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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:nice to see the optimism of the 60s and 70s regarding diseases disappearing is making a comeback Viruses are a whole different ballgame. But bacterial resistance to antibiotics was always always going to happen. Think about where most of our antibiotics come from. Where did penicillin come from? Yeah, right, it was a bactericide developed by one particular mold species, under selection pressure by bacteria in the soil. TTBOMK, most antibiotics have similar backgrounds. Which means they, or the chemicals they were derived from, have been part of ordinary soil ecology for most likely tens if not hundreds of millions of years. And that means that the bacteria on the receiving end have been under selective pressure to evolve resistance to these bactericides for exactly that long: tens if not hundreds of millions of years. I doubt that I really need to tell anyone here about horizontal genetic transfer. It blew my mind when I first heard about it. But I'm a 70-something old fogie who was taught in his stone-age biology class that genetic information only travels vertically. Sheeeyeah, right. Which means that it was only a matter of time before bugs showing up in hospitals turned out to have received some of the resulting resistance genes. They never really had to evolve them on their own! What that tells us is that the entire branch of medicine that has been built around antibiotic therapy has been living on borrowed time, ever since Fleming noticed something odd in those Petri dishes.
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CPU Abuser posted:But bacterial resistance to antibiotics was always always going to happen. when i was a kid 25 years ago, one spoonful of antibiotic syrup was enough to cure bacterial sore throat now they almost do nothing with a complete course
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Platystemon posted:You are Worf.
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Louisgod posted:wearing an N95 and shopping in the evening really makes a huge difference I have to get my clothes washed at a laundromat. Because replacing the hopeless pile of junk that masqueraded as a washer/dryer combo when I bought this townhome simply did not make sense. Doing that right would cost me more than 10 entire years of laundromat washes! Right around the time Governor Inslee declared our one-and-only lockdown, it occurred to me that just sitting in the laundromat reading while my clothes were getting done was a huge risk. What to do? Mask? OK, fine. But why not cram down the odds of getting tagged in any other way feasible? Let's get creative here! Waiting in my car, say, instead of in the laundromat proper? And how about doing my washes at a time when the laundromat had few-to-zero people there in the first place?
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.24.477490v1 oh geez thats scary we better collect a bunch of samples and run them through animal studies, some serial passaging through humanized animal tissue just to be safe
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23% of Danish child care workers are currently out sick. But it's not that bad, since the same is true for 30% of the kids. SplitSoul fucked around with this message at 12:38 on Jan 28, 2022 |
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Lol if Japanese long lives are from wearing masks and not getting trash jumbled into their DNA constantly by viruses.
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I’ve seen people talk about “Covid dreams” itt before and it finally happened to me I was at school waiting outside a classroom for a professor to show up with other students with my regular mask on and felt like I was suffocating, so then I whipped out something much more intense looking and could breathe easily, and managed to convince one other student to put one of them on as well. then I realized I had exposed myself during the mask swap, got startled, and woke up. I don’t even own one of those really intense looking masks. maybe this is a sign.
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https://twitter.com/BkPhilanthropy/status/1447905391778598913 That’s a lot of boxen.
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The Oldest Man posted:Looks like cope's back on the menu boys WSJ posted:Allysia Finley
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thechosenone posted:Lol if Japanese long lives are from wearing masks and not getting trash jumbled into their DNA constantly by viruses. Actually this is a very good point. Some of these recent studies showing that diseases we rarely think of, like EBV, do massive long term damage to people, and if you're avoiding getting your DNA turned into a landing pad for every viral genome in existence you're probably better for it.
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Nurses doing thangs https://twitter.com/formerlyfiz/status/1487031139072192514?s=21
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:lol I didn't know about Microcovid. I plugged in my 20 minute biweekly grocery run in an N95 and it's very high risk. hell yeah I just plugged in a beer run with a p100 and it said high. I don’t know what you’re supposed to do with this thing.
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MicroCOVID’s model is bad and assumes untruths like respirators are less effective than they truly are and that the virus is spread by spray, not ærosols.
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mycomancy posted:Actually this is a very good point. Some of these recent studies showing that diseases we rarely think of, like EBV, do massive long term damage to people, and if you're avoiding getting your DNA turned into a landing pad for every viral genome in existence you're probably better for it. me with a jackhammer banging away at support columns at WTC Building 7: Na I'm just making them stronger, dont worry about it, dont be so paranoid
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CPU Abuser posted:So I guess we're not talking about an "Edward Holmes" level virologist writing this, now are we? i have no idea who that person is but i can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that they are 100% a profession hopium manufacturer. 0 basis in reality, all thoughts and opinions orient purely around what they wish to be true despite all exceedingly obvious evidence to the contrary. a narrative/consent manufacturer tailoring a message to anyone and everyone who doesn't actively consider themselves part of any fringe ideology
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gradenko_2000 posted:I've vaguely heard reports that Omicron BA.2 is two and a half times more infectious, but relative to what? Omicron regular? Delta? I don't know which reports you are referring to, but here is the Danish risk assessment (from the 22nd; sorry Danish only, the following is a slightly modified auto-translation): https://www.ssi.dk/-/media/arkiv/su...12022.pdf?la=da posted:(..) Edit: It doesn't relate to your question specifically, but there is also this fun little nugget of information in the report: quote:The number of daily covid 19-related deaths has been rising slightly in recent weeks. So far, there are an average of 13 covid 19-related deaths daily in January 2022 compared to an average of 10 covid 19-related deaths in December 2021 and an average of 6.5 covid 19-related deaths daily in November 2021. Which refers to this: As compared to Danish direct COVID deaths in the same period: Pingui fucked around with this message at 13:37 on Jan 28, 2022 |
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jetz0r posted:all the 3m half masks are chonky fuckers, with the secureclick being an absolute unit. a small north 7700 would be my pick for the lightest high quality respirator. it doesn't have any extra plastic shell, just the silicone face piece and the ports for filters and exhaust. Oh hell yes!
