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Pingui posted:I tried dumping a random Washington postal code here: https://testinglocator.cdc.gov/ and supposedly Walgreens is an option. Yeah I called them and they told me insurance doesn’t cover it so it’s $130 out of pocket. The only way to get PCR test is to find an urgent care place and have symptoms because idk if exposure is enough. Then it will be billed to insurance (maybe?). I have no idea but there is no easy way to get a PCR test now if you’ve been exposed.
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Sep 7, 2023 02:13
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harrygomm posted:i posted about a week ago that i had a pile of masks to give out for free, got one person asking for some, but i still have a ton. can anyone vet for a place or organization to which i can donate them that might be able to make use of them? i’m around portland if it makes any difference, don’t mind shipping if needed Check with any local food pantries or shelters to see if they need them? Or maybe your local nurse's union since I know at least in CA they're struggling to get issued proper ppe.
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Sep 7, 2023 02:13
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eXXon posted:lol. I tried to find some commentary, any on the UK's policy (after getting not much about Europe generally) and found this from January: lmao, yeah, it is pretty standard for Europe to gatekeep it pretty hard.  is no exception and has also moved the limit for the next booster up to 65+ 
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Sep 7, 2023 02:16
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Glumwheels posted:Yeah I called them and they told me insurance doesn’t cover it so it’s $130 out of pocket. Sorry, that sucks. The good news is that cases will remain low.
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Sep 7, 2023 02:23
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I don't know if this is useful to anyone, but I found this linked CDC list of all the different states health departments: https://www.cdc.gov/publichealthgateway/healthdirectories/healthdepartments.html
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Sep 7, 2023 02:25
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My kids are starting school again tomorrow and it seems worth checking on official guidance regarding the role of masks for in-person education: CDC: Updated May 11, 2023 quote:... quote:Consider wearing a mask, especially in a crowded indoor setting particularly if your child has a medical condition that puts them at risk for severe COVID-19, or if they are around others who are at increased risk for COVID-19, such as grandparents or other older adults. NYS public health: defers to CDC guidance NYC public health: no update for 2023-2024 school year A number of public-health focused organizations haven't updated guidance for the current school year. At least semi-current CDC guidance clearly recommends that student mask usage should be supported, and NYC public school health guidance doesn't contradict it. We'll continue to send our kids to school in masks although I am ambivalent about it. Why send kids into an environment where masks might be required? If air is potentially hazardous enough to require permanent masks it's too hazardous for children. The reality is we don't have a choice. We can't afford to have a parent quit their job and try to homeschool while waiting for clearer reinfection research or improved vaccines/treatments to become available. Pingui posted:Interesting development and good news for Nocturtle and anyone else in NY.
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Sep 7, 2023 02:26
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Pingui posted:Sorry, that sucks. The good news is that cases will remain low. I have one other option but it’s just not easy with my kids’ school schedule but gently caress it, no other choice. They can miss a half hour of school. Absolutely amazing how this whole thing has become hosed and no one’s doing a drat thing about it.
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Sep 7, 2023 02:34
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Washington state's wastewater update covering the past three months using the state's downloadable excel report and supplemented with scaled National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) data when available. Solid lines are from WADoH data and white diamond dots applied to scale are from most recent CDC/NWSS data (if available). I've distributed 30 sewersheds across 5 charts grouped by approximate geographical region then alphabetized by county. See the tables below each image for definitions of WADoH IDs, Date last sampled, Trend (based on change between the averages of the two most recent weeks measured), and Service Area for city names/regions. Bold lines are new since previous update. Northwest Washington  pre:Northwest Washington County: ID: Date: Trend: Service Area: Island OH Sep-01 STEADY Oak Harbor Island COUP Sep-01 DOWN Coupeville Jefferson PT Aug-30 STEADY Port Townsend Mason HP Aug-29 UP Rustlewood, Shelton Whatcom LYN Aug-29 DOWN Lynden  pre:King + Snohomish County: ID: Date: Trend: Service Area: King BWT Aug-29 DOWN Bothell, Mill Creek, Redmond, Woodinville, Overflow from King County South and West Point Treatment Plants King KCS Aug-29 DOWN Auburn, Bellevue, Issaquah, Kent, Renton, Sammamish King WSPT Aug-29 DOWN Seattle, Shoreline, north King County, north Lake Wash., parts of south Snohomish Snohomish APP Aug-30 STEADY