|
McCracAttack posted:"No but see it's fine if you catch COVID at a work conference. I've had it three times and I'm fine." Even worse, it was a scientific conference. But yeah, I'm remote so I zoom into every work meeting and I just see a conference room packed with people all giving COVID to each other over and over and over again. They joke about it, which is ableist as hell but it's not my problem so whatever.
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2022 16:47
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 8, 2024 04:22 |
|
|
'twas announced to cheers in the allhands today that masks are no longer required on campus at work starting monday fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck that poo poo haha
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2022 17:02
|
|
|
i’m in the office today due to power being out at home still, and i have only seen one other person wearing a mask. hundreds of people work in this building and it’s mostly open offices. i found an empty “phone room” with a door in a side hall and parked there for the day. haven’t heard any hacking coughs yet at least.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2022 17:23
|
|
|
Can someone help me figure out if our 5 year old who has had 2 doses of the vaccine can get the new booster? It will be 5 months in October.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2022 20:28
|
|
|
A Strange Aeon posted:Can someone help me figure out if our 5 year old who has had 2 doses of the vaccine can get the new booster? If five and up is eligible, they're eligible. has to be at least two months since last shot. Edit: looks like pfizer asked for 5+ to be authorized, FDA won't meet on it til Oct. quote:The health agency’s vaccine advisory committee has meetings scheduled for Oct. 19 and 20, where it is expected to review the available data on the boosters for that pediatric age group. So hang in there. Oracle fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Sep 30, 2022 |
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2022 20:34
|
|
|
Serious_Cyclone posted:Even worse, it was a scientific conference. But yeah, I'm remote so I zoom into every work meeting and I just see a conference room packed with people all giving COVID to each other over and over and over again.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2022 22:22
|
|
|
Does Omicron still present with loss of smell? I feel like I haven't heard anyone talking about that symptom since Delta.
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2022 23:30
|
|
|
that's because nobody talks about having covid anymore op. out of sight, out of mind, and eventually, after enough infections, out of body entirely
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2022 23:40
|
|
|
some family who had covid this year (so most likely omicron, but not sure which) lost their smell, one of them for a couple months but it eventually came back
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2022 23:43
|
|
|
Tagra posted:Does Omicron still present with loss of smell? I feel like I haven't heard anyone talking about that symptom since Delta. It still happens to a lot of people, but the prevalence is substantially lower than it was with Delta, or at least was with BA.1, the dominant ~subvariant~ in January. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00327-0 posted:Loss of smell was less common in participants infected during omicron prevalence than during delta prevalence (16·7% vs 52·7%, odds ratio [OR] 0·17; 95% CI 0·16–0·19, p<0·001). Platystemon fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Sep 30, 2022 |
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2022 23:49
|
|
|
Tagra posted:Does Omicron still present with loss of smell? I feel like I haven't heard anyone talking about that symptom since Delta. less frequently
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2022 23:50
|
|
|
Just got my updated dual Pfizer vaccine. My husband got his and his flu shot at the same time. I'm getting my flu shot in 2 weeks
|
|
#
?
Sep 30, 2022 23:50
|
|
|
Tagra posted:Does Omicron still present with loss of smell? I feel like I haven't heard anyone talking about that symptom since Delta. My mom experienced that when she got it earlier this month.
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2022 02:51
|
|
|
Okay, thanks!Fur20 posted:that's because nobody talks about having covid anymore op. out of sight, out of mind, and eventually, after enough infections, out of body entirely ^^Must be this  I work in a University that is doing its first full non-wfh semester of the pandemic and have successfully made it through September, but the amount of coughing I hear is really horrific, and there's a lot of "unexplained laryngitis". Our campus is "masks recommended" though and I do see a lot of masks, to the point where I often hear students asking everyone else in the group if everyone wants them to put their mask on, since they're the only ones not doing it. I just kinda assume everyone who is wearing a mask is also sick, though. I've definitely had a lot of students cancel appointments due to illness, and a lot have reported positive COVID tests. There's a lot of useless cloth and surgical masks but a decent amount of KN95s too, but only really me and a few other staff/faculty wearing a full headstrap N95. First major exams are coming up in October and that's when the viruses typically take hold in the stressed students. I'm battening the hatches...
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2022 15:13
|
|
|
I try not to think about it, but it really pisses me off how badly people have been lied to. 99% of people really think this poo poo is over, to the point where we're getting thisTagra posted:there's a lot of "unexplained laryngitis" all too often. The mental gymnastics people go through now, because they're sure that COVID is over, I mean the CDC said so themselves! So they feel sick, they're coughing up lung fluid, they feel weak and tired all the time and it keeps happening, but it's just "a cold" or "allergies" or "the weather". I'm not immune to that line of thinking either, but I've burned through so many home tests that have popped negative even when I felt like poo poo, combined with a lifetime of feeling like poo poo and having constant allergies and sinus infections even pre-COVID. So once again, the only thing any of us can really do at this point is keep getting those boosters and always be masking. poo poo sucks 
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2022 15:41
|
|
|
King Vidiot posted:I try not to think about it, but it really pisses me off how badly people have been lied to.  The people we're supposed to look to for guidance have bungled everything so badly at every turn that it makes it difficult to trust any official guidance for anything anymore. But anyone expressing that opinion out loud is called paranoid. We have societal gaslighting going on and it's exhausting.
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2022 17:02
|
|
|
It definitely sucks but at least I can be the one visible reminder in my office by wearing an n95. Until they make some policy change and don't allow masks or something.
