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I know I'll eat a sixer for this but it makes me so sad I'll never probably eat in a restaurant or see a concert or fly on a plane again (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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slurm posted:I know I'll eat a sixer for this but it makes me so sad I'll never probably eat in a restaurant or see a concert or fly on a plane again Well if it was any consolation, your ordered a sixer to eat and it was served promptly. Like being in a good restaurant.
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slurm posted:I know I'll eat a sixer for this but it makes me so sad I'll never probably eat in a restaurant or see a concert or fly on a plane again I would prefer to PM you this, but since you don't have plat, be aware that you need to improve your posting in this thread or you will be threadbanned due to the pattern of unsupported claims, insinuation and personal posting across your alts. Your posts ITT should have sources when necessary, make their points directly, and not rely on your personal feelings or worries about COVID. There are many places you can have a more casual conversation about COVID, and you need to bring your A game when posting about it in D&D.
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slurm posted:I know I'll eat a sixer for this but it makes me so sad I'll never probably eat in a restaurant or see a concert or fly on a plane again I don't eat in restaurants any longer but I've been able to go to concerts and fly in planes with n95 masks. The concerts were timed deliberately when the wave of hospitalization in my area was trending down. It sucks not being able to enjoy a pint at the show but it's cheaper to pre game anyway.
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Koos Group posted:you need to bring your A game when posting about it in D&D. Please cite your sources.
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Tiny Timbs posted:They’ve been sock puppeting and they just get a warning? It's not against the rules to post with multiple accounts as long as you don't use them to agree with yourself.
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Koos Group posted:It's not against the rules to post with multiple accounts as long as you don't use them to agree with yourself. A polite, respectful, multi page argument between two accounts both citing data, journals, and various other resources - all posted by one very bored person - is the platonic ideal of D&D, is it not
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McCracAttack posted:Please cite your sources. mastershakeman posted:A polite, respectful, multi page argument between two accounts both citing data, journals, and various other resources - all posted by one very bored person - is the platonic ideal of D&D, is it not That's enough shitposting, thank you. slurm is not posting on multiple accounts itt
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First step for approval of variant boosters is done. https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1564984619849719808?t=5OjN9eEPB3P6SaQ0tHtiCw&s=19 Jethro fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Aug 31, 2022 |
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Scipiotik posted:What's everyone think is a good time frame from a 4th shot to this one? four months, usually.
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I am so loving horny for this vaccine. Why does every article about it quote two immunologists who are down on it? Paul Offit is always horny for vaccines—I don’t know why he’s complaining about the need for human trials now. I understand mouse studies have limitations, but how could this booster be worse than doing nothing?
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I AM GRANDO posted:COVID-19: I am so loving horny for this vaccine. I AM GRANDO posted:Why does every article about it quote two immunologists who are down on it? Paul Offit is always horny for vaccines—I don’t know why he’s complaining about the need for human trials now. I understand mouse studies have limitations, but how could this booster be worse than doing nothing? It's worth bearing in mind that COVID has basically punched a big gaping hole in the normal regulatory process for vaccines, which used to be the most ringfenced category of FDA approvals. It's fair to be concerned about the diminished evidentiary standards being applied, especially if they stick around- just as long as they're not a trojan horse for antivaxx bullshit.
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Scipiotik posted:What's everyone think is a good time frame from a 4th shot to this one? Two months https://www.fda.gov/news-events/pre...19-vaccines-use posted:at least two months following primary or booster vaccination CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices can make the wait longer if they want. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Sep 1, 2022 |
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I AM GRANDO posted:how could this booster be worse than doing nothing? FDA has to balance among: - people harmed because there's no better booster while waiting for longer safety trials - people harmed if some one-in-ten-thousand occurrence serious side effect slips by (mitigated by how likely we think that is to happen given it's similar to the old one) - people harmed if some serious side effect slips by and it convinces people to become antivax nutjobs and not vaccinate in general and all that is complicated further by uncertainty about how much better a variant specific booster would be vs just doing another round of the probably-less-effective-but-more-known-safety-profile existing one. There's no right answer and it'll depend on the people deciding making fuzzy best guesses about risk/benefit.
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Discendo Vox posted:
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mojo1701a posted:I;m thinking about thos Vaccines. 
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OK it's probably not making much difference, but why the hell are the new vaccines in America restricted to people who've already been vaccinated?
