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PoundSand)
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masking is neither required or encouraged lmao we sure should do something about long covid though but not that
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# ? Mar 9, 2024 22:51 |
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# ? May 24, 2024 13:20 |
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All attendees are expected to follow Vermont Department of Health guidance, which comes with a free 2 for 1 apps coupon to Applebee's.
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# ? Mar 9, 2024 23:11 |
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A Bag of Milk posted:unusually mild snowpack leading to extremely mild access to freshwater Studies show the highest usage of freshwater at home, therefore we are recommending municipalities cut off residential service and focus on delivering to hotels and restaurants, where the water can be used safely.
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# ? Mar 9, 2024 23:16 |
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If this were in the South I'd be kind of concerned, but Vermont is a Democrat stronghold consisting of sophisticated, vaccinated types. Vaccinated people do not carry the virus.
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# ? Mar 9, 2024 23:20 |
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That FRED data is apparentl just normalizing the BLS CPS self-attested disability rates. The absolute numbers even looking at the total (not just employed) working-age population show the same hockey-stick graph shape starting around early-2021: Essentially ~1.5 million additional working age people self-reporting significant disability, about ~0.5-0.75% of the total working age population. Working age women in the labor force with disability alone increased by roughly ~1 million. I check this dataset every once in a while to see any sign of a plateau instead of a steadily increasing rate, nothing obvious yet. That excess retirement data is new and unwelcome though.
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# ? Mar 9, 2024 23:28 |
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Why Am I So Tired posted:If this were in the South I'd be kind of concerned, but Vermont is a Democrat stronghold consisting of sophisticated, vaccinated types. Vaccinated people do not carry the virus. Thinking of the first time I heard relatives say almost exactly this, but using the word "civilized". re: disability, I posted this in doomsday econ earlier: An optimist would say COVID is over, while a pessimist might say that's a solid 1% below the pre-pandemic trendline which was heading for record highs of 85% employment (also don't think too hard about the gulf between this figure and the reported ~4% unemployment rate)*. * yes I know there are stay-at-home parents etc.
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# ? Mar 9, 2024 23:40 |
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Nocturtle posted:That FRED data is apparentl just normalizing the BLS CPS self-attested disability rates. The absolute numbers even looking at the total (not just employed) working-age population show the same hockey-stick graph shape starting around early-2021:
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 00:12 |
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Indoor Dying posted:masking is neither required or encouraged lmao There's nothing to do about it if you prevent it
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 00:22 |
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We're past the peak. Repeal the ADA.
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 00:32 |
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If you only look at the last 2 data points in every graph on this page, everything is trending downward, thus very mild.
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 00:43 |
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Kragger99 posted:If you only look at the last 2 data points in every graph on this page, everything is trending downward, thus very mild. The funny thing about virtually any graph containing data from rolling updates or an incomplete final interval is they will show what appears to be the beginning of a downward trend. If not, the derivative probably does, etc. Dishonest people find this property extremely useful.
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 01:08 |
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The Bernie thing is really doing a nice job of highlighting the death of basic cause and effect thinking skills.
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 01:32 |
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It really feels like we're trapped in the Mr. Thompson scene in Cape Feare, only it's society wide.
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 01:34 |
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Why Am I So Tired posted:The Bernie thing is really doing a nice job of highlighting the death of basic cause and effect thinking skills. I didn’t watch the SOTU, apparently he wore a surgical but not while waiting for it to start: or after, while making his way through the crowd to basically spit in Biden’s face lmao
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 02:53 |
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Makes sense they’d end the negative test requirement days before he shared air with hundreds of people, many of whom hate him. I mean, what’s the worst that could happen?
