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Had to pick up a niece today from school who was sick, which rapidly accelerated my anxiety. The school is only one block away but I made sure the windows were down with both of us masked in 3m's. Here's to hoping I not only don't catch whatever they have, but don't spread it to anyone. In better news though thanks to The vaccine finder posted earlier, I found a very local Dr with there own clinic offering Novavax. Every other listing was Walgreens which lol I'm going to shoot for mid October.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 07:01 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 02:11 |
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mawarannahr posted:chugging along but a little worse every year, some years worse than others. people will look at you weird if you talk about it. Our lives are average; Worse than last year, but definitely better than next year
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 07:40 |
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moderately interesting polls from the guardian australia: victoria is the state that had the longest, hardest, girthiest lockdowns outside of china. WA also went hard. seems like people loved it at the time, but have soured on it 2 years on. cool that fully 1 in 6 people are cooked. and where's my "i don't believe the numbers; the whole thing is MUCH WORSE" doomer option.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 08:47 |
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Pingui posted:Interesting results and something that speaks in favor of heterologous vaccinations (as immune evasion will trend towards evading the dominant antibody mix - e.g. the combined vaccination and infection norm): Good news! about the uptake of the Fall booster then.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 08:59 |
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Don't worry everybody, British airport security x-rayed my mask so everyone is SAFE! And after security there was a helpful hand sanitizer station with automatic dispensing.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 09:46 |
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Oracle posted:Friends sister died of a blood clot in her lung. She was 55. Someone found her in her car by the side of the road, unresponsive. She taught high school choir and was just generally a really great person.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 10:02 |
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Oracle posted:Friends sister died of a blood clot in her lung. She was 55. Someone found her in her car by the side of the road, unresponsive. She taught high school choir and was just generally a really great person.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 10:28 |
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Maybe the CDC should be communicating this, instead of "you are immune, act like it"?https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-10-05/cdc-study-warns-covid-19-hospitalization-a-continued-public-health-threat posted:CDC Study Warns COVID-19 Hospitalization a ‘Continued Public Health Threat’ Not an expert though, so maybe I just don't understand the health benefits of a false sense of security
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 12:26 |
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An interesting and very nice source for the general recommendation in the thread for post-covid exercise (it is a decent read; the excerpt here highlights the conclusion):https://www.runnersworld.com/health-injuries/a45454046/why-you-shouldnt-run-with-covid/ posted:Why Experts Say You Shouldn’t Run With COVID-19
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 12:31 |
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I don't think humans would survive 15 degrees of warming.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 12:33 |
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Michael Mina interview, I highlighted some stuff I found amusing and/or asinine (as this is a Michael Mina interview, there is much more in the article):https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/05/opinion/covid-pandemic-michael-mina.html posted:We Should Have Known So Much About Covid from the Start Please stop setting society up for failure Michael Archived link: https://archive.li/OnSIp
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 12:45 |
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In other plague news:https://www.reuters.com/business/he...ays-2023-10-06/ posted:Dengue will 'take off' in southern Europe, US, Africa this decade, WHO scientist says The story doesn't mention if this is the break-bone fever you want to get, but I think it is implied.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 12:51 |
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genericnick posted:Good news! about the uptake of the Fall booster then. It will be ridiculously low in the US, but 1) I expect the European numbers to be vastly higher, 2) you don't need a massive uptake to push evolution in a specific direction and 3) the variant vaccines are targeted towards the presumed dominant variant. Using Denmark as an example, the last number I could off hand find for the 2022 bivalent booster in Denmark showed an uptake of 75% among the people eligible e.g. 50+, this amounts to 30% of the total Danish population. While it isn't sterilizing - so it not a full 30% difference in Reff - for the subvariants applicable it is going to be substantial. On top of that you have the people getting a shot of nature's vaccine, which by definition is most likely to be the dominant variant. In aggregate the dominant antibody mix will therefore be similarly targeting. It follows that variants that have changes relative to the dominant antibody mix, will have substantially increased survivability and subsequent have a substantially higher Reff leading to likely future dominance. Heterologous vaccinations would curb this on an individual basis. I suspect this is the deal with Novavax and the reason vaccines like Soberana (the Cuban shot) seem to fare well. Edit to add the population source, because I thought this was pretty cool (from the public Danish statistics agency): https://extranet.dst.dk/pyramide/pyramide.htm Pressing play shows the change over time, while pressing "Rediger" (transl.: edit) will let you choose an interval of population for the right-most count. Pingui has issued a correction as of 13:28 on Oct 6, 2023 |
