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How are u posted:I'd trade a million chud lives for this one snow leopard It sucks.
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So my 8 year old's rapid positive was confirmed by PCR today. Still waiting on the 12 year old, but the writing's on the wall. Me and the wife were negative monday but have been mildly sick since then. My 83 year old mom got a rapid positive today and feels sick; my 87 year old dad hasn't tested yet and doesn't feel sick. The 8 year old stayed over Saturday night at my parents and woke up sick Sunday morning so they got exposed first. The kids are double vaxxed, all adults triple.
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Jan 7, 2022 07:19
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Skyscraper Raccoon posted:The good news is that people have had two years to learn new habits, get healthy, and lose weight. I'm sure with how very, very serious Covid is that we will see a significant improvement in those numbers. I'm sure glad the Feds took those steps to close fast foot joints and open more low-cost gyms. How many CSPAM goons who obsess over mask brands and are avoiding their families have lost weight during the pandemic, do you reckon? I have.
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Jan 7, 2022 07:51
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Skyscraper Raccoon posted:The good news is that people have had two years to learn new habits, get healthy, and lose weight. I'm sure with how very, very serious Covid is that we will see a significant improvement in those numbers. I'm sure glad the Feds took those steps to close fast foot joints and open more low-cost gyms. I have legit begun a personal exercise program to improve my chances of survival when inevitably get crook
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Jan 7, 2022 08:15
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Betty Wight posted:Everyone, I’m a time traveler from 2025. President Harris has instructed Vice President Buttigieg to lead a task force investigating the Biden Administration’s handling of the pandemic. Upside: the pandemic ends in 2022. Downside: President Harris. Yeah, Trump would be SO MUCH BETTER to have in 2025. Does your other account's name start in VirtualBoy, possibly?
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Jan 7, 2022 09:11
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Anne Whateley posted:So what? Do their deaths not matter? Do you just feel better saying "well I'm NORMAL, they were broken, I'll be fine"? It's not like preexisting conditions are rare or freakish or the kids' or families' fault. I live in NYC where 10% of kids have asthma. But who cares if they drop dead, your kid is fine. I spent 2020 - June 2021 looking after immunocompromised disabled young adults (ama about scheduling rota to include a mandatory 2 week self isolation before going back in the building for 35 members of staff when we already needed 40) also my own disabled son is in the highest risk group, I don’t like click bait that appeals to or gives any excuse to anti-vaxers, and yes the “young people can get it tooooooo!! why should I have to stay inside when they don’t!!” has been a dogwhistle screeching card of U.K. morons since 2020 thanks to the express, the Mail and the Telegraph running with that narrative, and is a significant factor in extending the pandemic here, which has helped no one. learnincurve fucked around with this message at 09:21 on Jan 7, 2022 |
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gohuskies posted:How many CSPAM goons who obsess over mask brands and are avoiding their families have lost weight during the pandemic, do you reckon? I have. Unfortunately I lost weight eating my own early pandemic cooking but then gained back all that and more after learning how to actually cook a bunch of delicious unhealthy food.
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Jan 7, 2022 09:20
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Wang Commander posted:Unfortunately I lost weight eating my own early pandemic cooking but then gained back all that and more after learning how to actually cook a bunch of delicious unhealthy food. 