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 04:33 |
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Welp, my younger brother has brought covid back from travel to my parents house for the second time in about 18 months. They've got a box of paxlovid in reserve and a big box of n95, and I doubt they will use either because of blue MAGA brain worms Hopefully they miraculously don't get infected icantfindaname has issued a correction as of 04:47 on Mar 10, 2024 |
# ? Mar 10, 2024 04:43 |
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Also, if this guy is posting this stuff, there's really no hope for a single one of the DSA crowd https://twitter.com/DougHenwood/status/1766564765868900496
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 04:48 |
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icantfindaname posted:Also, if this guy is posting this stuff, there's really no hope for a single one of the DSA crowd I had covid decades ago?
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 04:55 |
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I've been on the gently caress work train but unfortunately my choices are work or starve to death. Gotta find out how other people unlocked a secret third option.
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 06:19 |
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Ah poo poo its class locked at character creation
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 06:21 |
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Shiroc posted:I've been on the gently caress work train but unfortunately my choices are work or starve to death. Gotta find out how other people unlocked a secret third option. Nepo babies cosplaying as baristas quit when Covid made it impossible to see smiles?
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 06:25 |
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Nocturtle posted:That FRED data is apparentl just normalizing the BLS CPS self-attested disability rates. The absolute numbers even looking at the total (not just employed) working-age population show the same hockey-stick graph shape starting around early-2021: Oof. I remember we had a discussion a couple years back about whether this was ever going to level off. I have always been in camp "assume it won't." I guess I'm not very happy about the outcome.
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 06:59 |
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Shiroc posted:Ah poo poo its class locked at character creation
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 07:16 |
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Thanks everyone for the advice, I really appreciate it. Ultimately keeping it very simple & staying vigilant on the flights with the N95s is probably the most effective/realistic option. My mother's a former nurse, so having the pulse oximeters in their luggage in case they feel like poo poo is something she'll definitely be on board with. I plan on giving them a ton of N95 Auras when I see them before they go. They both received the latest boosters available in Australia a few months ago. There's no real "Pirate Paxlovid" here, as it's very gate-kept very tightly here*, so getting some to take with them "just in case", or finding a dodgy supply of it (getting it isn't as easy as the US, I'm afraid, unless some Aussie goons have found a sneaky work-around!). They'll be very limited with weight restrictions, hence why I suggested the very light USB purifiers. I might have better luck persuading them buy a cheap powered desktop size one to have in their cabin just before they leave New York on their cruise and not bother taking it back home, particularly with the cruise AC being a potential issue. * If you're 65+ plus diagnosed with Covid, you can get it relatively easily, but anyone here under 65, even with horrendously bad symptoms, or in a high risk category, good luck. One of my colleagues' patients aged in their 40s, contracted a nasty Covid case whilst actively going through chemo-therapy (they had a chemo treatment scheduled in a few days when they got it). They were told by their GP and other doctors that she couldn't get Pax as"ummm, actually, just because you're going through chemo right now, doesn't actually mean you're technically immune compromised, so we won't give it out". Fortunately, she managed to grab her oncologist in an emergency call, who wrote her a prescription, then promptly lost his poo poo at the sheer stupidity he was hearing.
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 10:45 |
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friend was able to get free pax through test2treat in CA so I guess that’s still going on
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 11:05 |
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Good luck. Also FYI spot-treating air right around you with tiny purifiers is not a thing. Suspended particles get around way, way better than that. USB-powered filters and whatnot pointed at the face don't actually help in a hazardous setting. Either more-than-adequately filter a whole room (ideally a whole building), or else save the energy for a measure that's effective. I'd put a lot more stock in carageenan and CPC than those, for example; the mechanisms of how those two work are clear, and unlike many measures, they actually get followed because it's so easy for squeamish users to forget their presence once they've been applied.
