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Glumwheels posted:When I got my paxlovid prescription this week, the pharmacist had crossed out the 2023 expiration date and wrote 2024…. And now you've got a whole year left!
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Aug 28, 2023 01:23
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Nothing new for anyone here but it's always nice having the stuff we're angry about laid out with some links. https://twitter.com/kadamssl/status/1695592214842200340 https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/hospitals-are-killing-patients-because Those NHS hospital acquired COVID numbers are dire.
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Aug 28, 2023 02:18
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Welp, my sister who flew cut her trip short and left early because she's feeling "deathly ill". I doubt she'll test and I know she got on that return flight maskless. Gee, I wonder what illness kicks in after only 2 to 3 days and makes you feel like death? I guess I'll never know!
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Aug 28, 2023 02:30
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Deathitis Deathemia Deathpathy Deathosis
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Aug 28, 2023 02:34
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fosborb posted:watching rich folks run headlong into hard rear end librarians who wouldn't let them into the last day of the Davinci exhibit was loving incredible. people were pulling out checkbooks and poo poo to try to buy their way in If you would be so kind as to share more details so I can laugh more. Like I'm assuming there was a capacity limit or something?
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Aug 28, 2023 02:45
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The Demilich posted:Welp, my sister who flew cut her trip short and left early because she's feeling "deathly ill". 
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Aug 28, 2023 02:45
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tangy yet delightful posted:If you would be so kind as to share more details so I can laugh more. Like I'm assuming there was a capacity limit or something? Also, the A/T thread for idiots in libraries would like it. Awwww gently caress, I double posted. 
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Aug 28, 2023 02:47
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Not a particularly good piece, but as always it is good to see stuff like this mentioned at all.https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/27/health/schools-indoor-air-covid.html posted:Covid Closed the Nation’s Schools. Cleaner Air Can Keep Them Open. Archived link: https://archive.li/OuI5Y
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Aug 28, 2023 02:49
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I went to urgent care today because my uvula decided to become 3x as big and hang out on my tongue, and the doctor said she'd usually prescribe Prednisone and some antiviral but the antiviral was "on backorder nationwide" so she wasn't even going to bother. Then the pharmacy was out of the steroid too so I think maybe there's a lot of sick people right now for some strange reason
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Aug 28, 2023 02:50
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Related to the NYT piece (small excerpt to give an idea of content):https://www.salon.com/2023/08/27/long-is-debilitating-children-and-doctors-worry-there-arent-enough-centers-to-treat-them/ posted:Long COVID is debilitating children. Doctors worry there aren’t enough centers to treat them
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Aug 28, 2023 02:55
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went to walmart, I guess this was the student return week because it was packed on a Sunday afternoon and all kinds of random stuff was sold out two people in the whole place wearing a mask out of hundreds, me and an old employee dude I saw going into the curbside pickup room on my way out cases are going to explode everywhere in the next 2 weeks because of all the students traveling
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Aug 28, 2023 03:02
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Griz posted:cases are going to explode everywhere in the next 2 weeks because of all the students traveling for a FOURTH time?!?!
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Aug 28, 2023 03:08
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I would simply manufacture more medicine. And if I've learned anything from Tradle, it's that every developed country in the world exports a significant amount of packaged medicaments.
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Aug 28, 2023 03:08
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I love living in a psychopathic society!
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Aug 28, 2023 03:24
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tangy yet delightful posted:If you would be so kind as to share more details so I can laugh more. Like I'm assuming there was a capacity limit or something? yeah, it was 12 pages from the Codex Atlanticus, never displayed in the US, at the MLK Jr Library in DC for only 2 months. completely free, but you have to be there in person to get in line for that day and the line seemed to typically take about 2-3 hours to work through the library is only open 1pm to 5pm on Sundays, and that was the last day. we got there at like 1:10 and we still didn't get in until 4. by the time the text message said "hey, your number is about to be called, come back to the library," the waiting area was filled with people waiting for their name to be called, like us, and also several extremely angry people who were literally trying to write checks out to cut in line, who did not realize librarians are not normal Americans and this did not work on Disney theme park rules while we waited, we talked with one of the librarians who said she was totally unphased at this point, but that as soon as 5 hit they were all going to drink heavily and experience the exhibit as long as they wanted to that night. ... on the 11th page on display, which depicted mechanisms to power fountains, my wife and kids caught me saying to myself "oh, yeah, that'd work." they are mercilessly trolling me about it a full week later
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Aug 28, 2023 03:27
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Modus Pwnens posted:I went to urgent care today because my uvula decided to become 3x as big and hang out on my tongue, and the doctor said she'd usually prescribe Prednisone and some antiviral but the antiviral was "on backorder nationwide" so she wasn't even going to bother. Then the pharmacy was out of the steroid too so I think maybe there's a lot of sick people right now for some strange reason It's really loving crazy, but there are widespread shortages of all kinds of random medicines, like chemotherapies and heparin (of all things).
