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Started just laughing out loud halfway through this twitter thread. Crack ping is a tired catchphrase but I don't know what else to call that feeling. Lexx.mp4 HoAssHo has issued a correction as of 15:04 on Feb 23, 2024 |
# ? Feb 23, 2024 15:02 |
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# ? May 10, 2024 16:07 |
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guess it’s a good thing I got updated mmr 2 yrs ago and my wife and kid are up to date. not sure what else people are experiencing with the “ mystery virus” but my wife and I were covid tested multiple times and were negative. might not mean anything unfortunately. however we had 0 congestion. like I was so sick but I never needed to blow my nose. it was real odd. I’m now starting to feel a lot less fatigue and my heart rate is normal now. so there could be some other virus cookin in these Covid people being transmitted. just anecdotal of course. I am just irritated that when my wife was in the ER there was no diagnosis at all. all blood, urine, x ray labs were fine . all she got was just fluids and pain meds. “there are other viruses than Covid around” is what the ER doc said when she had to go to the ER a month earlier and had all the same tests come back negative for a separate infection.
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 15:23 |
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sonatinas posted:
Other viruses going around eh? Did they even bothered trying to test and see what viruses it could be or did they just completely dismissed y'all?
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 15:26 |
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NeonPunk posted:Other viruses going around eh? Did they even bothered trying to test and see what viruses it could be or did they just completely dismissed y'all? completely dismissed. all they tested for was flu, covid , and RSV. then they look at the labs and go OK looks all good wait a few hrs later and get a big bill later.
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 15:32 |
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Yeah that sucks. I think what my brother had to go through with his heart attack at the hospital isn't all that rare nowadays. I've also heard so many people saying that they got really lovely experience and just having the nurses and doctor straight up giving them the minimal effort (plus that story of that poor lady who got placed in seclusion who got posted in here) Who knew when we made things worse for healthcare workers, the good ones just straight up leaving, and the lovely folks who stay behind could lead to a terrible outcome for everyone??
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 16:04 |
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My wife went in for a colonoscopy a few months back and nobody in the unit she was on was wearing a mask at all. A patient advocate came back, saw us masking, and refused to mask. When they wheeled my wife back out from the procedure they'd removed her mask for some reason. Good stuff. We got lucky
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 16:06 |
the lovely folks who stayed behind currently getting constantly rocked by a virus that damages their brains. it’s like we replaced all our healthcare workers with 50-year-old ex-boxers and football players.
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 16:07 |
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tuyop posted:the lovely folks who stayed behind currently getting constantly rocked by a virus that damages their brains. it’s like we replaced all our healthcare workers with 50-year-old ex-boxers and football players. my MIL caught a “mysterious” pneumonia in the hospital and her PCP’s admin blamed the RSV vaccine she got a month prior, and said that “most people shouldn’t get that vaccine” even though my MIL helps care for a child and is over the age of 70
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 16:10 |
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NeonPunk posted:So some folks in Italy found measles got some few mutations that made the tests less sensitive to detect it. quote:None of the other 614 strains (453 D8 and 161 B3) detected by our laboratory between 2017 (the beginning of surveillance activities) and 2023 possessed these mutations. However, our results suggest that MeV with the specific mutations detected through the Swiss molecular surveillance are already circulating in Italy, in line with the results obtained by Pérez-Rodríguez et al., who reported a local case with travel history to Italy. yes of course, I'm sure we'll get right on that
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 16:11 |
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I can't get over the insanity of that Adjala article about how we "consented to sickness when we started living together" and how "we must embrace the biology of the virus."
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 16:12 |
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mags posted:my MIL caught a “mysterious” pneumonia in the hospital and her PCP’s admin blamed the RSV vaccine she got a month prior, and said that “most people shouldn’t get that vaccine” even though my MIL helps care for a child and is over the age of 70 I misread this at first. Why the gently caress is an administrator giving out medical advice in a clinical setting? That's not their job
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 16:15 |
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NeonPunk posted:I misread this at first. Why the gently caress is an administrator giving out medical advice in a clinical setting? That's not their job that was my first question!