Lynnwood Snohomish ARL Aug-30 UP Arlington Snohomish EVR Aug-29 STEADY Everett Snohomish STAN Aug-29 DOWN Stanwood  pre:Southwest Washington County: ID: Date: Trend: Service Area: Clark MRPK Aug-28 STEADY Vancouver Clark SNCK Aug-30 UP Battle Ground, Ridgefield Clark VWS Aug-30 STEADY Vancouver Westside Pierce CC Sep-01 DOWN Browns Point, Dash Point, Dupont, Fife, Fife Heights, Frederickson, Graham, Lakewood, Milton, Orting, Parkland, South Hill, Spanaway, University Place Pierce PUY Aug-31 DOWN Puyallup Thurston LOTT Aug-30 DOWN Lacey, Olympia, Tumwater  pre:Central Washington County: ID: Date: Trend: Service Area: Benton KEN Aug-07 STEADY Kennewick Benton WRCH Aug-31 STEADY West Richland Chelan WEN Aug-31 DOWN Wenatchee Grant EPH Aug-30 UP Ephrata Kittitas ELL Aug-31 DOWN Ellensburg Okanogan BRW Aug-31 STEADY Brewster Yakima YAK Aug-31 UP Yakima  pre:Eastern Washington County: ID: Date: Trend: Service Area: Franklin PAS Sep-01 UP Pasco Spokane RP Sep-01 UP Spokane Spokane SPK Sep-01 UP Spokane Valley Walla Walla WALLA Aug-30 UP Walla Walla Whitman PLM Sep-01 UP Pullman [edit] fixed Jefferson county in table Zantie has issued a correction as of 04:25 on Sep 7, 2023 |
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Sep 7, 2023 02:34
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We have the tools! We have a vaccine! * You're not allowed to get the vaccine * You're not allowed to get Paxlovid
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Sep 7, 2023 03:00
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well holy poo poo they actually did it. masks are back*quote:In a letter sent home to parents on Tuesday, Rosemary Hills Elementary School principal Rebecca Irwin Kennedy wrote that KN95 masks would be distributed and students and staff in “identified classes or activities” will be required to mask up while in school for the next 10 days “except when eating or drinking.” * for a single classroom that has 3 or more reported cases, for only the next 10 days, does not include shared meal time
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Sep 7, 2023 03:11
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At our school 2 kids in a van on a school trip tested +, so they said everyone who rode in that vehicle should wear a mask for a week. Ehhh, I'll take whatever we can get at this point.
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Sep 7, 2023 03:26
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Deeply sorry that your kids will fall years behind their peers from masking for a week.
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Sep 7, 2023 03:51
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Indoor Dying posted:Ok. They were giving away RATs outside the library today that expire 9/8/2023. For the next two days, I will celebrate the tools and their availability
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Sep 7, 2023 04:00
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Baddog posted:I'll take whatever we can get at this point.
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Sep 7, 2023 04:02
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Baddog posted:At our school 2 kids in a van on a school trip tested +, so they said everyone who rode in that vehicle should wear a mask for a week. again, I just adore that masking as something to protect yourself from COVID has been totally and utterly annihilated leaving masking as something you do only after you've contracted COVID
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Sep 7, 2023 04:07
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I saw MASKS today. Usually it's rare to see one and there were multiple people wearing masks at the Quik Trip tonight. Usually a sign that poo poo is getting pretty hairy.
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Sep 7, 2023 04:11
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Rick posted:I saw MASKS today. Usually it's rare to see one and there were multiple people wearing masks at the Quik Trip tonight. all the ppl wearing masks are antivaxxers because otherwise they would trust their vaccination and wouldn't need to wear a mask and if they did have COVID they shouldn't need a mask because vaccinated people can't spread COVID
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Sep 7, 2023 04:12
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apparently the higher ups at work are preparing for the govt to shut us down temporarily due to covid around the beginning of winter i havent read this thread with any regularity in about a year, what the heck is going on lol
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Sep 7, 2023 04:14
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blatman posted:i havent read this thread with any regularity in about a year, what the heck is going on lol
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Sep 7, 2023 04:15
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blatman posted:apparently the higher ups at work are preparing for the govt to shut us down temporarily due to covid around the beginning of winter at each crucial point, the steps needed to be taken to control and defeat a pandemic were ignored in favor of the worst thing to do at any given point
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Sep 7, 2023 04:15
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bedpan posted:at each crucial point, the steps needed to be taken to control and defeat a pandemic were ignored in favor of the worst thing to do at any given point It's remarkable how quickly America was able to mobilize to support the virus.
