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Shiroc posted:I had a guy yell at me from their car about wearing a mask a few weeks ago. I had a guy chase me down in his truck for calling code enforcement on him, therefore all general contractors are out to get all of us. simple as.
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Aug 23, 2023 02:03
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Gonna go out on a limb and say that I don't want "us" or "them" to get covid, or to get PASC if we/they do. Game-wise, I played Stray a few weeks ago and my cat did indeed spend a lot of time watching my character jump around the city 
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Aug 23, 2023 02:04
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Lib and let die posted:I had a guy chase me down in his truck for calling code enforcement on him, therefore all general contractors are out to get all of us. simple as. They are though. Have you not worked with any general contractors?
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Aug 23, 2023 02:05
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Zugzwang posted:
this is also on the list so much backlog, so much having to work to remain sheltered 
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Aug 23, 2023 02:05
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Lib and let die posted:I had a guy chase me down in his truck for calling code enforcement on him, therefore all general contractors are out to get all of us. simple as. general contractors are all out to get us and our money. which is why I use unlicensed labor from undocumented immigrants and pay and treat them well
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Aug 23, 2023 02:06
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IM PIZZA POSTIN OVAH HEAH home made chicken alfredo pizza. used the king arthur quick thin crust recipe today.
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Aug 23, 2023 02:07
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i don't think every post in this thread should have to come with footnotes with supporting evidence for why it was (a) just a shitpost/tounge-in cheek, (b) a uh "witty" reference to thread lore, (c) exaggerated for comedic effect or due to exasperation, (d) the product of a sound and normal mind, as evidenced by links [1],[2], and [3], just so that it can't be interpreted in the most bad-faith way possible.
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Aug 23, 2023 02:08
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silicone thrills posted:IM PIZZA POSTIN OVAH HEAH should post that beauty in the what did you eat for dinner thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3967220&perpage=40&pagenumber=103&noseen=1
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Aug 23, 2023 02:08
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I havent really posted in gbs since the great whatever the gently caress happened of 2015? Is it like normal now over there?
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Aug 23, 2023 02:10
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idk about the rest of gbs but that thread is chill. check out gambits pizzas for inspiration
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Aug 23, 2023 02:10
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silicone thrills posted:I havent really posted in gbs since the great whatever the gently caress happened of 2015? Is it like normal now over there? I went into the GBS ukraine war thread once a few months ago and that was something. e: i see they had to make an explicit rule in the thread op to stop calling russians "orcs"
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Aug 23, 2023 02:11
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silicone thrills posted:I havent really posted in gbs since the great whatever the gently caress happened of 2015? Is it like normal now over there? no idea but avoid their war thread
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Aug 23, 2023 02:12
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silicone thrills posted:I havent really posted in gbs since the great whatever the gently caress happened of 2015? Is it like normal now over there? it's normal by USA standards at large I'd say
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Aug 23, 2023 02:12
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mawarannahr posted:Wisdom Way to eat a ban +30 in the SAD thread. Semper Posts, my Goon
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Aug 23, 2023 02:16
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I just saw posters for a Janelle Monáe show next week and now need to decide how much I trust my respirator.
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Aug 23, 2023 02:17
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Shiroc posted:I just saw posters for a Janelle Monáe show next week and now need to decide how much I trust my respirator. you should go and trust your respirator 100%. I fully support.
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Aug 23, 2023 02:19
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Shiroc posted:I just saw posters for a Janelle Monáe show next week and now need to decide how much I trust my respirator. get out the good respirator, the variants are only going downhill from here if this is Omicron 2 and, well the weather and security situation on top likely mean this is the last chance where the risk profile is liable to be acceptable.
