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Splatoon, a game already full of masks and respirators is adding a plague doctor mask
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 00:11 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 15:10 |
feelin' sassy after getting the jab, so i took a pic.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 00:26 |
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I’m the Moth Man Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub Yo da dub dub Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub Yo da dub dub Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub Yo da dub dub Ski-bi dibby dib yo da dub dub Yo da dub dub (not me, I got Pfizer )
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 00:32 |
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uber_stoat posted:feelin' sassy after getting the jab, so i took a pic. Hell yeah, I'm going to be headed through Point Pleasant in a couple days on my way to New River Gorge for autumn. This story got posted in the Doomsday Economics thread, but I was pleasantly surprised to see two dudes rocking my go-to masks: https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1714661415678615872
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 00:34 |
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Pingui posted:
dicknosing
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 01:35 |
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has this been posted yet https://news.mit.edu/2023/germicidal-uv-lights-could-be-producing-indoor-air-pollutants-1017
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 01:36 |
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Petey posted:has this been posted yet https://news.mit.edu/2023/germicidal-uv-lights-could-be-producing-indoor-air-pollutants-1017 quote:These 222-nanometer radiation devices are being deployed in bathrooms, classrooms, and conference rooms lol I wish. quote:without a full accounting of the potential benefits and/or harm associate with their operation,” says Dustin Poppendieck, a research scientist at the National Institute for Standards and Technology, who was not associated with this study. “This work lays the foundation for a proper quantification of potential negative health impacts of these devices. It is important this process is completed prior to relying on the technology to help prevent the next pandemic.” It’s important to characterize these things, but I hate that it instantly becomes fodder for Just Asking Questions. With masks it was “but what about CO2/fungal growth/bacterial growth/heat stress/speech development/smiles”? Or Corsi Cubes and microplastics. MIT wants to draw buzz for their research, but maybe it’s a little early to bring in the guys with the hot takes. Does anyone really suspect that germicidal far UV is a net negative, or are we just quibbling over how perfect we can make it? Platystemon has issued a correction as of 04:24 on Oct 20, 2023 |
# ? Oct 20, 2023 04:17 |
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Steve Yun posted:Kaiser is a nonprofit and as such Has a reputation for being the cost reduction insurance company PoundSand posted:lmao doing the exact same thing. Been getting depressed for a week on I/P news, was falling behind on getting depressed by Covid news. Joementum posted:thanks for trying. i appreciate the feedback. i've taken an antigen test every morning this week, plus monday and tuesday evening, all of which were negative. i took lucira tests mon-weds which all reported negative, though i do see the boxes say they expired at the end of last month, so probably not reliable. tl; dr: If you're testing Negative on Lucira rather than Invalid, the worst case scenario is that the test isn't as sensitive as it once was, but it's still within some performance specs, and it's still capable of amplifying RNA from the sample. I don't know what those specs are but they are going to be within some reasonable margin of the original detection limit. OTOH, many antigen tests don't even use human material as part of their control (just "did sample buffer make it to the readout portion of the strip?"), so negatives on expired tests are much dodgier. A friend of mine was the main scientist behind one of the EUA'd antigen tests and says many of the ones on the market are complete dogshit, especially because a whole bunch got authorized early in the pandemic when the FDA's EUA requirements were much more lax than they are now. He thinks negatives on expired ones are not at all trustworthy (negative antigen trustworthiness already being poor of course), even if you see a control line.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 04:26 |
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Zantie posted:[snip] Quick note, there was a random Thursday evening NWSS update for resuming sites in King, Skagit, and Snohomish counties. It also looks like two of the sites in Clark county will be resuming again soon.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 07:27 |
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https://twitter.com/meetjess/status/1714993016031560051?s=46
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 07:56 |
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Weekly Australia update: reported hospitalizations crept up a little yet again, not much more to report Twitter link
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 08:08 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Also I mentioned recently that a friend caught covid while holidaying around Europe and the UK, turns out it was his 3rd (identified) bout of covid and it looks like he's been left with post-acute fatigue and possibly some other sequelae, he's struggling to get stuff done now. He went to see his GP today and the doc sent him straight to hospital, things are pretty bad. It turns out he was already dangerously anemic and then he caught covid on top of that which was a real bad combo
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 10:25 |
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Bummer, I hope they are okay. I am anecdotally hearing about a lot more rougher COVID experiences lately.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 11:05 |
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bedpan posted:
bedpan posted:
So uh, we gettin the rest of this? Haven’t had my fill of crazy.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 11:11 |
