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fosborb posted:lol first hit on seseme care, she prescribed augmentin for my "sinus infection." time for a second opinion 
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Jan 10, 2024 00:58
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NeonPunk posted:Oh neat. My family is now 100% totally in with the idea of using UVC lights as another layer for home. UVC is probably the one thing I’ve been reluctant about putting in my home. I just couldn’t find anything that was safe enough, to me at least, to be around kids. also the ones I did find were a bit expensive. there were those uvc paddle light things but you needed like 8 ft ceilings at least. https://faruv.com/disinfection-floor-lamp/ there is this: https://beaconlight.co
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Jan 10, 2024 01:03
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fosborb posted:lol first hit on seseme care, she prescribed augmentin for my "sinus infection." time for a second opinion
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Jan 10, 2024 01:19
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i got the flu back in December right after i got flu + covid booster, was lucky not to get the covid but lmao all the sick people around unvaccinated.
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Jan 10, 2024 01:22
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Celexi posted:i got the flu back in December right after i got flu + covid booster, was lucky not to get the covid but lmao all the sick people around unvaccinated. That's just the quintupledemic, very normal and healthy actually.
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Jan 10, 2024 01:26
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This is the most matter of fact headline I've seen in a while.
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Jan 10, 2024 01:46
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Pingui posted:This is the most matter of fact headline I've seen in a while. More of this would be nice!
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Jan 10, 2024 02:24
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Baddog posted:More of this would be nice! Hmm, well that isn't really on the table. How about a thousand articles saying the problem is not enough people got vaccinated?
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Jan 10, 2024 02:29
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DominoKitten posted:I’ve been looking at this 3eo one and have questions like how long until the tests expire given that they don’t sell tests in smaller batches than 20 for $380. Might be consumer available I guess but not very consumer friendly. This was a good question and I should have listened. I sprung for the 20 test plus starter kit package. It is manufactured in December 2023 but expires in March or April 2024 depending on the test. Presumably, they plan to file for extension. Otherwise, this is quite a waste as I doubt I will get to use all tests by end of March. Doh. In other news, 2-pack is available for $38 here: https://www.epimedi.com/collections/all-products/products/3eo-covid-19-test-2-pack
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Jan 10, 2024 02:45
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Pingui posted:Hmm, well that isn't really on the table. How about a thousand articles saying the problem is not enough people got vaccinated? best I can do is 30 articles about a given celebrity reporting that they're hospitalized for a severe acute respiratory disease but not naming the underlying cause
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Jan 10, 2024 02:59
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Platystemon posted:Huh, that’s odd. yeah but obviously they all do religious exemption because it just gives you the flu and they don't want no woke chip. This has been a thing for decades and I should have known the covid vaccines would follow the same road. I had hopes that people would wise up when faced with a pandemic but nah just made them more defiant in service of the culture war.
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Jan 10, 2024 04:08
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Picked up my daughter from after school care today. They had her in charge of dispensing hand sanitizer to each kid in the line returning to the room from outside play. She was the only one masked. Lol
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Jan 10, 2024 04:58
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Rescue Toaster posted:Maybe someone will come up with something, but I'd be extremely cautious and skeptical approaching this because: The promise of far UV is it gives 20-50 eACH, doesn’t make any noise and can be installed unobtrusively. The downsides are the products seem to be really rough around the edges, still not enough to replace a mask in near field transmission, hard for consumer to verify it is actually 222 nm UV, and it’s $$$$. Joey Fox installed one in his dining room and he credits it and his other mitigations with helping to prevent spread in his house before one of his family members tested positive and isolated. https://itsairborne.com/dining-room-far-uv-2f5db7f5218a Naomi Wu’s far UV thing seems fine (if she’s still selling it) but it is not meant for permanent installation.
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Jan 10, 2024 05:08
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Steely Dad posted:Picked up my daughter from after school care today. They had her in charge of dispensing hand sanitizer to each kid in the line returning to the room from outside play. She was the only one masked. Lol
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Jan 10, 2024 05:11
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fosborb posted:a 60 year old friend of mine: Someone should conduct a poll of physicians. If high school kids were saying this much bullshit about STDs, they’d call it a grave failure of public health. Asproigerosis posted:yeah but obviously they all do religious exemption because it just gives you the flu and they don't want no woke chip. This has been a thing for decades and I should have known the covid vaccines would follow the same road. I had hopes that people would wise up when faced with a pandemic but nah just made them more defiant in service of the culture war. You already responded to that one. I don’t mean to alarm you, but you may have a mild case of severe memory loss.
