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As a mega-white piece of poo poo coming from the lands of high latitudes I kinda want to get a Vit D test but I'm guessing even with insurance it'd be like $50 and the only real reason would be to post it here so anyway.
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Jan 11, 2024 22:16
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Literally yelling “GO GET THE MEDICINE” across the room to my coworkers who are discussing not bothering with paxlovid because they “don’t have risk factors”
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Jan 11, 2024 22:25
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Dren posted:Literally yelling “GO GET THE MEDICINE” across the room to my coworkers who are discussing not bothering with paxlovid because they “don’t have risk factors” incredible shortsightedness by pfizer to not drill the most common comorbidities into everyone's brains ahead of the emergency funding ending
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Jan 11, 2024 22:41
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Hey buddy, what are you doing up there? https://github.com/sars-cov-2-variants/lineage-proposals/issues/1089 posted:(..)
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Jan 11, 2024 22:52
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tangy yet delightful posted:As a mega-white piece of poo poo coming from the lands of high latitudes I kinda want to get a Vit D test but I'm guessing even with insurance it'd be like $50 and the only real reason would be to post it here so anyway. taking vitamin D is cheaper than testing for any deficiency
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Jan 11, 2024 22:52
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fosborb posted:incredible shortsightedness by pfizer to not drill the most common comorbidities into everyone's brains ahead of the emergency funding ending problem with marketing is that it is 100% based on aspirational emotional connections. you will be happy if you buy x you will be content if you buy x you will be desirable if you buy x you will be successful if you buy x fear based marketing doesnt actually work which is why even political candidates with fear-based agendas use positive selling techniques in their ad copy and reserve negative emotional copy strictly for ads that only mention the other guy; look at every drug ad youve ever seen. theyre all selling the idea that you will be happy, successful, normal, and get to gently caress if you just take these drugs. even the lameass pax ads tried to sell an aspirational version of "dont end up in the hospital" with people going about their happy suck and gently caress lives rather than selling "ending up in the hospital is horrific" the problem is that theres actually nothing aspirational about public health or infectious disease treatments. its like cleaning your toilet, you do it because the alternative is worse and because sometimes you have to deal with unpleasant terrible things and the only choice you get is "too much" vs "even more than that." our society is just categorically unable to cope with that.
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Jan 11, 2024 22:58
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:My wife and I were talking and it was the Omicron wave and the massive increase in transmissibility that convinced us that this was going to go on with no end in sight. Prior to that we'd gone to some outdoor sporting events and even stayed at a B&B in upstate NY while visiting family. But Omicron blasting in with measles-like contagiousness and the media shrieking "THIS IS MILD AND NORMAL" while 150,000 people died in four months pretty much put the lid on that. I realized when I first heard it might be airborne, but held out for hope until the initial Pfizer testing showed the vaccine was leaky. Modern society as it stands is not capable of dealing with an airborne disease, unless there is a one and done fix.
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Jan 11, 2024 23:09
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tangy yet delightful posted:As a mega-white piece of poo poo coming from the lands of high latitudes I kinda want to get a Vit D test but I'm guessing even with insurance it'd be like $50 and the only real reason would be to post it here so anyway. First time I ever had to pay for a blood test in  was for Vitamin D ($68) and it was so low that I got put on prescription stuff. (Its not covered because "vitamin D supplements are cheap and you live in canada, take some" but my Doc said "how deficient you are matters too")
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Jan 11, 2024 23:12
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Too esoteric for me to understand the details here beyond the abstract, but sounds odd and bad. "Long COVID manifests with T cell dysregulation, inflammation and an uncoordinated adaptive immune response to SARS-CoV-2" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-023-01724-6 posted:Abstract
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Jan 11, 2024 23:16
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Yesterday at the mandatory monthly meeting where everyone in the office has to gather in the same room (~100 people), they were going over the updated Respiratory Illness Policy, about how anyone with symptoms or a positive test for a respiratory illness should stay home. In the middle of talking about it, an employee started having a brutal coughing fit, during which she walked out of the room coughing next to everyone, coughed around the corner for a minute, came back, and then started coughing again and walked out again. She had just flown in from the other office on the other side of the country. It was truly, perfect timing, lol, lmao
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Jan 11, 2024 23:20
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Square Peg posted:Yesterday at the mandatory monthly meeting where everyone in the office has to gather in the same room (~100 people), they were going over the updated Respiratory Illness Policy, about how anyone with symptoms or a positive test for a respiratory illness should stay home. In the middle of talking about it, an employee started having a brutal coughing fit, during which she walked out of the room coughing next to everyone, coughed around the corner for a minute, came back, and then started coughing again and walked out again. She had just flown in from the other office on the other side of the country. 
