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Regarding long term COVID impacts, it's worth asking how they are being accounted for in the CDC's recent risk level threshold adjustments:quote:Catherine Roberts: Posted this in the D&D thread and regret it. It was a good reminder that some will vigorously defend public health authorities without addressing their failure to protect actual public health.
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Insanite posted:any suggestions for haircut-friendly respirators? Take any earloop KN95 and when they're working on one ear, unloop it and hold that side of the mask with your hand
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Mar 6, 2022 18:05
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^^^ intriguingT-Paine posted:There's got to be someone you know and trust who wants to make a little money and is willing to take a test and come over and cut her hair in your house I would imagine it's gotta be a specific cutter and tbh i think the "normal" ritual is somewhat the point :\
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Mar 6, 2022 18:06
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Insanite posted:any suggestions for haircut-friendly respirators? The US is in a dip right now so an ear-loop mask like a KF94 should do the job. Might just have to un-loop one side at a time and hold that side of the mask in place if they need to do anything around the ears.
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Mar 6, 2022 18:08
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McCracAttack posted:I wonder if we'll ever really know how many people just quietly retreaded from public life these last few years. back before I had kids one of my favorite activities was to get absolutely blasted and then when the hunger kicked in, walk to a local breakfast diner and sit alone in silence and eat a huge plate of French toast. miss those times dearly.
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Mar 6, 2022 18:09
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Insanite posted:any suggestions for haircut-friendly respirators? I think that the weird adhesive mask is your best option. A similar concept is to tape a headband/earloop mask to your face. Someone in this thread mentioned that their barber did this for every customer (back when COVID wasn’t over), and they were impressed. It’s possible to just hold an elastomeric respirator to your face securely, or at least it is for my face and my respirator, but I’d just buy the Readimask if the haircut is two weeks away.
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Mar 6, 2022 18:13
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Louisgod posted:is this a thing? pre-pandemic all you had to do was bring a fun project/hobby with you or a book and just, eat. Do people get self-conscious about caring what other people may think? Hell when the weather was nicer I’d order a coffee from a local place via their outdoor kiosk and fine a table well away from others and read for hours. People get self concious about what other people think. Even strangers in a restaurant that might maybe possibly only be looking their way for a few seconds. Bringing a book or something to work on or even just browsing your phone at a coffee shop has been pretty normal forever basically. But how often do you see that happen at a mcdonalds or sushi place or chain texmex restaraunt, etc. These are more typically social experiences and the people used to that experience might not know what to do while solo, might look around at everyone else and wonder what they're doing and assume everyone else is doing the same to them, or try to default to a diner like experience and have a conversation with the staff or a nearby stranger. A lot of people get fidgety or just kinda look around when they have nothing to do. I felt weird for actively ignoring or dismissing what other people thought or expected until college tought me to just hard avoid situations and trends and thing like that, paid off great now.
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i'm just gonna give those sticky n95s a shot. if they don't pass the smell test before the cut, manually sealed earloop masks it is. lol that this is where i'm at. 10% chance of long covid all day erryday~~
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tuyop posted:oh, why is that? The water in it allows the alcohol to both evaporate slower and gives it more time on w/e surface. The water also helps permeate the cell membrane to kill the bacteria. With viruses some can't be killed at all with alcohol, like norovirus, where SARS-CoV-2 and colds can be killed with 60% Unsure if this was answered but I don't have the energy to look through the posts
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facetoucher cat posted:With viruses some can't be killed at all with alcohol, like norovirus Purell is a plot by the hotel industry to disrupt the cruise industry. 
