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Oracle posted:Honestly hindsight makes me wonder if all those people dropping dead from those poison vape carts were maybe early canaries in the covid coal mine. Did they ever definitively figure out what caused those or was it a 'best guess' kind of thing? I'm certain that 99% of the kids poisoned by nic vapes were actually smoking lovely black market 420 carts and didn't want to tell mommy.
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Oracle posted:Honestly hindsight makes me wonder if all those people dropping dead from those poison vape carts were maybe early canaries in the covid coal mine. Did they ever definitively figure out what caused those or was it a 'best guess' kind of thing? We've seen how fast covid spreads in unprepared populations. It couldn't have been lurking in vapers for 3-5 months without collapsing every hospital in the US during the 2019 holidays.
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that poo poo happened because inhaling vitamin e turns your lung surfactant layer into liquid
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Oracle posted:Honestly hindsight makes me wonder if all those people dropping dead from those poison vape carts were maybe early canaries in the covid coal mine. Did they ever definitively figure out what caused those or was it a 'best guess' kind of thing? Hope you are doing well oracle! To answer this question it was Black market thc, they would use vitamin E to make it viscous so it could be vaped from a cartridge. You have to have good viscosity on a vape cartridge to get a good pull. If it's too crumble like it can have trouble or burn up quickly or just plain get stuck. It wasn't well known that vitamin E did this as it's used commonly in other applications that aren't vaping and is fine(as far as I recall). It was never nicotine vapes. That's was a concentrated push by big tobacco to gravitate people towards cigarettes. People still say stupid poo poo like ", I'm smoking cigarettes because vapes are worse!"
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Update on me and my wife. Wife has tested positive the past two days, despite negatives the week before. Here’s the timeline, testing every 24-48 hours. Week 1: Tested positive Mon-Wed, negative the rest of the week. Symptoms done by end of week 1. Took full course of Paxlovid starting Monday Week 2: Symptoms done, negative all week. Week 3: No symptoms, Positive Mon/Tues, Negative Wed/Thurs, Positive on 2 tests today. With this, what are we supposed to do? We’ve still been isolating and wearing masks inside. Does this mean she’s still contagious? Dacap fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Feb 17, 2023 |
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The rapid tests are basically swabbing the exhaust ports of your virus blower, with a pretty insensitive test at that. If it's still positive, you're contagious. These new strains are very virulent, and the "go back to your neighborhood cough-sniffing parties after 5 days" from the CDC is why we still have 400 dying a day.
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insta posted:The rapid tests are basically swabbing the exhaust ports of your virus blower, with a pretty insensitive test at that. If it's still positive, you're contagious. It's hard to be motivated to isolate yourself for 5 more days socially after already being back in the office for 5 days imo
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Bad Purchase posted:an IFR of 0.04 would imply over 650 million cases in the past year in the US, i don't think that's possible US has a lower vaccination rate though, and other factors that would lead to a higher IFR
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prom candy posted:US has a lower vaccination rate though, and other factors that would lead to a higher IFR According to the CDC: quote:Based on interviews conducted during November–December 2022, only 27.1% of adults and 18.5% of adolescents who had completed a COVID-19 primary series received a bivalent booster, and coverage was lower among Black and Hispanic persons. Roughly 69% of the eligible US population completed the initial vax protocol, about 12% are "partly vaccinated" and around 19% are completely unvaxxed. Of course they're not sure of the exact numbers, and I'm not sure if those stats include undocumented citizens
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Feb 17, 2023 19:38
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vax my neg hole
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The grandstanding continues... https://twitter.com/nichols_senator/status/1626106794916601856?s=20
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Normal country
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I hope that bill is written in a way that her cells are doing crimes.
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Going to put her mitochondria into protective custody.
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The only thing that can stop a bad mRNA with a gun is a good mRNA with a gun.
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Yeah I've got some mRNA for you. but no UTR bullshit. all my mRNAs are FULLY TRANSLATED. plus i only got the good poo poo. AUG codons only. none of the termination UAA UAG UGA codons. gently caress that poo poo. we never stopping!
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Dick Trauma posted:The grandstanding continues... I don't have a problem with Idaho banning novel vaccines and cancer treatments
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Feb 20, 2023 19:26
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Hey, don't shoot the messenger ribonucleic acid technology!
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Feb 20, 2023 19:33
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Idaho has been the state-level equivalent of a 2nd amendment cultist shooting himself in the balls for years now. See also their rabid anti-marijuana stance.
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We will be banning dihydrogen monoxide from our state to protect the children
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The US Department of Energy is now more confident that covid started from a lab leak than from spillover from an animal: https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/26/politics/covid-lab-leak-wuhan-china-intelligence/index.html What I don't get is why is the DoE looking into covid at all? I thought their main job was maintaining nuclear weapons.
