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Sep 22, 2023 22:14
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fosborb posted:so where is the $190 coming from? retail cost is ~$120. is CVS throwing $60 overhead on a 10 minute shot? I feel like an early recollection from initial vaccine rollout was the VACCINE is free, but insurance was being charged to administer it. Perhaps that is going on again.
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Sep 22, 2023 22:16
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Parity warning posted:[Pestilence] “They keep just hoping it’ll go away.”
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Sep 22, 2023 22:30
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bedpan posted:The anti-vaccine movement is on the rise. The White House is at a loss over what to do about it. “They keep just hoping it’ll go away.” Many national Democrats are not interested in more people getting vaccines. They see value in keeping “vaccine hesitancy” around as a social issue. quote:“If you’re dying of Covid today, you didn’t take precautions,” Becerra said during a POLITICO health summit in June, taking an oblique shot at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and other prominent Republicans who have advanced anti-vaccine theories. “If you listened to someone who said you didn’t have to take that precaution, it’s not just your fault, it’s the fault of that leader who doesn’t give you the best information. If leaders choose not to take care of their people, that’s on them.”
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Sep 22, 2023 22:45
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fosborb posted:so where is the $190 coming from? retail cost is ~$120. is CVS throwing $60 overhead on a 10 minute shot? Walgreens quoted me $170ish giant fee is the natural end result of a broken system where pharmacies and local health departments have to guess how many doses they'll need, pay out of pocket for them, and then only get reimbursed for half the cost of however many doses they actually managed to administer quote:The federal government previously paid roughly $20 per dose for the first round of coronavirus immunizations. The updated vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna are priced at $120 and $129, respectively, on the commercial market. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4214770-new-covid-vaccine-campaign-off-to-a-bumpy-start/
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Sep 22, 2023 22:50
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just got a Paxlovid scrip through Sesame care, wahoooo
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Sep 22, 2023 22:55
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I'm actually feeling just fine but I can tell it's happening. sore throat for 36 hours, and its trying to climb up
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Sep 22, 2023 22:55
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Huh?https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-vacccine-booster-flu-shot-for-fall-2023-fda/ posted:How FDA's top vaccines official is timing his COVID booster and flu shot for fall 2023
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Sep 22, 2023 22:58
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god drat. I can feel it climbing up. they nailed it
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Sep 22, 2023 23:02
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Pete Marks posted:I think if we saw that it appeared that people might benefit in a few months from an additional dose, we would probably work with our CDC colleagues to issue a recommendation at that time. But right now we are just talking about a single recommendation, a single dose I hate these motherfuckers who hide behind “the science” not being in yet, when there’s been ample support for years. Sure, neutralizing antibody titers wane rapidly and lead to more common and more severe disease when encountering SARS‑CoV‑2 in laboratory animals, in human volunteers, in the general population, but that was only from the original formulation mRNA, the original formulation Novavax protein subunit, the viral vector vaccines by Janssen and Oxford, the WT/BA.1 bivalent mRNA, the WT/BA.5 bivalent mRNA, inactivated virus, infection‐acquired immunity, and sundry uncommon and experimental vaccines. We just can’t know that Comirnaty® Kraken Edition won’t provide sterilizing immunity for life!
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Sep 22, 2023 23:11
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Soap Scum posted:if you don't mind me asking, roughly how long have you been teaching? and did any of these things (mid-year staff quits) happen before, but just at like a fraction of the frequency? about 15 years now. attrition on my campus year over year was always pretty low, then May-Dec 2020 we had mass resignations, and much higher attrition at the end of each semester ever since then. I’ve hardly ever seen people just get a few weeks in and nope out before COVID. budget and staffing cuts are a compounding problem. everything’s just harder for everyone in every possible way. if you’re not invested enough or bloody-minded enough, it doesn’t make sense as a life decision to stay in public ed right now, at least where I’m at.
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Sep 22, 2023 23:19
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Soap Scum posted:i think they're describing taking a super thicccc MERV13 filter -- such as one of these guys here -- and just taping that directly to the back side of a 20"x20" box fan. so like two pieces total, one fan, one 4" filter Dang that looks wild- and honestly it's cheaper as well (4 filters cost me $108 at Ace). Maybe it's just psychological but I feel a bit better about the fan forcing air upwards to the ceiling rather than having a single filter one forcing air forward at ground level.
