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Soap Scum posted:i did initially read this as you poking her nose with an np swab against her will daily for a week I mean you are not wrong. After she started testing negative, I had to do everything but the swab or the test wouldn't happen.
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Jan 3, 2024 04:54
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Pingui posted:Can't read the entire article, but this snippet made me cackle. This has been my anecdotal experience in hospital. Covid is the dominant illness, but lots of influenza and RSV. Way more than any other time during the pandemic.
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Jan 3, 2024 04:58
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hey you guys remember when that guy impersonated a pharmaceutical company on twitter and said they’d give out insulin for free? the hoax blew up so big that congress passed a law capping insulin at $35/month, which went into effect just now https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/01/01/politics/insulin-price-cap/index.html I’m training in the Bene Gesserit ways so that I can sculpt the perfectly worded tweet to get everyone to wear masks again
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Jan 3, 2024 05:06
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Lol, and lamo. My company closes between Christmas and new years and we opened back up today. I have 3 people on my team. One came in, coughing a little and with a swollen face? grumbling mildly and said they did one of their holiday gatherings virtual. One worked from home, then later told me she had covid. One worked from home, mildly sick with what she assumes is covid, who called me to angrily rant about being ambushed by covid-positive people at one of her family gatherings. I hadn't seen or heard from my boss all day, but he called in the afternoon and mentioned he had covid, again. This is fantastic.
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Jan 3, 2024 05:09
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I heard a guy coughing super violently all morning then he sauntered over and said he and I were the "real die hards" for coming in to the office. yeah dude. great choice of words.
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Jan 3, 2024 05:14
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I think we have a kind of "invisible" COVID death situation. Boomers took down most trackers and ghouls want news coverage to a minimum. They realized keeping us informed meant we collectively bargained for better conditions. They can't return us all to the office so they can pump up real estste values if we fear the office collectively. However, there are loads of people invisibily dying of COVID all year around. The flu was always contained to a particular season but COVID is forever. I legit think we will experience near flatlined worldwide population growth compared to before as the virus endlessly ravages us. In time, I think it will contribute to the end of civilization. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST) Covok has issued a correction as of 05:25 on Jan 3, 2024 |
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Jan 3, 2024 05:17
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https://x.com/cyfi10/status/1742273207913394519?s=46 Walgreens tracker is back weirdly, positivity rate is down now that more people are testing
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Jan 3, 2024 05:23
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Covok posted:I think we have a kind of "invisible" COVID death situation. Boomers took down most trackers and ghouls want news coverage to a minimum. They realized keeping us informed meant we collectively bargained for better conditions. They can't return us all to the office so they can pump up real estste values if we fear the office collectively. However, there are loads of people invisibily dying of COVID all year around. The flu was always contained to a particular season but COVID is forever. I legit think we will experience near flatlined worldwide population growth compared to before as the virus endlessly ravages us. In time, I think it will contribute to the end of civilization. i don't think covid is shadow killing 130 million+ people every year, as bad as it is and to your final point: yes, but as a symptom and light accelerant, not a root cause
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Jan 3, 2024 05:28
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Covok posted:I think we have a kind of "invisible" COVID death situation. Boomers took down most trackers and ghouls want news coverage to a minimum. They realized keeping us informed meant we collectively bargained for better conditions. They can't return us all to the office so they can pump up real estste values if we fear the office collectively. However, there are loads of people invisibily dying of COVID all year around. The flu was always contained to a particular season but COVID is forever. I legit think we will experience near flatlined worldwide population growth compared to before as the virus endlessly ravages us. In time, I think it will contribute to the end of civilization. also why we will never get a official strain name again
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Jan 3, 2024 05:34
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Covok posted:I think we have a kind of "invisible" COVID death situation. Boomers took down most trackers and ghouls want news coverage to a minimum. They realized keeping us informed meant we collectively bargained for better conditions. They can't return us all to the office so they can pump up real estste values if we fear the office collectively. However, there are loads of people invisibily dying of COVID all year around. The flu was always contained to a particular season but COVID is forever. I legit think we will experience near flatlined worldwide population growth compared to before as the virus endlessly ravages us. In time, I think it will contribute to the end of civilization. oh hey what's going on in the Covid thre- 
