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Steve Yun posted:scattered reports here and there that the new variants are presenting as “gastrointestinal distress” aka explosive diarrhea Explosive pants making GBS threads? The Goon Variant
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Sep 15, 2023 13:20
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https://abcnews.go.com/Health/covid-rsv-influenza-impact-healthcare-system-year-cdc/story?id=103204817 posted:COVID, RSV and influenza likely to impact healthcare system this year: CDC  Seems to be some relatively likely scenarios missing. Casually glancing at their source, this is what those two scenarios are about :https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/whats-new/2023-2024-season-outlook.html posted:(..) Delving into the actual forecast, those two scenarios seem less certain than ABC indicates: https://www.cdc.gov/forecast-outbreak-analytics/about/season-outlook.html posted:Respiratory Disease Season Outlook Ok, cool. So it is less there being only two possible scenarios and more these two scenarios would be bad, but it could easily be worse 
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Sep 15, 2023 13:23
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Moderate case of mild illness.
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Sep 15, 2023 13:29
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Sep 15, 2023 13:32
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can anybody get under 12 vax? I’m typing major cities in CVS to see any appts and I’m getting nada. maybe my kids pediatrician will surprise us today during visit…
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Sep 15, 2023 13:32
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Important vaccination news for the under- and uninsured:https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2023/p0914-uninsured-vaccination.html posted:HHS Launches Bridge Access Program to Safeguard Free COVID-19 Vaccination for Uninsured and Underinsured Adults Note the caveat. More details found here: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/programs/bridge/index.html
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Sep 15, 2023 13:42
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Fl gov making a lot of stink about not recommending getting the new vaccine. But does anyone know if they outright aren't allowing it in the state?
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Sep 15, 2023 13:53
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Chamale posted:Like, I'm vegan and I think eating meat is wrong, but if I stopped talking to anyone who ate meat I'd have a much smaller social circle. It's kinda a fact you have to deal with that people will do wrong things out of convenience or laziness, and when those people are my friends, I ignore it as best I can. As a fellow vegan nocovider, I feel you homie  .
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Sep 15, 2023 13:58
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pillsburysoldier posted:Fl gov making a lot of stink about not recommending getting the new vaccine. But does anyone know if they outright aren't allowing it in the state? I am pretty certain they don't have the authority to do that, hence the disrecommendation rather than ban. Either way, they are not disallowing it: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/coronavirus/article279281939.html posted:New COVID vaccines are coming to Florida. Who can get the shots and where?
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Sep 15, 2023 14:03
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Pingui posted:Thank you for sharing your experience, I figured the cohort would be disparate like that and I suspect that is going to be an issue, for me, personally, in finding like-minded people. My own response to COVID was never fear-driven, I just skipped the stages of grief straight to acceptance and took the consequences of the new normal when I heard the word "airborne". I talk about this with some of my friends. There are definitely people that I know, often with an anxiety diagnosis, whose response to Covid (or nowadays planning around Covid) seems to be different from mine in this way. I think I tend to experience it as a series of if-then flowcharts and analytic thinking; no, I'm not "afraid" of getting Covid when I wear a mask to the gym, and I know that if I got it I would likely be fine, but when I balance the probabilities across the flowcharts, the expected value benefit of wearing a mask to the gym is higher than of not wearing it.
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Sep 15, 2023 14:05
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Petey posted:I talk about this with some of my friends. There are definitely people that I know, often with an anxiety diagnosis, whose response to Covid (or nowadays planning around Covid) seems to be different from mine in this way. I think I tend to experience it as a series of if-then flowcharts and analytic thinking; no, I'm not "afraid" of getting Covid when I wear a mask to the gym, and I know that if I got it I would likely be fine, but when I balance the probabilities across the flowcharts, the expected value benefit of wearing a mask to the gym is higher than of not wearing it. Yeah, same. I'm not afraid of getting COVID. And I have a kid in daycare plus a spouse that doesn't mask at work so I'm very aware that it isn't a matter of if I'll catch COVID again but a matter of how often. However I am concerned about the long term impact of catching it multiple times so I am trying to find a balance between living in a post 2020 world and also not rolling the dice on long term health impacts any more times than I have too.