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Sep 22, 2023 23:24
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The Metrix guys just started direct to consumer pre-sales and (for the moment) the prices are a lot cheaper than Peach Medical was listing: https://www.aptitudemedical.com/product-for-home-use-presale Reader was $75 on Peach, it's $50 on the manufacturer website Test kits were $50 on peach, $30 on the manufacturer website They also have a bundle which is basically buy 12 tests @ $30, get a free reader
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Sep 22, 2023 23:35
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mdemone posted:I'm actually feeling just fine but I can tell it's happening. sore throat for 36 hours, and its trying to climb up excellent that your symptoms aren't bad for now but yeah gobble up that pax, you'll be glad you did, despite the taste. don't wait til you have to experience what euphronius did :')
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Sep 22, 2023 23:41
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Dang that looks wild- and honestly it's cheaper as well (4 filters cost me $108 at Ace). Maybe it's just psychological but I feel a bit better about the fan forcing air upwards to the ceiling rather than having a single filter one forcing air forward at ground level. a few dollars of customized hosed up ikea shelves could make that work for you >_> but yeah having a high powered fan blowing all the time, especially as we get into the winter, can also be a real obstacle. whatever works in your context is 💯
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Sep 22, 2023 23:43
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mooshiga posted:about 15 years now. attrition on my campus year over year was always pretty low, then May-Dec 2020 we had mass resignations, and much higher attrition at the end of each semester ever since then. I’ve hardly ever seen people just get a few weeks in and nope out before COVID. gonna go out on a limb here with a controversial take: things seem bad anyway yeah that's rough to hear and i appreciate the first hand account. i started off as a teacher just after college, but then after a couple years i concluded i wasn't enough of a martyr for how badly the government and parents wanted to kill me for being a teacher and peaced out. super sad because i really loved teaching math and comp sci to awkward 17yo nerds or whatever but yeah, it really takes an unreal level of mission-driven-ness to withstand what's going on there, it seems to me.
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Sep 22, 2023 23:49
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mdemone posted:god drat. I can feel it climbing up. smoke harder, and gargle with listerine. monopolize your ace2 receptors and flush this fucker out like booze and methanol* e: *this is not medical advice 
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Sep 22, 2023 23:58
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Dang that looks wild- and honestly it's cheaper as well (4 filters cost me $108 at Ace). Maybe it's just psychological but I feel a bit better about the fan forcing air upwards to the ceiling rather than having a single filter one forcing air forward at ground level. Yinz need to be buying from the OG Rosenthal himself: https://www.texairfilters.com/4-filter-corsi-rosenthal-box-merv-13-filters/ $60 for 4 20x20x2 MERV 13 filters. Not sure if they have 4" but that seems like overkill imo? Strep Vote has issued a correction as of 00:02 on Sep 23, 2023 |
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Sep 22, 2023 23:58
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Maybe it's just psychological but I feel a bit better about the fan forcing air upwards to the ceiling rather than having a single filter one forcing air forward at ground level. You'll never get the big chair with that attitude 
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Sep 23, 2023 00:03
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Fur20 posted:smoke harder, and gargle with listerine. monopolize your ace2 receptors and flush this fucker out like booze and methanol* oooh the listerine is smart. the plan is to smoke continuously until 9pm and then sleep until Sunday. thank god my kids are with their mom this weekend
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Sep 23, 2023 00:11
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bottled waters have started up, I'm three deep
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Sep 23, 2023 00:13
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my 6-7yr old got her shot at cvs , would be nice if others got it, gonna guess under 12 % gonna be less than 5%
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Sep 23, 2023 00:16
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Platystemon posted:Many national Democrats are not interested in more people getting vaccines. They see value in keeping “vaccine hesitancy” around as a social issue. mdemone posted:god drat. I can feel it climbing up. The Oldest Man posted:The Metrix guys just started direct to consumer pre-sales and (for the moment) the prices are a lot cheaper than Peach Medical was listing:
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Sep 23, 2023 00:16
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Zugzwang posted:
it was a matter of time. I had a good run.
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Sep 23, 2023 00:25
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mdemone posted:the plan is to smoke continuously until 9pm and then sleep until Sunday. i don't even have covid but same mdemone posted:bottled waters have started up, I'm three deep oh but uhhhh careful maybe, drinking water too much/too fast is also legit dangerous. almost killed my music teacher once. good luck :')
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Sep 23, 2023 00:39
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Zugzwang posted:Anyone have any idea on the expiry dates on these tests? 12 PCR-grade tests @ $30 each is attractive. No idea but they're a brand new test manufacturer, not some short-coded lucira bullshit.