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2022 17:27
|
|
|
Every time I go out, I wear a mask, and I am usually the only person who seems to. So, so many times I think I might be paranoid about this poo poo, why not go out and eat, everyone else is, it looks fine, no one looks sick. Then I hear someone cough and I am reminded otherwise. It's like thinking the zombie apocalypse is over just because there's none in your house. There's plenty of zombies outside, you just don't see them when you're inside.
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2022 18:20
|
|
|
There's some incredible mental gymnastics around healthcare where I am too. ERs are constantly closing with 30% of staff calling in sick, and apparently according to everyone this is always how our healthcare system has been, just no one was paying attention to ERs constantly closing a few days or even a week randomly, certainly nothing to do with COVID.
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2022 19:12
|
|
|
i've worked at my current job for over 10 years, and this year is the only time i've ever experienced management begging people at the beginning of department and all-hands meetings to please, please, please use sick leave if you are sick and don't come in they know what's going on, they just aren't willing to deal with the backlash if they require masking or up to date vaccinations again. this is in FL, so it's not just employee backlash to worry about, but the governor would also start issuing fines if a business acknowledged that covid still exists. Bad Purchase fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Oct 1, 2022 |
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2022 19:36
|
|
|
Ontario emergency rooms are closing every other week and all the medical staff are quitting in droves, must be a coincidence lmao
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2022 19:37
|
|
|
Colonel Cancer posted:Ontario emergency rooms are closing every other week and all the medical staff are quitting in droves, must be a coincidence lmao Yeah that's what I was talking about. For sure there are general working condition issues due to our insanely union-hostile conservative government, but everyone acts like it's a wacky coincidence that ER closures come in lockstep with COVID waves.
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2022 19:45
|
|
|
just postpone your car accidents until the ER is open, ya dummies
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2022 19:46
|
|
|
ERs close or have insane wait times, like 1-2 days. Incidentally, being forced to sit on a bed in a hospital hallway for 1-2 days is a great way to get covid if you don’t already have it!
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2022 20:18
|
|
|
Zugzwang posted:ERs close or have insane wait times, like 1-2 days. Incidentally, being forced to sit on a bed in a hospital hallway for 1-2 days is a great way to get covid if you don’t already have it! Okay, well its easy to point at the negatives.
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2022 20:34
|
|
|
If you stop tracking injuries or illnesses requiring ER usage suddenly it's nbd 
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2022 20:53
|
|
|
So any reports yet from people who got the bivalent BA.5 vaccine and catching covid? I'm curious if they ended up being mild cases.
|
|
#
?
Oct 1, 2022 22:55
|
|
|
Whatever happened to monkeypox? Did that poo poo just disappear cause the Queen died?
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 00:11
|
|
|
Charliegrs posted:So any reports yet from people who got the bivalent BA.5 vaccine and catching covid? I'm curious if they ended up being mild cases. all covid cases are mild
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 00:19
|
|
|
Cowslips Warren posted:Whatever happened to monkeypox? Did that poo poo just disappear cause the Queen died? It's mild. Same @ polio outbreak in NY
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 00:23
|
|
|
looking forward to some mild diabetes and mild heart disease as i age
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 00:34
|
|
|
I wonder if the final stages of the bubonic plague were mild, like you only turn a little bit black when your flesh rots and your pustules only hurt a little bit.
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 01:03
|
|
|
Cowslips Warren posted:Whatever happened to monkeypox? It dropped off a lot but it's still chugging along, the US is still reporting several hundred cases per day Cowslips Warren posted:Did that poo poo just disappear cause the Queen died? Hey, it happens 
Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Oct 2, 2022 |
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 01:44
|
|
|
Cowslips Warren posted:Every time I go out, I wear a mask, and I am usually the only person who seems to. So, so many times I think I might be paranoid about this poo poo, why not go out and eat, everyone else is, it looks fine, no one looks sick. My spouse works on a floor of the building where only his nonprofit that he works for are the only ones who require masks. He told me thatT someone on the same floor who works for a different company has said, "everyone has COVID, correct?". My husband said "no!" And told her to get the gently caress away from him.
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 03:09
|
|
|
Doc said I have an infiltration in my lung, probably from the covid I had a couple weeks ago. What the gently caress is that
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 07:07
|
|
|
The Fattest PI posted:Doc said I have an infiltration in my lung, probably from the covid I had a couple weeks ago. What the gently caress is that The common term is 'pulmonary infiltrate', it basically means you got some sort of gunk all up in there. Would've helped if the doc was a bit more specific quote:From a pathophysiological perspective, the term "infiltrate" refers to “an abnormal substance that accumulates gradually within cells or body tissues” or “any substance or type of cell that occurs within or spreads as through the interstices (interstitium and/or alveoli) of the lung, that is foreign to the lung, or that accumulates in greater than normal quantity within it” quote:According to a study by Patterson et al, the use of the term "infiltrate" on its own was not shown to be very meaningful for the clinician or very beneficial to the patient
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 07:57
|
|
|
Haha your second quote from the wiki really nailed it on the head. Hurts like a MFer though maybe if i try real hard i can cough out a sick rear end bronchial cast
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 18:23
|
|
|
The Fattest PI posted:Haha your second quote from the wiki really nailed it on the head. Hurts like a MFer though I'm not a doctor but you have tried lying on your stairs so that your body is inverted and then coughing really hard? That works to get water out lol
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 18:53
|
|
|
shouldn’t have inhaled that gifted wooden horse
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 18:56
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 8, 2024 04:22 |
|
|
Salt Fish posted:I'm not a doctor but you have tried lying on your stairs so that your body is inverted and then coughing really hard? That works to get water out lol I dunno ground glass opacities are a type of infiltrate and I'm not sure coughing that out would be productive?! (a respiratory joke, ha ha!) Hope your lung clears up well for you OP.
|
|
#
?
Oct 2, 2022 19:13
|
|
