Gunshow Poophole posted:

"near someone who appears ill" gently caress me running lol

UnfortunateSexFart posted:

I've been home from the hospital for 24 hours and walked for the first time in 2.5 weeks for 20 mins. Felt like a marathon in high heat. Take care of your heart, kiddos. This poo poo sucks.

Platystemon posted:

“All our teams make an effort to stay optimistic, but I will say that once our virus division saw the vaccine efficacy data, they started asking for payment up front.”

U-DO Burger posted:

Dren posted:

https://x.com/bob_wachter/status/1736865303609659664?s=46&t=f1MRhF2xe8gNhr6WGxk_NA

new wachter math dropped, right on cue

snipped this one for the “i’m here now” bob head

quote:

a bit to R

Mola Yam posted:

hey post again so we know you're alive

speng31b posted:

please do not get too carried away with the bob wachter shower fall stuff. he has some bad opinions and severely injured himself when he had covid one time.

no lube so what posted:

picked up my pax, thanks everyone!

I got this preemptively for the holidays. When I called cvs to see if they had it in stock, the person on the other side asked me if I had covid. I said, 'yeah' assuming they were checking to see if it was within the 5 days etc. nah. they snapped back, "I am sending you anywhere else, you cannot come here."

I went there anyway. The cvs is in a packed grocery. hundreds of people walking around coughing on each other. I show up, it was someone different than I talked with on the phone. I say who I was, the tech pulls a cloth mask out of their pocket and puts it on. that dude got me the gently caress out of there as fast as possible.

Man, I didn't want to stress people, but like I am not going to run all over town when I don't have it.

skooma512 posted:

Please don't go to the medicine pickup place because that might put me at risk, but also I will not mitigate this in any other way but diverting people and otherwise think the threat is overblown and for bitches.

Dren posted:

could be he legit believes masks don’t work

Baddog posted:

Isn't wachter also Vinay Prasad and Monica Gandhi's boss? Chair of the department of medicine seems like that would be the head honcho of the medical school.

UCSF has been so goddamn terrible on this.

maxwellhill posted:

shut the gently caress up, speng

U-DO Burger posted:

i just think it's really funny that he wrote a giant screed about how he nearly died thanks to covid and the lesson he took from that experience is that he's doing everything right

quote:

The first human cases were reported from the Dengeza Health Post in the Sinazongwe District of the Southern Province on 5 May 2023. Around the same time period, domestic (cattle and goats) and wild animals (hippopotami) were reportedly dying from an unknown cause in the surrounding areas. In June 2023, human and animal cases were reported in the Kanchindu and Siameja veterinary camps of Sinazongwe District. Twenty-six human cases developed sores on their face, arms, and fingers after consuming meat from three wild hippopotamus carcasses. The first human case was reported on 16 June 2023 and laboratory confirmed by culture at the Lusaka Central Veterinary Research Institute (CVRI). As of 20 November 2023, 684 suspected human cases, including four deaths, a Case Fatality Ratio (CFR)of 0.6%, were reported from 44 out of 116 districts in nine of Zambia’s 10 provinces.

The Oldest Man posted:

Just doubling down on it being nbd would be a lot easier for me to understand than what he's actually doing which is:

1. Saying he thinks it's worth trying to not get it.
2. Saying it's worth it for him personally to try not to get it.
3. Outlining this very complicated risk management calculus he says he's following to avoid getting it.
4. All of that doing absolutely gently caress-all and getting it because somehow his finely-tuned risk management swiss watch didn't tell him getting into a crowded elevator without an n95 on might be a bad idea.
5. Suffering significant, painful, potentially fatal consequences.
6. Doubling down not on "the disease is nbd" but on the risk management rube goldberg machine.

If he didn't think it was a problem to get COVID he would jettison the entire risk management framing and just do whatever he wants with no qualms like everybody else is. Instead what he's doing is the same net outcome (doing whatever) but wrapping it in a zillion layers of nonsense risk management that has obviously failed him multiple times, and that's the part I don't get.

The Oldest Man posted:

Just doubling down on it being nbd would be a lot easier for me to understand than what he's actually doing which is:

1. Saying he thinks it's worth trying to not get it.
2. Saying it's worth it for him personally to try not to get it.
3. Outlining this very complicated risk management calculus he says he's following to avoid getting it.
4. All of that doing absolutely gently caress-all and getting it because somehow his finely-tuned risk management swiss watch didn't tell him getting into a crowded elevator without an n95 on might be a bad idea.
5. Suffering significant, painful, potentially fatal consequences.
6. Doubling down not on "the disease is nbd" but on the risk management rube goldberg machine.

If he didn't think it was a problem to get COVID he would jettison the entire risk management framing and just do whatever he wants with no qualms like everybody else is. Instead what he's doing is the same net outcome (doing whatever) but wrapping it in a zillion layers of nonsense risk management that has obviously failed him multiple times, and that's the part I don't get.