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Jan 7, 2022 09:26
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I got conned into believing these maple bacon doughnuts were a Canadian specialty and put on 9000lb https://www.thespruceeats.com/maple-bacon-bars-4044293
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Jan 7, 2022 09:29
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What the gently caress... I had to briefly step into a place at work today to deliver a package, and I am loving furious that I even had to go in there. I wouldn't have even done it if I had known, I'd have just chucked it at the building and left. I get a delivery for a place called "Covid Resource Center" or something, which as far I can tell is just a Covid testing center that according to the note scribbled on the door does nothing but those rapid tests. It's in an abandoned auto parts store that must have recently gone out of business, because most of the signage is still there. Whatever. I'm expecting to walk in and see someone sitting at a desk in an empty room, hand them the package and leave. But I walk in and and poo poo I you not, probably 100+ people are just packed into a small room like a cattle car, waiting in line to get tested. Absolutely nothing resembling an employee around. No one taking temps at the door. nothing. Eventually I make my way through the labyrinth of the abandoned auto parts store's entire framework to the the back office which now serves as the front of the line and hand it off/literally run out of there. Not a moment in there was I more than a few inches from someone who was apparently worried enough to wait all day for a $12 rapid test. I'm honestly not generally that freaked out about Covid. Not in the sense that I am being stupid. I am vaxxed and consistently try to follow guidelines and I'm not trying to downplay the severity of it. I just try to be smart about it for the most part and hope for the best and live the best I can without worrying about it all the time. But this is the first time since like, week 1 that I have been freaking out I had a huge chance of exposure and it was from a loving place that was supposed to be helping people of all things, because apparently covid testing centers are Halloween superstore now. Apparently there's literally zero government oversight of these places and you can just make some grift shithole that probably does nothing but spread Covid like crazy and collect tax dollars. Is there some way to report a place like this? They need to shuttered yesterday. Who the gently caress would just pack themselves in to some sweaty room with 100 people who think they have covid to get tested like that? It's insane.
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Jan 7, 2022 10:56
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AnnoyBot posted:So my 8 year old's rapid positive was confirmed by PCR today. Still waiting on the 12 year old, but the writing's on the wall. Me and the wife were negative monday but have been mildly sick since then. My 83 year old mom got a rapid positive today and feels sick; my 87 year old dad hasn't tested yet and doesn't feel sick. The 8 year old stayed over Saturday night at my parents and woke up sick Sunday morning so they got exposed first. The kids are double vaxxed, all adults triple. Wife just got negative on a second rapid test. I just got a positive.
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Jan 7, 2022 11:19
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AnnoyBot posted:Wife just got negative on a second rapid test. I just got a positive. Are you using the nose or throat type of rapid test? The former seems to do very poorly for omicron. And since it’s the only one available here, people start to use it as a throat version. With many finding out they’re positive, after a nose swap gave them a negative.
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Jan 7, 2022 12:51
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Who made calls on those expired tests? BuzzFeed reporting has its issues, but this popped up for me The governor's office first claimed it didn't know about the expired stockpile, then a day later admitted what happened So glad I'm in Australia, where our only problem is massive incompetence and no available tests anywhere, expired or not
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Jan 7, 2022 12:53
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My spouse caught up with a friend after xmas and got a message to get tested because her friend caught covid from her parents. Kinda surprised that the test came back negative and also surprised to get results back the next day. We haven't been symptomatic but I'm sunburnt af from my first little holiday in 2 years, and the first one with our kid. I almost canceled it due to the outbreak but instead just packed everything to make sure we didn't have to go out too much. We avoided all the touristy shops and cafes which were jam packed, and spent most of the time at the beach and driving around sightseeing looking for nice places for the bub to toddle around. We are pretty much only going out for exercise and shopping at this stage, and the latter I'm doing off peak as much as possible. Masks are mandatory here but it's not being enforced at all so there's always selfish pricks. I was going to check out the pharmacy for RATs but gave it a miss to avoid the maskless old gently caress who walked in there coughing like it's nbd. I'm not too worried if I catch it, at least I wouldn't be if it was just me I had to worry about. But I'm doing my best to keep it away from my toddler and also my Mother in Law whose health conditions make her vulnerable AF ( and whose AstraZenica shots apparently don't do jack against omicron). My own brokebrain evangelical antivax parents want to visit and stay at our house and want us to visit and stay at their house and I've told them no, they're taking it surprisingly well despite their craziness. Apart from keeping away from them for their own good I've given up trying to reason with them and just don't talk to them about covid if I can help it. The rest of the fam has had their shots (even my facebook conservative brother because it's either the jab or the job and he made the smart choice). jfc. I still feel like I'm just venting about first world problems compared to the real poo poo that comes up itt. But who knows what's going to happen over the next lovely year. This part of the world (South Aus) has been luckier than the most of the lucky country for the last two years but that's no longer the case and absolutely nothing has been done to bolster our health system for Let 'Er Rip 2022. Yolo Swaggins Esq posted:So glad I'm in Australia, where our only problem is massive incompetence and no available tests anywhere, expired or not
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Someone mentioned above a lack of temperature screening. Do we think that is effective at all now? Is a fever even a top symptom of Omicron?