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Sep 7, 2023 04:19
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bedpan posted:at each crucial point, the steps needed to be taken to control and defeat a pandemic were ignored in favor of the worst thing to do at any given point Wouldn't your face have been red if Biden had mandated 2 weeks paid sick leave and expanded unemployment permanently, and then covid had dissappeared in 2021? Think of all the great policies the dems wouldn't have been able to get done if he spent all his political capital on the flu.
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Sep 7, 2023 04:24
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https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2023/09/07/dont-tell-them-didnt-have-biden-jokes-not-wearing-mask-public/8393849001/ Biden can't even take pretend to take it seriously for 10 days. Color me surprised...
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Sep 7, 2023 04:36
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 https://www.reuters.com/business/ae...%20July%2020%20(Reuters),to%20consider%20its%20own%20measure. held up in the senate but overwhelmingly passed the house 351-69
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Sep 7, 2023 04:41
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https://twitter.com/DeltaNewsHub/status/1699420223407841751 Delta hires Top. Men.
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Sep 7, 2023 04:42
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Steve Yun posted:
like, it'll buy you a little time maybe, but youre going to run into the same problem a year from now. what then? raise the retirement age to 69?
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Sep 7, 2023 04:46
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I was at a gas station earlier and there were 3 drunk guys harassing an overweight gentleman who was in gym clothes and was clearly post workout and it pissed the hell out of me. they switched to making fun of my mask but that felt better than harassing the other guys so I took it. sorry Buddy for not caving their domes n with my 12 pack
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Sep 7, 2023 04:47
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celadon posted:like, it'll buy you a little time maybe, but youre going to run into the same problem a year from now. what then? raise the retirement age to 69? sounds like a problem for next quarter
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Sep 7, 2023 04:50
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celadon posted:like, it'll buy you a little time maybe, but youre going to run into the same problem a year from now. what then? raise the retirement age to 69? The more immediate problem is that the age ceiling of sixty‐five is an international standard. Many countries forbid pilots over this age from even overflying them. Here’s a recent flight where a Canadian plane pointedly avoids Maine probably because the captain or first officer is over the age of sixty‐five. Canada has no statutory limit on pilot age.  It’s possible that the U.S. can strongarm other nations into changing their rules, but as it stands it’s a bit of an impediment to what they want to do. Platystemon has issued a correction as of 05:04 on Sep 7, 2023 |
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Sep 7, 2023 05:01
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blatman posted:apparently the higher ups at work are preparing for the govt to shut us down temporarily due to covid around the beginning of winter I think part of it may have to do with election season coming up again. The power structures are maybe getting flashes of realization how bad things are and feeling they may need to start pretending to do something about it again
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Sep 7, 2023 05:03
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From delta’s pilot training program quote:What's the average cost for the Propel Flight Academy? Why does no one want to become a pilot anymore 🤷♀️
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Sep 7, 2023 05:04
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https://twitter.com/OttawaHospital/status/1699531741491233065
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Sep 7, 2023 05:07
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this is the worst September 11 ever
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Sep 7, 2023 05:08
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fosborb posted:well holy poo poo they actually did it. masks are back*
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Sep 7, 2023 05:25
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Australian hospital drops off a letter to all the inpatients asking them to consider their discharge options because the emergency department is overflowing with people waiting for a bed https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-07/hobart-hospital-asks-patients-to-consider-leaving/102825922
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Sep 7, 2023 05:42
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 "our comfortable transit lounge ." is a hell of a phrase
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Sep 7, 2023 05:51
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never forget (that COVID is over)
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Sep 7, 2023 05:59
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Zugzwang posted:Are you sure these graphs are correct? They sure seem to imply that covid isn't over.  
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Sep 7, 2023 06:32
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gently caress joe biden
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Sep 7, 2023 06:33
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I hope anyone who is on the fence about it contributes to public comment for ACIP tomorrow. We are going to need it, as much as it feels like screaming into the void.Tzen posted:gently caress joe biden this too
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