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Skyscraper Raccoon posted:
Imagine posting this unironically lol
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https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/23/airline-industry-pushes-cdc-to-cut-breakthrough-covid-quarantine-time.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/27/cdc-recommends-shorter-covid-isolation-quarantine-for-all.html wait until you hear my theory connecting these two, it'll blow your socks off!!
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Wrex Ruckus posted:https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/23/airline-industry-pushes-cdc-to-cut-breakthrough-covid-quarantine-time.html
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Gio posted:
Letting the perfect be the enemy of the good Or THE SLIGHTLY LESS WORSE being unacceptable Is why we are turbofucked now Every which way Don't apologize for saying let's at least try to do this blah blah Every loving fertile woman in America better be willing to make some loving compromises really soon, and guy too unless you want lots of misc kids
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Spinz posted:Letting the perfect be the enemy of the good I got an IUD, and have been encouraging my male friends to get vasectomies. Fuuuuck you ACB, doing my part to derail your dream of a healthy supply of domestic infants
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It's amazing to see that the government has literally learned no lessons from the covid pandemic and are just pretending monkeypox doesnt exist. You'd think when we had a handful of cases in the US that there would be a rigorous contact tracing program to prevent it from spreading. But nope, let's just blame the gays.
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Charliegrs posted:It's amazing to see that the government has literally learned no lessons from the covid pandemic and are just pretending monkeypox doesnt exist. You'd think when we had a handful of cases in the US that there would be a rigorous contact tracing program to prevent it from spreading. But nope, let's just blame the gays. I am, sadly, not amazed. Not even very mildly surprised tbh.
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Goon CDC Conspiracy: The CDC is beholden to political and economic pressures and its health advice reflects this. Antivax CDC Conspiracy: The CDC is covering up waves of heart disease deaths caused by covid vaccines that have microchip trackers and also your balls will shrink and you'll never have children replacement theory they'll rewrite your genes. Me, an intellectual: finally, evidence of horseshoe theory.
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Ghostlight posted:Goon CDC Conspiracy: The CDC is beholden to political and economic pressures and its health advice reflects this. One of these theories has basically been admitted to be true by the CDC.
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Goon conspiracy: The CDC is definitely not putting in overtime hours this year Regular conspiracy: The CDC is definitely putting in huge overtime hours this year
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Goon conspiracy: the CDC does not care about our health because it is corrupted by economic and political interests, plus just plain incompetence Regular conspiracy: the CDC does not care about our health because it is actively trying to harm us
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The CDC's new "community level" covid map was also some PR bullshit, they tied the covid threat level to the number of covid patient admissions at hospitals and the percentage of staffed inpatient beds in use by covid patients and the new colour range didn't even go up to red, it stopped at orange. It doesn't tell you how high the rate of infection is in your area, it tells you how well the hospitals are coping. State/county mask recommendations were also tied to this colour scheme so now the mask recommendation changes based on the hospital capacity and not on your chances of catching the virus. Here's the current map:  Lots of green, no red anywhere! Looking good! Only 20% of counties have high covid levels! They still publish the old "community transmission" maps which are just the infection case rates but they had a caveat on them that this data was for healthcare facility use only and not for the general public. Here's the current map:  That look pretty bad, pretty much every state sucks a lot! More than 95% of counties have substantial/high covid spread! Apparently so many people pointed out that this was bullshit that the CDC very quietly edited the page today https://twitter.com/JReinerMD/status/1546109669860589573 Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Jul 11, 2022 |
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that seems bad, but wait until they just delete the old map entirely and stop reporting the data at all when the criticism continues
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People who likely have monkeypox but don't fit "the profile" are still struggling to get tested. Here's a guy in Texas covered in gross pustules and rashes across his entire body who has been trying to convince dermatologists to check if it's monkeypox, so far the best they can do is confirm it's not shingles and go "Well it might be monkeypox  "https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7114737845021150510
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How can it be misleading when 99% of (confirmed) cases match the profile?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:People who likely have monkeypox but don't fit "the profile" are still struggling to get tested. Here's a guy in Texas covered in gross pustules and rashes across his entire body who has been trying to convince dermatologists to check if it's monkeypox, so far the best they can do is confirm it's not shingles and go "Well it might be monkeypox So what I'm guessing is if you obviously have monkeypox but want to get tested just tell them you're gay even if you're not.