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Jan 11, 2024 23:26
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Square Peg posted:Yesterday at the mandatory monthly meeting where everyone in the office has to gather in the same room (~100 people), they were going over the updated Respiratory Illness Policy, about how anyone with symptoms or a positive test for a respiratory illness should stay home. In the middle of talking about it, an employee started having a brutal coughing fit, during which she walked out of the room coughing next to everyone, coughed around the corner for a minute, came back, and then started coughing again and walked out again. She had just flown in from the other office on the other side of the country. lol the only thing that would have made this better is if they were wearing a mask under their chin
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Jan 11, 2024 23:28
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 this is trending on twitter and I got a good laugh at it. If it's covid but significantly more deadly we all die, that's kind of all there is to it. Covid has shown that no one will do anything about it
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Jan 11, 2024 23:29
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RBC posted:lol the only thing that would have made this better is if they were wearing a mask under their chin 0 people were wearing masks of any kind (myself included, I am an idiot)
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Jan 11, 2024 23:32
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Pingui posted:Too esoteric for me to understand the details here beyond the abstract, but sounds odd and bad. quote:LC individuals displayed increased frequencies of CD4+ T cells poised to migrate to inflamed tissues and exhausted SARS-CoV-2-specific CD8+ T cells aj leonardi started talking about this as a possibility/serious risk of the virus in mid/late 2020 fyi; i have no idea the actual mechanisms behind it but he said this verbatim and you can pinpoint the studies between june and september hat caused him to go from "cd8 tcells are going to be protective, we're probably ok here" in april 2020 to "uh oh" in october/november starting around here: https://x.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/1293546396684103680?s=20
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Jan 11, 2024 23:32
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Square Peg posted:Yesterday at the mandatory monthly meeting where everyone in the office has to gather in the same room (~100 people), they were going over the updated Respiratory Illness Policy, about how anyone with symptoms or a positive test for a respiratory illness should stay home. In the middle of talking about it, an employee started having a brutal coughing fit, during which she walked out of the room coughing next to everyone, coughed around the corner for a minute, came back, and then started coughing again and walked out again. She had just flown in from the other office on the other side of the country. 
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Jan 11, 2024 23:33
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Grapplejack posted:
I think they are simply saying that a disease would have to kill 20 times as many people as COVID, before they would respond next time. Fool me once...
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Jan 11, 2024 23:36
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Square Peg posted:0 people were wearing masks of any kind (myself included, I am an idiot) this makes it funnier, I dunno about better
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Jan 11, 2024 23:37
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so if there's a disease that's 11x times more deadly than covid, we're just sending the kids to school
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Jan 11, 2024 23:37
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:so if there's a disease that's 11x times more deadly than covid, we're just sending the kids to school Well yeah, whatever it is won't be transmitting in school.
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Jan 11, 2024 23:38
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we should just send everyone to school
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Jan 11, 2024 23:38
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Square Peg posted:0 people were wearing masks of any kind (myself included, I am an idiot) Another public health economics success! (You may want to proactively look into getting Paxlovid, if you haven't already.)
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Jan 11, 2024 23:42
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I recognize I was probably having an AITA moment that I had to de-escalate but I took my kid to the pediatricians office because she was presenting a sore throat and she was pretty uncomfortable and wouldn’t eat so the pediatrician asked me has she been around people with Covid and I replied well half the school can have Covid for all I know. Dr got a little tense. strep and Covid negative. just a lot of drainage from a cold. I probably could have just said nothing. need to add another filter in my head so the cspam doesn’t leak out. no staff wearing masks. people only masked when they went into rooms.
