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Gio posted:Funny enough, the CDC still states that those who are vaccinated are less likely to spread disease.
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Yeah there's a difference between reduction and complete prevention, which would make the vaccines miraculous.
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Oct 14, 2022 00:22
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Even the quotes dug up generally start with emphasis on disease reduction in the vaccinated, sometimes talks about breakthrough infections of the vaccinated (ie they still get sick despite being vaccinated) and end with the nice to have that vaccines likely or does reduce transmission a bit. If the argument is that people out there didn't talk about disease reduction by getting vaccinated and instead based their exhortations to immunize on implying that covid vaccines are sterilizing then sure I am sure people can dig up quotes. Annoyingly people like to peddle white lies for a cause they believe in thinking it is a good thing. To imply that it was intended that way from the start or that it is the primary message demonstrates selectivity bias in the messages you want to interpret as I absolutely did not get that impression from all the covid prevention media I consumed and used to do my job in maximising covid vaccination in my own workplace. We talked about taking the vaccine to set an example for gran and that them getting sick and dying could cost their family their only income, but never said that vaccinating Joe Schmoe the worker would protect his gran at home. But maybe that demonstrates my own selectivity because from the earliest days it was apparent to me that a vaccine would likely (but not guaranteed) be able to be created (as was routine for other flu like illnesses although not often (at all?) for coronaviruses in particular) and that vaccines created would almost certainly not be sterilising (like flu like illness vaccines and unlike measles and small pox, because how natural immunity has behaved).
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Oct 14, 2022 07:21
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:It seems like the vaccine will soon be more risky than beneficial. Not to say it's especially risky to receive but more and more people are saying that it offers no protection for them Just full blown anti-vax sentiment that the vaccine merely prevents hospitalizations, deaths, and long term therapy vs throwing some dice at ~natural immunity~ and maybe risking your life. Christ.
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Oct 14, 2022 07:23
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MadJackal posted:Just full blown anti-vax sentiment that the vaccine merely prevents hospitalizations, deaths, and long term therapy vs throwing some dice at ~natural immunity~ and maybe risking your life. Social media was a mistake
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Electric Wrigglies posted:Even the quotes dug up generally start with emphasis on disease reduction in the vaccinated, sometimes talks about breakthrough infections of the vaccinated (ie they still get sick despite being vaccinated) and end with the nice to have that vaccines likely or does reduce transmission a bit. So messaging directly from the CDC, the CDC Director, and WHO stating that getting vaccinated reduces the spread of the disease is “selectivity bias” equivalent to you having bad vibes? And I didn’t “dig,” they’re the first Google results that popped up. Gio fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Oct 14, 2022 |
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Oct 14, 2022 16:26
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At work the CEO has COVID for the second time, which means a few other coworkers must have it as well due to all the long meetings he holds.
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Gio posted:I can’t tell you how many times I heard family, friends, coworkers (and posts) etc. imply that the unvaccinated were the reason Delta surged. The Pfizer vaccine (plus booster) was still very effective at preventing Delta infection. Infection rates among unvaccinated populations were about 10 times higher at the time. You are right about the retconning, holy poo poo
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Oct 14, 2022 20:20
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Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask, but I know I've seen a lot of good mask recommendations in this thread. My wife is looking for a well sealed mask to bike commute during wildfire smoke (bonus for comfort and breathability). We have KN95s for indoor covid concerns. But I thought I had seen suggestions in this thread about maybe N100 masks that are more comfortable and better sealed (although presumably one way with a valve?).
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incogneato posted:Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask, but I know I've seen a lot of good mask recommendations in this thread. I was using 3M 9502+ Auras on my bike, which were getting destroyed on each ride. Then I switched to a 3M Quick Latch respirator, with 7093 (rainproof) or 2291 filters. Both those are pure P100 particle filters, you can also get 7093c or 2297 filters for some extra nuisance smell filtration. Those filters a bit harder to breathe through, though. Wildfire smoke smell is mostly caught by p100 filters, unless you're really close to the fire. I've done 75 mile rides in it during wildfire days, couldn't smell the smoke while wearing the mask, but could smell it when we stopped for a break. The mask's quick latch is very easy to pop down to take a drink and then put back into place, even while wearing a helmet and cycling glasses. In general, it's been a big upgrade to the disposable masks I had been using, in terms of comfort, convenience, and athletic performance.
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jetz0r posted:I was using 3M 9502+ Auras on my bike, which were getting destroyed on each ride. Then I switched to a 3M Quick Latch respirator, with 7093 (rainproof) or 2291 filters. Both those are pure P100 particle filters, you can also get 7093c or 2297 filters for some extra nuisance smell filtration. Those filters a bit harder to breathe through, though. Wildfire smoke smell is mostly caught by p100 filters, unless you're really close to the fire. Perfect, thank you!
