biceps crimes posted:

very funny. i'm cooking up a villain speech that i will soon post

Soap Scum posted:

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

Lib and let die posted:

I found the face of danger

Platystemon posted:

emgeejay posted:

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

Jort Fortress posted:

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it fits me like a glove
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Fur20 posted:

wtf is a toilet mask
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Lib and let die posted:

I found the face of danger

Jort Fortress posted:

Breatheteq KN95.

Platystemon posted:

It’s pretty funny that people wanted a forums rule that we can’t discuss science unless it’s been peer-reviewed.

Jyrraeth posted:

Does anyone find that iota carrageenan gives them post nasal drip? I feel so gross the day after I use it but I don't know how much of that has been wildfire smoke and/or various other non-respiratory virus reasons.

maxwellhill posted:

post-nasal drip is a symptom of damaged tissue, because dripping is normal but you're never supposed to perceive it unless the nerves got sensitized somehow. can happen with upper respiratory acid reflux i think

has anyone ever investigated the long term safety of these cold sprays? most seem marketed for short term, not daily prophylaxis forever. never seen any potential harms of them talked about. are there any long term?

Asproigerosis posted:

Mild

maxwellhill posted:

post-nasal drip is a symptom of damaged tissue, because dripping is normal but you're never supposed to perceive it unless the nerves got sensitized somehow. can happen with upper respiratory acid reflux i think

has anyone ever investigated the long term safety of these cold sprays? most seem marketed for short term, not daily prophylaxis forever. never seen any potential harms of them talked about. are there any long term?

Jyrraeth posted:

Does anyone find that iota carrageenan gives them post nasal drip? I feel so gross the day after I use it but I don't know how much of that has been wildfire smoke and/or various other non-respiratory virus reasons.

Morbus posted:

Putting just about anything up your nose may or may not cause irritation. Carrageenan is generally regarded as safe and well-tolerated, but some people do have allergies or sensitivities to it, including some people with alpha-gal allergy (which, incidentally, is more prevalent in many places than people appreciate)

But if you've been breathing wildfire smoke or had a respiratory infection I don't think you can really pin it on the nasal spray

maxwellhill posted:

dripping is normal

Steve Yun posted:

how long until a AAA video game has Covid as a plot point the way tuberculosis pops up in red dead redemption 2

Steve Yun posted:

OVER

PoundSand posted:

Costco free samples suck because they have stuff like "Libby's vienna sausages" or "tyson chicken nuggets", who doesn't already know what these products are. It just creates a giant shopping cart clusterfuck of dipshits who are incapable of spatial awereness.

When it's some random new/niche thing it's whatever, like maybe you want to try that prepackaged item before committing to buying 10 pounds of it, completely reasonable, most people just walk past it anyways as they're not interested free or not so it doesn't have the same impact.

Steve Yun posted:

OVER

Dr_0ctag0n posted:

I 100% got exposed at work yesterday. This dumbass company has still not even uttered the word COVID other than that bullshit "slow the spread" campaign from like March 2020.

This guy texted me after working with us for the morning and said the clinic "told him to go home (you have COVID)" around noon. I saw him still in his office with a lovely surgical mask just sitting on his desk (unused of course) while he continued to talk with everyone unmasked in the 15x15 office for hours until close at 5.

Not a peep from HR, everyone went to some big rear end company lunch thing too so literally everyone in the office has been exposed.

Stupid diseased nation.

Too Many Birds posted:

this was last summer. so... delta? i can't keep track anymore.

Pingui posted:

bedpan posted:

a bit worried about people I know and deal with suddenly contracting, and at unheard of rates, illnesses that are really walloping them and giving them lingering issues.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/covid-numbers-rising-fauci-predicting-tsunami-hospitalizations-deaths/story?id=103056079 posted:

COVID numbers are rising again, but Fauci not predicting another 'tsunami of hospitalizations and deaths'
He also encouraged vulnerable people to get the next booster shot.

NeonPunk posted:

So uh, vomiting is now a fairly common symptom of Covid? Cool cool

https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...cal-briefing-53 posted:

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Situational assessment BA.2.86 (Variant Technical Group of 5 September 2023)

• There is a continued slow accumulation of cases globally including cases reported from new countries. The rate of detection of new sequenced cases cannot be used as an indicator of growth due to limited and lagging genomic surveillance globally.
  