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Sep 15, 2023 14:20
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Just a warning for the early birds: insurance companies are not ready to process Covid vaccine shots yet. My husband has really good insurance and had to pay out of pocket (190 bucks!) because CVS couldn’t find a way that it was covered and his HR couldn’t either. He’s keeping the receipt under the assumption that it’ll get sorted out eventually but he’s traveling for work next week and wanted to get topped off ASAP. All the stuff on the various insurance websites I checked still refer to the previous booster and talk about how all these coverage policies are only good until May 13th (when the emergency ended).
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Sep 15, 2023 14:27
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icantfindaname posted:Anyone have any thoughts on supplements to help memory/brain function? I'm now worried about cognitive effects from my covid 6 months ago, I am pretty sure I am making many more typos and misspellings than before. I don't notice any other effects, on concentration or thinking/speaking/reading, but now I'm paranoid. don't have tips beside making sure you get enough sleep, which post-acute-covid is a problem for a lot of people, but infection leading to decreased writing ability seems very real. (half of my job is technical editing and wow things get bad after everyone on the team gets sick.) have you looked up any long covid clinics around you? Thoguh posted:Yeah, same. I'm not afraid of getting COVID. And I have a kid in daycare plus a spouse that doesn't mask at work so I'm very aware that it isn't a matter of if I'll catch COVID again but a matter of how often. However I am concerned about the long term impact of catching it multiple times so I am trying to find a balance between living in a post 2020 world and also not rolling the dice on long term health impacts any more times than I have too.  Oracle posted:Just a warning for the early birds: insurance companies are not ready to process Covid vaccine shots yet. My husband has really good insurance and had to pay out of pocket (190 bucks!) because CVS couldn’t find a way that it was covered and his HR couldn’t either. He’s keeping the receipt under the assumption that it’ll get sorted out eventually but he’s traveling for work next week and wanted to get topped off ASAP. All the stuff on the various insurance websites I checked still refer to the previous booster and talk about how all these coverage policies are only good until May 13th (when the emergency ended). reported for questioning the efficiency of devolving all healthcare responsibilities to the private market. Insanite has issued a correction as of 14:32 on Sep 15, 2023 |
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Sep 15, 2023 14:29
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Oracle posted:My husband has really good insurance and had to pay out of pocket (190 bucks!) because CVS couldn’t find a way that it was covered and his HR couldn’t either. He’s keeping the receipt under the assumption that it’ll get sorted out eventually but he’s traveling for work next week and wanted to get topped off ASAP. 
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Sep 15, 2023 14:59
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Thoguh posted:Yeah, same. I'm not afraid of getting COVID. And I have a kid in daycare plus a spouse that doesn't mask at work so I'm very aware that it isn't a matter of if I'll catch COVID again but a matter of how often. However I am concerned about the long term impact of catching it multiple times so I am trying to find a balance between living in a post 2020 world and also not rolling the dice on long term health impacts any more times than I have too. its funny, virtually all covid minimizers couch their experience with it solely on how sick they are for a few days after infection and like, nothing else. it makes sense in a way, it's the only part of this process you can tangibly feel if you've been lucky against long covid like dog too much of this may be loving up your mitochondrial walls, with enough mutations may turn you one day into a parasite eve villain(??) 👎my dad talked with an ex co worker last week who had covid "a few times at least" who has not been able to smell anything for a year and a half, maybe more stories like that and leana wens finding out phase will help continue to shift the dialogue past the acute phase
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Sep 15, 2023 15:02
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lol some bullshit, the pediatrician doesn’t have the shots. kids getting the shaft for the single digit of us that want our kids vaxed.
