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gradenko_2000 posted:love to dial in to a meeting and half of the people are out sick and the other half sound like they're dying Yeah my standup meeting for the weekly in person office day had someone coughing in the room progressively louder as the meeting went on. Thankfully I don't live on the same continent as the office so I just get to hear it over speaker. Oh yeah and one coworker was sick for 3 weeks and sounds like death now. I find myself having to pair up and assisnt more and more people through what are relatively straight forward tasks.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:44
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Dren posted: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. There is in fact news in the mainstream media about it; that news is "if you're vaccinated you're fine, and if you get sick/die you were defective in some fashion"
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Jan 3, 2024 15:44
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One of my directors here was off camera during the standup yesterday because "the new year brought me a nice case of covid." She's a non-practicing MD.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:45
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:One of my directors here was off camera during the standup yesterday because "the new year brought me a nice case of covid." She's a non-practicing MD. Vaxxed, relaxed now Pax'ed.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:46
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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. Anecdotal but my ex wife was pregnant when we both got Covid in September 2021, and miscarried pretty quickly afterwards.
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Jan 3, 2024 15:53
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:One of my directors here was off camera during the standup yesterday because "the new year brought me a nice case of covid." She's a non-practicing MD. Sounds like she practices what she preaches
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Jan 3, 2024 15:54
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loolquote:No. Your care team will be masking when they are directly interacting with you in clinical care locations, such as patient rooms. Masking will not be required in common areas. These include waiting rooms, hallways, lobbies, and non-clinical locations. https://www.massgeneralbrigham.org/en/patient-care/patient-visitor-information/planning-your-visit/mask-policy
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Jan 3, 2024 15:57
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Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:lool Four years later and medical "professionals" still trying to rules-lawyer an airborne disease into submission. I mean I guess requiring any masking at all is an improvement over literally everywhere else in this doomed country. I got an alert today that I have to take the "bloodborne pathogens" safety training module again for the fifth time working in an office where I have never seen blood yet everyone is visibly sick with airborne pathogens at all times.
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Jan 3, 2024 16:43
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There are many things I could have quoted from this piece, but I think that line sums it up.https://news.yahoo.com/former-nih-director-ignoring-collateral-050156025.html posted:Former NIH Director: Ignoring 'Collateral Damage' Inflicted by COVID-19 Policies Was 'Really Unfortunate'
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Jan 3, 2024 16:46
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Pingui posted:There are many things I could have quoted from this piece, but I think that line sums it up. “you can die so I can feel smug about believing I’m more free”
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Jan 3, 2024 16:56
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Pingui posted:There are many things I could have quoted from this piece, but I think that line sums it up. quote:Collins, who ran the NIH from 2009 to 2021, was speaking at a Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, conference sponsored by Braver Angels, an organization that aims to "bridge the political divide" by encouraging civil discussion between people with different ideologies and partisan allegiances. Encouraging civil discussion by rallying around the one thing all Americans lust for, death
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Jan 3, 2024 17:00
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Utterly brutal, sorry friend 
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Jan 3, 2024 17:06
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Potato Salad posted: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!😱 Remind me, what did we do when climate scientists all showed their reams and reams of studies they did in the 90s?
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Jan 3, 2024 17:16
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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 I think there are people who are having a look or more
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Jan 3, 2024 17:23
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Pingui posted:There are many things I could have quoted from this piece, but I think that line sums it up. failed to quantify the infinite value of a life saved to the transient value of brunch
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Jan 3, 2024 17:28
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Pingui posted:
Any word if the psychotic disorder is mild? I wonder how many psychological ailments we're going to find out are post-viral in nature. Raskolnikov2089 has issued a correction as of 17:42 on Jan 3, 2024 |
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Jan 3, 2024 17:31
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Fans of fantasy rejoice, as the orcification of humanity continues unabated.
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Steve Yun posted:https://x.com/cyfi10/status/1742273207913394519?s=46 Some news coverage of COVID happened in december, a bare minimum amount, and more people started considering that maybe COVID still exists. That's my assumption. Especially given that a lot of people I interact with don't really have any problem testing and would wear a mask if asked, they just assume COVID is over because the authorities they trust told them that COVID is over. If public health somehow returned most people would at the very least be willing to mask up in healthcare settings and consider stuff like ventilation improvements. Not enough to make COVID go away, but enough to make it possible to be COVID safer if you wanted to be instead of the current state of being fed to the COVID mines at all times.
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Jan 3, 2024 17:33
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plenty of people test themselves because they "heard" about covid, too it's such a small sampling set anyway, combined with everyone's schizophrenic ideas about covid and illness, that it's hard to imagine it's super accurate even before this wave started, the sampling size is already super small and selective the best indicator is hospitalizations, as that's hard to fudge. unfortunately it's quite lagging, of course
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Jan 3, 2024 17:36
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Coworker in a meeting this morning was talking about his "vacation sickness". It wasn't meant as a joke, just one of those things that's now seen as part of the cost of a trip to Aruba.
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Jan 3, 2024 17:38
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https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/daily-hospitalization-summary included last year's comprehensive wave for comparison. rate is dramatically higher this year, starting a little later still confirmed by everyone i know getting sick. even full open biden people talking about not going to restaurants. 