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Jan 10, 2024 05:18
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https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1440698563051196425 Let’s check how this aged. quote:Antibodies generated by the vaccines naturally wane, but the vaccines generate memory B cells, which produce high levels of neutralizing antibodies if they see the virus or its variants again. Memory B cells, once generated, are long-lasting. A 2008 Nature study found that survivors of the 1918 influenza pandemic were able to produce antibodies from memory B cells when their blood samples were exposed to the same influenza strain nine decades later. T cells generated by the vaccines also protect us from severe disease and are unfazed by the variants. As the virus continues to circulate, those who are older or immunocompromised will need a booster shot, but most people will be protected due to the fact that the pathogen will be more rarely confronted. Oh.
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Jan 10, 2024 05:58
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Platystemon posted:https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1440698563051196425 at least she was laughed out of medicine and we'll never hear from her again
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Jan 10, 2024 06:08
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A Survey on Knowledge, Prevention, and Occurrence of Sexually Transmitted Infections among Freshmen from Four Italian Universitiesquote:At multivariable analysis, a significantly higher level of STI knowledge was observed in older students (25+ years of age), biomedical students, and those from a non-nuclear family; lower levels were found among students of the University of Palermo, and those who completed a vocational secondary school education. Those who had less knowledge about the most effective tools to prevent STIs included males, students from the University of Palermo, students registered with educational sciences, economics/political sciences, those of foreign nationality, and those whose fathers had lower educational levels. The risk of contracting a STI was significantly lower only in students not in a stable relationship (relative risk ratio, RRR = 0.67; 95% confidence interval, 95%CI = 0.48; 0.94), whereas such risk was significantly higher in students with higher STI knowledge (RRR = 1.15; 95%CI = 1.08; 1.22). Learning about STDs causes cases!
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Jan 10, 2024 06:34
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Platystemon posted:A Survey on Knowledge, Prevention, and Occurrence of Sexually Transmitted Infections among Freshmen from Four Italian Universities look, if preventing a disease requires putting properly functioning PPE on parts of my body when interacting with others, how long do you expect me to keep that up!?!?!
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Jan 10, 2024 07:29
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mahler_biryani posted:This was a good question and I should have listened. I sprung for the 20 test plus starter kit package. It is manufactured in December 2023 but expires in March or April 2024 depending on the test. Presumably, they plan to file for extension. Otherwise, this is quite a waste as I doubt I will get to use all tests by end of March. Doh. Hopefully you can keep ordering it in sets of two going forward!
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Jan 10, 2024 07:30
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Platystemon posted:https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1440698563051196425 Why isn't she pushing for the protections she predicted? https://slate.com/technology/2023/09/endemic-monica-gandhi-covid-masks-lockdowns-school-closures.html quote:Asked about what she got right and wrong over the course of the pandemic, Gandhi says she was right about the harms of school closure and the fact that “the immune system works the same way” for COVID as it does for other infections. My greatest weakness is that I work too hard Fansy has issued a correction as of 08:00 on Jan 10, 2024 |
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Jan 10, 2024 07:41
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Fansy posted:Why isn't she pushing for the protections she predicted Was arguing with some guy who was always a huge "great barrington declaration" proponent, and he had completely forgotten that the whole thing was predicated on herd immunity (along with "protecting the vulnerable"). To their credit, they've left the original thing up, probably as a testament to their complete and utter victory. Even while being 100% wrong about everything.
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Jan 10, 2024 07:53
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Fansy posted:Why isn't she pushing for the protections she predicted Because her income depends on making excuses for capital
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Jan 10, 2024 07:54
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Washington state's Monkeypox (Mpox) update. WA State Mpox Dashboard pre:Cumulative Mpox Total Change Cases 734 +1 Hosp. 21 - pre:Recent Week Cases Change Dec-17 1 - Dec-10 1 +1 Dec-03 1 -
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Jan 10, 2024 08:10
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They’re training new adults that the pandemic is not an acceptable topic of discussion.https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/05/podcasts/the-daily/college-admissions.html?showTranscript=1 posted:The college essay is a high stakes genre of writing that is supposed to capture everything a 17-year-old is and was and everything he or she could offer to the college of their dreams. You could say “it’s a cliché”, but come on, so is being class president and very nearly everything high school students have accomplished to date. Admissions officers have heard it all.
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Jan 10, 2024 10:09
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The paper of record of the United States calls COVID a “social issue”, admits that Biden caved on it like the ’bama defensive line.https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/24/podcasts/the-daily/tommy-tuberville-senate-military.html?showTranscript=1 posted:It would not be unprecedented for the Biden administration to cave on a social policy to Republicans. This actually happened recently when they said, OK, we’ll take down the COVID mandate. That was more of an argument that happened in the contours of the defense bill. context
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Jan 10, 2024 10:14
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They are technically true, but only because the two party system of America worked side by side to make it a purely social/culture war issue . Also NYT was a key player in carrying this water, so nice humble brag.
