn't useful anymore. Yeah, she was probably pretty stupid to think she'd get a Cabinet seat or something out of it, but that doesn't excuse that hot mic stunt and other poo poo she tried to pull. She ain't the worst, but I'd say she's pretty far from being one of the "least terrible." I still think she did that out of spite rather than any kind of horse trading mentality. I think people are overestimating her.
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Doctor posted:Lmfao we just ordered pizza for my brothers going away party (it’s only us in the same household and we all live together anyway so it’s not so much a party as it is just a farewell) and I’ve been sitting here worrying about COVID and the delivery guy comes to the door and I step out to pay and he’s just like I was trying to explain to my husband that it’s not that people are necessarily choosing to be reckless but rather that most people are stunningly oblivious and my example was the ways people wear masks wrong and how common it is to see someone remove a mask to cough or yell or lean in to tell you something important and how those people think they’re doing everything right.
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Steve Yun posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiVx7IWbKlA Steve, you are great people. Thank you for being great people!
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fosborb posted:https://twitter.com/nick_beauchamp/status/1473509106187223043?t=cdJo6opDZyH78CazsAZW0A&s=19 One day she's going to say, "Look at this post I saw on the internet." And it will be a post you made.
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Trixie Hardcore posted:I was trying to explain to my husband that it’s not that people are necessarily choosing to be reckless but rather that most people are stunningly oblivious and my example was the ways people wear masks wrong and how common it is to see someone remove a mask to cough or yell or lean in to tell you something important and how those people think they’re doing everything right. Unless they are literal children or suffering from substantial cognitive impairment, I don't buy this. I can buy that there is a minority, probably even a sizable one, of well meaning people who are genuinely misinformed and think that as long as they are vaccinated, wear a surgical or cloth mask, and avoid being within six feet of people that they are safe and fine. And my heart breaks for them, because they are victims. But the people you are describing are, again, presumably adults of otherwise sound mind. You have to be extremely unintelligent, to the point of pathology, if you are an adult and cannot understand that removing your mask to talk to someone, let alone to lean in and do so, is wildly dangerous when you are dealing with something that even the idiot popular narrative says spreads by talking or breathing. Like I can definitely imagine it happening a fair bit by accident, since muscle memory and instinct, but if they don't immediately recoil when they realize what they did, apologize, and recognize they hosed up, then yeah. They are either being deliberately ignorant and not taking it seriously, or else are profoundly stupid in a way that goes above and beyond just being dumb. "Masks do not work when they are not worn." is something a child can understand.
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quote:One new COVID case has been confirmed in WA, in a 25-year-old French backpacker. mcgowan literally said "we're banning dancing" lmao UnfortunateSexFart posted:Lmao at Sydney completely backtracking on all "freedoms" a week later. Now back to indoor masks and QR code check ins. lol. dnd auspol already claiming mask mandates will be impossible to enforce.
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kreeningsons posted:Since it's the holidays I've been keeping one of these around the apartment. Give it a little sniff multiple times a day. I think I learned to make these in elementary school, just a bunch of cloves stuck in an orange im a few pages behind but thats a quality pomander i bet u havent got a single moth anywhere in ur apartment
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Testvan posted:cdc updated their forecast
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Mr Hootington posted:One of the guys I follow for video game news went and saw spider-man 5 days ago. also lol at passing out because of the mask rookie poo poo, i run miles in an n95 get the gently caress outta here
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Zeriel posted:There's going to be over 1 million covid infections per day in the next month and we're not doing anything to stop it now. RoboChrist 9000 posted:So at the current rate of infection, how long - assuming as is reasonable that nothing is done to mitigate this - until literally all of America has COVID? color me surprised as i read the email about someone popping positive and several people being potentially exposed obviously i did not attend the party because i'm not a psychopath soon, very soon, we are hosed
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:One day she's going to say, "Look at this post I saw on the internet." my cum 9/11s dashboard hit real numbers by some aggregator account and uh yeah that one made it to the dinner table lol
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a_gelatinous_cube posted:In the year 2030 being able to smell a loaf of bread will be a superpower. unfortunately there will be no more bread due to the Great Yeast War of 2027
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:So at the current rate of infection, how long - assuming as is reasonable that nothing is done to mitigate this - until literally all of America has COVID? tbh for me it'd be funny if bolsonaro the covid golem catches and survives omicron too, and maybe the mutated flu going around in there
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blatman posted:this isnt surprising, after waging the war on christmas for so long it was only a matter of time before christmas fought back war WITH christmas
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a_gelatinous_cube posted:In the year 2030 being able to smell a loaf of bread will be a superpower. In theory, outlasting everyone and maintaining your health in the next couple years should land you whatever job you want at a decent salary However, that presumes society will still be functional
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McNugget Buddy posted:In theory, outlasting everyone and maintaining your health in the next couple years should land you whatever job you want at a decent salary maybe at a 1980s level with 2020s technology
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:One day she's going to say, "Look at this post I saw on the internet." this is my greatest fear
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fosborb posted:my cum 9/11s dashboard hit real numbers by some aggregator account and uh yeah that one made it to the dinner table lol I check on it occasionally and it's never updated any more 
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Blitter posted:3 billion over the next 3 months.
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fosborb posted:my wife mentioned this chart tonight and sudden intrusive voice: that updated chart was inspired by another tweet by an old web comic artist who lurks a thread Ive been poo poo posting covid charts into for 2 years oh for real? delta? what's that now? hmm.. yeah guess we should be careful. i mean i'll just keep my head down and wearing these kf94s/n95s and see what comes next yeah just wear a good mask
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fosborb posted:my cum 9/11s dashboard hit real numbers by some aggregator account and uh yeah that one made it to the dinner table lol family members treat me as an authority on covid because of my job, but everything i say comes from this thread.
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I’m starting to consider applying for other jobs outside teaching in the university even though I spent most of my life clawing desperately to get that kind of job and have only been a sessional for like 3 years but dr Bonnie Henry is giving us marching orders back into the plague pits but I don’t want to die sooooo
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