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Charles 2 of Spain posted:OK it's probably not making much difference, but why the hell are the new vaccines in America restricted to people who've already been vaccinated? Probably only tested them at a certain dosage. The dosages for the first 2 shots are much higher than the boosters.
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There’s a semi‐justifiable technical reason in that the new shot are booster sized. Original shots were 100 µg/30 µg Moderna/Pfizer. New shots are 50 µg/30 µg and split between mRNA that codes the spike of BA.4/BA.5 and code for Wuhan‐Hu‐1. I still question the decision, but it’s the conservative choice given that and the extensive trials and history of use of the original formulation.
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Its been eons since ive last posted. The only thing i've really been keeping up on are the weekly TWiV episodes which have been great coverage about Covid & Monkeypox. I have some questions though about both things, assuming that there's at least a few goons here who are getting vaccinated with the latter vaccine or follow it a great deal: 1) Does carefully timing my 4th mRNA covid shot to provide maximum protection during winter do much? Seeing that the BA4/5 vaccine is slowly making its way out, should I just get when I can? Not sure if there's more potential harm in trying to min/max things. For what its worth, I got covid in early jan 2021, and have had repeated extremely close calls all year without getting sick again, somehow. 2) Googling shows that we don't really know how effective the BA4/5 boosters are. If they're a "dud", so to speak, are they at least going to be as good as the original vaccines? 3) Should I get my second monkeypox dose on a different day than my covid booster? are there any dangers of back to back vaccines? 4) kinda a weird one - does a close call covid exposure re-up my immunity in any way? I was shoulder to shoulder with a guy in an enclosed room for 2 hours who was extremely positive and I somehow didn't catch covid. Did that event put my immune system on alert for next time, or does it not work that way unless I actually get infected/get a shot?
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buglord posted:1) Does carefully timing my 4th mRNA covid shot to provide maximum protection during winter do much? Seeing that the BA4/5 vaccine is slowly making its way out, should I just get when I can? Not sure if there's more potential harm in trying to min/max things. For what its worth, I got covid in early jan 2021, and have had repeated extremely close calls all year without getting sick again, somehow. Maybe. The original boosters fall off in protection pretty significantly between months three and six. We’ve long had analogous guidance for the flu vaccine, specifically for older adults, that the government doesn’t want them to get flu shots in August because if they only get one shot per year, it’s better to risk exposure in the low‐activity weeks of August and September in exchange for better protection through March and April, when activity is usually higher. That said, the coronavirus landscape is very different than the flu, the burden of disease from COVID is quite high even during summer. Flu doesn’t do that. Would you like to hear what the nation’s foremost authority on infectious disease has to say about it? https://lemonadamedia.com/podcast/ten-questions-for-dr-fauci-from-boosters-and-polio-to-retirement/ posted:Andy Slavitt 09:18 The machine transcript is very poor. I gave it a one‐pass cleanup, but errors may remain. Now, this doesn’t make a lot of sense to me unless these elderly people are offered a midwinter booster, but that’s Fauci’s view. quote:2) Googling shows that we don't really know how effective the BA4/5 boosters are. If they're a "dud", so to speak, are they at least going to be as good as the original vaccines? That is the expectation. The boosters were made bivalent specifically so as not to be inferior in any way against non‐Omicron variants. quote:3) Should I get my second monkeypox dose on a different day than my covid booster? are there any dangers of back to back vaccines? Waiting four weeks has been suggested by ACIP because there is the potential that both shots could carry myocarditis/pericarditis risks and they could compound, but the rate is low for the mRNA vaccines and entirely theoretically for Jynneos—it’s never been observed, simply assumed that it may happen because it does with smallpox vaccines of the first and second generation. Those vaccines have very different side effect profiles as a whole. It’s possible that Jynneos, as a non‐replicating vaccine, doesn’t share their myocarditis/pericarditis risk at all, but on the other hand, the clinical trials were small and could not be expected to reveal myocarditis/pericarditis if they occurred at low rates. https://doi.org/10.15585%2Fmmwr.mm7122e1 posted:Clinical studies have not detected an increased risk for myopericarditis in recipients of JYNNEOS. Persons with underlying heart disease or three or more major cardiac risk factors should be counseled about the theoretical risk for myopericarditis following vaccination with JYNNEOS given the uncertain etiology of myopericarditis associated with replication-competent smallpox vaccines such as ACAM2000. quote:4) kinda a weird one - does a close call covid exposure re-up my immunity in any way? I was shoulder to shoulder with a guy in an enclosed room for 2 hours who was extremely positive and I somehow didn't catch covid. Did that event put my immune system on alert for next time, or does it not work that way unless I actually get infected/get a shot? Maybe. People can get subclinical (or “inapparent”) infections that boost their antibody titers, which is how these infections are identified in the first place, but it’s not guaranteed.
