Gunshow Poophole posted:

gently caress

Sorry dude

Glumwheels posted:

It’s been two loving weeks! I blame my gastro too, shouldn’t have ever listened to her about restarting my medication so soon after testing negative. I should have given it another week since it really suppressed my immune system.

Now I’m stuck at home another goddamn weekend, was hoping to get out of the house and rest/have some help with the kids for a few days but nope. Trapped again.

Gunshow Poophole posted:

Oh dang yeah I'd forgotten about your rinvoq

That's a real rock and a hard place though, I wouldn't be too hard on your doc or yourself. Just another impossible situation you're now subject to thanks to the government and the wealthy who run it

Zantie posted:

I dunno man, I've heard some pretty lovely stories regarding people in wheelchairs getting pushed around w/o asking. Nevermind the whole issue of people who just go up and touch a stranger's belly when they think they might be pregnant.

Raskolnikov2089 posted:

You mean like the lady who told my wheelchair bound 8 year old nephew that if he prayed hard enough, God would fix his legs?

They don't give a gently caress. People like this are complete assholes, but they are 100% sure they're the good guys.

DickParasite posted:

A friend of mine got got this week for the first time after managing to avoid it for 3.5 years inspite of having school-aged kids.

Gildiss posted:

Fingers crossed. Taking an 11 hour flight, direct. However, going to be in business class, and juiced up with Flo Travel and my N95.

Zugzwang posted:

Sorry goon, hope you and the family heal up soon.

Gunshow Poophole posted:

aww dang

feel better and take the second course anyway imo, it's good enough for tony faucet

ThatBasqueGuy posted:

reported for hoarding medicine at the expense of orphans

Zantie posted:

Aw gently caress.

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

Koirhor posted:

everytime I see a chart like this my brain just replays the scene from interstellar with the waves on that planet, just endless inescapable waves

Why Am I So Tired posted:

Steve Yun posted:

front page on cnn.com

top story:


https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/01/health/covid-case-data-wave/index.html

lol

Tzen posted:

i'm still amazed my kids never got it in school/daycare
lol they'll have some immunity when school starts next week lmaooo









and yeah thanks everyone, feeling better every day, based paxlovid is based
having a reason to call out of work and play games and watch tv shows all day rules
after this 5 day course i plan to double dip tony style and use the next 5 day course, it's not hoarding if you use it right/.???//
my spouse is a rules follower and is sticking to the doctors prescription of one 5 day course, hopefully she doesn't get hit with a rebound

Rochallor posted:

some fuckhead ripped my mask off in the parking lot.

Animal-Mother posted:

My buddy got accosted in a store for wearing a mask. "The mask will give you cancer! Do your research! Sheep!"

"Sir, we're three years into this. What makes you think anybody, on any side, will change their mind at this point?"

".......... gently caress you!"

Glumwheels posted:

You got sick too? loving Seattle, we got hit hard and it’s nowhere to be found in the news. I just hear about it from everyone around me, they’re getting sick or friends and family.

Tzen posted:

and had a nice internal lmao moment during the call when the doc asked where we think we got it
'on the flight home most likely'
'oh were you traveling from india or japan?'
lmao ‘yea’

Rochallor posted:

some fuckhead ripped my mask off in the parking lot.

Animal-Mother posted:

My buddy got accosted in a store for wearing a mask. "The mask will give you cancer! Do your research! Sheep!"

"Sir, we're three years into this. What makes you think anybody, on any side, will change their mind at this point?"

".......... gently caress you!"

Fleetwood posted:

I gotta say, even tho upstate NY is full of chuds, I still see lots of people wearing masks here. I don't get people who think covid isn't a big deal or even real. None of the doubters trust the govt/Dems afaict and yet are willing to risk getting sick under a Biden admin. seems like a contraction

mazzi Chart Czar posted:

Last week my cousin got hit. (Second time)
This week my aunt got hit.

Both are vaccinated. So they didn't come down hard.

When my cousin got hit, the first time, 2022, they also got hand foot mouth from their kid.

So mixing that with covid's blood clotting ability, I think it made this horrifying situation, where they described that feeling of pin-needle-numbness, like when your foot falls asleep. But throughout their whole body, and it didn't go away for two days.