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Aug 28, 2023 03:31
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Nothus posted:It's really loving crazy, but there are widespread shortages of all kinds of random medicines, like chemotherapies and heparin (of all things). Yeah, it's a real mystery why there's a shortage of tons of drugs. quote:Pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to disclose exactly what they make where. The information is often blacked out on Food and Drug Administration inspection records, for example. The agency's statement following the tornado explained "disclosure laws prevent the FDA from providing a complete list of products made at the facility."
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Aug 28, 2023 03:48
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Korean study finds that many kf94 masks have harmful chemicals several times the recommended limit. These chemicals seem to come from the plastic packaging, so they recommend airing out your mask for 30 minutes after opening the wrapper https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37079939/
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Aug 28, 2023 03:54
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Complications posted:Yeah, it's a real mystery why there's a shortage of tons of drugs. hasn't the fda also been increasing scrutiny on -- and even shutting down -- drug producers outside the united states / particularly india? could have sworn i saw a news story or two about plants there getting shut down including at least one huge one but i'm lazy to look rn lol
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Aug 28, 2023 04:01
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Nothus posted:It's really loving crazy, but there are widespread shortages of all kinds of random medicines, like chemotherapies and heparin (of all things). Albuterol was on national shortage last winter when all the children were getting sick with assorted respiratory illnesses. Really horrible to see.
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Aug 28, 2023 04:11
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Steve Yun posted:Korean study finds that many kf94 masks have harmful chemicals several times the recommended limit. These chemicals seem to come from the plastic packaging, so they recommend airing out your mask for 30 minutes after opening the wrapper drat, good to know
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Aug 28, 2023 06:32
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Steve Yun posted:Korean study finds that many kf94 masks have harmful chemicals several times the recommended limit. These chemicals seem to come from the plastic packaging, so they recommend airing out your mask for 30 minutes after opening the wrapper  Unseasonal Summer Flu Continues to Rage quote:An unusual summer flu epidemic continues. Flu cases normally mass in winter, but due to COVID preventive measures, there were no significant outbreaks in the last few years. Completely unrelated tidbit from 2022-04-09. Half of Korean children aged 9 and below infected with COVID-19 quote:The accumulated number of infected children in the age bracket reached 1,887,337 as of Saturday, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA). And hell, why not. The total infection tally for that age group today. Though it surely includes many second/third infections by this point. https://ncov.kdca.go.kr/en/bdBoardList.do?brdId=16&brdGubun=161&dataGubun=&ncvContSeq=&contSeq=&board_id= quote:Age - [10-19] Gildiss has issued a correction as of 08:24 on Aug 28, 2023 |
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Aug 28, 2023 08:09
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Why Am I So Tired posted:Nothing new for anyone here but it's always nice having the stuff we're angry about laid out with some links. This sort of thing really confuses me. Like at least the people who are at the hospital should be doing masks and poo poo, even if only for their own good.
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Aug 28, 2023 11:32
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Rick posted:This sort of thing really confuses me. Like at least the people who are at the hospital should be doing masks and poo poo, even if only for their own good. Turns out a lot of the people in charge of this whole operation are dumb as hell. Who knew?
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Aug 28, 2023 12:35
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Pingui posted:Only 14,654,538/20,000,000 courses had been delivered by July 2023, so unless demand rocketed to the moon over the last month, that is not a supply issue. It is either a logistics issue or your hospital not "hoarding". Oh, good - we hoarded ours off a scrip from my wife's neuro during this time period. So I'm all good RE: Poppers hospital.
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Aug 28, 2023 12:41
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https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8Y6kv2r/ Video that says oxygen meters are less effective for black and Hispanic people which may contribute to their higher rate of COVID. also tfw the level of blood oxygen you are supposed to go to the hospital for is higher than your normal rate.
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Aug 28, 2023 13:28
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Pingui posted:Related to the NYT piece (small excerpt to give an idea of content): just anecdotally i've seen some chronically ill and disabled teenagers talk about pretty harrowing experiences with the types of clinics treating me/cfs, chronic pain, and long covid. some of them had to sign "contracts" promising not to use mobility aids like canes or wheelchairs or risk getting kicked out. their descriptions of the clinics line up p neatly with the position that long covid is just a ~functional neurological disorder~. given how much mistreatment and neglect i've seen at peds residential psych facilities i wouldn't be surprised if that's also the case at residential rehab programs. the peds long covid outpatient clinics seem to focus more on getting kids to specialists beyond psych though, which is encouraging Rick posted:This sort of thing really confuses me. Like at least the people who are at the hospital should be doing masks and poo poo, even if only for their own good. infection prevention is just hospital administration and hospital administration is just cost-cutting cops
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Aug 28, 2023 13:31
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I should really just laugh at the chutzpah of just about anyone claiming moral authority to condemn people at this point.Rick posted:https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8Y6kv2r/ yea, we have this problem with our devices. I'll try to explain via what my ape brain has absorbed from real scientists and stuff. basically heme's optical properties change whether it is oxygenated or not oxygenated (blood change color based on oxygen status) - so you pop a pulse laser and a SPAD (a transistor that flips based on light) and some optics in a case and bam, you can tell how oxygenated blood is to a pretty good depth based on how much light scatters back to your sensor. But melanin absorbs some of the energy and your results aren't as good if you don't account / calibrate. E: Oh I should point out that one way to mitigate this in addition to calibration around expected counts is to alter the wavelength, which is one of several things we did, but better wavelength lasers are a lot more expensive, sooooo..... Buffer has issued a correction as of 13:47 on Aug 28, 2023 |
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Aug 28, 2023 13:38
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 I had an article recommended by Pocket this morning that was "should we have mask mandates back?!?!"naw it's fine just die, I guess. I'm actually seeing a handful of people in n95s or kn94s as of late in stores so that's an improvement. Walmart, too, so like; not uppity snobby stores or whatever. Hopefully more are masked soon. The more people trying to be safe, the better.
