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Guavanaut posted:I kinda get his point You can, however, very easily avoid getting infected with HIV and live a completely normal pre-pandemic lifestyle.* You can't really keep dodging Covid to the same degree without eventually resorting to wearing NBC gear outside the house or moving to China. *unless said lifestyle involves having wild, unprotected sex with anything that moves.
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"data suggests that telomere damage ages the body by about 5 years" is a series of pretty massive leaps
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Z the IVth posted:*unless said lifestyle involves having wild, unprotected sex with anything that moves. Which I think is part of his wider point, although of course he phrased it in the most binary edgelord way possible because that's the law on twitter, but the past 25 years have seen absolutely phenomenal changes in how HIV/AIDS is treated and managed both at the individual and population levels, and without drawing a direct comparison between two very different viruses hopefully the same will be true of Covid in a few more years time, but there's still a lot of known unknowns about long Covid, long term immune damage, etc.
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jiggerypokery posted:Maybe from covid Maybe it’s COVID-19
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Also, don't the anti-HIV drugs you have to take regularly to keep your immune systems have some fairly unpleasant side effects? Just because the future impact of covid is unknown doesn't mean you pick the known fairly bad impact.
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Guavanaut posted:If it does then you really should consider PrEP. I've had Infectious Disease people tell me they would rather have HIV than diabetes which is fair enough, both are long term chronic conditions and HIV is eminently more manageable in that regard than diabetes. Comparing COVID to HIV is deeply disingenuous though. For one if the NHS collapses you can kiss goodbye to all that free HAART, PREP and welcome your new buddy Pneumocystis carinii. Edit - ^^^ Seems variable depending on the individual like all drugs but yeah, some do get some pretty nasty side effects which leads to compliance issues.
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regardless of the actual content of the claim, it's one hell of a take to be putting on twitter
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Also, don't the anti-HIV drugs you have to take regularly to keep your immune systems have some fairly unpleasant side effects? Just because the future impact of covid is unknown doesn't mean you pick the known fairly bad impact. If he'd gone with 'exposed to' rather than 'infected with' it'd be a lot more reasonable, because we have all much better PEP for HIV now too, but twitter is the enemy of nuance so you have to go all out with "I'd rather have the worst thing ever from 40 years ago than the thing everyone tries to say is over already now" because saying "Covid is far from over, and the long term possible effects worry me, but look at the great work we've done in the recent past for virology" is not allowed (and there's a million other brainlets still going around saying "Covid isn't real")
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/04/home-office-contractors-disciplined-trying-to-sell-drugs-manston-asylum-centrequote:Home Office contractors removed for trying to sell drugs at Manston asylum centre
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Went and stood with some striking workers for a bit today (the educational workers I posted about last night). Found out there was a picket line just a couple of miles from my house so went on down. Good atmosphere. *Tons* of people honking in support passing by. Also seems like it'd be a good way to meet people. I recommend it.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/nov/04/home-office-contractors-disciplined-trying-to-sell-drugs-manston-asylum-centre
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Do I need to have had COVID-1 through COVID-18 to get COVID-19, or can I jump straight in? These franchises can be exhausting. On another note, yeah, glad to see the CUPE thing happening.
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They probably complained because their money was confiscated and alternative payment methods were required.
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The government's Drug Free Hell Camps policy will prevent these kind of abuses, but only the bit where you get any drugs as part of the deal.
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That Spectator cover is, er... very 1930's Germany https://twitter.com/Sathnam/status/1588607215090675713 e: This made me lol https://twitter.com/stebrown8/status/1588150897162567681 fuctifino fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Nov 4, 2022 |
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To be fair it does say free cash withdrawals right there.
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That line from 2016  unlit uplands baby!
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So, uh, heads-up Enola Holmes 2 has some pretty good politics. I started it up thinking that I would watch 30 minutes of this then go to sleep and now it's 2am. I seem to remember the first one being a little 'voting will save us' and this one is much more 'voting will not save us, only through direct action and a deep sense of active solidarity can we achieve results against the corruption in the system'. Which yeah, not quite what I expected, would recommend.
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Going from having one of the best healthcare systems in the world to this is one of the things other than the iminent existential dread of climate change that makes me crack-ping. I see it in the pharmacy I work at all the time, it's absolutely frustrating how many people can't get seen for issues and illnesses that clearly need clinical monitoring. The Tories can go get hosed into the void.
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In their heads they're defunding it to get it to the point where private healthcare companies can 'save' it. Except they won't, they'll take the government's money, at best run it at the current level of failure, and as praxiscast put it, "run off giggling to a tax haven." https://twitter.com/PraxisCast/status/1588809217477001217?t=fRpTBx9MZmW06VPGX3Lb3Q&s=19
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Sorry To Bother You is on the iPlayer & you should really watch it if you haven't seen it, tremendous film
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fuctifino posted:That Spectator cover is, er... very 1930's Germany What's crazier is that they originally commissioned it 8 years ago for a cover story about why Britain should be accepting more refugees https://twitter.com/cjayanetti/status/1588579432369115136 Morten Morland is unsurprisingly pissed that the Spectator have changed the context of his artwork to be super racist.
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https://twitter.com/SpillerOfTea/status/1588849299718230016 Pro click, which is exceptionally rare for HIGNFY
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Well she's totally right. I agree lets limit annual spending on pensioners to £2.5billion.
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Trying to murder other people is obviously bad, but killing yourself? Unforgivable. What the gently caress
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Bobby Deluxe posted:In their heads they're defunding it to get it to the point where private healthcare companies can 'save' it. Except they won't, they'll take the government's money, at best run it at the current level of failure, and as praxiscast put it, "run off giggling to a tax haven." i agree with rishie: there's always pitchforks and lampposts 
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Diet Crack posted:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/09/30/record-number-nurses-quit-nhs-analysis-reveals/ Or is the plan literally "the rich elite pay through the nose for luxury healthcare, and everyone else dies"? (I know, what does my heart, etc.)
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Payndz posted:(I know, what does my heart, etc.) That'll be £52,000 for the ECG test to find out
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I think the mistake is thinking that market true believers (excluding, for the premise of the argument, those who employ it cynically as a tool to achieve other aims) actually understand or even think about how things actually work. Rather I think the beginning and the end of the belief is simply that it gives them a feeling of understanding and a certainty they can use to defend the inside of their own head against their political enemies. It also doubtless progresses into defending all the other things they like (insert any of a range of extant bad ideas in society here that other, more thoughtful people are trying to change) but I think first and foremost it satisfies a need for them to believe they are right and understand things, which doesn't actually have to be true so long as they believe it.
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Payndz posted:What I don't get about the politicians who are both pro-NHS privatisation and pro-Brexit is: okay, you've successfully starved the beast and made sure the NHS can no longer function, opening the door for the private sector to do a "better" job (and make loads of money). Where the gently caress are you expecting to recruit all the nurses and other staff for your fancy private hospitals? Can't get them from the UK because nobody will work for the poo poo pay and conditions you'll be offering in order to maximise profits. Can't get them from the EU because Brexit. Can't get them from cheap third-world countries because racism. We're headed towards the distribution of healthcare being a tool for subjugating workers, it's mundane as gently caress, just look at the USA if you want to see the path. We may get some cyberpunk poo poo at some point, having your robot limbs turned off if you don't fulfill your 5 year amazon warehouse contract etc, but before that it'll be your medicine subscription.
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