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Salt Fish posted:I think climate and covid thread posters are different groups because you have a budget for digesting grim reality and it starts to stretch thin. It's me. Im the ultimate sicko who posts and goes in depth into reading about both things.
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silicone thrills posted:It's me. Im the ultimate sicko who posts and goes in depth into reading about both things. how are things lookin boss
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Jan 15, 2024 00:00
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Soap Scum posted:how are things lookin boss It's not that bad. Yet. It gets worse before it gets worse.
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Jan 15, 2024 00:01
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Soap Scum posted:how are things lookin boss you think this thread's got good charts. buddy.
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Jan 15, 2024 00:01
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silicone thrills posted:It gets worse before it gets worse.  Mola Yam posted:you think this thread's got good charts. buddy. i do love a good graph - especially if they're going up and to the right?
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Jan 15, 2024 00:06
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american psycho business card scene of the doomthreads comparing charts
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Jan 15, 2024 00:09
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The phylogenetic tree chart is harder to understand, but learning the lore is worth it to really feel the floor drop out from under you.
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Jan 15, 2024 00:11
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Salt Fish posted:I think climate and covid thread posters are different groups because you have a budget for digesting grim reality and it starts to stretch thin. At the very least you have a posting budget. I read both, but exclusively post here (beyond the occasional attempted joke). But of course insofar as ranking of the horsemen go, climate Death takes the cake and you sometimes need to just chill to the levity of Disease.
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Jan 15, 2024 00:12
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Pingui posted:At the very least you have a posting budget. I read both, but exclusively post here (beyond the occasional attempted joke). But of course insofar as ranking of the horsemen go, climate Death takes the cake and you sometimes need to just chill to the levity of Disease. This is pretty much how I feel about it. At least I can mostly make choices to protect myself from disease. I can't do gently caress all as an individual about the climate. Heat dome in 2021 killed all my loving apple trees in my yard. Made my soil so hydrophobic that I had to use some soap to get the ground to accept water again. That poo poo hosed me up.
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Jan 15, 2024 00:19
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Mola Yam posted:american psycho business card scene of the doomthreads comparing charts
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Jan 15, 2024 00:20
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Salt Fish posted:The phylogenetic tree chart is harder to understand, but learning the lore is worth it to really feel the floor drop out from under you. is the conclusion that we're extincting everything at light speed?
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Jan 15, 2024 00:29
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Iowa has been basically shut down due to weather since Tuesday. I bet there is a noticeable impact on transmission chains, especially in schools.
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Jan 15, 2024 00:37
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Mola Yam posted:american psycho business card scene of the doomthreads comparing charts @MLKUltra plz do the needful
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Jan 15, 2024 00:38
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silicone thrills posted:It gets worse before it gets worse. I have a patch with that motto sewn onto my messenger bag.
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Jan 15, 2024 00:41
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Soap Scum posted:is the conclusion that we're extincting everything at light speed? 
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Jan 15, 2024 00:50
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silicone thrills posted:It gets worse before it gets worse. 
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Jan 15, 2024 01:15
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fosborb posted:hey Baykin, did you manage to get through the provider/insurance nightmare yet? i think so, the unitypoint stuff was gonna have waiting times before i could begin to get through/set up appointments, so i went the test2treat route and assuming that the website isnt just flat out lying to me, i should have paxlovid on the way via mail. tho im also curious how the crazy snowfalls will affect that as well
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Jan 15, 2024 01:18
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Anne Whateley posted:Felt a little bad about skipping my friends’ kid’s first birthday party, about 10 people in their apartment. Not two hours after it ended, someone is hitting the group chat with “so I just tested positive but…” but what? that’s the best part and you left it out!
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Jan 15, 2024 01:21
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CoasterMaster posted:Did your insurance cover both the fall and this most recent one? I don’t mind paying out of pocket if I absolutely have to, but obvious insurance would be helpful. I just switched to a Blue Cross EPO plan for this year (it's like a PPO but if you go anywhere out of network they kick you even harder in the junk) and provided I went to an in-network pharmacy (which I did) I didn't pay a dime for the moth juice. Make sure the pharmacy's in your network, go in and give them your insurance card and ask them how much the booster will be. They can pre-run it to find out how much it'll cost you out of pocket.
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Jan 15, 2024 01:22
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kazmeyer posted:I just switched to a Blue Cross EPO plan for this year (it's like a PPO but if you go anywhere out of network they kick you even harder in the junk) and provided I went to an in-network pharmacy (which I did) I didn't pay a dime for the moth juice. jfc now I have to know if my pharmacy is in network too? I loving hate this poo poo.
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Jan 15, 2024 01:34
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Steve Yun posted:but what? that’s the best part and you left it out!
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Jan 15, 2024 01:48
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i like nice words
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I'm going to a government lab in the near future and they require international visitors (but not anyone else) to wear N95 "or comparable" masks for a week after arrival.
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Jan 15, 2024 01:50
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Precambrian Video Games posted:I'm going to a government lab in the near future and they require international visitors (but not anyone else) to wear N95 "or comparable" masks for a week after arrival. It's ok to restrict foreigners' freedoms, they are used to it.