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Aug 28, 2023 13:39
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Buffer posted:I should really just laugh at the chutzpah of just about anyone claiming moral authority to condemn people at this point. I've thought often about that. Could you simply have a switch on the side that toggles the sensitivity of the sensor? It wouldn't be a catch all, as there is a lot of variation in how dark skin can be, but it's better than them all being calibrated for white skin. I'm thinking of the little home finger units.
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Aug 28, 2023 13:52
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Fell Mood posted:I've thought often about that. Could you simply have a switch on the side that toggles the sensitivity of the sensor? It wouldn't be a catch all, as there is a lot of variation in how dark skin can be, but it's better than them all being calibrated for white skin. I'm thinking of the little home finger units. it seems trivial to have it auto-calibrate based on a stored range of relevant skin tone variations. then it either selects the correct laser or changes the wavelength somehow. that would definitely cost money though, and people are already buying the bad ones so
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Aug 28, 2023 13:56
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Gunshow Poophole posted:yeah, it's awful. Obviously the treatment of incarcerated people is a loving nightmare in this country. there's a weird dichotomy where the reaction to this news when I first saw it was "this proves that minimizing exposure [via masking and ventilation and social distancing], when combined with vaccines, can turn potential exposure incidents into ones where a person avoids getting infected" whereas you have the absolutely correct take that this proves that a vaccine-only strategy is incredibly insufficient
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Aug 28, 2023 14:03
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Fell Mood posted:I've thought often about that. Could you simply have a switch on the side that toggles the sensitivity of the sensor? It wouldn't be a catch all, as there is a lot of variation in how dark skin can be, but it's better than them all being calibrated for white skin. I'm thinking of the little home finger units. they cheap out on the laser and the sensor so everything is already operating within tolerances on white skin if I had to guess
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Aug 28, 2023 14:06
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  I would love to live in this reality.
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Aug 28, 2023 14:08
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Covid outages (and the ensuring labor dispute) likely led our school district to abandon a 40 year partnership with a bus company for their leading competitor days before the year begins and it's created a huge poo poo show
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Aug 28, 2023 14:09
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(harmful) ahh ceding that there are good lockdowns are we nypost well
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Aug 28, 2023 14:19
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NYT doing what to me comes off as half-assed pieces, interviewing a clown brigade, appears to be the new normal (this article sucks).https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/28/us/covid-cases-hospitalizations.html posted:Not Over Yet: Late-Summer Covid Wave Brings Warning of More to Come What even is the point in asking the person in charge of the group for sending kids back to school, if kids should be sent back to school? Or the guy that can't figure out that if people are already feeling unwell, a mask won't protect them? Idk, but the entire piece is a mish-mash without any clear point. Archived link: https://archive.li/MZ9rB
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Aug 28, 2023 14:36
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Jon Irenicus posted:Covid outages (and the ensuring labor dispute) likely led our school district to abandon a 40 year partnership with a bus company for their leading competitor days before the year begins and it's created a huge poo poo show people are too myopic and stubborn to even consider residual effects my org had this new group planned based on movements one of our directors was taking and then the guy got really sick with covid last year and eventually resigned so his pet project was scrapped and in its place we just haphazardly smashed the two groups they were pulling from for this new group and now I have an incompetent shithead with less experience and credentials than me as my manager
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Aug 28, 2023 14:39
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I swear the arm I got all my shots in was throbbing for a few days like it bore the brand of sacrifice and the astral plane was intruding, but everything seems fine now
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Aug 28, 2023 14:43
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Seems bad. "Scientists Sound the Alarm: COVID-19 Virus Is Rapidly Evolving in White-Tailed Deer" https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-sound-the-alarm-covid-19-virus-is-rapidly-evolving-in-white-tailed-deer/ posted:Study finds deer are virus reservoirs, promoting ongoing mutation. Article proper: "Accelerated evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in free-ranging white-tailed deer" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-40706-y posted:Abstract
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Aug 28, 2023 14:43
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