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Jan 10, 2024 10:24
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DominoKitten posted:look, if preventing a disease requires putting properly functioning PPE on parts of my body when interacting with others, how long do you expect me to keep that up!?!?! Looking to the Italians once again, https://doi.org/10.15167/2421-4248/jpmh2019.60.2.1079 posted:The reluctance of adolescents to use condoms is another possible explanation. Some surveys showed that, among youth, the idea that using condoms greatly reduces sex- ual pleasure is widespread [17, 18]. It doesn’t sound like they have an offramp. 
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Jan 10, 2024 11:38
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Baddog posted:Was arguing with some guy who was always a huge "great barrington declaration" proponent, and he had completely forgotten that the whole thing was predicated on herd immunity (along with "protecting the vulnerable"). I feel like that was always one of those “here’s what we’re doing, and look we thought of some reasons you’ll like it too” kind of things. Rich guys get to continue dictating reality but yadda yadda it’ll be okay, maybe someone will invent some technology, have you seen this study that says the problem is actually good? By the time you can prove it was all bullshit and there was no upside, it’s already back to business as usual for everyone that matters
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Jan 10, 2024 11:49
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Frosted Flake posted:All of which, I don't know, I suppose if you were saying everyone should isolate and mask when they're ill, I'm all for it. It's just that she got lol actually pretty loving snippy with me, and said that I'm acting "anti-government", which is a kind of tic in our relationship where conversations about fairly banal subjects go downhill very quickly and anything I say provokes more and more ire. you spend every day writing, rightly, polemics against the western regime. you are anti-government. if you think that you're cleverly hiding or compartmentalizing it or whatever, you are wrong. that's always going to produce dynamics like this where even "i am concerned for my wife" gets confused with "i am taking an opportunity to express anti-government sentiment" because you are making her, also rightly, worried and suspicious of why you try to hide these sentiments from her.
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Jan 10, 2024 12:15
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This study is making the rounds and I wanted to highlight it, because I don't think the conclusions are true. More specifically I don't think the authors sufficiently isolated the consequences of food intake, versus what follows from lifestyle. There are some inklings of it in the study (e.g. flexitarians that occasionally eat meat, seem to merely test less, as their severity is much higher per case) and I suspect it comes down to some combination of likelihood to mask, eating out and children. The study is from Brazil, during the Omicron wave and while the COVID avatar was in charge. "Vegetarian and plant-based diets associated with lower incidence of COVID-19" https://nutrition.bmj.com/content/early/2024/01/02/bmjnph-2023-000629 posted:Abstract
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Jan 10, 2024 12:30
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Guys, Bob says we've entered the red zone!  https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1744397254113562642 *casually removes mask to munch down on hors d'oeuvres at the gently caress'n'suck*
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Jan 10, 2024 12:37
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Pingui posted:Guys, Bob says we've entered the red zone! 
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Jan 10, 2024 12:41
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Jan 10, 2024 12:56
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No indoor dining, yes indoor eating and drinking, no bullet point even between these two bullet points to make it seem like he forgot or something
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Jan 10, 2024 12:58
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What is the difference between indoor dining and eating and drinking indoors at a party? I guess I would say waiters, but Bob seems like the kind of guy that goes to parties that have staff. It feels like there’s a cutout for catering here, can the party be located in a restaurant? Is ordering from a menu where the covid happens?
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Jan 10, 2024 13:08
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NeonPunk posted:I'm assuming that this is a reaction from having far too many staffs calling out sick right when the hospitals are getting slammed hard. That's from the interior health region of b.c., and they are all kinds of hosed even before the pandemic. They have some of the worst healthcare in the province out of all the other regions (except maybe Northern) and lie through their teeth to their staff, patients and families. They're extremely incompetent and routinely gently caress up people's diagnosis and loved to send sick people home when they were on deaths door so they wouldn't die in the hospital. I had to deal with them during the pandemic and I assume whatever the reasons are for stopping RAT is more vile and disgusting than what people are imagining. If any b.c. residents get sick, I hope you are with coastal or island. Entorwellian has issued a correction as of 13:13 on Jan 10, 2024 |
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Jan 10, 2024 13:10
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I've seen how US healthcare providers administer RATs in-clinic and, frankly, they might as well stop that too for all the good it does. It's a half second swab just inside each nostril right? That'll detect it... Right?
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Jan 10, 2024 13:27
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Furiously trying to figure out if this guy makes sports picks or stock tips https://twitter.com/EliasPseudo/status/1440740788585992198
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Jan 10, 2024 13:31
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Real Mean Queen posted:What is the difference between indoor dining and eating and drinking indoors at a party? The fact that you can't tell the difference means you'll never become the Chair of the UCSF Dept of Medicine  Meanwhile, let's check in on Bob and see how he's going with that "mask in any crowded indoor space" clause https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1744737014422049048 Uh, might need a little more work on that one as well Edit: that photo was posted the day after his tweet about the current surge pushing him into his "red zone" Snowglobe of Doom has issued a correction as of 13:45 on Jan 10, 2024 |
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Jan 10, 2024 13:42
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