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Jan 3, 2024 05:35
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Covid ghosts are overtaking our white baby birthrates
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Jan 3, 2024 05:41
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Covid haunting my balls
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Jan 3, 2024 05:43
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Asproigerosis posted:This has been my anecdotal experience in hospital. Covid is the dominant illness, but lots of influenza and RSV. Way more than any other time during the pandemic. Speaking of RSV it's looking like it'll beat its '22-'23 numbers this season https://www.cdc.gov/surveillance/nrevss/rsv/natl-trend.html Is there anywhere with a better graph? Once RSV officially passes the '22-'23 season I want to be ready to immediately send an angry email to yourlocalepidemiologist telling her she's full of poo poo about immunity debt and RSV
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Jan 3, 2024 06:22
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Covok posted:I think we have a kind of "invisible" COVID death situation. Boomers took down most trackers and ghouls want news coverage to a minimum. They realized keeping us informed meant we collectively bargained for better conditions. They can't return us all to the office so they can pump up real estste values if we fear the office collectively. However, there are loads of people invisibily dying of COVID all year around. The flu was always contained to a particular season but COVID is forever. I legit think we will experience near flatlined worldwide population growth compared to before as the virus endlessly ravages us. In time, I think it will contribute to the end of civilization. I doubt it's killing that many people per year, but given skyrocketing autism and suchlike rates probably from microplastics and PFAS I expect it'll be fascinating to find out what COVID infections in the womb and repeatedly later do to developing brains. Teachers think kids in the classroom are bad now, just wait another four or five years for the current crop of toddlers to get into the pipeline.
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Jan 3, 2024 07:06
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gradenko_2000 posted:my wife wakes up past noon on the December 31st with nasal congestion. She also tells me she's feverish, so I give her something for both, and then I ask her to take a COVID test, and she tests positive How strong of a red line was the test?
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Jan 3, 2024 07:21
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The students in here, they're like the crunchy placentas' babies' babies
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Jan 3, 2024 07:24
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https://x.com/meetjess/status/1742401548167057526?s=46 wow I can’t believe oh wait it’s Canada
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Jan 3, 2024 07:28
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Covok posted:I think we have a kind of "invisible" COVID death situation. Boomers took down most trackers and ghouls want news coverage to a minimum. They realized keeping us informed meant we collectively bargained for better conditions. They can't return us all to the office so they can pump up real estste values if we fear the office collectively. However, there are loads of people invisibily dying of COVID all year around. The flu was always contained to a particular season but COVID is forever. I legit think we will experience near flatlined worldwide population growth compared to before as the virus endlessly ravages us. In time, I think it will contribute to the end of civilization. Source your quotes.
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Jan 3, 2024 07:57
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freezepops posted:What’s the latest information on home testing? I just about used up the last of my RATs and (after using up about 40 this last year) none came up negative despite a few sicknesses. Not COVID or just tests not working? A bit late, but your first question is affected by how different guidance exists on how to self-administer a test, and the U.S. version is particularly lovely and prone to missing cases. Don't just swab your nose. A study posted recently found that swabbing your throat catches far more expelled virus among self-administered samples. Cough while you're doing it just to be sure. Here are the Australian instructions for swabbing, which does include throats, showing that it is a legitimate practice that should be in the US box instructions as well if not for policymaker negligence. Notice the nose swab instructions differ quite a bit too (the "brain swab", low and slow enough to be comfortable, as opposed to the vertical nasal swab that barely goes in, which I actually find painful) https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2020/06/phln-guidance-covid-19-swab-collection-upper-respiratory-specimen.pdf Also, as others said, if you're testing in the first few days of a sickness then a negative is often a false negative, so try again later. For sourcing tests, next time you're at a pharmacy, double check at the counter as to whether your insurance approves a certain amount per month. More reliable tests than RATs are available now, if you search the threat for Metrix, and they're affordable but not extremely so.
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Jan 3, 2024 08:23
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Precambrian Video Games posted:How strong of a red line was the test? quite clear I'd say  mine from this morning, for comparison 
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Jan 3, 2024 08:24
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Platystemon posted:Source your quotes. It’s Covok, the guy known for panicking so much in the 2020 election thread (and other political threads) that he got verbed (‘no Covoking’ was shorthand for ‘stop freaking out about outlier polls’).