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Sep 15, 2023 15:43
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DominoKitten posted:It puts forth that Long COVID is "real" for the people suffering from it, but lays the blame at the public health approach for inducing fear in the population, thereby giving predisposed people a somatic disorder. All the media scares served as a "nocebo". The lockdowns caused lots of mental illness. They come up with a new term to replace Long COVID: "Pandemic-Response Syndrome"; they also use the term "Long-Pandemic" and "COVID Stress Syndrome". A bunch of citations I haven't dug through yet, talking about weaknesses in papers studying long COVID. (And I mean, yeah, it's in fact really hard to find a control group of uninfected people these days, so if that's the standard I can't imagine how one would ever be satisfied now, oh well guess we'll never know.) this is actual demon poo poo and whether intended or not I wish these people the worst. the amount of effort to twist this to explain this in a way that makes anyone claiming to have LC/PASC as some kind of cult of mental illness and saying without saying that people are giving themselves organ damage and all manner of other things via force of will alone makes no sense and just like the variations of herd/hybrid immunity, the arguments disintegrate upon close inspection but "sound" scientific enough to laymen that it can assure them that anyone who cares about covid is simply mentally unwell. not like this is anything new but it gets my blood boiling every time I see it.
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Sep 15, 2023 15:47
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The Oldest Man posted:
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empireofcrime posted:this is actual demon poo poo and whether intended or not I wish these people the worst. the amount of effort to twist this to explain this in a way that makes anyone claiming to have LC/PASC as some kind of cult of mental illness and saying without saying that people are giving themselves organ damage and all manner of other things via force of will alone makes no sense and just like the variations of herd/hybrid immunity, the arguments disintegrate upon close inspection but "sound" scientific enough to laymen that it can assure them that anyone who cares about covid is simply mentally unwell. not like this is anything new but it gets my blood boiling every time I see it. It's just the information warfare strategy of flooding the zone with poo poo, expanded to a new domain.
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Sep 15, 2023 15:53
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Have any goon parents thought about getting a false mustache, a make up kit, and some grey hair spray for their kids? Heck for those in California, there are make up artists and special effects workers who don't have anything to do rn, they could easily age up your kiddo. If anyone at the pharmacy get suspicious, just say it's a Benjamin Button thing and it is against HIPPA to pry more in their personal medical information
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Sep 15, 2023 15:56
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sonatinas posted:can anybody get under 12 vax? I’m typing major cities in CVS to see any appts and I’m getting nada. maybe my kids pediatrician will surprise us today during visit… September 29th is the earliest I can get for my little one. Walgreens in Chicago, haven't tried CVS but I assume the same. Fansy has issued a correction as of 17:01 on Sep 15, 2023 |
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Sep 15, 2023 16:04
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My favorite genre of stories right now is people going into situations where they're likely to get covid and saying "oh god I got covid". Like it's impossible to protect yourself. You may get it, you may not, it's all up to god!
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Sep 15, 2023 16:13
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Petey posted:I talk about this with some of my friends. There are definitely people that I know, often with an anxiety diagnosis, whose response to Covid (or nowadays planning around Covid) seems to be different from mine in this way. I think I tend to experience it as a series of if-then flowcharts and analytic thinking; no, I'm not "afraid" of getting Covid when I wear a mask to the gym, and I know that if I got it I would likely be fine, but when I balance the probabilities across the flowcharts, the expected value benefit of wearing a mask to the gym is higher than of not wearing it. That's not how most people think. Most people are more vibe based or just look at what everyone else is doing, even the ones that do think like that don't have the information that would lead them to realizing that catching covid is actually, bad.
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Sep 15, 2023 16:13
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Insanite posted:have you looked up any long covid clinics around you? It's not that bad, although I'm starting to worry it may get worse. It's not affecting my ability to do my job or anything, I just type maybe 15 percent slower
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Sep 15, 2023 16:21
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dxt posted:That's not how most people think. Most people are more vibe based or just look at what everyone else is doing, even the ones that do think like that don't have the information that would lead them to realizing that catching covid is actually, bad. Oh, they know they don't want it. 90% of people who notice you wearing a mask will give you distance because they assume you're infected with covid, but if someone is hacking or coughing mask free well its probably just a cold and no alarm needed. Everyone can if prompted relay a story of a coworker or friend or relative or friend of the aforementioned who got hosed up by a covid infection. They just have to believe it won't happen to them because they're healthy/different/genetically superior/have a good immune system/did what they were told two years ago and got fully vaccinated. To believe otherwise is to have to change something or acknowledge this isn't over and noone wants to do that.