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Mar 6, 2022 18:23
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Insanite posted:^^^ intriguing This is prob the best answer. gradenko_2000 posted:Take any earloop KN95 and when they're working on one ear, unloop it and hold that side of the mask with your hand kn95 or kf94 both have earloops. I feel more confident that I'm buying legit kf94s vs kn95s - though IDK where to source kn95s these days. I trust that these are all legit/good to go. https://behealthyusa.net/apps/bundles/bundle/100557
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in the realm of haircuts it's really important the stylist is wearing a mask. definitely check that ahead of time
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Mar 6, 2022 18:24
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fosborb posted:in the realm of haircuts it's really important the stylist is wearing a mask. definitely check that ahead of time 100%. no mask, no cut, she says. what I enjoy about navigating COVID’s overness is that things like this don’t feel dangerous at all!
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Mar 6, 2022 18:34
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Insanite posted:i'm just gonna give those sticky n95s a shot. if they don't pass the smell test before the cut, manually sealed earloop masks it is. I think your wife will be fine with an earlooop kn95 or find a kf94 with adjustable ear straps. My wife’s salon is very COVID safe, masks at all time, towel over face during washes, etc. it’s also only full with 3-4 people but the space is large. No issues so far for her or me.
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Found some answers https://twitter.com/Winning_TV2/status/1467831800592572417?t=riWHrfmd_e20KZzpUvFpQg&s=19
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Two mask related questions: 1) Has anyone seen any rolls of foam tape like what's inside auras on the nose strap? Auras really don't fit my face well especially around the chin, but the nose is great. I have some cheapo vented N95's from the HW store back in Jan 2020 that are fine but don't seal amazingly around the nose. I have some other really good N95's that work pretty well and are molded, but maybe 1/3 of the time the mold varies a bit and isn't quite the perfect shape, and adding a little conformal foam would seal the top perfectly. Is this stuff just weather stripping basically? 2) Is everybody wiping off their elastomerics with alcohol, or taking them apart and washing them every time? Or just doing nothing? Especially since you can't always let them sit for days and days like with cycling masks. I've been completely disassembling and washing but that seems like it'll wear out parts quick. And wiping the outside of the cartridges with alcohol wipes sometimes.
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Rescue Toaster posted:2) Is everybody wiping off their elastomerics with alcohol, or taking them apart and washing them every time? Or just doing nothing? Especially since you can't always let them sit for days and days like with cycling masks. I've been completely disassembling and washing but that seems like it'll wear out parts quick. And wiping the outside of the cartridges with alcohol wipes sometimes. I'm just wiping mine down with alcohol wipes, haven't taken it apart yet, but I'm only using it for grocery shopping so I haven't logged too many hours in it.
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Nocturtle posted:Regarding long term COVID impacts, it's worth asking how they are being accounted for in the CDC's recent risk level threshold adjustments: just wanna say that you made a valiant effort you can't argue with a brick wall
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Rescue Toaster posted:2) Is everybody wiping off their elastomerics with alcohol, or taking them apart and washing them every time? Or just doing nothing? Especially since you can't always let them sit for days and days like with cycling masks. I've been completely disassembling and washing but that seems like it'll wear out parts quick. And wiping the outside of the cartridges with alcohol wipes sometimes. Do you also change your clothes after every outing? There was a time when I did, but I haven’t in a long time. I don’t decontaminate respirators after each use. I only clean them as I would in shop use, i.e. for ordinary grime. The part that contacts my face gets a rubdown with seventy percent alcohol daily. The exhalation valve gets removed and cleaned as necessary, depending on use. The outside I more or less leave be. I do wipe it down occasionally, certainly if there’s dust on it, but it’s not much of an infection risk. I sanitize my hands with the seventy percent alcohol I carry before handing the respirator to remove it, and I sanitize them again after I’ve set it down. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Mar 6, 2022 |
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Insanite posted:i'm just gonna give those sticky n95s a shot. if they don't pass the smell test before the cut, manually sealed earloop masks it is. Cases are low right now so there's less COVID out there to catch. Also "back to normal" folks can go months with daily exposures before their luck runs out. If you ask this cave dweller, it feels pretty reasonable to do things like haircuts and dentist visits between waves.