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Jan 3, 2024 09:27
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it's covoking to verbalize those things out loud instead of all kind of looking at each other silently in wide eyed horrified understanding and awe
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Jan 3, 2024 11:12
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FYI tests are basically useless the first 48 hours.
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Jan 3, 2024 12:20
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Complications posted:I doubt it's killing that many people per year, but given skyrocketing autism and suchlike rates probably from microplastics and PFAS I expect it'll be fascinating to find out what COVID infections in the womb and repeatedly later do to developing brains. Teachers think kids in the classroom are bad now, just wait another four or five years for the current crop of toddlers to get into the pipeline. this phenomenon is widespread among the teachers I worked with in, uh, sacrifice zones. basically: times are good! parents feel good, bringing in 100k a household! they have a kid and the kid gets regular pediatrician appointments in the city, head start, books and poo poo, good food. times turn bad! (because communisms, they say) parents out of work, have to sell the trucks, lots of shame and trauma resurfaces so drug use follows. they have another kid around this time. very little medical care is made available, can’t get to head start because all the teachers left with the oil, no books or good food because no money. you get the boom kids in your class and it’s like, incredible. they show up, they get penpals in India, we get to do field trips, learning and growth! then the bust kids age into school and like 20% of them need tube feeding or other intensive supports (no you can’t have any paraprofessionals and actually it’s bust times so we’re taking your grade 6 teacher and librarian (there are only 8 of you running the school now, down from 18 in the boom years), good luck!). the other kids in the class are a spectrum of dramatic developmental needs that nobody who can is willing to provide. the only institution in the area that expanded that whole time is the cops. i think this is relevant because we’re now in the societal bust times and the kids are not going to be alright.
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Jan 3, 2024 13:41
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I can't offhand find the data they refer to here, unfortunately. Nevertheless it is as expected and it will get worse. As Al-Aly is quoted as saying, long COVID is massively under-diagnosed and long COVID deaths are misattributed. "Long COVID Has Caused Thousands of US Deaths: New CDC Data" https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/long-covid-has-caused-thousands-us-deaths-new-cdc-data-2024a100006l posted:While COVID has now claimed more than one million lives in the United States alone, these aren't the only fatalities caused at least in part by the virus. A small but growing number of Americans are surviving acute infections only to succumb months later to the lingering health problems caused by long COVID.
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Jan 3, 2024 13:49
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna131366 13 million thrown off Medicaid last year because gently caress you
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Jan 3, 2024 13:53
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I appreciate the sentiment but dude... come on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH3_y9gipGw&t=112s
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Jan 3, 2024 13:57
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Pingui posted:I appreciate the sentiment but dude... come on. love mask
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Jan 3, 2024 13:59
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 Fans of fantasy rejoice, as the orcification of humanity continues unabated."SARS-CoV-2 Infection is Associated with an Increase in New Diagnoses of Schizophrenia Spectrum and Psychotic Disorder: A Study Using the US National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C)" https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.05.23299473v1 posted:Abstract News article on the matter: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2410255-severe-covid-19-infections-linked-to-increased-risk-of-schizophrenia/ posted:Severe covid-19 infections linked to increased risk of schizophrenia Archived link: https://archive.vn/XhjnF
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Jan 3, 2024 14:05
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gradenko, your titers fought off the virus before it could get you. well done
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Jan 3, 2024 14:16
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Steve Yun posted:https://x.com/meetjess/status/1742401548167057526?s=46 quote:Those include failing to enforce physical distancing, temperature checks, reporting symptoms, isolating workers and seeking medical attention. no one does any of this lol
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Jan 3, 2024 14:18
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Complications posted:I doubt it's killing that many people per year, but given skyrocketing autism and suchlike rates probably from microplastics and PFAS I expect it'll be fascinating to find out what COVID infections in the womb and repeatedly later do to developing brains. Teachers think kids in the classroom are bad now, just wait another four or five years for the current crop of toddlers to get into the pipeline. bro we have collectively decided to take not one peek into what microplastics and PFAS water pollution are doing to every brain in humanity we're not going to have a goddamn clue what <insert severe superantigenic infection that attacks essentially every tissue in the body> does to children's bodies
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Jan 3, 2024 14:22