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Jan 11, 2024 23:46
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Pingui posted:Another public health economics success! In my province since I've had 3 shots I'd only be eligible for paxlovid if I were over 70 or "identified as clinically extremely vulnerable" Our public health system is a joke
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Jan 11, 2024 23:49
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The Oldest Man posted:aj leonardi started talking about this as a possibility/serious risk of the virus in mid/late 2020 fyi; i have no idea the actual mechanisms behind it but he said this verbatim and you can pinpoint the studies between june and september hat caused him to go from "cd8 tcells are going to be protective, we're probably ok here" in april 2020 to "uh oh" in october/november starting around here: Sadly he didn't go through the results himself this time, LeonardiBot 2.0 did though (he retweeted it, as he is currently doing a bit of an angry victory lap): https://nitter.net/LeonardiBot/status/1745544296353218715 Good for you Leonardi, with all the bullshit you got put through, you deserve a bit of ranting 
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Jan 11, 2024 23:51
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Square Peg posted:In my province since I've had 3 shots I'd only be eligible for paxlovid if I were over 70 or "identified as clinically extremely vulnerable" Welp, you have my sympathies from  (65+ and/or vulnerable)
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Jan 11, 2024 23:54
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hey everybody, cross posttriple sulk posted:and now for the worst thing you will see all day, and possibly all month
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Jan 11, 2024 23:56
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ArmedZombie posted:why doesn't the lighting on each speaker match the lighting in the backgroun... lmao
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Jan 11, 2024 23:56
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Jan 12, 2024 00:02
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Pingui posted:Well yeah, whatever it is won't be transmitting in school. 11 times more transmissible means students can still sit next to each other for one minute and thirty seconds, so we'll just need to factor constant seat changes into the lesson plan. Maybe we can divide students into two groups and have them walk in circles in opposite directions instead of spending all that time on seating plans. Weird, I've just received a phone call that I've been appointed head of the CDC
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Jan 12, 2024 00:09
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sonatinas posted:I recognize I was probably having an AITA moment that I had to de-escalate but I took my kid to the pediatricians office because she was presenting a sore throat and she was pretty uncomfortable and wouldn’t eat so the pediatrician asked me has she been around people with Covid and I replied well half the school can have Covid for all I know. Dr got a little Drove into the hazardous waste disposal site with hazardous waste. All the employees freaked out when I told them I had some hazardous waste!
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Jan 12, 2024 00:42
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jetz0r posted:taking vitamin D is cheaper than testing for any deficiency Yeah but I didn't come from the genetic stock of the whites of northern europe to need supplements for sunlight!!
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Jan 12, 2024 00:48
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how does wastewater determine how many people have Covid? do they measure Covid coming out of individual homes, average them out, and then extrapolate the numbers for public sewers?
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Jan 12, 2024 00:50
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no they just count the viruses and that's the graph
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Jan 12, 2024 01:01
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so if there's more rear end Covid than usual it would affect the chart more than lung covid
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Jan 12, 2024 01:01
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Steve Yun posted:how does wastewater determine how many people have Covid? do they measure Covid coming out of individual homes, average them out, and then extrapolate the numbers for public sewers? it's just viral copies per ml of sewage as measured at the the treatment plant
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Jan 12, 2024 01:04
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I think they do try to calibrate it some against pepper mild mottle virus.
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Jan 12, 2024 01:05
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DominoKitten posted:I think they do try to calibrate it some against pepper mild mottle virus. 
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Jan 12, 2024 01:14
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DominoKitten posted:I wanted to bring up something I've seen bouncing around socials for considering since I don't recall it coming up in the thread before and there's people here much better at evaluating this stuff: Quoting this for when I finally get got.
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Jan 12, 2024 01:14
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This news item is making the rounds:https://thehill.com/newsletters/health-care/4404083-who-december-covid-deaths-near-10k/ posted:December COVID deaths close to 10,000: WHO And let me be perfectly clear that it is an idiotic number to trot out, if you wanted to emphasize the sizeable threat, as it is an actively insane low-balling. As mentioned in the post below, the latest complete data point for the US is from the week ending 9 December, in which 1614 people died. If that had been at a wave plateau that would be 6000+ for the US alone, which it wasn't. Pingui posted:(..)
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Jan 12, 2024 01:24
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