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Louisgod posted:is this a thing? pre-pandemic all you had to do was bring a fun project/hobby with you or a book and just, eat. Do people get self-conscious about caring what other people may think? Hell when the weather was nicer I’d order a coffee from a local place via their outdoor kiosk and fine a table well away from others and read for hours. you do get noticeably worse service and seating when dining alone.
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Platystemon posted:Do you also change your clothes after every outing? There was a time when I did, but I haven’t in a long time. I mean... yeah I guess. I really only ever leave if I'm going to do one specific thing so when I get home I typically change and take a shower anyway.
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Going to a movie alone or eating a nice meal while reading a good book were absolute pleasures of mine in the before times. Getting high and going to the movies by myself was a pleasure. It's pretty dumb that the last time I did this was for Rise of Skywalker or whatever the gently caress it was called. I don't even really like star wars.
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Louisgod posted:is this a thing? pre-pandemic all you had to do was bring a fun project/hobby with you or a book and just, eat. Do people get self-conscious about caring what other people may think? Hell when the weather was nicer I’d order a coffee from a local place via their outdoor kiosk and fine a table well away from others and read for hours. there was never anything weird or wrong with going to a restaurant by yourself, and people have always done it frequently. I dunno why people get weird about it Joementum posted:you do get noticeably worse service and seating when dining alone. never saw this at the restaurants I worked at and never had this problem when I ate alone either.
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https://twitter.com/OrganizingPow3r/status/1500533431561863176
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Insanite posted:any suggestions for haircut-friendly respirators? get her to tie her hair into a ponytail that sticks out between the wrap-around-the-head straps and get the hairdresser to just snip the whole thing halfway then remove the hair tie in the biz we call this style the sadness helmet
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empty whippet box posted:there was never anything weird or wrong with going to a restaurant by yourself, and people have always done it frequently. I dunno why people get weird about it to me the point of a restaurant is to be a midpoint for meeting people and to structure the gathering in an extremely low key way for the friends who are not good with just chilling in a park or whatever, so going to a restaurant by myself just feels like walking outside without pants on or something, i know people do it but it feels weird
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"just as effective" in the same way i am just as effective at rocket science as my dog is.
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https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1484928356214886405 What the heck we're still culling everybody's pets 3 years into a pandemic
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Man Musk posted:https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1484928356214886405 what the gently caress is going on in that hamster stock photo though
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fosborb posted:what the gently caress is going on in that hamster stock photo though green power, baby
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Rutibex posted:watch The Omega Man next, it's the true timeline. we've already got the proto cloak people That's a classic I saw a few times on TV back in the Y2K time period. Love it, I should watch it again though!
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.1% of the population pozzing every day? OPEN MARTIN!
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fosborb posted:what the gently caress is going on in that hamster stock photo though redundant hamster generator array e: Insanite posted:green power, baby gently caress
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fosborb posted:what the gently caress is going on in that hamster stock photo though I dont know but it looks fun
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Clocks posted:what a lovely lady lol russian cynicism is unparalleled gradenko_2000 posted:That's pretty accurate. I can do a longer effortpost later but we're basically on a six to twelve month delay on political trends relative to the US i think most or all of the capitalist world are on lags of varying lengths from the US in the political sphere. probably just because the US government will implement whatever capitalists want at the drop of a hat but it takes a bit longer for them to beat down whatever resistance exists in other capitalist countries. Maybe a couple countries are a bit ahead of the US in certain dimensions, for example israel has a bit more developed support for the government's ethnic cleansing program than in the US, where only about half the population explicitly support it.
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Koirhor posted:I got some bad news about takeout/delivery for that person what’s the bad news?
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Nocturtle posted:Have been trying to compile and summarize large-scale studies of PASC rates for "mild" infections. Whoever is updating the thread spreadsheet is doing a great job, thanks! Quoting so I have this, thanks for compiling it.
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Shear Modulus posted:lol russian cynicism is unparalleled The KGB operated a prison in the Lubayanka building in Moscow. It was across the street from a toy store called Childrens’ World so of course Russians called it Adults’ World.
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