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Sep 23, 2023 00:41
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jisforjosh posted:The journey begins check what percentage of it might be ‘degraded’ if it weasels around and says something like ‘up to’ 25% send it back. and take care not to heat it too high for too long.
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Sep 23, 2023 01:11
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Another school anecdote. Went to back-to-school night* at my son's school a couple days ago. The schedule had to be heavily modified last minute, because many teachers were missing. Instead of having each grade's parents go see their particular teacher, the groups were combined with a single teacher representing the same (or related) subject for multiple grades. This did not happen even in the last two years. Covid wave is massive this time it seems. Also, the school was covid cautious** for the first two years of the pandemic. Last school year was the first one pretending pandemic does not exist. So for last year's back-to-school night, everyone's immune systems were less destroyed I guess. Now, the school's teachers caught up  . I did see two more N95s and a few KF94s/KN95s. There is one other kid in my son's class that masks. * Parents rotate through the classrooms with each teacher having a short presentation on what they are going to teach the kids this year. ** I mentioned this before, but there was PCR testing for everyone at least once a week, and 2-3 times a week during waves. Masking mandates lasted well into 2021-2022 school year too. Real effort to keep windows/doors open as much as possible. And lunch has always been outside. The last one is the only remaining precaution and the only reason I am still paying for this private school.
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Sep 23, 2023 01:15
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Zugzwang posted:Anyone have any idea on the expiry dates on these tests? 12 PCR-grade tests @ $30 each is attractive. *probably it's not this, maybe edit: just placing an order myself, FYI shipping is $15 (I'm getting one reader and 3 tests). tangy yet delightful has issued a correction as of 01:19 on Sep 23, 2023 |
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Sep 23, 2023 01:17
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tangy yet delightful posted:Peach Medical says, "EXP DATE: 04/21/2024" and presumably they have older stock than aptitude would be selling directly. But hell also could be aptitude selling directly because they are also about to go under so WHO KNOWS!* 
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Sep 23, 2023 01:27
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https://twitter.com/chapotraphouse/status/1705370901351682116?s=46&t=m6fGiglUP1-mz5m0sRqpiw chapo’s on hiatus due to matt christman suffering a near fatal medical emergency, described only as a “totally normal-style sudden medical emergency that happens to normal people,” which is a joke about people thinking he got epsteined but also mirrors the widespread belief that having major heart attacks or strokes at age 40 is totally normal these days. the folks on the recording don’t want anyone to be speculative little freaks, but they sound badly shaken up and I am too, and sometimes I just despair that we aren’t even trying to turn this around. his baby’s on the way this week. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Sep 23, 2023 01:27
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Just saw this posted, I don't know anything about it but I figured I'd share it in case anyone was looking for something like this. https://twitter.com/VirusesImmunity/status/1705377017544487192
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Sep 23, 2023 01:35
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sonatinas posted:my 6-7yr old got her shot at cvs , would be nice if others got it, gonna guess under 12 % gonna be less than 5% mine too!  edit: thanks again for the tip about CVS
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Sep 23, 2023 01:36
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DO NOT SPECULATE ABOUT THIS POST but
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Sep 23, 2023 01:37
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^^ lolemgeejay posted:https://twitter.com/chapotraphouse/status/1705370901351682116?s=46&t=m6fGiglUP1-mz5m0sRqpiw yeah I hope this doesn't fall into the celebrity speculation mod hole. it's happening over and over to everybody
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Sep 23, 2023 01:37
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“please, please don’t be weird little freaks about any of this” I got some bad news about Chapo listeners
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Sep 23, 2023 01:46
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Fireside Nut posted:mine too! you’re welcome! another parent I know is getting their kid a shot tomorrow, there dozens of us!
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Sep 23, 2023 01:57
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“If you’re dying of Covid today, you didn’t take precautions,” Becerra said during a POLITICO health summit in June, the amount of sophisticated evil in this statement is impressive it’s pure evil
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Sep 23, 2023 01:59
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Soap Scum posted:excellent that your symptoms aren't bad for now but yeah gobble up that pax, you'll be glad you did, despite the taste. don't wait til you have to experience what euphronius did :') I’m like symptom free after 48 hours of paxlovid it’s the best drug ever
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Sep 23, 2023 02:01
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euphronius posted:I’m like symptom free after 48 hours of paxlovid and you're gonna be a good lil biochemistry machine and take all your remaining doses so your immune system gets its best chance possible
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Sep 23, 2023 02:10
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