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Sep 15, 2023 16:22
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My coworker's husband had a stroke last night and isn't going to make it. They're both early 50's and were sick a few weeks ago with "not-COVID". She literally brought her 5yo old grandkid on a Teams call and let him cough into her mouth, then said "they have strep, not COVID!".  Of the 9 remaining managers I work with, 4 are out sick. One in particular has been out a week and IM'd that he's heading to the ER because he feels so awful. Dude is late 30's and in excellent shape, FWIW.
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Sep 15, 2023 16:37
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Jort Fortress posted:My coworker's husband had a stroke last night and isn't going to make it. They're both early 50's and were sick a few weeks ago with "not-COVID". She literally brought her 5yo old grandkid on a Teams call and let him cough into her mouth, then said "they have strep, not COVID!". N95s have never been cheaper
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Sep 15, 2023 16:41
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puncturewound78 posted:I lost the ability to read and write at length. But more noticeably I was unable to stand for more than several minutes. I am in awe that you are able to get LDN. Was that prescribed and through a compounding pharmacy? Feel free to PM if you don’t want to share details publicly.
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Sep 15, 2023 16:42
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The Oldest Man posted:
Blam is in a speech bubble. A guy said blam.
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Sep 15, 2023 16:51
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Jort Fortress posted:She literally brought her 5yo old grandkid on a Teams call and let him cough into her mouth, then said "they have strep, not COVID!". I also like not getting strep throat, what the heck, I got strep throat once aka the throat acne from hell and ended up in a feverish delerium about game theory I did not understand because right before I’d read A Beautiful Mind, and ended up having to go into urgent care and get a shot of antibiotics into my buttocks!
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Sep 15, 2023 16:59
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What's the age range for the kids vaccine? can my 5 year old get the 'normal person' vaccine or do they need to still get the kids version?
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Sep 15, 2023 17:00
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ikanreed posted:All that's left in America, the only thing, is occasionally watching the ghouls responsible for our state of affairs suffer living in the society they created. And it's always tempered by knowledge that SardonicTyrant posted:We have the tools Pictured: the tools   
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Sep 15, 2023 17:05
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To follow up on my earlier post about mega-high wastewater where I'm at: it sure seems like the counties with big universities have a lot more covid than neighboring counties without. Also, coworker with covid+ wife was back at work in a surgical today. No one else was masking. Jort Fortress posted:My coworker's husband had a stroke last night and isn't going to make it. They're both early 50's and were sick a few weeks ago with "not-COVID". She literally brought her 5yo old grandkid on a Teams call and let him cough into her mouth, then said "they have strep, not COVID!". 
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Sep 15, 2023 17:07
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skooma512 posted:This is a Chinese bioweapon!
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Sep 15, 2023 17:18
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redreader posted:What's the age range for the kids vaccine? can my 5 year old get the 'normal person' vaccine or do they need to still get the kids version? Seems unclear still. Some links were in the thread yesterday (can look at my prior post, I quoted them), had Pfizer proposed same dosage regardless of age, and moderna as half dosage for 6 months to 11 years old. Once any of us find someone to actually give our kids a shot we will know more! I'm confused by this talk of having separate pediatric vaccines at all, when at most it is just half dosage and the stuff is still coming in a bottle with multiple doses, right? Did they actually mix it up in a different concentration for kids this time? It's a goddamn mystery.
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Sep 15, 2023 17:31
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  a lot of comments from people connecting the dots about their recent health changes and their Covid infections https://reddit.com/r/travel/s/AARb87cQ0s
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Sep 15, 2023 17:37
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Steve Yun posted:
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Sep 15, 2023 17:41
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https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1702297985697112340?s=20
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Sep 15, 2023 17:45
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Speaking of Mr. Spicy Nachos, here is a very recent interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0cOwhFf-hY
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