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Great headline, disappointing content (the data only runs through the end of December):https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2022/01/28/city-finally-delivers-covid-poop-data posted:City finally delivers COVID poop data
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Hatebag posted:Well i hate going in the grocery store because it's full of rear end in a top hat morons like every other place in america so mainly i like the curbside pickup because I don't have to navigate my cart around a bunch of idiot fuckers who walk too god drat slow or just get in the way There’s this bit on the newer season of mr show where bob odenkirk wins a ski race by some insane amount of time, and it’s because everyone else is like stopping for picnics and naps and he just loving hates skiing so he gets it done really fast so he doesn’t have to be skiing any more, and this is a shocking new idea for everyone. That’s how I feel in grocery stores. I already know what I want, I usually have an idea of where stuff is and there are signs everywhere if I don’t, it’s extremely unpleasant to be at the grocery store, what are we doing here? Why is it worth it to spend an hour looking at all the products instead of spending that hour doing any other activity? You’ve seen the bread many times, there isn’t some crazy new bread that they just invented that’s better than the bread from before.
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loving finally
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someone talk me out of (or not) getting a 7700 even when I already have a 6200
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gradenko_2000 posted:someone talk me out of (or not) getting a 7700 even when I already have a 6200 Nah it’s good to have a backup. I have both ru8500 and 7600 for just this reason.
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gradenko_2000 posted:someone talk me out of (or not) getting a 7700 even when I already have a 6200 It's good to try multiple things to see what works. It's also good to have a backup.
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one of the best movies ever
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:For real, though, is there an efficacy difference between the way I had the filters in the first pic vs swept back? No, they were fine. The twist mount has three identical flanges 120 degrees apart so there are three angles at which the filter can end up. They'll work the same regardless.
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has now had the U.S. equivalent of a 3 million case day!
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gradenko_2000 posted:someone talk me out of (or not) getting a 7700 even when I already have a 6200 my respirators are all honeywell because i didn't want a confusing mess of filters from multiple brands. that's the only downside i'd say. otherwise i have a 7700 and it rocks, buy it.
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SplitSoul posted:has now had the U.S. equivalent of a 3 million case day! lmao
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I have a 3m 6000 series (because the 7000 is more than twice the price and I have less than 40 dollars to my name and no income) and it's light as hell actually, especially compared to when I tried a secure click
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https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/01/28/1072591923/africa-may-have-reached-the-pandemics-holy-grail
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Uglycat posted:I still have 800 posts to catch up on, since my shift ended, but Mastershakeman wasn’t posting about strategies the wealthy use to avoid COVID he was being his normal trying to get attention by saying stupid poo poo self. lmao at defending a post where he drops ‘she got it because she interacted with a poor person, I knew I should have stopped her from interacting with that poor person’.
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I saw a recent study that showed if antibiotics treatment is initiated quickly enough then the appendicitis can be taken care of without surgery, just food for thought for all you goons out there during our mild hospital collapse
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gradenko_2000 posted:someone talk me out of (or not) getting a 7700 even when I already have a 6200 I haven’t tried one of those, but the 6000s seemed kind of miserable to wear once I tried out the silicone on my 7502. The silicone feels a lot better, it fairly jumps onto your face, and it seems like the squishier nature of the material gives a more forgiving seal. The 6200 felt very much like something strapped to my face that would keep being the same shape in the same place if I tried to talk or move my head too much. The 7502 feels more something that moves with me, more like something I’m wearing instead of attaching to myself, if that makes any sense. It’s like the difference between a brand new carhartt jacket and a brand new hoodie, or a brand new work boot versus a nice hiking boot you already broke in. I’d say do it. Again, can’t speak to the 7700 specifically, but I bet it’s nice, and it’s probably going to feel better than what you’ve got based on what it’s made of. In all probability you’ll just have a nice mask and a less nice mask you’re okay with for backup, and that’s not a bad situation to be in.
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Frosted Flake posted:I asked this in CANPOL wrt to the insane trucker thing or this new strain of Canadian conservatism that’s clearly imported from the states: If you curate your Facebook a bit it isn’t hard to keep it just being exactly what you describe. That’s what I do and my feed is just people posting family pictures and life updates, mostly. But if you don’t curate your feed it just fills up with people posting a bunch of super right wing poo poo and bullshit conservative memes.
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Things going great at my kid's gifted school. Their staff is fully vaxxed and they have a mask mandate. Frequently running fewer school buses than required, I've gotten a "someone has covid" email all but maybe 3 days this month, and the principal just sent out an email saying "anyone can be a substitute and if you want to teach here I'll write you a reference letter. The lesson plan is already there, you're a warm body! You'll start in 2 days! "
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The polymer in the 6100/6200/6300 has flexibility that varies strongly with temperature, which 3M spins as “the longer you wear it, the more comfortable it becomes”, but it also means that it’s less comfortable and perhaps less effective in the cold.
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