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I’m really excited for this bespoke vaccine. It will remove the icky feeling I’ve been having about the original vaccine.
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Charles 2 of Spain posted:OK it's probably not making much difference, but why the hell are the new vaccines in America restricted to people who've already been vaccinated? IIRC it's because in testing and trials it's only been tested as a series with at least two or the original COVID vaccines first. It hasn't been tested to be used as like, the two shots in an initial series of vaccination. Nothing is stopping someone who is unvaccinated from getting it they just need to get two OG COVID shots first (which are still available).
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mojo1701a posted:I;m thinking about thos Vaccines. The vaccines would've been way more popular if they were advertised as a performance enhancer.
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buglord posted:4) kinda a weird one - does a close call covid exposure re-up my immunity in any way? I was shoulder to shoulder with a guy in an enclosed room for 2 hours who was extremely positive and I somehow didn't catch covid. Did that event put my immune system on alert for next time, or does it not work that way unless I actually get infected/get a shot? How long ago was this? Anecdotal, but I recently got covid and the incubation period must have been almost two weeks. My partner got it, and I was exposed heavily for days. After a week with no symptoms, I figured I was clear, but then another week passed and I developed symptoms. I spoke with some co-workers about it (we're teachers, so we've all gotten it at this point) and a few reported similar stories.
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mojo1701a posted:I;m thinking about thos Vaccines. got me a monkeypox vaccine part 1
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litany of gulps posted:How long ago was this? Anecdotal, but I recently got covid and the incubation period must have been almost two weeks. My partner got it, and I was exposed heavily for days. After a week with no symptoms, I figured I was clear, but then another week passed and I developed symptoms. I spoke with some co-workers about it (we're teachers, so we've all gotten it at this point) and a few reported similar stories. It's a bit surprising but your partner getting covid doesn't guarantee that you get it, the rate of household contacts getting it is something like 40% (not sure how those account for vaccines/prior covid). There's a possibility that you got covid from someone else and not from your partner.
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Platystemon posted:words litany of gulps posted:How long ago was this? Anecdotal, but I recently got covid and the incubation period must have been almost two weeks. My partner got it, and I was exposed heavily for days. After a week with no symptoms, I figured I was clear, but then another week passed and I developed symptoms. I spoke with some co-workers about it (we're teachers, so we've all gotten it at this point) and a few reported similar stories. I've had several of these events this year where I was around someone who ended up testing positive days later so either I have fantastic luck (doubtful, i have terrible luck) or either some really good genes or divine intervention or something.
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You could have been asymptomatic the first time and then got some protection after that. Bodies are weird.
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Do folks think it's a good idea to get the flu shot at the same time as this new omicron booster or to space them out (might be a bit early for flu shots)? I'm thinking of getting them both on this upcoming Tuesday since my polling place is near a CVS that has availability
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:Do folks think it's a good idea to get the flu shot at the same time as this new omicron booster or to space them out (might be a bit early for flu shots)? I'm thinking of getting them both on this upcoming Tuesday since my polling place is near a CVS that has availability My pharmacist talked me into getting a flu shot on the same day as my ‘rona booster last year so it’s probably safe.
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I’m getting both so that I don’t forget the flu one or just put it off until it’s too late.
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Platystemon posted:I get them at different times because I have sworn off getting shots in dominant arm. You can do same arm for covid/flu but only if you enjoy your arm really hurting.
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PhazonLink posted:isnt early/the 1st half of Sept. a bit "too early" to get the flu shot? I thought so too. Looking it up most of the advice online is "September or October" or "before the end of October" so it's probably fine.
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Mecca-Benghazi posted:Do folks think it's a good idea to get the flu shot at the same time as this new omicron booster or to space them out (might be a bit early for flu shots)? I'm thinking of getting them both on this upcoming Tuesday since my polling place is near a CVS that has availability Our health dept is recommending it just suggesting one in each arm.
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