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Skyscraper Raccoon posted:The good news is that people have had two years to learn new habits, get healthy, and lose weight. I'm sure with how very, very serious Covid is that we will see a significant improvement in those numbers. I'm sure glad the Feds took those steps to close fast foot joints and open more low-cost gyms. Who's still going to a gym in the pandemic?
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Jan 7, 2022 14:35
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smackfu posted:Someone mentioned above a lack of temperature screening. Do we think that is effective at all now? Is a fever even a top symptom of Omicron? I've had a few people with high temps have to wait outside instead of in the crowded waiting room, it.... Did basically nothing when our state was doing check-ins, but it did get me yelled at a whole fuckin heap? So maybe they didn't infect others, but maybe they had a high temp for other reasons and then felt justified in abusing me, the horrible awful receptionist that made them wait outside or in their air conditioned car and promised to call them in, instead of inside a sweaty poorly ventilated room, on a mild summer day? Who can tell?
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Jan 7, 2022 14:39
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Gordon Shumway posted:Who's still going to a gym in the pandemic? Me! In n95s, and - hopefully by next week - my brand spankin' new 3M respirator
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Jan 7, 2022 14:43
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Gordon Shumway posted:Who's still going to a gym in the pandemic? The official exposure locations list for my state is basically a list of gyms and a few pubs and nothing else because lol gently caress everyone who's done everything to stop the spread for the past 2 years.
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Jan 7, 2022 14:48
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smackfu posted:Someone mentioned above a lack of temperature screening. Do we think that is effective at all now? Is a fever even a top symptom of Omicron? Yes, and it’s a more prevalent symptom of Omicron than it was for Delta or any previous variant.  https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/1600/coronavirus/data-tables/420-316-SequencingAndVariantsReport.pdf
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Jan 7, 2022 14:53
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Zugzwang posted:The really sad thing (aside from the death of course!) is that Australia was one of the few countries doing quite well in all this, but they opened ‘er up anyway. LOL we're now getting higher daily per capita reported infections than the US  https://ourworldindata.org/explorer...country=USA~AUS It's going great. 
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Jan 7, 2022 14:55
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smackfu posted:Someone mentioned above a lack of temperature screening. Do we think that is effective at all now? Is a fever even a top symptom of Omicron? Fever has always been the most common symptom of covid, just as it is with almost any infection. It's just not particularly reliable if done non-invasively (i.e. with a non-contact thermometer from a distance, rather than with a proper thermometer in one of the many available orifices) because it's heavily reliant on environment and other factors, and outside of a few specialist venues nobody's going to be happy bending over and thinking warm thoughts to get in.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:LOL we're now getting higher daily per capita reported infections than the US Given prior infection does increase your immunity it's probably unsurprising that it's going absolutely hog wild in Australia compared to a country that includes Florida: https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1479218317835575298 (as with all JB-M threads it's worth clicking through for the pretty graphs)
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Nah it's more that our idiot leaders decided to reduce restrictions at the start of omicron taking hold, and then just.... Shrugged? "Yes but you see it's mild, less hospitalisations it's fine" as hospitalisations and ICU numbers increase by the day, and articles about nurses quitting due to chaos and breakdowns and burn out some out in multitudes by the day SO ANYWAY, YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO TESTS IF YOURE SYMPTOMATIC, JUST STAY HOME AND GET AN IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND RAT TEST INSTEAD JUST DON'T GET TESTED, OKAY
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Gordon Shumway posted:Who's still going to a gym in the pandemic? I was going when cases were lower and only during the mask mandate. LOL that they ever briefly took it away in the first place. I had to go into the grocery store last night and I’m pretty sure I could have won that supermarket sweep show with the record speed in which I GTFO… 44K cases in IL yesterday and 23% positivity rate in Chicago 
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veni veni veni posted:What the gently caress...
