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Baddog posted:I mean that would be nice, but at this point that's pure fantasy. I think plenty of hospitals even rehired all the chuds who got fired for not getting vaccinated, didn't they? The person reporting the situation that kicked off this discussion wants to be anonymous, because they are afraid. the anecdote under discussion was an immune compromised lady who got put in a psych er because she asked her hcws to mask. you responded to that incident by saying quote:That being said, gotta trust your own masks these days. You really need health care workers on your side, can't be leading off with demands on them, unfortunately. That attitude can gently caress off, it's straight up victim blaming horse poo poo. People can and should ask for HCWs to mask.
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Zantie posted:Up up up!!!! Thanks for posting the warning
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Feb 22, 2024 07:17
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The Oldest Man posted:the anecdote under discussion was an immune compromised lady who got put in a psych er because she asked her hcws to mask. you responded to that incident by saying Do you see that word "demand" I used? You can *ask*, but I think you should be prepared for a negative answer and be ready to figure out how to turn that poo poo around somehow. Something other than "call the patient advocate", because it seems to be official policy almost everywhere that they don't have to mask for anyone. Personally, when they see me masking and they don't bother to put one on, I believe that's already declaring "gently caress you". One time I did get asked why I was masking, and then I got *grilled* to see if my reason was good enough for the staff to consider worthy. And then they masked. I felt like that was humiliating as poo poo, although I guess I was grateful? But the air in there already has virus if someone is sick, so whatever. gently caress. It sucks, but I don't think you are understanding that you are not really in a position to *demand* much when you are seeking care. Be angry at someone else. Call your local hospital and ask them to make masking universal again, stop infecting the people they are supposed to be treating.
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Feb 22, 2024 07:18
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:I'm not fond of really sweet things like that but I'll try something similar though- I got some riccola lozenges for my throat and it seems to help for a short while. I'll get something that tastes better. Thanks! I've been recommending sugar free gum (specifically Trident) to my pax'd up friends as another option to jolly ranchers/mints/etc. better for the teeth and probably enough flavors to find one you don't mind. consensus seems to be it's relatively helpful with the paxmouth taste also: the most intense paxmouth occurs a few hours after taking the dose, so if you can do something like dose at 10pm and sleep at 11pm, you can sleep through the most intense part for half the doses probably some friends have also said the first two days seem more intense then the remainder. good luck!
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Feb 22, 2024 07:46
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Baddog posted:Do you see that word "demand" I used? You can *ask*, but I think you should be prepared for a negative answer and be ready to figure out how to turn that poo poo around somehow. Something other than "call the patient advocate", because it seems to be official policy almost everywhere that they don't have to mask for anyone. There's no plan you can make, magic words you can say, manager you can call, or strategy you can use to make a hospital value a life that it refuses to value. "Be ready to figure it out" implies it's figure-out-able, but it's not. I could point out that the safest and probably most life-preserving move an immune compromised person with a non-immediately-life-threatening issue could make at an ER where the staff refuse to mask up if you ask them is to simply get up and leave and maybe try another ER or an urgent care and see if you have better luck before you get yourself labeled with the "this person deserves death" chart entries or infected with COVID, but that's further just implying that the people being victimized here can actually do something productive about this, and they really can't. A lot of people either don't have a second option or can't get to one and are simply going to have to make a hosed as hell game time decision between how bad is this health issue really and can I go home with it and try to tough it out sans medical help behind door number one and this behind door number two https://x.com/HaroldJ_NEPA/status/1760355328653148565?s=20
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Feb 22, 2024 07:47
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yo you both are super good. talking past each other happens. it's expected in this mess. the important thing is in real life situations both of you clearly would be much better off relying on the other as opposed to upon nearly anyone else. cherish that
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Feb 22, 2024 08:16
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There's been an explosion in cryptosporidiosis cases (gastroenteritis caused by parasites, usually picked up in public pools) across Australia. The caseload is already more than twice as high as the total for all of 2023quote:There have been 498 cases of the disease recorded in NSW so far this year. quote:More than 1,500 cases of the water-borne parasite cryptosporidium have been reported across [Queensland] so far this year, more than for the whole of 2023.
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Feb 22, 2024 10:20
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Maybe we're too negative about measles. An measles infection wipes clean *all* of your immune memory and you have to re-take every vaccine again. That includes the Covid boosters and shots. If we look at this positively instead of dwell on the negative, it means we can just reformulate the Covid shots to JN.1 and we won't have to worry about OAS anymore!