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What Went Wrong with a Highly Publicized COVID Mask Analysis? The Cochrane Library, a trusted source of health information, misled the public by prioritizing rigor over reality [Ed.: I disagree with the subhead. The studies by Loeb and others were not rigorous. What happened at Cochrane was a laundering of rigor, where studies that were deeply methodologically flawed were given undue authority because they were ostensibly “peer‐reviewed RCTs” and improperly combined in metaanalysis. I present the article in full. The links in the text are stripped but may be found at Archive.ph if you are paywalled, as Scientific American is wont to do.] quote:The COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing, but in May officials ended its designation as a public health emergency. So it's now fair to ask if all our efforts to slow the spread of the disease—from masking, to hand washing, to working from home—were worth it. One group of scientists has seriously muddied the waters with a report that gave the false impression that masking didn't help. The flossing thing is excoriating by itself, but author gives Cochrane too much cover on masks with the “reality is messy” narrative. The truth is that some of these RCTs are trash because they were designed as trash, by trash investigators, and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to identify their problems. Some RCTs were actually rigorously constructed and run, e.g. by Raina MacIntyre. The observational evidence from Kansas and Bangladesh and whatever that masks work is nice and all, but a point ought also to be made that respirators work in industry and in the laboratory, independently of any effect that exists when the general population is asked nicely to don “cloth face coverings”.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 11:29 |
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Platystemon posted:(..) Yeah, the article is overly reluctant to explicitly state the obvious: the lead author is not and was not working in good faith. It was obvious that the intended reading of the study was exactly how it was communicated by media, it wasn't an honest mistake due to too much rigor or whatever the gently caress. Get out of here with this "classic error" bullshit. Cochrane itself should be lambasted for this turd of a report.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 12:02 |
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Pingui posted:Yeah, the article is overly reluctant to explicitly state the obvious: the lead author is not and was not working in good faith. It was obvious that the intended reading of the study was exactly how it was communicated by media, it wasn't an honest mistake due to too much rigor or whatever the gently caress. Get out of here with this "classic error" bullshit.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 12:26 |
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Zugzwang posted:Like, is SciAm the sort of publication that's willing to say "this person is a charlatan pushing a think tank's ideology and the review should be retracted"? I suspect that the author didn’t think about that much because she has an axe to grind re the worship of “the evidence hierarchy” and its capstone of RCTs at Cochrane. And yeah that’s a real problem, but Tom Jefferson is an malicious elephant in the room, and Cochrane fell flat even within their flawed, self-constructed framework of evidence.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 12:43 |
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So there haven't been any new updates from Korea, because they just don't post numbers anymore. The korean and english versions of the dashboard used to match, but now the english version is just basically frozen at the last data report on August 31st 2023. Korean: https://ncov.kdca.go.kr/ English: https://ncov.kdca.go.kr/en/ The old dashboard was only OK at obscuring the data, and did not really show the waves in terms of time spans larger than a week. https://ncov.kdca.go.kr/en/bdBoardList.do?brdId=16&brdGubun=161&dataGubun=&ncvContSeq=&contSeq=&board_id= To do that, you would need to compare previous updates but I only really started doing wayback machine backups sporadically in late 2022, so it doesn't really allow you to see the horrific waves during delta and omicron. For instance, the last recorded numbers are 36k daily average positive cases. Before delta, that was an ungodly high number. https://web.archive.org/web/2022060...tSeq=&board_id= The newly updated korean landing page is something to behold in terms of worthlessness. Weekly Positive (specimen) surveilance 2023 Oct 8-14 7483 people Cumulative 77,120 people (since start of this new form of counting, Sept 1st 2023) How much was it last week? The week before that? Trending up or down? Who knows! At the bottom of the page, more wonderful graphs. The weekly number of cases from the first image, divided up by city/region. And the cherry on top, the newly updated XBB vaccine booster rates for the population divided by age groups. 65+ cohort: 4.5% 12-64 cohort: 0% Now it is just myself and a few random people, mostly elderly that mask at all. And a lot of coughing.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 16:03 |
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That is funny!https://www.healio.com/news/ophthalmology/20231016/healio-osn-pediatrics-board-discusses-covid19-conjunctivitis-reports posted:OSN Pediatrics Board discusses COVID-19 conjunctivitis reports
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 16:34 |
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Cool tech, which might give some substantial insight at a later date (their test data here is very limited):https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/novel-dynamic-imaging-technology-captures-bodys-immune-response-covid-19 posted:Novel Dynamic Imaging Technology Captures the Body’s Immune Response to COVID-19
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 16:41 |
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Rick posted:Bummer, I hope they are okay. Same. Whole lot more people getting much more severe experience nowadays. Although I don't think it's because of whatever variant is out there, but rather because of repeated infection.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 16:43 |
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The kids are not alright. "Youth experiences with and perspectives on long covid" https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-023-16899-8 posted:Abstract lmao gently caress you on that last sentence.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 16:45 |
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NeonPunk posted:Same. Whole lot more people getting much more severe experience nowadays. Pretty sure the CDC outright admitted early on that successive covid infections would be more severe. One of those things that everyone completely glossed over and ignored in favor of "common sense" that the more you got sick the more immune you'd be.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 16:46 |
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Pretty sure the CDC outright admitted early on that successive covid infections would be more severe. One of those things that everyone completely glossed over and ignored in favor of "common sense" that the more you got sick the more immune you'd be. "Managers are reading this and freaking out.”
