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not indie but triangle strategy is superb, even better than final fantasy tactics. also, have you played stardew valley yet?
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Sep 9, 2023 16:26
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Rosalind posted:Anyone got any favorite story rich indie rpgs for the Switch they like? Disco Elysium.
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Sep 9, 2023 16:26
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Rosalind posted: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. You played bug fables?
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Sep 9, 2023 16:27
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Rosalind posted: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. oof sorry to hear i assume you've already played night in the woods. but if not, give that a go
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Sep 9, 2023 16:36
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Rosalind posted: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. Sorry about your infection. Vampire Survivors is out for the Switch and I would recommend that. When I had COVID thinking was so hard that I wouldn't dare playing anything more complicated. But if you insist I would also say both the KOTORs are on the Switch
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Sep 9, 2023 16:56
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Rosalind posted: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. Highly recommend Night in the woods and maybe Oxenfree, oxenfree 2 and Venice 2089
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Sep 9, 2023 16:59
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The hospital system I work for is apparently bringing back universal masking in all patient areas “annually” for “respiratory virus season” and will be developing metrics to trigger mask use generally.
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Sep 9, 2023 17:47
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https://www.wesa.fm/courts-justice/2023-09-08/covid-cases-among-incarcerated-at-allegheny-county-jail-on-the-rise Covid cases have been going apeshit at the county jail here for a month now. Anyway quote:When asked if lockdowns were currently being used as a strategy, or considered for future use, jail spokesperson Jesse Geleynse said “Individuals who test positive are isolated and transferred to a designated housing unit. Per protocols established in consultation with Allegheny Health Network, the jail’s healthcare partner, individuals who test negative twice can be cleared from isolation after seven days. All individuals are removed from isolation after 10 days.” They're taking people out of isolation after ten days whether they're positive or not and they're not mandating masking. cool!
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Sep 9, 2023 17:57
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It really sucks seeing so many people in the thread get it.
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Sep 9, 2023 18:38
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Old friend who I've complained about at length on here thinks he got COVID again last week. "I'm pretty sure I had it and spread it to my coworkers." No, he did not wear a mask at any point because he's "not concerned." He then went on the offensive and told me I've probably had COVID and my precautions don't work and people just mask to feel morally superior. Ok! He later further justified not masking by saying he had a more pressing medical concern - the pharmacy was a few hours late on his benzo prescription, so his throat was closing up and it was hard to breathe 
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Sep 9, 2023 19:05
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drat, must be tough being old friends with jordon peterson
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Sep 9, 2023 19:10
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Why Am I So Tired posted:Old friend who I've complained about at length on here thinks he got COVID again last week. "I'm pretty sure I had it and spread it to my coworkers." No, he did not wear a mask at any point because he's "not concerned." Gotta love when friends gaslight you 
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Sep 9, 2023 19:37
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hate it when i'm six hours late on my xanax so i throw a couple PEs
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Sep 9, 2023 19:40
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This clinical trial on iota carrageenan was linked in an older covid thread, where some goons were anticipating results this year. There's still no results, anyone know why? https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04590365 https://www.swansea.ac.uk/press-off...at-covid-19.php Fansy has issued a correction as of 20:20 on Sep 9, 2023 |
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Sep 9, 2023 20:15
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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 Sep-04 UP Lynnwood Snohomish ARL Sep-05 UP Arlington Snohomish EVR Sep-03 STEADY Everett Snohomish STAN Sep-05 DOWN Stanwood  pre:Southwest Washington County: ID: Date: Trend: Service Area: Clark MRPK Sep-04 STEADY Vancouver Clark SNCK Sep-04 UP Battle Ground, Ridgefield Clark VWS Sep-04 UP 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
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Sep 9, 2023 20:36
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Fansy posted:This clinical trial on iota carrageenan was linked in an older covid thread, where some goons were anticipating results this year. There's still no results, anyone know why? probably still being written up / in peer review if they completed their assessment period in November of 2022.
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Sep 9, 2023 20:44
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Gunshow Poophole posted:probably still being written up / in peer review if they completed their assessment period in November of 2022. Science ™️ working hard, thank you
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Sep 9, 2023 20:58
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It’s pretty funny that people wanted a forums rule that we can’t discuss science unless it’s been peer-reviewed.
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Sep 9, 2023 21:16
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Not even a preprint? I'm fairly doubtful of the efficacy of these sprays. If they were cheaper I might try it since they don't seem harmful, but I prefer putting my limited funding into my strategy of regular testing with the most sensitive tests I can buy so I can Pax/stop exercising/start neti potting as early as possible. It would be nice if things had advanced further in wearables. Early on there was all this talk about the promise of using fitness trackers to detect COVID and now that COVID is over the effort seems to have dried up.
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Sep 9, 2023 21:20
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Speaking of nasal sprays, just a quick feel-good anecdote. I have a friend who is similarly COVID-aware and masks indoors. He's a director in a large financial services company and as such, has pointless quarterly travel to their TX-based HQ for in-person poo poo. During these trips, he diligently masks and uses the Flo spray multiple times a day. He traveled to TX last week and allegedly both flights were filled with hacking coughs, including the person sitting right next to him for a 3hr flight. He arrived at the office and spent 2 days in packed conference rooms with multiple people who were coughing, gravelly voiced and some who had lost their voice. People in his org have generally accepted him as "the mask guy", but during this trip he received 5 comments. 3 to say that they'd had COVID the previous week (and were prob still contagious) and 2 that privately said they considered wearing a mask and wish they had. 2 days after he returned from his trip, his manager let him know he had come down ill. A week later, friend has tested multiple times and still all clear. Between packed flights and conference rooms, just thought this was an amazing example of how effective masking (and maybe nasal sprays??) can be.