# ? Oct 6, 2023 13:22 |
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Kill all the mosquitoes.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 13:23 |
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Zugzwang posted:Kill all the mosquitoes. Very antivax towards nature's flying vaccine syringes.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 13:24 |
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I read on social media this morning that my HMO finally has the vax ready to go in their system. Unfortunately I would encounter a picket line if I were to go in, because they're all on strike.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 13:48 |
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Glumwheels posted:I’m sorry, I know that pain and I can’t believe they won’t approve Stelara for her. Isn’t her doctor managing it for her, though? What’s the issue? It's impossible to reach her gastro, appointments are six months in advance and a phone call has a week or two lag time in getting returned health care is going great here
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 14:24 |
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Pingui posted:Michael Mina interview, I highlighted some stuff I found amusing and/or asinine (as this is a Michael Mina interview, there is much more in the article): i enjoy the idea that anyone outside of a very small slice of americans can take eighteen months to maybe get better from long covid without life-ruining results
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 14:51 |
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:(..) This one is for you: https://www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/news/pittsburghs-top-doctors-warn-of-a-growing-covid-complacency/ posted:Pittsburgh's top doctors warn of a growing "COVID complacency"
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 15:22 |
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lol https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366553435/Top-science-journal-faced-secret-attacks-from-Covid-conspiracy-theory-group pedo island's homegrown Great Barrington crowd manifests itself by siccing the government on people who run the journal Nature
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 15:22 |
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Rescue Toaster posted:I'm not sure that's that clear. Rapids often do have a very faint indent that will catch a shadow, if there's no actual color to it I personally would read that as negative. youd be wrong
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 15:33 |
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mrbotus posted:I don't think humans would survive 15 degrees of warming. I also dont think the news wouldn't mention or blame migration? wtf was that post, did Rime write it? yeesh.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 15:43 |
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Of course I've thrown away all my RATs, but there is always a line there, it's visible even before you do the test. Depending on lighting I could absolutely take a picture that makes it stand out even more. I'm not saying that's definitely negative, but I can definitely see how someone would read it that way, since that doesn't stand out any more to me than the line that's always there.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 15:45 |
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Rescue Toaster posted:Of course I've thrown away all my RATs, but there is always a line there, it's visible even before you do the test. Depending on lighting I could absolutely take a picture that makes it stand out even more. found the Ohio cryptic pooper
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 15:46 |
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puncturewound78 posted:wtf was that post, did Rime write it? yeesh. vyelkin
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 15:47 |
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Pingui posted:This one is for you: I used to work for UPMC and I know that guy they were the last hospital operator around here to do away with mask mandates, but they did away with them
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 15:48 |
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Rescue Toaster posted:Of course I've thrown away all my RATs, but there is always a line there, it's visible even before you do the test. Depending on lighting I could absolutely take a picture that makes it stand out even more. no it is not visible before you do the test.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 16:01 |
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Ok... I don't know what to tell you. I don't remember if it was the ihealths or one of the other brands in that same plastic stick form factor. There is 100% absolutely a visible indent right where the test line is, and if the light hits it right it's absolutely visible as a faint shadow if you're really looking. With a bright light and a close up with a camera you could take a picture of a negative (or even completely un-processed) test that looks like that. I'm not going to waste money on some RATs to take a picture. Feel free to not believe me I guess. I remember it vividly because I also thought 'Oh poo poo maybe this is positive, but it doesn't actually look like color, just a shadow/indent' so I opened another test to do another and to look at it un-processed and the line I was seeing was there on the unprocessed one. Rescue Toaster has issued a correction as of 16:10 on Oct 6, 2023 |