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Aug 23, 2023 02:21
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Petey posted:The only addition I have to say is that my understanding is that now that Paxlovid is fully authorized, it can be prescribed off-label for several reasons, including in advance of e.g. travel, or because you are worried about future access generally. For example, I got a prescribed course of Paxlovid before a two-week trip in Japan this summer, in case I tested positive while there and couldn't get access to it while abroad. I now have a box of Paxlovid on hand because I didn't end up testing positive. quote:Washington Post Opinion: The Checkup With Dr. Wen: Paxlovid is still underutilized. That must change. August 3, 2023 Meanwhile, I have a fun timely story for whomever it was saying there was no Paxlovid gatekeeping and to always trust most medical doctors. I was supposed to get dinner with a friend who is an Ivy League educated epidemiologist and works for a health department (so, pretty high on the ladder of medical privilege). She called to cancel because she just got COVID for the first time by letting her guard down a bit recently and stopped wearing N95s on public transit. When I asked if she was able to get Paxlovid, she replied that she asked her PCP but "he advised against it" and elaborated: quote:He said that right now it’s indicated only if people have shortness of breath and that it comes with risk of side effects and risk of rebound COVID symptoms 2 weeks later. quote:He's still saying he doesn't think I need it because it's not severe shortness of breath. While that friend was suffering for days, someone else I convinced to HOARD a course in advance was able to start taking it immediately when they got COVID for the first time this month, so, you know, which situation would you rather your loved ones be in? I know I for one would always pick, "die on the hill of defending the integrity of the for-profit American healthcare system" and any criticism of that system should obviously be bannable. MjolnirMan has issued a correction as of 02:26 on Aug 23, 2023 |
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Aug 23, 2023 02:21
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Is there any comparison of the Cue tests versus Aptitude Metrix tests? The Metrix are cheaper. Are they good enough?
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Aug 23, 2023 02:23
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yoloer420 posted:I think it's just the concept that there needs to be a special justification to avoid covid. Many people in the thread are avoiding it because it causes long term harm in a significant portion of (if not all) cases.
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Aug 23, 2023 02:28
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brap posted:Is there any comparison of the Cue tests versus Aptitude Metrix tests? The Metrix are cheaper. Are they good enough? Oh wow a new home NAAT test? Sound gr-  D'oh I don't see anything on their website about test specificity or agreement with a benchmark lab PCR so, unclear whether it's better/worse/the same as Cue. e: found it https://www.fda.gov/media/162403/download. Comparison with benchmark is on pages 30 onward but someone else will have to look at Cue's to see if they're better or worse since I need to go. The Oldest Man has issued a correction as of 02:34 on Aug 23, 2023 |
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Aug 23, 2023 02:29
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nexous posted:we don’t really have a choice, do we? “get a second opinion” is something people who have never had to get a second opinion say. I’m thinking they’ve never actually needed anything that wasn’t utterly trivial. My mom’s orthopedic surgeon prescribed her naproxen even though he knew she has chronic kidney disease. My wife has seen a litany of specialists over decades and it took one of the absolute best surgeons in his field to realize that she has an extra vertebra and maybe that is the cause of some of her chronic issues. I’ve seen a doctor fill a man’s circulatory system with glue, killing him. That doctor is still practicing and to the best of my knowledge suffered no consequences despite a rich and storied history of terrible outcomes. Doctors ignore and downplay common chronic conditions because they don’t affect white men. They are a key component of the apparatus of structural discrimination. Plenty of them are just idiot fail sons that don’t give a gently caress. The unfortunate reality is that you need to be your own advocate because any doctor could permanently gently caress you up any time you interact with the healthcare system. If you aren’t sophisticated enough to advocate for yourself, and you’re not wealthy enough to have access to the best doctors (the ones that don’t take any insurance) then good loving luck to you. I hope Fosborb will accept my preemptive apology for the report this post is sure to generate!
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Aug 23, 2023 02:31
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cue was funny and prominent for a few months of like late 2020-21? (my sense of time scale might be off) when google and other tech companies were trying to get people to go back to work fast and so they gave a ton of employees cue testing set ups and then people held parties where they all infected each other because not everyone would test and probably just the lag time on detection.
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Aug 23, 2023 02:31
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MjolnirMan posted:While that friend was suffering for days, someone else I convinced to HOARD a course in advance was able to start taking it immediately when they got COVID for the first time this month, so, you know, which situation would you rather your loved ones be in? I know I for one would always pick, "die on the hill of defending the integrity of the for-profit American healthcare system" and any criticism of that system should obviously be bannable. i have spent this entire pandemic caring for patients and watching people die of covid. i would much prefer people with no serious contraindications keep 1-2 boxes of paxlovid in their home to begin treatment as soon as they test positive or are presumptive positive. there has been so much needless suffering and death. it hasn't stopped. please take care of yourself and your loved ones because the government will not. the concern trolling about this has been ridiculous to witness.
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Aug 23, 2023 02:32
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I have sympathy with this position, but not the place to talk it or poo poo related.
