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Sep 8, 2023 23:24
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Steve Yun posted:got a link to that? I’m very invested as a pet owner Yup. Though again, this was mostly fairly old (pre-omicron) surveillance and largely tapered off in the spring of last year, so with the new variants who knows? Where the 25% figure came from. quote:The testing has involved more than six hundred animals—mostly in Central Texas—who live in households where at least one human has COVID. Only about a quarter of the pets from which Hamer’s team has taken samples since June 2020 have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, and just one quarter of those infected pets were symptomatic. Some suffered sneezing, diarrhea, runny noses, and irritated eyes, but the most common symptom owners reported was lethargy: their dogs and cats simply seemed lazier than usual. Another study from Europe found approximately 20% infection rate from infected owner to pet (they also tested for antibodies to prove previous infection). quote:With pets in 40/196 households (20.4%) having antibodies for the virus, the study reveals that COVID-19 is highly prevalent in pets of people who have had the disease.
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Sep 8, 2023 23:46
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https://twitter.com/upholdreality/status/1700112938177036738?t=IT5cBV9D2kveSNIJkA02eg&s=19
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Sep 9, 2023 00:16
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gradenko_2000 posted:https://twitter.com/upholdreality/status/1700112938177036738?t=IT5cBV9D2kveSNIJkA02eg&s=19 Someone correct me if I’m wrong but my understanding of depleted uranium is that it’s 90% as radioactive as enriched uranium but that slight decrease is enough to affect its ability to reach critical mass for fission
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Sep 9, 2023 00:18
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https://twitter.com/JimRosenthal4/status/1699860308741833170 https://www.texairfilters.com/testi...article-levels/ As always, it's insane that these aren't in every single public space.
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Sep 9, 2023 00:24
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Steve Yun posted:Someone correct me if I’m wrong but my understanding of depleted uranium is that it’s 90% as radioactive as enriched uranium but that slight decrease is enough to affect its ability to reach critical mass for fission It’s more like sixty percent, but the number of spontaneous decays per second per gram isn’t what matters for fission. Stable isotopes can be fissile. Anyway, uranium a toxic heavy metal. U‑235 and U‑238 behave almost exactly the same in chemical reactions. They’d gently caress you up even if they were somehow not radioactive.
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Sep 9, 2023 00:28
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I took in both my cats to the vet for their yearly checkups at the beginning of the year. This was the first time since the pandemic started that my vet location relaxed their Covid protocols as they used to do curbside “pickup” of your pets. I went in with an N95, but in the following week both my cats came down with some weird illness that caused a lot of lethargy, diarrhea and the usual lack of eating that required some emergency vet visits to avoid dehydration. The diagnoses were generalized gastroenteritis, since all the blood work ruled out other diseases, but following that horrible experience (and costly vet bills) I suspected they caught something at the initial vet checkup visit. Reading all this stuff about human to pet Covid transmission is a bummer because now I’m wondering if it might’ve been Covid?? Really sucks that I can’t protect my cats in a normal vet visit in any case 
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Sep 9, 2023 00:32
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My brother went to a con and welp, the sore throat and headache turned into COVID on the 3rd test!! he wasn’t even going to test a 3rd time but his travel buddy was like “Yo I got COVID” Anyways day 3 now and it hurt to swallow anything so my pushes to get Pax finally went through and he is on it. Let’s hope it kicks on in
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Sep 9, 2023 00:37
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https://twitter.com/briimii/status/1700252858392961479 Wonder how much premiums will be going up come November here in the US's lovely healthcare system.
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Sep 9, 2023 00:49
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yeah shits hosed, I remember reading something about it a year ago and oh yeah here it is from the replies, https://twitter.com/LauraMiers/status/1700270979988279781 https://twitter.com/LauraMiers/status/1700290098221224403
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Sep 9, 2023 01:00
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I bought travel insurance for a future trip and it was insanely expensive but the providers also had definitive "we treat Covid like any other illness" terms, hedged extremely carefully by saying "we do not consider FEAR of catching Covid a legitimate cancellation reason" lmao
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Sep 9, 2023 01:05
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Gunshow Poophole posted:I bought travel insurance for a future trip and it was insanely expensive Appoint me judge, and I will rule this clause null & void as contrary to public interest. It’s like property insurers not paying out if you evacuate ahead of a hurricane.
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Sep 9, 2023 01:15
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https://twitter.com/wsbgnl/status/1700002952101134592?s=46 “when people who don’t mask start masking” seems to be holding up
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Sep 9, 2023 01:50
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Steve Yun posted:“when people who don’t mask start masking” seems to be holding up
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Sep 9, 2023 02:19
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dxt posted:https://twitter.com/this_is_mallory/status/1700134602730561959 I’m willing to take the hit at this point to say maybe we should just kill all white people (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Sep 9, 2023 02:22
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In some other, still pestilence related news, new strain of mutated avian flu is popping off. https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/me...edda63d084&ei=7 quote:A subtype of avian influenza found in Chinese poultry farms is undergoing mutations which may increase the risk of widespread human transmission.
