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mistermojo posted:lol I'm on a work call and one guy is sitting in a cubicle when pretty much everyone else, including the managers and CEO, are working from home. so I guess he just goes to the empty office to sit in a depressing beige room all by himself tbf I wouldn't mind going into the office more if I was assured I would be the only one there
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You don't even need to sit around and spitball about actual mortality numbers or possible future impacts of present infections. The actual (whitewashed) numbers as presented, ~500K deaths every year with little or no mitigation shown between one year without vaccines and the next with, is an utter horror show. That puts covid by itself at around four times the next leading cause of death (accidental injury) and makes covid deadlier than anything else in the human experience except for natural end of life events.
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Greg Legg posted:There's that one the army is developing that is supposed to do this. It's going to be a few years though. Unfortunately, it's not. There's nothing about the Army one that makes it sterilizing, or any more effective than the ones already on the market against any particular strain. The distinguishing factor for it is that it has the ability to express a whole bunch of different covid spikes simultaneously, which would potentially allow it to induce a broad spectrum of immune response against multiple variants. It doesn't address the rapid waning of the immune response or the fact that vaccination doesn't result in sterilizing protection.
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Kinda getting to the point where if nothing is going to get better, why not give up and go about things like normal tbh
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U-DO Burger posted:this last month has been such a shitshow. just off the top of my head Going to (safely) show this to the people in my life (mildly)
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Whoolighams posted:Kinda getting to the point where if nothing is going to get better, why not give up and go about things like normal tbh go for it, there are no laws stopping you from doing so anymore
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Whoolighams posted:Kinda getting to the point where if nothing is going to get better, why not give up and go about things like normal tbh its not going to get better. adapt.
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Love that my work just sent out a "safety program" that I have to return a signed acknowledgement of. Like everything it's poorly written but includes the line "respirators are used only in the paint booth area." I'm guessing I should probably order a case of Auras and start sourcing a Corsi Cube. Speaking of Corsi Cubes, how noisy are they?
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Whoolighams posted:Kinda getting to the point where if nothing is going to get better, why not give up and go about things like normal tbh I'd kind of like to do things at some point in the future with a reasonable level of health and with my wife not dead It's been two years, I'll wait.
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Iron Crowned posted:Love that my work just sent out a "safety program" that I have to return a signed acknowledgement of. Like everything it's poorly written but includes the line "respirators are used only in the paint booth area." as noisy as a box fan
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Whoolighams posted:Kinda getting to the point where if nothing is going to get better, why not give up and go about things like normal tbh Because then you might be dead or disabled for life within 2 weeks.
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Mar 24, 2022 19:44
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Whoolighams posted:Kinda getting to the point where if nothing is going to get better, why not give up and go about things like normal tbh Can't spell "we have to stop living in fear" without "we have to stop living"
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Gio posted:its not going to get better. adapt. We've beaten pandemics in the past and moved on from them. Thing is we did it over timespans longer than six weeks and people back then didn't have capital overriding their survival instincts with 24/7 propaganda.
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i guess no one is going to stop punching me in the dick might as well stop wearing a cup
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Whoolighams posted:Kinda getting to the point where if nothing is going to get better, why not give up and go about things like normal tbh Rolling the dice every time, and the one time you hit snake eyes it equals either horrible ventilator death or long term disability. Living life like it's 2019 is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYnFIRc0k6E
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Whoolighams posted:Kinda getting to the point where if nothing is going to get better, why not give up and go about things like normal tbh I'm not giving up, but I'm also preparing to live with covid forever. That means I'll go to a movie theater or a concert, as long as my respirator stays on the whole time.
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Lol Eric Adams is rolling back vaxx mandates just in time to let Kyrie Irving play in the playoffs
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mawarannahr posted:if something like TB made a resurgence how would we handle it? would people voluntarily mask up out of fear in places where mandates are banned? 
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Vox Nihili posted:Lol Eric Adams is rolling back vaxx mandates just in time to let Kyrie Irving play in the playoffs Every sports radio outlet in New York has been screaming at him to do exactly this since he was elected. Paying for a media narrative works.
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Eh I was just depressed posting, I'm still going to wear my P100 everywhere and keep my HEPA filters running. Survival is defiance
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I remember literally telling people, a few months in, “yeah, it kind of sucks, but it’s just a few months. now, if we were talking two years, then I’d probably start thinking about killing myself because gently caress, who wants to live like that?” now I’m not feeling like that today but I really expected more from everyone.