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 16:16 |
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mags posted:that was my first question! After thinking, I got it. Their job involves lot of stuff including reducing any legal liability. They told you that so you'll have a weaker legal case if you sue them for loving it up. Blaming the vaccine means that the hospital wasn't responsible for giving your MIL something that could've killed her
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 16:20 |
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I can't get over the insanity of that Adjala article about how we "consented to sickness when we started living together" and how "we must embrace the biology of the virus."
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 16:21 |
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:
I was so sick the first two days I didn't give a gently caress, after that I just took like 300mg of edibles and sipped ginger ale I found the paxmouth way less scary or annoying than not being able to smell or taste food for parts of a week, thank God that didn't last, shame about the vision loss If you get conjectivitis with COVID, try to keep your eyes clear...
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 16:33 |
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Baddog posted:We *all* should be calling our local hospitals and pushing them on their covid policies, not just the immune compromised. I don't understand what you are not getting about "the time to push for policy change is when you are healthy(ish), not when you need someone to change your wet bedsheets". At that point you're absolutely at their mercy, and some of them are vindictive and petty as gently caress. This isn't just a masking issue - getting on the wrong side of someone when you are in pain is surprisingly easy. That's part of why you need a friend there, to hopefully smooth things over and mediate and remember to say "please and thank you" for you. Or just to run down and get a blanket off the stack, instead of you hammering the call button and becoming "omg that guy in 4 wants something AGAIN." How many staff members do people normally interact with on a short stay, especially outpatient procedures? When I think of trying to get workers to be accommodating for requests they don't normally get, I'm reminded of some article I read years ago (probably here) where someone did a social experiment of sorts to see what kinds of plane/hotel upgrades and other comps just by discreetly greasing palms with $20 bills and they were able to get a lot out of it. Part of me wants to try slipping $20 maybe folded into a heart or something with a wrapped aura and see if that works. It's not insultingly low or suspiciously high, it's "thank you for being accommodating, lunch is on me" money *Obviously other creative non-cash bribes could work too
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 17:07 |
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From November: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/11/18/measles-deaths-nearly-double-globally-past-year/71622796007/ quote:
Measles is running wild because of reduced vaccination rates. Also US vaccination rates haven't changed much!
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 17:24 |
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:From November: That's really outdated because I'm seeing like triple digits of increase now lol
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 17:28 |
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lol + lmao WA health officials throw away millions of pandemic supplies crosscut.com posted:The state’s Department of Health confirmed it junked more than 14 million gowns, 5 million surgical masks and 140,000 face shields as of July 2023 — supplies the agency paid about $1.5 million to acquire. Washington is not alone in tossing its painstakingly acquired surplus – at least 15 states have dumped pandemic stockpiles, The Associated Press reported last December.
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 17:44 |
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mawarannahr posted:lol + lmao Hey, some good news buried in the bad news. I was kinda wondering about this after buying that 400 masks for like 20 bucks deal last year.
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 18:15 |
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It never ends "Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, said expired surgical masks could still be utilized by janitors, garbage collectors or other non-medical settings where the mask does not need to be sterile, it just needs to block particulate matter."
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 18:46 |
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NeonPunk posted: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. Measles heals your immune system
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 18:47 |
wiping my computer fixes its issues. immune system will work the same way!
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 18:59 |
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It wipes out all your immunity debt
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 19:07 |
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I can't get over the insanity of that Adjala article about how we "consented to sickness when we started living together" and how "we must embrace the biology of the virus." i thought the part in world war z where america had zombie rights advocates was an absurd parody of aughts-style performative handwringing, but now i realize that's just reality
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 19:19 |
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The Oldest Man posted:It wipes out all your immunity debt Joe Biden has launched an unprecedented program of Immunity Debt Relief what has The Cheeto Benito done lately??
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 19:49 |
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So I talked to the pharmacy yesterday and I had a good conversation with someone who told me that they also haven't had sharps containers in a while (not surprising). Apparently she had been asking around and nobody knows anything! We jad a decent chuckle about the swing from "mail them in amd get a receipt from the incinerator" to "pit them imn the trash." Anyway I'm on two waiting lists now.
