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Petey posted:(..) Bittersüß (literally bittersweet) maybe (yeah, yeah, I know you aren't actually asking...).
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Dec 29, 2023 14:03
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Another friend who has been living like it's 2019 just tested positive for covid for the first time in years. This last week she's been working at one of the biggest festivals in the entire country and was supposed to be doing lots of tent shows and DJ sets which will have to be cancelled and she's super annoyed at the "unfortunate timing", and a whole lot of people are commenting on her post about how "unfair" it is. LOL the covid virion doesn't understand your concept of 'fairness' Update: even though my friend is at a music festival in regional Queensland (pretty much Australia's Florida and Texas all rolled into one) they got a prescription for pax from their GP back in Melbourne and the festival has an onsite pharmacy which was able to fulfill their script right away
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Dec 29, 2023 14:09
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Update: even though my friend is at a music festival in regional Queensland (pretty much Australia's Florida and Texas all rolled into one) they got a prescription for pax from their GP back in Melbourne and the festival has an onsite pharmacy which was able to fulfill their script right away is this a sign of how connected your friend/the festival runners are or a sign that all your pax is about to expire so let’s hand it out like candy
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Dec 29, 2023 14:51
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Wait like a real pharmacy at a festival? I thought that was just a slang for something else
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Dec 29, 2023 14:52
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q: what is the best deal on antigens these days? doesn't seem like costco is selling them anymore. i have a stockpile from my 4/month insurance provided; asking for family out of state.
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Dec 29, 2023 14:58
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Petey posted:q: what is the best deal on antigens these days? doesn't seem like costco is selling them anymore. i have a stockpile from my 4/month insurance provided; asking for family out of state. Have they already done the four free government ones from November? https://www.covid.gov/tools-and-resources/resources/tests
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Dec 29, 2023 15:14
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seeing a lot of 🤒 in the group slack!
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Dec 29, 2023 15:19
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fosborb posted:seeing a lot of 🤒 in the group slack! well it's also the Friday before a three day weekend
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Dec 29, 2023 15:20
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DominoKitten posted:Have they already done the four free government ones from November? https://www.covid.gov/tools-and-resources/resources/tests To be clear for anyone having already ordered 4 in September, it is 8 total.
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Dec 29, 2023 15:20
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:well it's also the Friday before a three day weekend hmmm good point. time to fire a bunch of people
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Dec 29, 2023 15:22
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Gunshow Poophole posted:poster is just asking how best to preserve pax in a resilient way they're not... prepping Wait, are you supposed to refrigerate Paxlovid?? gently caress, I just have my backup boxes in a drawer in a cool closet. Did I waste my test2treat uses?
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Dec 29, 2023 15:35
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Pingui posted:Just for the headline: SardonicTyrant posted:Like a virgin, coughing for the very first time. [Pestilence] I’m no longer a COVID virgin, but I’m trying to stay positive!
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Dec 29, 2023 15:38
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BusError posted:Wait, are you supposed to refrigerate Paxlovid?? gently caress, I just have my backup boxes in a drawer in a cool closet. Did I waste my test2treat uses? it'll be fine, it's not cold chain mandated so just keep it stably at or below room temperature in the dark.
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Dec 29, 2023 15:38
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Nah I think keeping them cool is just a "going the extra mile" thing. We only know the shelf life of pax for as long as they've let a sample sit around, which is hard for a brand new chemical like the active ingredient in pax. There's no reason to assume it'll decay to nothing in a year on a shelf at room temp, but we can't say for certain it won't happen in five, because we just don't know. In general, keeping it cool should lengthen the shelf life of any drug, but a cool dry place should be fine. Like, all my pax is just under my kitchen sink.
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Dec 29, 2023 15:39
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Kragger99 posted:[Pestilence] I’m no longer a COVID virgin, but I’m trying to stay positive! It really should be an "and", not a "but".
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Dec 29, 2023 15:39
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BusError posted:Wait, are you supposed to refrigerate Paxlovid?? gently caress, I just have my backup boxes in a drawer in a cool closet. Did I waste my test2treat uses? No, it's supposed to be stored at room temp. 60s, 70s.
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Dec 29, 2023 15:39
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The thing we don't even know if paxlovid will actually even expire. Like the only way we know the expiration dates for other medications is we just leave a pile of them on a lab shelf and take some of them out every few months and test the potency for years (or up until the testing grant ends)
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Dec 29, 2023 15:48
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Drug expiration, lmao.
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Dec 29, 2023 15:54
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Ah ok, that's a relief, thanks! I'm doing my best not to need it at all, but having that backstop there if I do is a big weight off my mind.
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Dec 29, 2023 15:55
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My guess is you'll end up using it long before it loses potency
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Dec 29, 2023 16:11
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Oracle posted:is this a sign of how connected your friend/the festival runners are or a sign that all your pax is about to expire so let’s hand it out like candy NeonPunk posted:Wait like a real pharmacy at a festival? I thought that was just a slang for something else I just googled it and it's a folk music festival which regularly gets over 125,000 attendees, and they have a 24/7 medical centre on site as well as ambulance and police. A very large percentage of the attendees would be Gen-X or boomers so the average age would be pretty high
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Dec 29, 2023 16:18
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I just googled it and it's a folk music festival which regularly gets over 125,000 attendees, and they have a 24/7 medical centre on site as well as ambulance and police. A very large percentage of the attendees would be Gen-X or boomers so the average age would be pretty high Okay so it's not a pharmacy, but a first aid center. So it's like having anti snake venom on hand kind of thing, but for Paxlovid and covid instead?
