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Maybe but I’m trying to hold onto the idea that at least some people are making genuine efforts to find potential cures or solutions that are actually real and durable.
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Aug 23, 2023 19:41
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Fansy posted:all doctors are liars and frauds intentionally keeping the diagnosis rates of COVID dampened so people don't realize it's JUST AS BAD AS IT'S EVER BEEN It's more like insurance companies who are now gate keeping getting a PCR so hard that watching covid rates is basically impossible now. WA state has kept pretty details info and the absolute nose dive in testing was obvious but the positive rate in the few tests that are being done is basically been baselined at a "well there's always people sick with covid forever I guess" I had to get a PCR recently and you have to answer the sequence of questions exactly right or theyll just mail you a RAT. Mainly that I already had a positive RAT got me through I think.
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Aug 23, 2023 19:41
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Shiroc posted:Maintaining my beet place setting in hopes for Calibanibal's return and our liberation from this plague Hollowing out a beet and carving a happy face on it and putting it on the porch to guide poor ol' wandering calibanibal home.
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Aug 23, 2023 19:42
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Not loving that the messaging is strategy is that long covid victims aren't a priority for the big new marquee COVID initiative and funding stream because that's being solved by RECOVER right after the analysis of what happened to all the RECOVER funding found that the money's basically all gone and hasn't generated any candidate treatment trials e: Shiroc posted:Maybe but I’m trying to hold onto the idea that at least some people are making genuine efforts to find potential cures or solutions that are actually real and durable. Yeah the article I linked above actually talks about this; there are no shortages of scientists and doctors who have ideas about this, e.g., see Eric Topol's paper about just that subject here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2 but they're not who got the billion dollars the NIH just spent. The Oldest Man has issued a correction as of 19:46 on Aug 23, 2023 |
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Aug 23, 2023 19:43
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Pharmaceutical companies are evil, unfortunately. It’s just the truth. Also hospital admin and insurance companies. Health workers are cool and researchers are fine.
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Aug 23, 2023 19:47
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I want to shout in real life but instead I'll digitally shout into the void, see this thread has good impacts too The bushy beard guy who sits next to me at work's family is sick, tested positive. I hear his plan is to continue working and mask. I text: [snip] and your plan is to mask. You know masking is only effective with a good fit right? Which requires shaving... His reply: I don't know if you heard but [snip] just tested positive for COVID with one of the at-home kits, so I'm actually not gonna be doing the PPE making with an N95, I'm gonna be doing the "protecting other people" masking with a surgical mask. I'm very exposed at this point so I'm not worried about further exposure anymore. Thanks for the tip though! Today he's here and he and others are chatting unmasked in the break room for half an hour, then mask goes back on.
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Aug 23, 2023 19:48
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Epitope posted:I want to shout in real life but instead I'll digitally shout into the void, see this thread has good impacts too Well somebody has to protect you guys from immunity debt
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Aug 23, 2023 19:50
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The Oldest Man posted:https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2023...chnologies.html super weird going with the star trek theme after Warp Speed loving lol 2025 vaxx gonna be called the enterprise calling it
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Aug 23, 2023 19:53
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The Oldest Man posted:Not loving that the messaging is strategy is that long covid victims aren't a priority for the big new marquee COVID initiative and funding stream because that's being solved by RECOVER right after the analysis of what happened to all the RECOVER funding found that the money's basically all gone and hasn't generated any candidate treatment trials yeah kinda feels like the long term plan for long covid is at this point to tell everyone that it's all in their head
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Aug 23, 2023 19:57
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hailthefish posted:yeah kinda feels like the long term plan for long covid is at this point to tell everyone that it's all in their head Drake no: fund larger studies into promising therapeutics like metformin that showed convincing long covid reductions in acute trials Drake yes: graded exercise therapy, bitch
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Aug 23, 2023 19:59
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60+ old dad who has like most of the things that make covid kick your rear end, including having had covid, "I'm not going to wear a mask" Me asking him to wear a mask, "But you are painting the house outdoors in wildfire smoke."
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Aug 23, 2023 20:04
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Akaiku posted:60+ old dad who has like most of the things that make covid kick your rear end, including having had covid, "I'm not going to wear a mask" Last year when the bolt fire was going on just outside seattle and we had like insane 300ppm airquality readings and poo poo and ash fall - my mask turned brown from the air in about an hour and a half and meanwhile I saw so many people just like raw dogging that air. You'd think mask wearing would be dead brained obvious when the literal air has ashes floating through it but this is america 
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Aug 23, 2023 20:09
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Lib and let die posted:you could say the same thing about succ zone a year or two ago, and in retrospect there was a valid criticism that we would spend way too much time winding ourselves up over posts we didn't have to read, often just to the moronic end result of a regular succ zone poster getting riled up enough to go running into D&D screaming about azov-nazi-loving neoliberals because they'd been boiling about ukraineposting for hours in the succ zone - except instead of screaming at DV and catching 3 days off it's screaming at the sample vendor and getting asked to leave the costco. Kinda feels like succ zone and DnD could be replaced with SAD and COVID thread in this scenario though. Including that I was a succ zone poster when that all went down so this feels extremely familiar. I have no idea why it's happening to my CSPAM thread of choice again, I've never been one of the problem posters so it's not my doing. Phigs has issued a correction as of 20:41 on Aug 23, 2023 |
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Aug 23, 2023 20:10
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Just reminded of the time about a year ago when I took a tour of some old underground tunnels and the tour guide started handing out masks. One or two people scoffed, and she said, "It's not for covid, it's really musty down there." Which caused the skeptics to mask up super quick lest they catch... must.