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 20:20 |
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The Oldest Man posted:It wipes out all your immunity debt Measles: the immunity debt jubilee
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 21:09 |
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Don't call it losing all previous immunity, call it disease prestiging
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 21:21 |
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put me down for the ‘mystery virus’ going around. on the fifth day of fever, an uncomfortable cough, and my blood oxygen is in the low 90s so I’m out of breath from any minor exertion. I’ve tested negative for flu and covid multiple times though.
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 23:08 |
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Stutes posted:put me down for the ‘mystery virus’ going around. on the fifth day of fever, an uncomfortable cough, and my blood oxygen is in the low 90s so I’m out of breath from any minor exertion. I’ve tested negative for flu and covid multiple times though. Try pooping and don't flush, wait 10 minutes then swab the water and test it for covid. Like since we know that lately the newer variants just love to set up shop in the gut and apparently some folks had success in getting a positive test that way. You need to keep a eye on your blood oxygen. It's not a good thing and you need to be prepared to get yourself to the ER immediately. If it keeps on dropping or it gets to 88 - 90, call 911 right away.
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 23:30 |
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NeonPunk posted:You need to keep a eye on your blood oxygen. It's not a good thing and you need to be prepared to get yourself to the ER immediately. If it keeps on dropping or it gets to 88 - 90, call 911 right away.
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 23:32 |
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I did see a doctor earlier today, and I’m waiting on walgreens to fill a prescription for a steroid inhaler that will hopefully turn things around.
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 23:36 |
https://tradmag.ca/season3/meat/ sort of a vampire story but pretty good, really recommend reading in full. it’s appropriate because it’s set in the present, which is rare for fiction. seems like everything else is set in 2019 forever for some reason cw: there is violence against animals in this story edit: the author posted it on reddit, where I found it https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/s/ZbJsWMLT6n tuyop has issued a correction as of 23:50 on Feb 23, 2024 |
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# ? Feb 23, 2024 23:46 |
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Stutes posted:I did see a doctor earlier today, and I’m waiting on walgreens to fill a prescription for a steroid inhaler that will hopefully turn things around. Did your doctor at least gave you some oxygen before you left? E: I can't really help much over the web but here's a YouTube video that I recommended to people I know, it might help some, but keep a eye on your O2 level and have someone irl check in on you time from time https://youtu.be/-Y2imt1UCMY?si=MhXRIqOPUe1VIHrx NeonPunk has issued a correction as of 23:58 on Feb 23, 2024 |
# ? Feb 23, 2024 23:50 |
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Coworker sent out an email today that he started feeling sick after work yesterday, took a covid test and it was positive so he was out today. He did everything the CDC says you're supposed to do and could have infected dozens of people, what a great system we have lol Hopefully I will continue to dodge it, worked with him a bit yesterday, but only in a large open area and of course I was the only one wearing a n95. Aura don't fail me now!
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# ? Feb 24, 2024 00:03 |
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The Oldest Man posted:loving thing is kiting our population immune response like its a WoW raid boy my husband picked a great time to decide he’s done masking outside the home.
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# ? Feb 24, 2024 00:17 |
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tuyop posted:https://tradmag.ca/season3/meat/ I'll read the story later when I have time. Just wanted to highlight this: The author on Reddit posted:It feels important to me to see our reality reflected in art instead of obscured by it. The erasure of COVID from all forms of media is part of the process of manufacturing consent for ongoing mass infection. We need to push back against that process with whatever tools we have.
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# ? Feb 24, 2024 00:24 |
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https://twitter.com/michael_hoerger/status/1761128480362643908 https://covid-for-therapists.my.canva.site/ Something to send to our lovely therapists.
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# ? Feb 24, 2024 00:25 |
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# ? May 10, 2024 16:07 |
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very cool that a kid now has measles in my county. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/n...19/72717153007/ quote:Statewide, vaccine coverage for the MMR (two doses) vaccine for children ages 4 to 6 years old has decreased from 89.4% in 2017 to 84% in 2022," the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reported. "For children ages 19 through 35 months of age, vaccine coverage has decreased from 84.7% in April 2020 to 83.6% in December 2023."
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# ? Feb 24, 2024 00:27 |