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Jan 15, 2024 02:39
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Precambrian Video Games posted:I'm going to a government lab in the near future and they require international visitors (but not anyone else) to wear N95 "or comparable" masks for a week after arrival. The government finally exploring a cure for mod brain? heh, got 'em Pingui has issued a correction as of 02:50 on Jan 15, 2024 |
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Jan 15, 2024 02:44
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As a health care worker, I wear a mask because patients are loving ignorant assholes that won't wear a mask and just cough right in your face as you're hovering over them, don't even try to cover it or move their head. Just loving blasting you right in the face. loving ridiculous.
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Jan 15, 2024 03:05
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Personally, I wear respiratory protection on account of the airborne nature of the world’s foremost infectious disease.
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Jan 15, 2024 03:26
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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.
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Jan 15, 2024 03:36
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Asproigerosis posted:As a health care worker, I wear a mask because patients are loving ignorant assholes that won't wear a mask and just cough right in your face as you're hovering over them, don't even try to cover it or move their head. Just loving blasting you right in the face. loving ridiculous. heh, it is called work because it is not fun
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Jan 15, 2024 03:37
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can you push magnet buttons from home? WFH rules
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Jan 15, 2024 03:44
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I was told there are jobs where you remote in to the workstation and push the buttons while a tech aide puts a patient on the table etc.
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Jan 15, 2024 03:49
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some family friends just got tagged with simultaneous Covid and flu they have a 6mo who was due to be vaxxed for both on Tuesday 
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Jan 15, 2024 03:58
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COVID + Flu is no joke. My buddy got got a couple years ago. He was hospitalized for two weeks and now has an ileostomy bag! He's not dead but some days he wishes he was.
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Jan 15, 2024 04:03
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RandomBlue posted:jfc now I have to know if my pharmacy is in network too? Well, this might just be a feature of the new EPO plans. The site's still broken as gently caress so I couldn't do a search for "in-network pharmacies;" nothing came up. But the paperwork named basically all the huge chains as participating. My original plan was to go to Costco but I couldn't be sure they were covered, and I didn't want to go into Costco if I didn't have to because I can't walk out of that place without spending at least 30 bucks. If it is a more restricted network the trade-off is that all but one of my prescriptions now cost precisely zero dollars and that includes my asthma medicine which is bonkers expensive at retail. Nothing like seeing "plan pays $1192.50 you pay $0." kazmeyer has issued a correction as of 04:14 on Jan 15, 2024 |
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Jan 15, 2024 04:10
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kazmeyer posted:If it is a more restricted network the trade-off is that all but one of my prescriptions now cost precisely zero dollars and that includes my asthma medicine which is bonkers expensive at retail. Nothing like seeing "plan pays $1192.50 you pay $0." my basic-rear end albuterol rescue inhaler was the one thing I encountered where my lovely employer insurance wouldn't pay for it they made me pay like $60 when I was supposed to have a $20 copay (apparently uninsured was $70 at the time) and then some months later the insurance sent me a check for $40 saying "this should have been approved but wasn't" then some more months later a notice saying "previous payment was in error and now you owe us $40" but I didn't pay and nothing ever happened
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Jan 15, 2024 04:49
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silicone thrills posted:It's me. Im the ultimate sicko who posts and goes in depth into reading about both things. My favorite haunts are this thread, then the doomsday economics (charts sometimes go down and to the right), and the Epstein threads. I have to skip quite a few pages in the economics one cause it moves so fast, but I've been determined to never skip here or Epstein because there's too much gold in both. I try some of the others but the climate one is just beyond me. I can't handle reading about animal die-off and I don't want to risk stumbling across that. It's hard enough with H1N1.
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Jan 15, 2024 05:17
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The Ferret King posted:COVID + Flu is no joke. My buddy got got a couple years ago. He was hospitalized for two weeks and now has an ileostomy bag! He's not dead but some days he wishes he was. it’s probably all good over here, as children neither catch nor spread disease
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Jan 15, 2024 05:29
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It’s funny that articles keep running with this stock photograph and its full caption.
Platystemon has issued a correction as of 06:06 on Jan 15, 2024 |
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Jan 15, 2024 06:00
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Griz posted:my basic-rear end albuterol rescue inhaler was the one thing I encountered where my lovely employer insurance wouldn't pay for it The only time I ever had anything like that was when I had an injury and my doctor prescribed a topical antibiotic for me to use and the pharmacy said "your plan won't cover this-- have them send it back asking for the ointment and not the cream and you'll be fine." Did so and they sorted it out, but gently caress if I know what the difference was meant to be.
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Jan 15, 2024 06:01
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Salt Fish posted:I think climate and covid thread posters are different groups because you have a budget for digesting grim reality and it starts to stretch thin. skill problem imo
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Jan 15, 2024 06:08
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To be completely serious, once you've internalized what our current climate trajectory really means nothing else seems all that doom-y anymore. This thread and the doomsday econ thread are just light reading.
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Jan 15, 2024 06:10
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