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Sep 9, 2023 21:27
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https://twitter.com/chek_news/status/1700552477719011520?s=46&t=m6fGiglUP1-mz5m0sRqpiw
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Sep 9, 2023 21:35
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Jesus Christ. I can't process this incredible level of stupidity
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Sep 9, 2023 21:44
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I wonder how many people died because of Dr. Henry's harebrained policies.
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Sep 9, 2023 21:50
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How many corpses is a smile worth?
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Sep 9, 2023 21:56
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Brain still spinning over people being against masking in hospitals.
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Sep 9, 2023 21:57
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Rick posted:Brain still spinning over people being against masking in hospitals. But at least we can tell you're thinking very hard based on your facial expressions.
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Sep 9, 2023 21:58
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Rick posted:Brain still spinning over people being against masking in hospitals. The best medicine is seeing another person's smile.
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Sep 9, 2023 22:04
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Red button #1: Not worrying about my mom catching covid when she goes to see her oncologist Red button #2: My mom being able to see her oncologist's smile 
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Sep 9, 2023 22:05
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386-SX 25Mhz VGA posted:the obviously correct answer doesn't make them feel smart. lots of these people have been trained that the obviously correct answer has some fatal trap, and the wrong answer is actually the correct answer for ~I'm smart~ reasons. This mentality pervades law, business, etc. and bleeds into everything else, especially in the US. Conceding that the obviously correct answer is correct feels like a betrayal of some dipshit professor they had who convinced them that every good thing is actually bad because of unintended consequences that make all good things bad
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Sep 9, 2023 22:09
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getting caught upPingui posted:
JCVI statement on the COVID-19 vaccination programme for autumn 2023, 26 May 2023 posted:Post-COVID syndromes Reference 5) Byambasuren et al. (2022) - Effect of covid-19 vaccination on long covid: systematic review (BMJ) Reference 6) Ceban et al. (2023) - COVID-19 vaccination for the prevention and treatment of long COVID: A systematic review and meta-analysis 6 is boring, it explicitly says that vaccination is recommended for the prevention of long COVID Ceban et al. (2023) posted:The evidence herein supports SARS-CoV-2 vaccination for the prevention of long COVID quote:the present review does not consider the prevention of COVID-19 infection as part of the protective effect against long COVID, thus, the results likely underestimate the effect size. 7 highlights the difficulties, but also contains a section pointing to a tendency for a protective effect Byambasuren et al. (2022) posted:The high heterogeneity between studies precluded a meaningful meta-analysis. The forest plot of the outcomes of each study showed high heterogeneity (figure 2). Twelve studies reported data on vaccination before infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, of which 10 showed a significant reduction in the incidence of long covid.  (using log scale for OR, so the actual protective effect is better than the diagram shows at first glance) Ceban et al. (2023) posted:heterogeneity resulting from differences in study design and reporting, as well as methodological quality, precluded a quantitative summary of the data pertaining to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination post factum. Byambasuren et al. (2022) posted:Also, we could not conduct a meta-analysis of the studies because of the high heterogeneity and lack of data on the types of vaccines, time between exposure and disease, and variants of the virus, highlighting the need for standardisation and validation studies of outcome measures for ongoing research on long covid.
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Sep 9, 2023 22:15
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Even if literally all the COVID vaccine did was give me like a one in five saving throw against being acutely ill for five days twice per year, I would still pony up twenty dollars or whatever amount the government contracts are for now. It turns out that COVID‑19 actually kills more people than any other infectious disease on the planet though. Really tough cost/benefit analysis there.
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Sep 9, 2023 22:18
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Look, if you can't perfectly quantify danger, people shouldn't be allowed to protect themselves from it. That's just The Science.
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Sep 9, 2023 22:20
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I found the face of danger
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Sep 9, 2023 22:25
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Lib and let die posted:I found the face of danger quick get your guns
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Sep 9, 2023 22:26
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Not even a preprint? i'm with you on that. a lot of my "it's worth it for me to do it" stance on iota carrageenan specifically is that in addition to having imo the most convincing evidence of the nasal spray ingredients (not to say it's totally convincing!), it legit costs like $50 for a lifetime supply. like here's 100g of iota carrageenen from grainger for $35. add a few bucks for a spray bottle, maybe some time/utilities to do the sterile solution mixing, and that's all you need for literally years. it would be one thing if i had to take a $20 hit every month or whatever it is when i use up the bottle, but given that it costs me effectively nothing, i figure i don't mind the "you wasted time" ego hit if it turns out it's not actually effective.
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Sep 9, 2023 22:27
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RandomBlue posted:How many corpses is a smile worth? 5, easy, everyone knows that lol
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Sep 9, 2023 22:29
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Jort Fortress posted:Speaking of nasal sprays, just a quick feel-good anecdote. sounds stressful af for your friend god drat but glad he escaped unscathed on the trip. any chance you know the general class of mask he wears? like p100 / n95 / kn95 / etc
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Sep 9, 2023 22:31
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nexous posted:quick get your guns Trying to feed people that should be considered an actionable threat.
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Sep 9, 2023 22:33
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Platystemon posted:386-SX 25Mhz VGA quote
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Sep 9, 2023 22:36
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Lib and let die posted:I found the face of danger very funny. i'm cooking up a villain speech that i will soon post
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