Steve Yun posted:

new twitter slang dropped

“I think I hauve Covid” = I’m getting a fever and getting dizzy from being horny

https://twitter.com/emmatolkin/status/1697290533717348659?s=46

https://twitter.com/insectyuri/status/1694936548079489042?s=46

https://twitter.com/beerstix/status/1695822953416421574?s=46

Lib and let die posted:

I keep reading the thread title as "zero dark harambe"

fosborb posted:

thank you, Doctor

https://twitter.com/DickZoutman/status/1697412265123709088?t=_gPEIF9WEObzAnzoDXVW3w&s=19

fosborb posted:

thank you, Doctor

https://twitter.com/DickZoutman/status/1697412265123709088?t=_gPEIF9WEObzAnzoDXVW3w&s=19

Animal-Mother posted:

its so loving wild that there are doctors and nurses who are vehemently against ppe

your patients are sick. do you want to get sick from your patients? dont they... teach this sort of thing at med school?

quote:

“Snazzy safety glasses,” I said to the dental hygienist who was just about to ask me to open wide. Something about the pink rims caught my eye and led me to a remark that showed my age:

“I remember when dentists didn’t wear gloves, or masks, or eye protection.”

I not only recall the bare hands of my dentist circa 1970-1980, I also remember the hullabaloo from dentists when new federal regulations were proposed in 1989 requiring them to provide such protection for their hygienists. At the time, the term “AIDS’ was less than 10 years old, and exposure to HIV in the U.S. was considered a death sentence.

The OSHA proposal was based in part on guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on methods to reduce healthcare workers’ exposure to bloodborne pathogens, such as HIV and Hepatitis B. The guidelines embraced the concept of “universal precautions” to protect against exposure to blood and other body fluids. The CDC noted that in dental settings, saliva should be considered a hazardous body fluid because it is likely to be contaminated with blood during typical dental procedures. The dentists scoffed. No, they did more than scoff.

The sky was falling, and it would be the end of dental care as we knew it. Children would be frightened by hygienists in surgical masks. Gloves would hinder a dentist’s fine motor skills. The excuses went on and on. The letters flooded OSHA’s offices. I worked at OSHA during the time and remember it well. We answered letter after letter from Members of Congress who were writing on behalf of the dentists in their districts. Why was OSHA killing the tooth fairy?

It was ridiculous at the time, and looking back, still ridiculous.

The American Dental Association (ADA) was leading the charge against OSHA’s bloodborne pathogens rule. The ADA argued, among other things, that there was little evidence to show that dentists or hygienists were at risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens. “I don’t have any hygienists who’ve developed AIDS or contracted hepatitis,” the dentists would say. Even if they admitted that they or their employees were at risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens, the ADA insisted that dentists were highly trained professionals. They could decide for themselves and for their employees if, or when gloves, masks for goggles should be worn. Dentists didn’t need the government telling them how to run their businesses.

The ADA pulled out all the stops to try to avoid the OSHA regulation. They participated actively in the public rulemaking process, organized letter writing campaigns and sought Congressional intervention. In an op-ed published in the New York Times on November 12, 1989, New Haven, CT periodontist Avrum Goldstein expressed his opposition this way:

“…these regulations will bring about changes in the dentist-patient relationship and make it more difficult to practice dentistry. By its nature, dentistry is an intimate occupation. The dentist works within an inch of a patient’s head, probing sensitive, often tender areas of the patient’s body. The mouth embodies our ability to smile, kiss, talk and eat—all very emotional qualities. Patients needs a warm and trusting relationship with their dentist to help overcome fears and make necessary dentistry possible. It will be more difficult to establish this relationship when the dentist is gowned, shielded, and masked. [These barriers] will have a profound effect on the relationship between the dentist and patient.”

But shielding against deadly viruses with common sense protections would eventually trump arguments about emotions. When the rule was finalized in December 1991, the ADA exercised their right under the OSH Act to challenge the rule before the U.S. Court of Appeals. The court didn’t buy their arguments either. In January 1993, the OSHA rule was upheld and would apply to dental practices.

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