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Seems like just more grist for the mill of stoking anti-China sentiment. I know early on I had coworkers saying it leaked from a Chinese lab with the implication it was some kind of biological warfare thing.
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dude who wrote the original WSJ article CNN uses as a source is the coauthor w/ judith miller on articles about wmds500 good dogs posted:lol this guy ftw not singling out one way or another but this has to be the 2nd/3rd cycle of "IT WAS LAB MADE" and then you read two paragraphs into the article and it's some random official who says, "uh yeah its a possibility"
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Feb 27, 2023 01:35
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"lab leak" has also been coded by the news to sound like it was created in a lab, as a weapon or whatever, and glossing over the explanation that the virus originated naturally and a lab employee came into contact with it while investigating or studying.
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Thankfully everyone reads articles carefully and doesn’t just share things on social media when they agree with the headline.
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Strong Sauce posted:dude who wrote the original WSJ article CNN uses as a source is the coauthor w/ judith miller on articles about wmds About as expected. It's like how the author behind the Cockrane Review on masks, which claims that masks are useless against disease, is an antivaxxer with ties to a libertarian think tank, which helped author the Great Barrington Declaration (basically a letter to government officials advocating for herd immunity). It sounds like a conspiracy theory, but goddamn.
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Bad Purchase posted:"lab leak" has also been coded by the news to sound like it was created in a lab, as a weapon or whatever, and glossing over the explanation that the virus originated naturally and a lab employee came into contact with it while investigating or studying. it doesn't matter anymore. even if they showed it was a complete accident that it got out from the lab they'll still blame china for covering it up. and they do deserve some blame for that no doubt, but it's all so China can be the scapegoat for how incompetently the US government handled the virus.
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The actual drug company conspiracies are stuff like “this compound is easier to synthesize and would work at least as well, however our patent on it runs out five years earlier, so let’s ram the other one through trials”.
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Platystemon posted:The actual drug company conspiracies are stuff like “this compound is easier to synthesize and would work at least as well, however our patent on it runs out five years earlier, so let’s ram the other one through trials”. I worked on a version of daptomycin called sweet dapto where SOMEONE added some double digits of kilos of sugar to the compound after completing their purchase of SOMEONE right before the patent on daptomycin ran out, then put it in stability trials and filed a new patent. poo poo was a mess, just the worst poo poo ever to clean up. Antibiotic candy. Then a Federal judge told them that adding a bunch of sugar to the compound was not a loving new patent on the drug and we started running the old version that didn't suck balls to deal with again. MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 02:13 on Feb 27, 2023 |
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Got covid for the first time this weekend, knocked me on my rear end all day yesterday. Did anyone else get lower back pain? It was pretty painful and made it hard to sleep. I thought I had pulled something sitting up in bed for 8 hours tripping with a fever, but it just kind of went away with the fever and then right back to normal.
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pro starcraft loser posted:Got covid for the first time this weekend, knocked me on my rear end all day yesterday. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971222003125#! posted:SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with low back pain: findings from a community-based case-control study
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Myalgia is currently a leading symptom, yes.
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https://archive.is/CSIz6 just remember that article by vanity fair where they hired a guy who's name is "toy reid" who says he understood a secretive Chinese language used by government officials that normal native Mandarin Speakers couldn't understand only to not understand that 安全隐患 is basically "safety risk" and not "hidden danger" as he translated it. https://twitter.com/janeqiuchina/status/1589102608761106433 But hey, I guess this guy has way more Mandarin and written Chinese knowledge that regular Chinese speakers. The dude from Greenville South Carolina obviously got this one right.
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pro starcraft loser posted:Got covid for the first time this weekend, knocked me on my rear end all day yesterday. I don't know if you're in the US, but you might consider seeing if you can get Paxlovid as long as it isn't contraindicated for whatever reason. There are links in the OP of this thread, thanks to Trixie.
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Zugzwang posted:Thankfully everyone reads articles carefully and doesn’t just share things on social media when they agree with the headline. It's already on the Reddit front page and LOL
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Strong Sauce posted:https://archive.is/CSIz6 thin blue whine posted:It's already on the Reddit front page and LOL Zugzwang fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Feb 27, 2023 |
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Zugzwang posted:lol that they used “he found high school Spanish easy” as an example of his linguistic prowess. Much like how people learned to bypass Google by searching Google for answers about things on Reddit, people will soon need to learn to bypass the top X comments, where X is a calculated variable determined by whatever some marketing team determines is the number of comments that the average marketing-susceptible person reads before going to a different post. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Feb 27, 2023 |
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pro starcraft loser posted:Got covid for the first time this weekend, knocked me on my rear end all day yesterday. CaptainSarcastic posted:I don't know if you're in the US, but you might consider seeing if you can get Paxlovid as long as it isn't contraindicated for whatever reason. There are links in the OP of this thread, thanks to Trixie.
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i like nice words