# ? Oct 6, 2023 16:07 |
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I just used one of the roughed-up expired-by-original-date Binax tests USPS sent me and yes there is some kind of physical indent at the location of the T strip that is visible as a slightly darker-than-background gray line if you shine a bright light at it at just the right angle but the tweet shows a faint pink line from directly overhead without apparent glare from a flash or other nearby light source. It's very likely positive and either way someone getting that result should test again not blithely assume they're negative.puncturewound78 posted:wtf was that post, did Rime write it? yeesh. This is the harshest burn on vyelkin I've ever read.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 16:12 |
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yeah I can see where the line is sposeda show up if it's lit correctly and photographed and processed like a cellphone does to it but honestly you're a dang wealthy government person just do another test binch
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 16:15 |
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this is a lot of posts about some nothing politician's RAT test. who fuckin cares.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 16:15 |
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The latest in, "it's just a cold" research: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/long-cold-symptoms-last-long-covid-people-can-develop-long-colds-rcna119041 On the one hand, it's good that we're finally realizing post-viral illnesses are a real thing and not just lazy people wanting handouts and attention. On the other this just feels like a new front being opened up in the ongoing war to keep us ignoring COVID. "People have always been this sick. Here's how many people the cold regularly maims, see?"
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 16:25 |
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Very large (and - I think - well constructed) study on the autoimmune etc. disorders following a COVID infection. Due to the general health examination not starting until 40+ these results are naturally only applicable for this age cohort. It should also be noted that most of the immune disorders are pretty rare, so even a doubling of hazard ratio does not amount to a large amount of people. "Autoimmune and Autoinflammatory Connective Tissue Disorders Following COVID-19" https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2810259 posted:Key Points On the other hand, due to a likely higher tendency towards dying in the cohort that get such disorders, the authors note this may be low-balling the risk increase. Pingui has issued a correction as of 16:40 on Oct 6, 2023 |
# ? Oct 6, 2023 16:38 |
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:It's impossible to reach her gastro, appointments are six months in advance and a phone call has a week or two lag time in getting returned She needs a new doctor. If she’s not already I’d go find a big university hospital and go there.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 16:43 |
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Glumwheels posted:She needs a new doctor. If she’s not already I’d go find a big university hospital and go there. You are so privileged lmao
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 17:22 |
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excuse me? Sir? One Specialist Doctor please, yes, thank you. no, that's all today. How much? Mm OK well, you know what they say, if you don't have your health you don't have anything.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 17:30 |
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It's definitely privilege. But I know for me, if my wife hadn't pushed me to go to Mayo clinic (or if my insurance hadn't let me), I'd very likely be dead or have been seriously disabled because of the rank incompetence of the doctors I had locally. This was way before COVID and I'm sure things are even worse in many places in terms of access to competent specialists. I know the nearest real university hospital which is supposed to be good is also massively backed up so it's not like that's a guarantee either though. Also maybe I should plan on keeping enough cash on hand to bribe the ambulance driver to take us there instead of the local shithole if one of us ever needs a ride in the wee-woo wagon. This is all evidence of a good and working healthcare system. Rescue Toaster has issued a correction as of 17:37 on Oct 6, 2023 |
# ? Oct 6, 2023 17:34 |
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can't take this thread seriously, full of doctor-havers smh less facetiously though: i wonder if pax is available on darknet markets yet. i'll check sometime when i'm less lazy e: to be clear i would def not recommend acquiring from a darknet market lol but i do wonder if it's made its way there
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 17:46 |
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Gunshow Poophole posted:excuse me? Sir? One Specialist Doctor please, yes, thank you. I'm sorry y'all are going through that poo poo. Been dealing with gastro as well on the homefront and thankfully have gotten through a diagnosis to treatment in under like three months, most of which was waiting for gov help stuff. On the upside, ended up with literally (no joke) $30k bottle of pills for 10bux lol.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 17:51 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 02:11 |
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beef stew cough coworker went to the local university (UW medicine) who had him see a NP who told him he had asthma and gave him an inhaler. didn't test for RSV. didn't test for covid.
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# ? Oct 6, 2023 17:54 |