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There's a new, fast-spreading variant of COVID called XBB in the news. It's been identified in 26 countries. XBB is a combination of two Omicron subvariants, and allegedly has the highest immune escape rate yet. Current treatments like Evusheld may not work against it. There is hope that the new bivalent booster will protect against severe illness caused by XBB. Wearing an N95 mask in public settings, especially indoor public settings, continues to be a good idea. Here are some articles I found about XBB that are very recent, and not paywalled: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/ot...ism/ar-AA13eego https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/ot...ays/ar-AA13cssk https://www.yahoo.com/news/xbb-strain-covid-spot-symptoms-100000280.html
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From your first articlequote:So far, it's not even making a dent on the radar of US virus watchers, compared to other Omicrons. It's possible that the BA.5 subvariant, BQ.1.1., which is already on the rise in Europe, may turn out to be more of a concern for Americans than XBB ever will.
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NoDamage posted:To be fair this is true, but only around 50% or so less likely. which, in fairness, is super good just not enough to
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GreyjoyBastard posted:which, in fairness, is super good I hope so. I really don’t look forward to catching this thing twice a year because no one wants to do anything else about mitigating spread while it keeps mutating and never letting us catch up.
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One of my coworkers is on his second round of COVID but he's feeling okay so he's here at work, unmasked, attending meetings. People are joking with him about whether it's safe to be in a room with him, and then they do it anyway. I don't understand people.
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We put in place a system where the guard at the front gate checks temp and if you look sick or have an elevated temperature, you are sent to the clinic for assessment and then home on sick leave whether you like it or not. The Union is not very happy as they say that sick leave is to be used as the worker wants but we got the local labor regulator on board before enacting it.
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Electric Wrigglies posted:We put in place a system where the guard at the front gate checks temp and if you look sick or have an elevated temperature, you are sent to the clinic for assessment and then home on sick leave whether you like it or not. Temperature is not an effective COVID screen, and we've known this for at least a year by now, if not more. Are they still obsessively wiping down surfaces, too?
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tagesschau posted:Temperature is not an effective COVID screen, and we've known this for at least a year by now, if not more. Are they still obsessively wiping down surfaces, too? It is not the only thing done and it is not only done to protect against covid. Reducing the number of sick people in the workplace is a good thing. Done alongside things such as distance, hygiene, vaccinations, testing (we installed PCR labs in the site clinics), etc it helps maintain resilience. Incidentally, this made me think about the deaths amongst my workmates since Covid we have had: ~ One malaria ~ One workplace accident ~ Two heart attacks (both were pre-existing conditions awaiting surgery deferred due to Covid travel restrictions). ~ A few motorbike accidents To be fair, it is a young workforce by and large and great efforts were made to keep the older workers protected (kept away from the office, WFH even for front line work roles, etc).
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Electric Wrigglies posted:It is not the only thing done and it is not only done to protect against covid. Reducing the number of sick people in the workplace is a good thing. Lucky you. My workplace no longer has any of the above, other than a half-hearted suggestion to wipe things down that you may have touched. At least they aren't actively encouraging people to come in while they've still got a good chance of being contagious. Not yet, anyway.
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https://twitter.com/ProfEmilyOster/status/1587032027307679744 Amazing engagement here, getting ratioed and roasted by both sides for the most insincere non-apology since the last time the Economist humbly admitted they were wrong about something (but for the right reasons). I guess I haven't been following plague rats closely because I wasn't aware of this push for tribunals to prosecute everyone responsible for the illegal lockdowns, though I suppose that's a natural extension of the Whitmer kidnapping plot, etc. t's also interesting to see them try to reconcile the idea that Covid mitigation failed because a million+ people still died with the hypothesis that it was just a fake flu hoax.
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eXXon posted:https://twitter.com/ProfEmilyOster/status/1587032027307679744 I'm glad she's forgiving us for being wrong about *checks notes* reopening schools in fall 2020 in an event that precipitated the biggest wave of mass death in the pandemic.
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Novavax is running advertisements on social media, today, touting their product as stopping the spread of disease, building herd immunity, and protecting those who cannot themselves get vaccinated. I’m not opposed to Novavax’s technology. I would have gotten a Novavax shot if the BA.5‐targeted mRNA shots were not available, but they are, so I did not. I do not, however, find this advertisement’s messaging to be persuasive.      The date displayed on the advertizement is of November 2021, but it was outdated even then. I don’t know what the process looks like for approving pharmaceutical advertizements. It’s weird no matter how you look at it, given that the product itself was not authorized till July 2022.