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Sep 9, 2023 02:22
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Parity warning posted:i thought that was just oracle taking the piss but that's actually in there lmfao Yeah, the article is pretty sweet, if you are a big fan of idiocy.
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Sep 9, 2023 03:28
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:I’m willing to take the hit at this point to say maybe we should just kill all white people more genocide in the covid thread
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Sep 9, 2023 03:53
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https://twitter.com/LostAdult2/status/1700271167112941921 Not sure if accurate, but seems bad if so
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Sep 9, 2023 03:54
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Jizzny Princess posted:In some other, still pestilence related news, new strain of mutated avian flu is popping off. *reflexively* bird flu uh, can't spread in schools
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Sep 9, 2023 03:58
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icantfindaname posted:https://twitter.com/LostAdult2/status/1700271167112941921  Touring musicians are speedrunning the "what happens if you keep getting reinfected" experiment, albeit with the confounder that they won't have much recovery time between bouts with the virus. Impossible to say at the moment if getting it 7 times in 3 years is worse than 7 times in 10 years, though it very well might be.
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Sep 9, 2023 04:00
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icantfindaname posted:https://twitter.com/LostAdult2/status/1700271167112941921 the main red flag for its accuracy is that it's just so simple. actuaries love ridiculously complex formulas. there's really no way they're not taking into account at the very least [proxies for] vaccination status and age when estimating the impact of an infection
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Sep 9, 2023 04:23
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Soap Scum posted:the main red flag for its accuracy is that it's just so simple. actuaries love ridiculously complex formulas. there's really no way they're not taking into account at the very least [proxies for] vaccination status and age when estimating the impact of an infection
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Sep 9, 2023 04:27
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Zugzwang posted:Meanwhile, Ed Sheeran has had covid at least 7 times. I mean it almost certainly is. If immune damage takes an average of something like eight months to recover, any frequency of infection more often than that is going to lead to cumulative immune damage. These performers obviously have the money and access to get fairly high quality care and treatment, which is probably keeping them from getting hit too bad, but those T-cells take a while to recover even in younger folks, and every COVID infection kills some. I'd think the same is true for just the general organ damage from a COVID infection. The less time to heal between bouts the more likely that damage to a particular organ accumulates to the point of causing longer term issues.
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Sep 9, 2023 04:33
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Zugzwang posted:Impossible to say at the moment if getting it 7 times in 3 years is worse than 7 times in 10 years, though it very well might be. Obviously the latter is preferable because in those extra seven years, the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 will have evolved to be even more mild.
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Sep 9, 2023 04:45
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icantfindaname posted:https://twitter.com/LostAdult2/status/1700271167112941921 I just got private life insurance. There were zero COVID questions.
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Sep 9, 2023 05:36
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Rochallor posted:*reflexively* bird flu uh, can't spread in schools Bird flu spreads in flocks, fish flu spreads in schools
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Sep 9, 2023 06:04
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 on this day in 2021 
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Sep 9, 2023 08:11
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40 million covid cases, I repeat to myself, as a mantra.
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Sep 9, 2023 08:20
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SardonicTyrant posted:40 million covid cases, I repeat to myself, as a mantra. 40 million reported covid cases
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Sep 9, 2023 08:56
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:40 million reported covid cases 40 million reported cases, 40 million reported cases, 40 million reported cases... I take refuge in the tools we have, I take refuge in the mildness, I take refuge in following CDC guidelines...
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Sep 9, 2023 08:59
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https://twitter.com/jenniferhulme/status/1677718093508878336?s=46 it’s begun
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Sep 9, 2023 09:38
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it's "ma", which is good, and it's "nulife", which is also good! ma-nulife jerry!
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Sep 9, 2023 10:07
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I'm trying to get my life insurance policy upped now before they just stop offering them all together.
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Sep 9, 2023 12:13
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it’s not going to matter anyway, lol. if you die and they don’t want to pay, they’ll just trap your loved ones in binding arbitration/legal hell until they’re bled dry. the law for these people is like your door lock for a cop, just a social convention.
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Sep 9, 2023 14:10
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For sure but it's the best chance I've got to give Mrs Parasite a little safety net when covid/rear end cancer/climate-change/biosphere collapse/whatever bust a cap in my rear end  .
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Sep 9, 2023 14:35
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im gotta get a life insurance policy to collateraliez a loan...
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Sep 9, 2023 14:41
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DickParasite posted:For sure but it's the best chance I've got to give Mrs Parasite a little safety net when covid/rear end cancer/climate-change/biosphere collapse/whatever bust a cap in my rear end hey, same
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Sep 9, 2023 14:52
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Well, started to feel like we were gonna be done, but partner got a faint line this morning after a couple days of negatives. She's pretty pissed about it, understandably.
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Sep 9, 2023 15:36
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I popped positive this morning after developing some symptoms last night. This will be my second round with COVID, though I don't feel nearly as bad as I did my first time last July. Already picked up my paxlovid. Gonna hunker down on my sofa with LOTR on in the background, my switch, and a ton of fluids. Anyone got any favorite story rich indie rpgs for the Switch they like?
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Sep 9, 2023 16:22
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