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confirmed cases match the profile because the profile is used to determine who gets tested to confirm the case.
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Tested positive Coooool.
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Charliegrs posted:So what I'm guessing is if you obviously have monkeypox but want to get tested just tell them you're gay even if you're not. No guarantee there either. My very gay, very sexually uninhibited friend had to go to four doctors before one would even entertain the idea of testing him. Two explicitly told him there was no way he had monkeypox in spite of his meeting the whole drat checklist of risk factors and symptomatology. He of course had monkeypox the whole time, and the delays in diagnosis and treatment meant it got a whole lot worse than it needed to.
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Dr. Fauci doing a Farewell Tour before his retirement with all of his greatest hits (from the 80s and 2000s)! Gems like: "It only affects the gays!" "You need prolonged, direct contact to be infected!" "Very rare, unlikely to spread!" "Definitely not airborne!" "Cases are very mild!" ...and the crowd favorite: "No deaths have been reported (yet)!"
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Stickman posted:How can it be misleading when 99% of (confirmed) cases match the profile? PITY BONER posted:Here's a few images from studies/articles I saved from Twitter a few days back, so I am sorry I don't have the source. The highlights are not mine.
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Goon w monkeypox, at the doctor: "IM GAY"
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It looks like everyone is getting in on the 90s revivals!
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Does anyone know the sensitivity rate for RAT for Omicron4/5? I can only find it for BA2.
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compshateme85 posted:Does anyone know the sensitivity rate for RAT for Omicron4/5? I can only find it for BA2. I haven’t been able to find any studies and I’ve found a couple testing company sites say there aren’t any yet so I’m going with nobody knows yet. RATs target the spike protein and since BA.4/5 has a ton of mutations on the spike protein we should expect to see RATs lose even more accuracy than they did with BA.2 but by how much seems unanswered atm.
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When I took the RAT and tested positive at the end of last week both lines showed up in less than a minute and stayed that way. The T line appeared first and it was bold and unmistakable. I wasn't sure if that was from over-zealous swabbing or just the fact that Omicron+ people generate gazillions of viral particles in the throat & nasal cavity compared to previous variants. Sore throat is the worst part of it so far but I was able to get a Paxlovid Rx inside the 5-day window. Hoo boy this Paxlovid mouth taste sure is something. Reminds me of tonic water and dentist's glove. And my dumps have been absolutely presidential.
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Dick Jones posted:Sore throat is the worst part of it so far but I was able to get a Paxlovid Rx inside the 5-day window. Hoo boy this Paxlovid mouth taste sure is something. Reminds me of tonic water and dentist's glove. And my dumps have been absolutely presidential. Jolly Ranchers are the popular choice to deal with pax mouth.
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My covid stuff is migrating down to my chest now. My temperature hasn't been too bad today, but I've had a couple of moments where I felt cold. it's 93 degrees outside.
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Idiot Kicker posted:My covid stuff is migrating down to my chest now. My temperature hasn't been too bad today, but I've had a couple of moments where I felt cold. it's 93 degrees outside. https://twitter.com/ToonyGoons/status/1524538401839628289
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Zugzwang posted:You’re in the US right? here’s a guide to getting paxlovid, assuming you don’t have contraindicating health stuff/medications: https://hidrb.com/ just got shared in another thread, they do free paxlovid consultations for residents of New York, Florida, and California. It's faster than findcovidcare, too. They ask for the standard patient info that a pharmacy uses, and want a picture of a positive rapid test. Then they give you a list of local pharmacies with pax in stock to send your script to. All automated on the user's side, and it was under an hour from submitting info to the pharmacy calling with the script ready to pick up. findcovidcare costs $50 and took overnight to send the script to a pharmacy.