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 16:49 |
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Two things that crossed my mind today: 1) remember early on how people were like "hey, you should keep a journal about your experiences during the pandemic so that people can look back on it decades from now and remember what it was like"? How's that going for everyone? Good? I bet it's going good. 2) UW Medicine sure does seem to be sending a lot of emails to people about how to recognize the signs of a stroke. I'm sure that isn't anything that warrants any further thought whatsoever.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 18:13 |
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an owls casket posted:Two things that crossed my mind today: no need for people in future decades to look back on what it's like to live during a pandemic if that pandemic never ends
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 18:35 |
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dxt posted:no need for people in future decades to look back on what it's like to live during a pandemic if that pandemic never ends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6gMgpbZXr4 One of the only good bits from new Futurama
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 18:38 |
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Does anyone have an issue number or link to a Private Eye article about CoVID not being over?
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 18:52 |
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an owls casket posted:Two things that crossed my mind today:
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 18:57 |
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Pingui posted:The kids are not alright. there is so much of this that's tainted by government messaging which is not, in my opinion, acknowledged or accounted for sufficiently. like, "we find that teens repeat our own propaganda back to us" is not a useful conclusion other than like, hey wow we can continue to mislead people! they obliquely mention the "youth-centric health communication" thing but jeez
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 19:01 |
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an owls casket posted:Two things that crossed my mind today: https://pandemic-journaling-project.chip.uconn.edu/ quote:In Summer 2022, we launched our second phase, PJP-2. In PJP-2, we will continue recording the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in our lives—but instead of weekly journaling, we’ll reach out just 4 times a year.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 19:12 |
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an owls casket posted:remember early on how people were like "hey, you should keep a journal about your experiences during the pandemic so that people can look back on it decades from now and remember what it was like"? How's that going for everyone? Good? I bet it's going good. I'm on page 853. Most of it is just notes and summaries of the daily crack-pings of our era. Flipping to a random page... Hey, remember the MERS outbreak at the World Cup that might have happened because of the next door camel pageant? That was a good episode.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 19:13 |
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In other news it's been 24 hours since my Novavax shot and I'm happy to report the worst symptom was arm pain! I definitely recommend trying it over Moderna if you are the type to have a rough time with it.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 19:55 |
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I tried to get novavax but the pharmacy bait and switched so I just got Moderna. the unmasked lady doing the injections was very excited to tell me this wasn’t a booster and it’s just 1 shot a year now like the flu shot, no more boosters!
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 19:57 |
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https://twitter.com/luckytran/status/1715433437161558495?s=20
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 20:10 |
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The good news is that I'm getting Moth Juice two weeks from Monday. The poor-planning news is that I'm closing on a house three weeks from Monday. It's sounding like the worst-case poor response is about 48 hours of feeling like death. Is that accurate? I can plan ahead so that I don't need to be packing or anything that week, but I need to not be half-dead for the closing. Should I reschedule the shot?
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 20:33 |
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We have the tools
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 20:41 |
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Hungry Squirrel posted:The good news is that I'm getting Moth Juice two weeks from Monday. Should be fine within a day or two, unless you've had really bad reactions to vaccines in the past I wouldn't worry about it.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 21:03 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 15:10 |
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Hungry Squirrel posted:The good news is that I'm getting Moth Juice two weeks from Monday. I haven't heard of anyone having those kinds of issues with Novavax. Most of us have the shoulder pain, and I really felt like I should lay down for a couple of hours 18-20 hours later. That was it.
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# ? Oct 20, 2023 21:04 |