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 11:41 |
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I wonder if there's some sweet spot of exposure frequency that is "the worst possible". Some point where if you got infected even more often than that, you'd probably still be fresh off the previous infection with the same dominant local strain, your antibodies to that one are still activated, you're not done being sick yet and all it's doing is extending the tail of one sickness semi-protectively that much longer. Maybe it could explain how so many people who just face-tank crowds without any pauses only seem to get hit once per wave, whenever a wildly different strain hits everyone, while others get who aren't out there so much get unlucky almost monthly. That would also have implications that if such individuals ever *do* take a pause from crowds, they can expect to be sick right when they resume the usual facetanking, because they finally let their nature's vaccine titers decay. maxwellhill has issued a correction as of 11:57 on Mar 10, 2024 |
# ? Mar 10, 2024 11:54 |
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cough counter in sleep cycle is starting to get elevated again. Spring break season must be starting.
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 12:57 |
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icantfindaname posted:Also, if this guy is posting this stuff, there's really no hope for a single one of the DSA crowd I am not a mathematician but there doesn't seem to be a super strong correlation between waves and excess retirements, rather just an obvious correlation between cumulative covid and retirements... ...but that graph is still crack-pinging me by just showing how much time since January 2020 has been considered a 'wave,' it's like a third of the months since then, and it's not like covid got much better between the waves.
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 14:27 |
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my sig o fell into relevant work experience for a wfh job pre pandemic, and was recruited for it during, so yeah like other posts address it’s all arbitrary and not accessible or helpful to those who would really benefit. I’m happy we are against the wfh trend towards childless white jerks who squander it by getting sick anyway… we are white jerks but we care for a young child and so far have kept her happy healthy and safe and covid/rsv/flu free
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 15:09 |
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It's incredible how we're on our fifth year of this and this is the best politician we have on the matter. He knows N95's are better than surgicals and he knows Long COVID is bad, so sure, why not attend a superspreading event with a surgical in hand as a talisman? Why is everyone so willfully stupid? lol at that last picture though, if it turns out Bernie's got COVID that one's going in the Covidyceps article
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 17:50 |
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As a Doctor, I Don’t Fear Covid as I Once Did. But I Carry Its Grave Lessons Forward.quote:By Daniela J. Lamas I guess grave lessons means keep killing people with your unmasked smiling faces? Also it's unclear if staff masking is still mandatory everywhere at this hospital (I'm guessing ICU only and that surgicals are ok) but it would be very "funny" if that chemo patient nearly died from hospital-acquired COVID. But no biggie we can pump you full of antivirals and intubate you if it comes to that, fear is for the weak.
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 18:28 |
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Precambrian Video Games posted:As a Doctor, I Don’t Fear Covid as I Once Did. But I Carry Its Grave Lessons Forward. For a second I found myself thinking "How does utter garbage like this get published?" and then I remembered.
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 18:40 |
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Between that story and Adjala telling us we should “embrace” the virus, sure feels like a lot of psycho doctors out there.
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 18:40 |
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I don't fear covid as I once did, because I always wear an N95 mask indoors.
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 18:55 |
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Covid made us empathize with the weak and vulnerable but thankfully we don't have to do that anymore!
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 19:06 |
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Just. Just prevent the infection. No infection, no problem. No intubation. No long term damage. Just loving put a bit of effort in. Stop cutting corners. gently caress. The bar is so low and it's still a struggle to get medical professionals to clear it. This is not bragging but I have perfect grades in A&P and microbiology and my classmates keep asking me how I get such good grades and i accidentally said that it's because I don't want to accidently kill someone. Those are the stakes as a healthcare provider, and you don't know what knowledge you have to have that could save your patient so you just learn it all. Good grades come from understanding, not memorizing. And it seems like they had never made the connection between the material and their responsibilities as providers. My professor is the same in a way, fully grill pilled and happy to eat off the floor, or make irrational choices because he has reached "acceptance." Strep Vote has issued a correction as of 19:31 on Mar 10, 2024 |
# ? Mar 10, 2024 19:22 |
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Yup, the vibes changed. My story in the NYT
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 19:24 |
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Precambrian Video Games posted:As a Doctor, I Don’t Fear Covid as I Once Did. But I Carry Its Grave Lessons Forward.
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 20:05 |
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# ? May 24, 2024 13:20 |
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Jesus loving Christ
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 20:07 |