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Nov 2, 2022 05:41
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Overview of FDA drug advertising authority. Note this is one of the areas FDA has historically been most embattled, as drug companies and in particular horrible deregulatory test case group the Washington Legal Foundation have repeatedly undermined FDA's ability to stop things like D2C advertising and offlabeling, with the combined results of a) a lot of people dying and suffering and b) the FDA's incredibly cautious about enforcement, because any case can become a devastating test case.
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tagesschau posted:Temperature is not an effective COVID screen, and we've known this for at least a year by now, if not more. Are they still obsessively wiping down surfaces, too? We still have a sign up at work saying not to eat diseased animal carcasses
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slurm posted:We still have a sign up at work saying not to eat diseased animal carcasses Did... I miss where this was a thing?
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PostNouveau posted:I'm glad she's forgiving us for being wrong about *checks notes* reopening schools in fall 2020 in an event that precipitated the biggest wave of mass death in the pandemic. She's not. It's a veiled threat that anyone supporting "LOCKDOWNS" (read: any public health measure) in the future already had their chance to be forgiven and didn't take it so it's open season on them. If you read it with the lens that she doesn't actually think she did anything other than make the best recommendations possible given the information she had at the time, then that language of offering forgiveness suddenly looks a lot more temporal and conditional. Even the word "amnesty" implies it. The Oldest Man fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Nov 6, 2022 |
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The Oldest Man posted:She's not. It's a veiled threat that anyone supporting "LOCKDOWNS" (read: any public health measure) in the future already had their chance to be forgiven and didn't take it so it's open season on them. If you read it with the lens that she doesn't actually think she did anything other than make the best recommendations possible given the information she had at the time, then that language of offering forgiveness suddenly looks a lot more temporal and conditional. Even the word "amnesty" implies it. you ever want to just quit your job and run for office just so you can destroy shitheads?
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killer_robot posted:Did... I miss where this was a thing?
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Paxlovid is a loving Goddamn wonder drug. I was on day 1 and feeling like pure dogshit, like barely able to walk around. Took paxlovid, a few hours go by, I get a funny metallic taste in my mouth and then I'm suddenly 70% better. I went from being in the fetal position on the couch to cooking dinner. Also it makes weed twice as strong and last forever
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When I had it I went to a treatment clinic to get paxlovid but they sold me on getting the monoclonal antibody treatment instead. Holy poo poo I felt like a million bucks after a day.
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The monoclonals don't work anymore so don't do that again hah. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:Paxlovid is a loving Goddamn wonder drug. I was on day 1 and feeling like pure dogshit, like barely able to walk around. Took paxlovid, a few hours go by, I get a funny metallic taste in my mouth and then I'm suddenly 70% better. I went from being in the fetal position on the couch to cooking dinner. I would have never known I had it once I started. The taste is sure something else but I'd take that in a heartbeat.
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Saros posted:The monoclonals don't work anymore so don't do that again hah. They still work but less well according to my transplant team. They don't recommend Evushield anymore but will give you something if you're infected.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/16/first-thing-senate-rescinds-army-covid-vaccine-mandate The senate just passed a spending bill which will also rescind the vaccine mandate for the army. Are we really at the point where we're giving up military preparedness because chuds have worked themselves up in fear from right wing media narratives? Another source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-passes-military-bill-lift-covid-vaccine-mandate-rcna62021 quote:The Senate passed a massive military policy bill Thursday that would direct the Defense Department to lift a Covid vaccination mandate for service members and authorize $858 billion in defense spending. Mercury_Storm fucked around with this message at 16:46 on Dec 16, 2022 |
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Do other vaccine mandates have to be passed by statute? I would imagine not; can't they rescind this and the army just goes "okay well we're saying you have to have the vaccine"? is it because it was an emergency use authorization or whatever?
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Riptor posted:Do other vaccine mandates have to be passed by statute? I would imagine not; can't they rescind this and the army just goes "okay well we're saying you have to have the vaccine"? Its because recruiting numbers are in the toilet and they’re trying everything to get them up which includes letting antivax chuds in.
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Get the chuds to sign the contracts then reimplement the mandate. Kill 2 birds with 1 stone.
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SpartanIvy posted:Get the chuds to sign the contracts then reimplement the mandate. Kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Yeah I think they’ll be rather unpleasantly surprised to discover how many vaccines, including particularly nasty ones, you will still be mandated to get as an R Troop.
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Oracle posted:Yeah I think they’ll be rather unpleasantly surprised to discover how many vaccines, including particularly nasty ones, you will still be mandated to get as an R Troop. Right but that's what I'm asking. Did a separate law need to be passed for each of those? I can't imagine so
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