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Aug 23, 2023 02:35
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So what do people think will happen with paxlovid? Seems to me there are two very powerful forces, on the one hand the managerial state wants covid to go away and so treatments for the thing that doesn't exist have to go away too, on the other hand the pharma companies make money off of it, so
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Aug 23, 2023 02:38
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icantfindaname posted:So what do people think will happen with paxlovid? Seems to me there are two very powerful forces, on the one hand the managerial state wants covid to go away and so treatments for the thing that doesn't exist have to go away too, on the other hand the pharma companies make money off of it, so it will be a thing you can get if you have insurance.
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Aug 23, 2023 02:39
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salient posted:i have spent this entire pandemic caring for patients and watching people die of covid. i would much prefer people with no serious contraindications keep 1-2 boxes of paxlovid in their home to begin treatment as soon as they test positive or are presumptive positive. there has been so much needless suffering and death. it hasn't stopped. please take care of yourself and your loved ones because the government will not. the concern trolling about this has been ridiculous to witness. Yup
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Aug 23, 2023 02:40
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icantfindaname posted:So what do people think will happen with paxlovid? Seems to me there are two very powerful forces, on the one hand the managerial state wants covid to go away and so treatments for the thing that doesn't exist have to go away too, on the other hand the pharma companies make money off of it, so
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Aug 23, 2023 02:43
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mawarannahr posted:Dark Triad guy going to osteopathic school cause he heard they train you to manipulate people at sociopath school
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Aug 23, 2023 02:44
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icantfindaname posted:So what do people think will happen with paxlovid? Seems to me there are two very powerful forces, on the one hand the managerial state wants covid to go away and so treatments for the thing that doesn't exist have to go away too, on the other hand the pharma companies make money off of it, so Well in Europe they just set eligibility requirements at an inaccessible level. In the US an attempt till be made to make it an insurance cost, which will be entirely balked at by anything but the most insanely expensive insurance. Probably some insurance will have it technically available if an in-network doctor prescribes it (you just have to make an appointment next week). Beyond that you will have a limited multi-tiered private market. Some will be able to get Pax on a subscription (as already happened with the *clonals and tests), while piecemeal purchase will be priced at a couple of grand. The state certainly won't make a purchase again.
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Aug 23, 2023 02:46
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people ITT after the collapse https://i.imgur.com/hns1Lnu.mp4
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Aug 23, 2023 02:47
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We'll get those 3 vinegar collective or whatever idiots trying to cook up a batch and poison a few people...
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Aug 23, 2023 02:48
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on the other hand, COVID can't be over and defeated if the federal government continues to underwrite paxlovid. some sort of yearly vaccination program is much more likely, although if you were to have mentioned that possibility two years ago you would have been denounced as antivax. COVID might not be like the flu but the formal response will be the same, except worse and more hidden
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Aug 23, 2023 02:48
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Oglethorpe posted:people ITT after the collapse "after"
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Aug 23, 2023 02:48
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PoundSand posted:To that end anything that helps mitigate the effects of Covid that doesn't really disrupt their business would be seen as a positive. Even in my pretty conservative area where local gov resisted WA lockdowns as much as possible and hated Inslee for demanding anything of them, most companies were still fairly pro vaccine for example. when you say "mitigate the effects of Covid" do you mean the effects/symptoms of an individual's particular case? or the rolling and now perennial effects at a societal level because masks don't disrupt like... most businesses. and everyone loving hated them from the jump. nobody sees masks as a positive.
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Aug 23, 2023 02:49
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bedpan posted:on the other hand, COVID can't be over and defeated if the federal government continues to underwrite paxlovid. some sort of yearly vaccination program is much more likely, although if you were to have mentioned that possibility two years ago you would have been denounced as antivax. There's also the fact that with the rate of the varients getting worse, the current approach simply won't work indefinitely, no matter what the CDC is trying to say.
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Aug 23, 2023 02:49
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the US has ordered more than 50% of all globally produced paxlovid courses. I’d be concerned about pax resistant variants if there weren’t 8 billion people who couldn’t get pax making new strains
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Aug 23, 2023 02:49
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StratGoatCom posted:There's also the fact that with the rate of the varients getting worse, the current approach simply won't work indefinitely, no matter what the CDC is trying to say. this is antivax
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Aug 23, 2023 02:50
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Remember you can always ask your doctor for things. And you should listen to your doctor so if they agree to give you something for a certain purpose then it's okay, even if it doesn't align with the prevailing medical advice given to doctors by other authorities. COVID posters say you should do X but doctor gives you a script for it anyway? All good.
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