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Feb 22, 2024 13:42
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Huh, just found out that @falconryfinance straight up plagiarized some of my posts here and in the old thread. Very cool. My dude I've got less than 100 followers on Twitter, 57 on tumblr (my old account where I had cross posted the long essays was deleted out of nowhere in December and I had 390 followers there) and you've got 41k. Kind of a lovely thing to steal the work of a disabled guy with no following.
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Feb 22, 2024 15:29
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Gunshow Poophole posted:Seriously the second order effects of the government not facilitating isolation for infected people are some of the most morally horrific.
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Feb 22, 2024 15:33
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Hellequin posted:Huh, just found out that @falconryfinance straight up plagiarized some of my posts here and in the old thread. The guy was permabanned something like a decade ago and still obsessively reads this forum, his life is its own punishment.
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Feb 22, 2024 16:27
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:The guy was permabanned something like a decade ago and still obsessively reads this forum, his life is its own punishment. poo poo is he Guy Mann or am I thinking of someone else.
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Feb 22, 2024 16:38
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Hellequin posted:poo poo is he Guy Mann or am I thinking of someone else. Martin Random
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Feb 22, 2024 16:41
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Oh poo poo lmao, yeah JN.1.23 is definitely gonna be the next big one https://twitter.com/JPWeiland/status/1760513382472372608
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Feb 22, 2024 16:59
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ah the peaceful march toward mildness 
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Feb 22, 2024 17:04
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The magnets represents the virus and the ACE2 receptor, and the apple is your antibodies standing in between https://i.imgur.com/YVNcOn2.mp4
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Feb 22, 2024 17:13
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https://twitter.com/Alexander_Tin/status/1760684643807027352 Seems like an easy job for an intern. Just delete everything that doesn't say anything about handwashing
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Feb 22, 2024 18:20
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Wow, another Ooof Wolff?
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Feb 22, 2024 18:27
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Soap Scum posted:I've been recommending sugar free gum (specifically Trident) to my pax'd up friends as another option to jolly ranchers/mints/etc. better for the teeth and probably enough flavors to find one you don't mind. consensus seems to be it's relatively helpful with the paxmouth taste Yeah I'm doing 7AM/8PM for the doses for sure. And the trident gum is a great suggestion! Thanks!
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Feb 22, 2024 18:33
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NeonPunk posted:Oh poo poo lmao, yeah JN.1.23 is definitely gonna be the next big one loving thing is kiting our population immune response like its a WoW raid
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Feb 22, 2024 18:36
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Yeah I'm doing 7AM/8PM for the doses for sure. And the trident gum is a great suggestion! Thanks!
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Feb 22, 2024 18:39
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i like nice words
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NeonPunk posted:https://twitter.com/Alexander_Tin/status/1760684643807027352 Much as I dislike the CDC's covid tact, I wouldn't read anything too nefarious into this. No one ever wants to pay for a content strategist, so old dead content just accumulates on a website until it's bloated and impossible to navigate. At that point the easiest way forward is just to burn the current site down and start again on a new site. I've seen it so many times. Anne Whateley posted:Ime waking up is the worst, regardless of when you take it or sleep, just because it’s had so much time to build up. I would get up in the night to pee and slap in a sugar-free cough drop before I went back to bed. It got to the point I was unwrapping them before bed so I had to think less at 4am Anyone else never get pax mouth? For me it was just "90% better 12 hours later".
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Feb 22, 2024 18:43
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Anyone else never get pax mouth? For me it was just "90% better 12 hours later". I had a very mild case of pax mouth that I recall, didn't buy any jolly ranchers or anything, didn't really impact me much but I did notice a taste change from the pax for sure. I did start feeling better next day as well, it was an awesome medication - so glad we still have easy access to the tools 
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Feb 22, 2024 19:05
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:This is the fourth January now where we're being told that everything is back to normal after years of lockdowns, so I figured I'd pull out this all time hit and look at the date
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Feb 22, 2024 19:07
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:oh no, a coffee homeopath
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Feb 22, 2024 19:11
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tangy yet delightful posted:I had a very mild case of pax mouth that I recall, didn't buy any jolly ranchers or anything, didn't really impact me much but I did notice a taste change from the pax for sure. I did start feeling better next day as well, it was an awesome medication - so glad we still have easy access to the tools Yeah I'm starting to feel better, but now it's more like a really lovely cold- my throat is more sore, sinuses occasionally swell up enough that I can barely breath from my nose etc. Hopefully these symptoms will diminish more by tomorrow. What's the consensus on when to take another covid test when on Pax? I know a negative won't mean I'm still not infectious but I also don't want to use one if it's too early.