• BA.2.86 is now more globally dispersed than other lineages of similar age in 2023. This may have been the result of international seeding from one or more unknown sources through mass travel. However, with apparent established transmission chains now in many countries, these seeding events are now unlikely to be the key driver of spread.
  
• The data suggest established community transmission of BA.2.86 within the UK. This is based on the detection of multiple unlinked cases in different regions of the UK, without identified travel links, and phylogeny (the relationship between cases as determined by viral genomic data). This finding does not confirm that BA.2.86 has a growth advantage within the UK compared to other circulating variants.
  
• A single care home outbreak was investigated due to a high attack rate and found to be BA.2.86. This cannot be used to make an assessment of the variant’s fitness but in contrast to recent laboratory data suggesting lower infectivity in vitro, this is an early indicator that the variant may be sufficiently transmissible to have impact in close contact settings.
  
• Pseudovirus neutralisation data is available from several laboratories. Whilst this data has limitations, antigenic cartography based on mouse sera is mostly consistent with the antigenic distances estimated from the mutational profile. The potential UK population impact after several vaccines and waves cannot be extrapolated from the available data.
  
• Some early indicators of increasing COVID-19 transmission in the UK were noted and behavioural, immunological and virological factors may all be contributing. We cannot confirm that BA.2.86 is contributing to any increase given available data.
  
• There is an insufficient number of cases to make an assessment of outcome or severity. In the UK, the current surveillance systems do not support an assessment of comparative severity between variants but trends in severity and outcomes can be monitored over time through hospital data. It is likely that any such signal will take weeks to be visible and confirmed through sequencing.

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Of 34 cases, 5 cases were hospitalised, 2 cases had unknown hospitalisation status, and there were no deaths due to COVID-19 among these cases (note that this will not be representative of all BA.2.86 cases as most genomic surveillance is among people tested in hospital).
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Care home outbreak
On 21 August 2023 UKHSA was notified of an outbreak in a care home in the East of England with reports of an increased number of cases and increased severity compared to previous outbreaks at the home. All residents and symptomatic or lateral flow device (LFD) positive staff members were polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tested and PCR positive samples were referred to UKHSA for sequencing.

As of 5 September 2023, 33 out of 38 residents have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 (attack rate 86.6%). Of the 33 positive residents, 19 (57.6%) were symptomatic with symptom onset between the 20 August 2023 and 28 August 2023; 29 of the residents have now recovered, while 4 remain unwell. One resident was hospitalised as a result of their illness (hospitalisation rate, 3.0%), and no deaths due to COVID-19 have been reported. Twelve staff tested positive either by LFD and/or PCR, and all have now recovered. No staff members were hospitalised.

A total of 43 samples were sent for sequencing (33 care home samples and 10 staff samples) of which 28 of the samples were identified as BA.2.86 (22 care home residents and 6 staff). Of the remaining 15 samples sent for sequencing, 11 were not suitable for sequencing, one failed and 3 are low quality and being further investigated.

At least 29 out of 33 the residents who tested positive had received a dose of COVID-19 vaccination as part of the spring booster campaign around 4 months prior to the outbreak and all 4 of the residents who tested negative had received a spring booster. Known information about confirmed cases among care home residents is summarised in table 1.



The sequences from the care home cluster together and are distinct from other UK cases. All sequences from this cluster share 2 mutations that are not seen in any other BA.2.86 genomes to date: a synonymous mutation in nsp2 (2527 G>A); and a non-synonymous change in nsp3 (P153L).

The sequences in this cluster are most closely related to sequences from France (n=2) and Sweden (n=4). They share a non-synonymous mutation in nsp2 (Y441C) with these European sequences that is not observed in other BA.2.86 sequences. There are 3 mutations observed within the cluster that are not seen in all sequences. Two are each observed in a single sequence: nsp2 A318V and nsp2 F406C. The other mutation (S D1139N) is observed in 5 sequences in this cluster and the nucleotide change is observed as a mixed base in an additional sequence.
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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccination-spring-booster-resources/a-guide-to-the-covid-19-spring-booster-2023 posted:

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Vaccines in use this spring
You will be given a booster dose of a vaccine made by Pfizer, Moderna or Sanofi and approved in the UK. These vaccines have been updated since the original vaccines and target different COVID-19 variants. For a very small number of people another vaccine product may be advised by your doctor.
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Steve Yun posted:

how long until a AAA video game has Covid as a plot point the way tuberculosis pops up in red dead redemption 2