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Jan 3, 2024 17:40
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Coworker in a meeting this morning was talking about his "vacation sickness". It wasn't meant as a joke, just one of those things that's now seen as part of the cost of a trip to Aruba. the next part of the conversation was her mentioning that she would probably get sick on her upcoming vacation, and, kinda talking to herself, said she'd have to make sure she had a couple days after recover
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Jan 3, 2024 17:43
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Lmao, JN.1.1 is surging everywhere and already there's a potential new variant brewing up. A recombinant of JN.1 and EG.5.1.1 XDD
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Jan 3, 2024 18:03
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lmao flo prices on amazon currently at an eye-watering 30 bucks a pop, just bought 10 more from that Australian pharmacy for a whopping 97 bucks instead, should be good for a couple years
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Jan 3, 2024 18:11
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Any word if the psychotic disorder is mild? I don't know, but considering the general state of mental health and the stigma attached in the US, I suspect it has to be pretty intense to be diagnosed within 90 days (or beyond for that matter).
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Jan 3, 2024 18:17
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pop pop pop pop goes all my friends with kids
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Jan 3, 2024 18:18
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well, I'm still testing negative somehow and my kids are finally testing negative so we're gonna have our make-up Christmas with my family today. I've had these last few days off and mostly stayed in so as to not risk getting sick. our new reality owns.
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Jan 3, 2024 18:21
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Thoguh posted:Some news coverage of COVID happened in december, a bare minimum amount, and more people started considering that maybe COVID still exists. That's my assumption. Especially given that a lot of people I interact with don't really have any problem testing and would wear a mask if asked, they just assume COVID is over because the authorities they trust told them that COVID is over. If public health somehow returned most people would at the very least be willing to mask up in healthcare settings and consider stuff like ventilation improvements. Not enough to make COVID go away, but enough to make it possible to be COVID safer if you wanted to be instead of the current state of being fed to the COVID mines at all times. Yeah, there was an extremely noticeable drop in COVID news coverage after the White House declared the pandemic over (immediately halving it at the very low end and it only went down afterwards). That is a large part of why my news posting has become much more erratic since then. In November it started picking up a tiny bit, start and middle of December was markedly increased (to then drop to trickle between Christmas and New Years).
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Jan 3, 2024 18:29
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NeonPunk posted:Lmao, JN.1.1 is surging everywhere and already there's a potential new variant brewing up. A recombinant of JN.1 and EG.5.1.1 gonna hit the JNCO variant
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Jan 3, 2024 18:36
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my state variant charts are always 2 weeks behind and still don't have jn1
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Jan 3, 2024 18:37
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with everyone popping hot, what’s the latest on pax reducing long covid? I tried twitter searching and it seems inconsistent.
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Jan 3, 2024 18:37
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feeling more covid anxiety now than at anytime in 2020-21. all restrictions have been eliminated with entirely predictable results. it's so over.
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Jan 3, 2024 18:41
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sonatinas posted:with everyone popping hot, what’s the latest on pax reducing long covid? I tried twitter searching and it seems inconsistent. Estimates depend on what you define as long COVID and the cohort. I have it in my mind that it is around a 50% reduction, which I think is from Al-Aly, with what that entails for the cohort.
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Jan 3, 2024 18:41
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RealityWarCriminal posted:feeling more covid anxiety now than at anytime in 2020-21. all restrictions have been eliminated with entirely predictable results. it's so over. COVID? yeah. COVID was over Jan 20th 2021
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Jan 3, 2024 18:42
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sonatinas posted:with everyone popping hot, what’s the latest on pax reducing long covid? I tried twitter searching and it seems inconsistent. "long covid" is a constellation of like four or maybe five different different syndromes (autoantibodies and immune system dysregulation, viral persistance, microclotting, neurological damage, and direct acute illness damage to organ systems are all implicated) and pax probably helps reduce the likelihood of the ones that are associated with severe acute illness. so that's why you get super mixed results from different studies because how you construct the study influences the likelihood of seeing the specific symptoms that pax helps with.
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Jan 3, 2024 18:44
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RealityWarCriminal posted:feeling more covid anxiety now than at anytime in 2020-21. all restrictions have been eliminated with entirely predictable results. it's so over. also the tracking and every TV news channel is shrieking "EVERYTHING IS FINE STOP BEING A BIG SISSY AND GO REVENGE SHOP"
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Jan 3, 2024 18:44
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The Oldest Man posted:"long covid" is a constellation of like four or maybe five different different syndromes (autoantibodies and immune system dysregulation, viral persistance, microclotting, neurological damage, and direct acute illness damage to organ systems are all implicated) and pax probably helps reduce the likelihood of the ones that are associated with severe acute illness. so that's why you get super mixed results from different studies because how you construct the study influences the likelihood of seeing the specific symptoms that pax helps with. ahh, but at what cost?
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Jan 3, 2024 18:45
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new finance gimmick: mitigate covid by purchasing coughsets
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Jan 3, 2024 18:46
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bedpan posted:ahh, but at what cost? ill buy it at a high price heh heh
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Jan 3, 2024 18:48
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https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2024-01-03/hospital-costs-soared-for-covid-patients-during-pandemic posted:Hospital Costs Soared for COVID Patients During Pandemic
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Jan 3, 2024 18:50
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RealityWarCriminal posted:feeling more covid anxiety now than at anytime in 2020-21. all restrictions have been eliminated with entirely predictable results. it's so over. I mean, I'm with you. I've postponed going back to the gym for a little bit, back to masking in grocery stores, trying to minimize exposure. That said, I feel like we've had big waves each holiday season, and then it subsides a bit. If you look at the NYS covid chart that was posted below the last three peaks are all in January. This peak will pass also. That's not to say that our entire covid "strategy" (or the absence of one) isn't totally hosed, but these peaks have happened the last few years and then dropped off.
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Jan 3, 2024 19:04
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