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Aug 23, 2023 20:10
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hailthefish posted:i'm summarizing the nonsense my insane chud parents relay to me My Dad is exactly the same, these last three years he's had several "severe colds" that lasted up to a month but even though he's never once tested for covid he's still absolutely adamant that he's never had covid. He also swears that he's really careful about masking but he only wears surgical masks in stores and he's been maskless everywhere else, including his weekly visits to friends.
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Aug 23, 2023 20:12
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Epitope posted:I want to shout in real life but instead I'll digitally shout into the void, see this thread has good impacts too hailthefish posted:yeah kinda feels like the long term plan for long covid is at this point to tell everyone that it's all in their head the liberal mind (as observed in  ) is trained for the performance, performative equality, performative allyship, performative caring, while doing nothing to change behavior or material conditions. Epitope's coworker has a family member that's positive, so he will perform like he cares about covid, but he still doesn't so he will converse and go out to eat and come to work while possibly positive with a disease that kills and debilitates people, and slip on the mask around people he knows the performance is required for social cohesion. which makes sense when you have to deal with people who care and go against what everyone is constantly told to do, to not worry about it, it's just an "uptick", covid is endemic, long covid isn't a big deal, there's nothing you can do but let things keep going as they are. it's easy to make this a simple individual moral judgement, (and i'll leave that up to you since you actually know this person and whether they are otherwise an ok person) but its a mountain of individual points were people will and are led down the path of covid denial or minimization in whatever form it takes. patience and compassion for those who are sick is all i can ever answer this with, no matter how angry someone i care about makes me when they treat this disease so callously. to those people around me and in my life i never hope they "find out" while dreading the high chances we will. i reserve my ire for the people who profit from our misery and disease, politically, financially, otherwise. covid, like any other natural disaster or disease, is a convenient tool of wealth inequality, exploitation, and acceptable death, the capitalist playbook is essentially the same.
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Aug 23, 2023 20:15
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silicone thrills posted:Last year when the bolt fire was going on just outside seattle and we had like insane 300ppm airquality readings and poo poo and ash fall - my mask turned brown from the air in about an hour and a half and meanwhile I saw so many people just like raw dogging that air. in 2020 I saw a guy sitting in an open convertible smoking cigarettes and looking at his phone while the aqi was 500+
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Aug 23, 2023 20:16
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bobtheconqueror posted:You know how folks complain about "normalization" forcing COVID news and people that are COVID conscious, from immunocompromised folks to just people who don't like being sick, into the margins of society? The notion that many people are ignorant of the realities of COVID because it's simply considered impolite to discuss them? was this supposed to be a comedy probe or something
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Aug 23, 2023 20:17
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gently caress COREY PERRY posted:was this supposed to be a comedy probe or something I believe there have been multiple calls from multiple mods to end the 'us vs them' mentality and this probe seems to be the manifestation of that call being ignored.
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Aug 23, 2023 20:19
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silicone thrills posted:The vibes in this thread are like if you are at work and your boss is just constantly standing behind you watching for you to do something wrong. yeah new thread is a lot less fun than before. sad!
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Aug 23, 2023 20:19
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Epitope posted:I want to shout in real life but instead I'll digitally shout into the void, see this thread has good impacts too giant oof RIP to your coworkers
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Aug 23, 2023 20:20
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they tell me i can't shout at minimum wage retail workers _____________________________/  they tell me i can't assume every celebrity illness is ultracovid __________________________________/ 
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Aug 23, 2023 20:22
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Rochallor posted:Just reminded of the time about a year ago when I took a tour of some old underground tunnels and the tour guide started handing out masks. One or two people scoffed, and she said, "It's not for covid, it's really musty down there." Which caused the skeptics to mask up super quick lest they catch... must. Haha
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Aug 23, 2023 20:23
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Rochallor posted:Just reminded of the time about a year ago when I took a tour of some old underground tunnels and the tour guide started handing out masks. One or two people scoffed, and she said, "It's not for covid, it's really musty down there." Which caused the skeptics to mask up super quick lest they catch... must. Yeah I've had people say "oh yeah for the shop's wine cellar! Great idea!" not... specifically no, but yes
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Aug 23, 2023 20:25
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Aug 23, 2023 20:33
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mags posted:the liberal mind (as observed in These people all have chemistry/biology degrees and "believe science" but just don't care. I don't blame them, I find it very hard to care myself. I bought cases of N95s in all shapes and sizes, and I think a couple have been worn a couple times. The guy I'm griping about even said "I can't afford to stay home" which I totally get and don't hold that part against him at all. I do feel like he finds his beard more important than my health and comfort, which stings a little, but I'm pretty sure I should just swallow it.