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Mar 24, 2022 19:52
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Vox Nihili posted:Lol Eric Adams is rolling back vaxx mandates just in time to let Kyrie Irving play in the playoffs Just after the owner of the Mets donated $1.5 million to him
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Chamale posted:I wrote about this in the last thread, this was my answer: That's very helpful and more or less what I was looking for, thank you
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Whoolighams posted:Eh I was just depressed posting, I'm still going to wear my P100 everywhere and keep my HEPA filters running. Survival is defiance I won't be wearing my FF-400 to the strip club, but I'll be wearing my 7500.
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Chamale posted:I'm not giving up, but I'm also preparing to live with covid forever. That means I'll go to a movie theater or a concert, as long as my respirator stays on the whole time. yeah I’m thinking of going to a show in May, is this the suicidality kicking in? I like Jenny Hval though https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5t67EYrsTTw
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Iron Crowned posted:"respirators are used only in the paint booth area." holy loving poo poo it begins
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mawarannahr posted:I remember literally telling people, a few months in, “yeah, it kind of sucks, but it’s just a few months. now, if we were talking two years, then I’d probably start thinking about killing myself because gently caress, who wants to live like that?” now I’m not feeling like that today but I really expected more from everyone. It could be a matter of months now, today, if we committed to an actual lockdown, arrival quarantines and departure testing, testing and lockdowns for outbreaks, and relaxing mRNA vaccine patents. We just don't want to, because 500k deaths a year is preferable.
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mawarannahr posted:I remember literally telling people, a few months in, “yeah, it kind of sucks, but it’s just a few months. now, if we were talking two years, then I’d probably start thinking about killing myself because gently caress, who wants to live like that?” now I’m not feeling like that today but I really expected more from everyone. Lol I have a distinct memory of telling my girlfriend "it's possible we're only halfway through this!"... in September 2020
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Chamale posted:I'm not giving up, but I'm also preparing to live with covid forever. That means I'll go to a movie theater or a concert, as long as my respirator stays on the whole time. Gives people time to customize their respirators into cyberpunk perma-helms that make boomers mad
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:It could be a matter of months now, today, if we committed to an actual lockdown, arrival quarantines and departure testing, testing and lockdowns for outbreaks, and relaxing mRNA vaccine patents. like the fact that we've had international flights at all, let alone the amount we've had in the past two years, is so loving crazy. First Step of Any Pandemic: Everyone stay on the continent they are currently on
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xiaoren posted:holy loving poo poo it begins Again, everything is poorly worded as usual, so I"m hoping intention was "only required," but I'm wearing this sucker until they write me up.
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The CDC Data Tracker website has been broken for 24 hours 
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welp, wife’s rapid test is positive I have a sore throat
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Pillowpants posted:The CDC Data Tracker website has been broken for 24 hours Lol "broken". You can't track data that isn't real!
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An idea I was thinking about is either cyborg lungs, or just the lungs of a different kind of animal like an arachnid booklung
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Insanite posted:welp, wife’s rapid test is positive Mildly sore???
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Calibanibal posted:An idea I was thinking about is either cyborg lungs, or just the lungs of a different kind of animal like an arachnid booklung $500 million in funding granted
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Whoolighams posted:Kinda getting to the point where if nothing is going to get better, why not give up and go about things like normal tbh Things might at some point get better if we get another medical miracle (mRNA vaccines already being one medical miracle). A vaccine that provides lifelong protection, or at least protection measured in years rather than months, that would qualify. Some kind of prophylactic drug that was readily available and safe to take on a chronic basis, that would also work. But if you're waiting for that, be prepared to wait for years, with no guarantee your savior will ever arrive. Those things may never happen. The option I'm going with is to adapt my life and live as best I can while maintaining protection against covid. I am not a bunker hermit - I work in person, I visit friends and family, I go to the gym, I do in-person shopping, all that kind of thing. But I wear a P100 rated respirator religiously. It does not come off when I'm sharing air with people, period. I have not breathed one single breath of unfiltered shared air in about four months, not since Thanksgiving. Barring a miracle as I described above, I'll never swim again, or eat inside a restaurant, or drink water when I'm in the gym or at my workplace. With these restrictions in mind, I live my life. You will stand out. You have to be okay with that. The only alternatives are to bunker down indefinitely or to risk catching covid. 
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:It could be a matter of months now, today, if we committed to an actual lockdown, arrival quarantines and departure testing, testing and lockdowns for outbreaks, and relaxing mRNA vaccine patents. How do animal reservoirs play into this
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