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Dec 29, 2023 16:27
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I don't know what is happening in Ireland during Christmas, but I recall their extremely explosive numbers from other years.https://www.rte.ie/news/2023/1228/1423987-flu-increase/ posted:'Very steep' rise in flu and Covid cases sees jump in hospitalisations
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Dec 29, 2023 16:49
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NeonPunk posted:Okay so it's not a pharmacy, but a first aid center. It sounds like they're a general medical centre. If they're fulfilling scripts and handing out meds they're a pharmacy  E: pax is gatekept a lot harder here in Australia, people under 50 can only access it if they're seriously immunocompromised and people 50-70 can access it if they have "additional risk factors". You can't just walk into a first aid tent and ask for it https://www.health.gov.au/health-alerts/covid-19/treatments/eligibility Snowglobe of Doom has issued a correction as of 17:01 on Dec 29, 2023 |
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Dec 29, 2023 16:53
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:It sounds like they're a general medical centre. If they're fulfilling scripts and handing out meds they're a pharmacy I dunno. Something doesn't add up. I sincerely doubt that a first aid center at a music festival has a fully stocked pharmacy where you can refill your statins or get your Wegovy
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Dec 29, 2023 17:30
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I’m sure this is common throughout the country but people are dropping like flies with fever and illness at our week long family gathering. we all came in out of town wearing masks but there were times people were not obviously. my family are all on the Swiss cheese approach(mask, sprays, probiotics, air filter , vax)compared to others so we’ll see how it goes. sister, brothers family, and mom are all ill now… not to mention my father has serious long covid mobility issues this is going great. fly out tomorrow so can’t wait to hear all the coughing.
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Dec 29, 2023 17:33
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NeonPunk posted:I dunno. Something doesn't add up. I sincerely doubt that a first aid center at a music festival has a fully stocked pharmacy where you can refill your statins or get your Wegovy Yeah I'm guessing it's mostly a first aid centre but it has some extended medical capabilities. A lot of the attendees are going to be middleaged/old hippies and a bunch of them will be somewhat wealthy so I'm sure they've set up something to deal with the myriad problems they no doubt experience every year Burning Man also has a medical center with a volunteer team of medical staff (paramedics, RNS and MDs etc) and something called the Rampart clinic which they call a "hospital" (scare quotes are theirs)
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Dec 29, 2023 17:37
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I felt the flu or whatever trying to get me twice now this week but my flu vaxxed body fought it off like its nothing. and it feels good to feel the body's response, folks
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Dec 29, 2023 18:04
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gettin' Absolutely Maxx Titered these next two weeks in advance of a trip first up: oral typhoid! a lil rumbly in my tumbly. c'mon u t-cells!
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Dec 29, 2023 18:12
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my girlfriend's nephew, an adorable 8 month old whose pharmacist mom has not had him vaccinated, just tested positive; likely exposed at the large family party the gf and i skipped because it was a superspreader last year. very hosed!
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Dec 29, 2023 20:09
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Petey posted:my girlfriend's nephew, an adorable 8 month old whose pharmacist mom has not had him vaccinated, just tested positive; likely exposed at the large family party the gf and i skipped because it was a superspreader last year. very hosed! I don't know if you can give a covid vaccine to an infant e: wait that guidance changed. now it's 6mo+
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Dec 29, 2023 20:13
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lotta debilitating sinus infections and allergies and colds around rn lol lmao
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Dec 29, 2023 20:14
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Something must be going around
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Dec 29, 2023 20:16
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Petey posted:my girlfriend's nephew, an adorable 8 month old whose pharmacist mom has not had him vaccinated, just tested positive; likely exposed at the large family party the gf and i skipped because it was a superspreader last year. very hosed! Wow that must be a really tall 8mo old if they could infect an adult.
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Dec 29, 2023 20:33
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https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1740751783721599406 Good thing we had a very low % of folks who even bothered getting the XBB boosters!
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Dec 29, 2023 20:33
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up Up UP Still accelerating  now the fourth largest wave 
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Dec 29, 2023 20:34
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Pingui posted:I have seen so many studies with the same results, all having worse results for the COVID cohort, but inside the confidence interval. Look I can't exclude, with 95% confidence, that being hospitalized with a 5.56 gsw to the chest is worse than a 9mm gsw to the chest so that means automatic rifles are no more deadly than pistols.
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Dec 29, 2023 20:41
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Petey posted:my girlfriend's nephew, an adorable 8 month old whose pharmacist mom has not had him vaccinated, just tested positive; likely exposed at the large family party the gf and i skipped because it was a superspreader last year. very hosed!  Steve Yun posted:up Up UP
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Dec 29, 2023 20:43
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NeonPunk posted:https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1740751783721599406 loving brutal, I'm glad I held out for the updated novavax
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Dec 29, 2023 20:48
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Jort Fortress posted:My Grandma was 91 and had Parkinson's for the last 2 years. She broke her hip back in September and had to temporarily stay in a nursing home to complete daily PT and be observed. She caught COVID there (first time) and a month later was completely demented and unintelligible. They did an MRI in Nov. and discovered a brain bleed. She finally passed away on Xmas Eve. This is loving awful. I’m so sorry for your lose. It’s so disastrous how frequently we’ve heard from folks that their relative needing to go to the hospital was a death sentence
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Dec 29, 2023 20:55
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