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Aug 23, 2023 20:35
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Epitope posted:These people all have chemistry/biology degrees and "believe science" but just don't care. I don't blame them, I find it very hard to care myself. I bought cases of N95s in all shapes and sizes, and I think a couple have been worn a couple times. The guy I'm griping about even said "I can't afford to stay home" which I totally get and don't hold that part against him at all. I do feel like he finds his beard more important than my health and comfort, which stings a little, but I'm pretty sure I should just swallow it. if you don’t want Covid can’t you wear a mask?
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Aug 23, 2023 20:36
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inferis posted:if you don’t want Covid can’t you wear a mask? It's better for everyone if there's less COVID in the air.
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Aug 23, 2023 20:39
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I’m taking nattokinase for chest pain and this stuff smells rancid, I can only imagine what actual natto is like
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Aug 23, 2023 20:41
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Epitope posted:These people all have chemistry/biology degrees and "believe science" but just don't care. I don't blame them, I find it very hard to care myself. I bought cases of N95s in all shapes and sizes, and I think a couple have been worn a couple times. The guy I'm griping about even said "I can't afford to stay home" which I totally get and don't hold that part against him at all. I do feel like he finds his beard more important than my health and comfort, which stings a little, but I'm pretty sure I should just swallow it. I mean, aside from anything else my country's burning down dude, no reason not to wear one even if COVID magically vanished.
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Aug 23, 2023 20:41
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Colonoscopy trip report in case anyone else is due. -"wear a mask" at the top of their email instructions was very dated, lol. I was the only one. -I believe every butt doctor in Colorado works for the same company now, and they have it down to a streamlined science. Huge crowd of middle aged and older folks being herded through the pens on our way to getting probed. -old (older-than-me) guy in waiting room wearing a comically absurd amount of flag-attire tried to give me the eyeball, but I flipped his table and that was that. Good news -nurse asked me if I wanted them to wear masks for the procedure, and they were very cool about it -she did ask why ("doctor will want to know"), and it sucks to have to do the whole woe is me song and dance for an accommodation, but I think it was sincerely out of concern for health complications. Not "we don't believe you". -anesthesiologist just had me pull my n95 up over the oxygen before putting me out. And I woke up with it on tight. So pretty good all things considered. Small polyps were pruned, got ahead of the colon cancer. Get it done if you are supposed to.
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Aug 23, 2023 20:44
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Baddog posted:Colonoscopy trip report in case anyone else is due. congrats on a successful procedure!
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Aug 23, 2023 20:45
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silicone thrills posted:Last year when the bolt fire was going on just outside seattle and we had like insane 300ppm airquality readings and poo poo and ash fall - my mask turned brown from the air in about an hour and a half and meanwhile I saw so many people just like raw dogging that air. Some years before covid I was in a town near a forest fire and saw a dude skateboarding around with a takeout bag from subway and an elastomeric and thought to myself "well that guy's got today figured out"
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Aug 23, 2023 20:45
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inferis posted:if you don’t want Covid can’t you wear a mask? I'm not great at this either, I did shave today and am wearing and N95. Even if I was elestomer crew or papr or whatever, it's still not great to have a cloud next to me, ya? And I'm not just worried about myself, I'm worried about the others here, but I can't make them care. Also someone else stayed home last week cuz of covid. I don't know if that's a financial hardship for her, but it's not very fair to her for others to say gently caress it
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Aug 23, 2023 20:46
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Epitope posted:I'm not great at this either, I did shave today and am wearing and N95. Even if I was elestomer crew or papr or whatever, it's still not great to have a cloud next to me, ya? And I'm not just worried about myself, I'm worried about the others here, but I can't make them care. Big mood my dude, big mood. I wish I could get the folks I care about to be more careful, it's the single biggest thing that eats me.
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Aug 23, 2023 20:47
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Baddog posted:Colonoscopy trip report in case anyone else is due. Nice! Glad it ended up going so well.
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Aug 23, 2023 20:47
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https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1694401041578480011 you all see this? think it was covid? 
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Aug 23, 2023 20:48
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Just got an email from Amerisource Bergen about preordering the latest vaccines due out in September so I guess they're not too far off from shipping out to pharmacies and hospitals
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Aug 23, 2023 20:49
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AnimeIsTrash posted:https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1694401041578480011 Actually it was lockdowns  e: which covid thread regular is putin???
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