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Feb 22, 2024 19:18
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You don't take a test on pax. Wait until you complete the full course first then test a day after the last dose. If you still have symptoms afterwards like a week from now, test again
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Feb 22, 2024 19:21
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NeonPunk posted:You don't take a test on pax. Wait until you complete the full course first then test a day after the last dose. Groovy- thanks
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Feb 22, 2024 19:21
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Yeah I'm starting to feel better, but now it's more like a really lovely cold- my throat is more sore, sinuses occasionally swell up enough that I can barely breath from my nose etc. Hopefully these symptoms will diminish more by tomorrow. Well given you start pax ideally within 5 days of symptoms and it's 5 days of medication and being infectious for 10 days is a pretty standard length of time for proper covid isolation..I wouldn't bother testing till day 10/11 at the earliest.
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Feb 22, 2024 19:22
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Yeah I'm starting to feel better, but now it's more like a really lovely cold- my throat is more sore, sinuses occasionally swell up enough that I can barely breath from my nose etc. Hopefully these symptoms will diminish more by tomorrow. If you still actively have symptoms then what's the point?
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Feb 22, 2024 19:30
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I recommend to continue to mask and isolate in the good days after pax and before phase 2. The timing shows that I most likely infected my wife in that time. I stopped isolating after 48hrs of negative tests and we had a nice Sunday as a family. Monday and Tuesday I started getting symptoms and returned to isolation. My wife started feeling symptoms around Wednesday.
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Feb 22, 2024 19:34
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True, true, I'm just not sure what to expect since this is my first usage of Pax (and my 2nd time getting covid). Also, does Pax make one sleepy? I got a good night's sleep but I am feeling like I could sleep more today. Thankfully no diarrhea.
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Feb 22, 2024 19:45
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Also, does Pax make one sleepy? I got a good night's sleep but I am feeling like I could sleep more today. That's your body experiencing mild BSL-3 illness. Sleep as much as you can.
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Feb 22, 2024 19:48
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:That's your body experiencing mild BSL-3 illness.  will do
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Feb 22, 2024 19:50
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NeonPunk posted:Oh poo poo lmao, yeah JN.1.23 is definitely gonna be the next big one every time a new variant comes out they say it's 2-10x as transmissible as the previous one, and we're on our 3000th variant... if the original covid had a "power level" of 1, what power level are we up to by this point?
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Feb 22, 2024 21:22
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Polo-Rican posted:every time a new variant comes out they say it's 2-10x as transmissible as the previous one, and we're on our 3000th variant... if the original covid had a "power level" of 1, what power level are we up to by this point? it's not a straight line since immune escaping variants are usually lacking raw ace2 binding efficacy and then a lineage builds binding affinity back up over time until a new widely divergent immune escape variant emerges again and resets the clock.
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Feb 22, 2024 21:27
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The Oldest Man posted:it's not a straight line since immune escaping variants are usually lacking raw ace2 binding efficacy and then a lineage builds binding affinity back up over time until a new widely divergent immune escape variant emerges again and resets the clock. see, this is why the pandemic is still ongoing... if we were able to simply say "this one has a power level of 500,000 (frieza's first form)," people might take this disease seriously
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Feb 22, 2024 21:31
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Polo-Rican posted:every time a new variant comes out they say it's 2-10x as transmissible as the previous one, and we're on our 3000th variant... if the original covid had a "power level" of 1, what power level are we up to by this point? over 9000
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Feb 22, 2024 21:34
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Polo-Rican posted:see, this is why the pandemic is still ongoing... if we were able to simply say "this one has a power level of 500,000 (frieza's first form)," people might take this disease seriously Nah, what he's saying is that power level is useless when youre comparing it to Covid. It's like saying that Dabura is the most powerful, and yet Buu managed to defeat him with a lower power level by using something different from pure power
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Yeah. It's the "flu" https://twitter.com/jtimberlakepics/status/1760725043766808676
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