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I'm going to preface this with a grateful acknowledgement of just how privileged I am to have: 1) a primary care physician who is 2) covered by my insurance, and who 3) is not a raving rear end in a top hat. I told my PCP that I wanted to know whether he recommended a 2nd booster given my high risk employment, even though I'm under 50 and not immunocompromised. He agreed that I should absolutely get my second booster ASAP, and (when my pharmacy dragged their heels) wrote a very legible and snarky prescription for me. He also made it clear that if I popped hot I should give him a call and he'd immediately prescribe Paxlovid. Super appreciative to be in the position I'm in. If other goons have regular medical care and feel they would benefit from extra-conservative protection, I urge you to at least check: the worst thing that can happen is a "no." I also urge anyone who can do so to proactively discuss Paxlovid with your doctor. I hope to not catch this poo poo, but if I do, it's nice to have the option. Preemptive disclaimer: I talked to my doctor about my concerns and made it clear I was going to follow his recommendations. I'm not suggesting that anyone try to circumvent medical professionals, so feel free to refrain from lecturing me on how unsafe my drug-seeking behavior is. TIA
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Got my last call and I've completed my stint in the covid vaccine trial. It was an interesting experience and I'd recommend it. Hopefully I'll be eligible for another vaccine trial in the future.
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Soo...did you get any cool powers? Laser breath, x-beams, hairless feet, big triple balls? Magnetism gets stale. Just wondering what I might have to look forward to. Bonus nipples? Atomic turkey wattle? Thank you for your service to sciewnce🔭
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Wilkins Micawber posted:Soo...did you get any cool powers?
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First real world study from Qatar showing how much protection prior Omicron infection provides against BA.4/BA.5 reinfection.quote:Protection of SARS-CoV-2 natural infection against reinfection with the Omicron BA.4 or BA.5 subvariants
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I finally got my ER bill from a few weeks ago, my long covid visit. $6,000 total, $500 out of pocket after insurance. I'm real glad this pandemic didn't happen when I was in my 20s, at those prices, when I was that age I avoided the ER at all costs.
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found out my sister tested positive this week. this is her first time. she is unvaxxed and lives with my unvaxxed (and now fully converted anti-vax) parents. she says it's the worst she's ever been sick. my parents just tried to get me to go over to their place to visit yesterday evening, and then out to eat at a steakhouse with them. i passed, both because family from out of town were visiting who i'd rather not deal with and i don't want to eat inside at a bustling steakhouse during a pandemic. i didn't know i was dodging a bullet because the bastards didn't even mention she was sick when they invited me. and of course they didn't think twice about going out to eat at a crowded restaurant after being exposed to her in the same house for days. she at least stayed home because she didn't feel well. i texted her tonight when i heard and found out my parents are giving her hydroxychloroquine, which they had leftover from when they caught it in january  goddamn my family is nuts. my sister doesn't have health insurance, so there's no way she's going to visit a doctor, but i did pass along the online paxlovid info from this thread. i'm not sure if i convinced her to try to get it tomorrow (day 4 of her symptoms), but i hope i did. she's not as dumb as my parents, she is just trapped in their bubble due to living with them and mostly goes along with what they say because arguing with them is agony.
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Bad Purchase posted:found out my sister tested positive this week. this is her first time. she is unvaxxed and lives with my unvaxxed (and now fully converted anti-vax) parents. she says it's the worst she's ever been sick. Sup crazyass family buddy. I haven’t been home more than a few hours for a funeral since 2018? 2019?
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Bad Purchase posted:found out my sister tested positive this week. this is her first time. she is unvaxxed and lives with my unvaxxed (and now fully converted anti-vax) parents. she says it's the worst she's ever been sick. your family is openly plotting to kill you
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