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I had the day off yesterday as some self reflection time, since everyone else in the house was finally back at their poo poo. I have an eye dr appt to get my vision checked out, but it's like 3 weeks away. I've also noticed, annoyingly but utterly unsurprisingly, that my tinnitus has been worse post COVID. So, I figured gently caress it let's see what psilocybin does, and took a low dose (strong Golden Teachers, but only about 1-1.5g, in tea, empty stomach). Onset uncomfortable, then settled into it fine; there were periods where my tinnitus was totally absent and I had about 2 hours of more calm clarity than I've had in a month, so I'd say mission accomplished and we'll see where things go over the next few weeks. I doubt it's the cure for PASC but feeling the love of The Universal Source is pretty great whatever the context. Corsis and new filter will be here this week but I very much have the "I'm in danger" sense again. We're supposed to maybe get snow in a week, I will probably get COVID again right as the mountains open up  Potato Salad posted:bro we have collectively decided to take not one peek into what microplastics and PFAS water pollution are doing to every brain in humanity Eh, this seems super doomer to me and not that realistic. The powers controlling the media narrative are doing a very good job keeping the degree of horrors off page A1, but, actually, a lot of this poo poo is making it into mainstream press, and for everything that does, there's like 19 studies that barely make a blip on the radar. The general public at large may choose to try to remain willfully ignorant of what is happening, but researchers are still gonna do the work and publish it. Searching pubmed for "neonatal covid" brings back more than 6000 results. A lot of it is looking at vaccine efficiency during pregnancy but some of it is very much already going down the road of "understanding what <severe super antigenoc infection> does to children's bodies" https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/04/18/1170087779/covid-pregnancy-fetus-brain-delays https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2802745 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2802745 https://www.cell.com/trends/molecular-medicine/fulltext/S1471-4914(22)00045-4 Will the science lead the public discourse? gently caress no, when has that ever happened in west media, or media generally? Cabbages and VHS has issued a correction as of 14:57 on Jan 3, 2024 |
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Jan 3, 2024 14:51
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To paraphrase a wise man: if you don't research and diagnose, you don't have any cases. "Long COVID is a double curse in low-income nations — here’s why" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-04088-x posted:Not only is the prevalence of the condition poorly understood, but it’s also often ignored by physicians and the wider public.
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Jan 3, 2024 14:53
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Pingui posted:To paraphrase a wise man: if you don't research and diagnose, you don't have any cases. We are doing both of those things. As long as this thread is, it is drops in the ocean compared to the COVID research that's been published over the same time frame. I think we should be very upset with our leaders and media for deliberately loving the pooch on good information optics, but suggesting that the work isn't being done seems to be a rather extreme statement which is contradicted by hundreds or thousands of published studies. The problems highlighted in what you've posted here definitely help suppress case counts, and the disproportionate impact on lower classes is not unique to COVID, but the initial claim here (not yours) was that we're not going to have any data on what COVID infections do to developing fetuses. We already have a bunch of such data, at a glance it appears to be Bad Things. Cabbages and VHS has issued a correction as of 15:02 on Jan 3, 2024 |
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Jan 3, 2024 14:59
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Cabbages and Kings posted:(..) This is not a part of that conversation; just me doing a news reel. In this case covering the hardship of poor countries and their population in dealing with long COVID. I can't count how many times I've seen the claim that "if long COVID is real, then why is it only in rich countries?  ", with the natural answer being that there is almost literally zero research being conducted on the prevalence of long COVID in those countries.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:07
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https://vxtwitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/1742432526931722383 lets loving goooo
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Jan 3, 2024 15:11
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Cabbages and Kings posted:Eh, this seems super doomer to me and not that realistic. The powers controlling the media narrative are doing a very good job keeping the degree of horrors off page A1, but, actually, a lot of this poo poo is making it into mainstream press, and for everything that does, there's like 19 studies that barely make a blip on the radar. that's kinda more of what I meant -- we're not going to actually collectively look at any of it and thus refuse to take any action whatsoever, because Even Tiny Changes Are Literally COMMUNISM!😱
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Jan 3, 2024 15:11
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Kind of crack-pinging again today that not only are we in what looks to be a bigger wave than the first Omicron wave, public health is doing nothing and there is also NO loving NEWS ABOUT IT in the mainstream media.
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love to dial in to a meeting and half of the people are out sick and the other half sound like they're dying [thank you for all the responses and words of encouragement to my earlier post]
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