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Thinking about ordering some OG deadstock covid-19 so that my immunity is boosted when I inevitably get Omicron. They sell this stuff on Amazon right?? 
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Jan 7, 2022 16:21
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Really you don't even need to offer a test, you'll be 90% accurate telling anyone who waited long enough in line that they're positive. My immunosuppressed wife's PCM tried to cancel her clinic appointment for a non-COVID issue and tell her to go to urgent care instead, which is jammed with people who think they have COVID. What a loving joke. Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 16:24 on Jan 7, 2022 |
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veni veni veni posted:Who the gently caress would just pack themselves in to some sweaty room with 100 people who think they have covid to get tested like that? It's insane. Probably someone who would be forced to come into work at a public facing job without a positive covid test. They're not there to find out if they have covid, they're there to get a piece of paper to prove to their boss they do.
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veni veni veni posted:Who the gently caress would just pack themselves in to some sweaty room with 100 people who think they have covid to get tested like that? It's insane. out here if you want a booster this is how you get it. as a bonus lot of the places do testing in the same line just to really make sure you're positive before any immunity kicks in A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Jan 7, 2022 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:LOL we're now getting higher daily per capita reported infections than the US Ohhh noooooo, 2000 cases per million!!!!    https://ourworldindata.org/explorer...try=USA~AUS~DNK
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Is there any extant literature on the effects of jabs after the third? She doesn't live in the US, but I want to know for my mother. She received two doses of Sinovac followed by a Pfizer booster in the States five months ago, and she's now due for a Pfizer booster where she lives. She'll probably get it either way but if there's anything to read I would like to.
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Tosk posted:Is there any extant literature on the effects of jabs after the third? Israel has been doing studies on fourth doses for older patients.
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Rust Martialis posted:Ohhh noooooo, 2000 cases per million!!!! Switzerland's making a strong play with 2300 cases per million and a test positivity rate of over 33% for the whole week! The UK looking good with 2600 per mil but Ireland just crushing it according to that site with over 4000 per million!
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Cyprus is going loving gangbusters (Note that per capita hospitalizations, ICU patients & deaths are currently much higher in the US than any of those other countries which have higher reported case numbers, although those countries are racing to catch up) Those lagging indicators which follow the cases curve are looking somewhat milder than earlier waves but are still going to be pretty drat fucky. Australia currently has more hospitalized covid patients than ever before
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Tosk posted:Is there any extant literature on the effects of jabs after the third? Turkey was giving 2 doses of Pfizer to people who'd received 2 doses of Sinovac and is now considering a 5th dose for them (they can choose Sinovac, Pfizer or the local Turkovac vax for their booster), they'll have literature backing up the decision somewhere https://twitter.com/Gab_H_R/status/1479191193225515008
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Is there a reason there's so much reluctance on the drug companies in terms of doing a 4th booster? Is it just a logistical thing or are there actual concerns about there being negative effects with 4+ shots? With efficacy vs symptomatic infection dropping rapidly after 10 weeks I'd think we'd want to be getting boosted every 6 months forever until this thing is in control.
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Amazing to see the US *not* on top of a chart showing how badly we're hosed by covid.
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Tosk posted:Is there any extant literature on the effects of jabs after the third? https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/01/early-israeli-findings-show-fivefold-boost-fourth-covid-vaccine-dose
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dwarf74 posted:Amazing to see the US *not* on top of a chart showing how badly we're hosed by covid. USA! ... not? #1?
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