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It is a step above nothing, and even that's tremendous in our lovely propagandized hell. I admit I still can't fully wrap my head around it though; if you're going to bother wearing a mask at all, why does such a massive plurality insist on wearing them in the wrongest, most uncomfortable ways possible? There seems to be a very weird gap between 'cognizant of the utility of a mask', even it's purely social, and 'the mask is more comfortable and effective if you don't have it on upside down/inside out/hanging off of one strap dug into the underside of your nose'. I also remain amused by the surprisingly large cohort of people who pull their mask down to cough or sneeze, but I at least 'get' that. They don't wanna gross up the inside of the thing they're wearing around, thoughtless as it may be. But then every now and then you see someone trying to wear headstraps as tied-off earloops with the mask's nosebridge digging into one cheek and it's just like, friend, are you okay
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 18:18 |
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# ? May 24, 2024 17:35 |
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Although actually chin totem may be the weirdest mask-wearing habit I've seen a fair amount of. Like, congrats, you've done something uncomfortable and totally ineffectual in the exact perfect way to piss off liberals, chuds, and progressives all alike. Why??? do you think your chin's susceptible to covid
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 18:21 |
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Steve Yun posted:can’t wait to see how the Swiss variant holds up against the Swiss cheese model
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 19:45 |
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Shady Amish Terror posted:Although actually chin totem may be the weirdest mask-wearing habit I've seen a fair amount of. Like, congrats, you've done something uncomfortable and totally ineffectual in the exact perfect way to piss off liberals, chuds, and progressives all alike. Why??? do you think your chin's susceptible to covid yeah absoluteyl. it's the Joseph Robinette Biden Administration of masking
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 19:51 |
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they’re only wearing a mask because they’re sick and they have it under their nose/chin because they don’t really want to wear it masks are to protect other people
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 20:03 |
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I have seen two people in the last month wearing gloves but no mask while shopping
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 20:14 |
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As my MIL said about her doctor's office, "I felt safe there, people were wearing gloves."
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 20:39 |
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Shady Amish Terror posted:It is a step above nothing, and even that's tremendous in our lovely propagandized hell. This was figured out in a previous version of this thread. People are wearing masks like this in case they meet an obviously sick person, in which case they think RED ALERT and pull up the mask to cover their nose. Otherwise wearing a surgical or cloth mask all day is uncomfortable so if no-one around is sick why not breathe comfortably? It's not irrational. The failure to accurately communicate what "airborne virus" means or to provide high quality comfortable N95s to everyone that wants them is the underlying problem.
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 20:50 |
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I honestly don't know how people wear those cloth or neoprene-ish masks, they're disgusting, clammy, cling to your nose and mouth and feel suffocating, get wet and sodden in minutes, and stink like poo poo at the end of the day. Yet I still see people wearing them about as often as N95s if not moreso.
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 21:07 |
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I've seen several people get on public transport with a surgical mask around their chin and pull it up onto their face after they've walked down the entire carriage to find an empty seat and sat down.
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 21:27 |
The Oldest Man posted:I honestly don't know how people wear those cloth or neoprene-ish masks, they're disgusting, clammy, cling to your nose and mouth and feel suffocating, get wet and sodden in minutes, and stink like poo poo at the end of the day. I’ve had people furiously defend their lovely masks in the face of any of my obsessively hoarded cache of n95s or elastomerics that don’t fit me. not even just a little “nah I’m good”, like they get mad.
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 22:42 |
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tuyop posted:I’ve had people furiously defend their lovely masks in the face of any of my obsessively hoarded cache of n95s or elastomerics that don’t fit me. not even just a little “nah I’m good”, like they get mad. It’s disrespectful of you to argue with medical professionals.
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 22:47 |
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tuyop posted:I’ve had people furiously defend their lovely masks in the face of any of my obsessively hoarded cache of n95s or elastomerics that don’t fit me. not even just a little “nah I’m good”, like they get mad. people hate a proselytizer. look, know, and move on
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 22:53 |
Fur20 posted:people hate a proselytizer. look, know, and move on I mean lol at the idea that I would ever talk to a normie about reality at all at this point. but in these interactions, I don’t think I’m proselytizing. it’s like, “oh man are you uncomfortable in that cloth/surgical? would you like one of these N95s? they’re surprisingly comfortable and I have literally dozens in my car.” and the reaction is like mild outrage lol
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 22:59 |
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tuyop posted:I mean lol at the idea that I would ever talk to a normie about reality at all at this point. It probably does get frustrating having people be like, "Isn't that uncomfortable!?" trying to get them to stop masking and then having someone say something similar to get them to mask up more lol.
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 23:01 |
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https://twitter.com/nikstankovic_/status/1785324216138514843 Avian cow flu outbreak in Texas
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 23:33 |
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oh yeah we’re not going to do jack poo poo
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 23:47 |
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Lost my place in the thread but anyway, boost juice acquired with zero hassle or questions. Apparently now it just has to be 4 months since your last dose, so I didn’t realize, but I could have been honest. (I’m over 5 months, but moved up this dose a little because of the rumors Novavax would be expiring.) Anyone know what’s up with that change? Are people really aboveboard-ly getting it 3x/year? (eta: zero copay but obviously it was my first dose of the year. We’ll see in the fall) Anne Whateley has issued a correction as of 23:55 on Apr 30, 2024 |
# ? Apr 30, 2024 23:53 |
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Anne Whateley posted:Lost my place in the thread but anyway, boost juice acquired with zero hassle or questions. Apparently now it just has to be 4 months since your last dose, so I didn’t realize, but I could have been honest. (I’m over 5 months, but moved up this dose a little because of the rumors Novavax would be expiring.) i think that's only for olds and only for this most recent shot, once?
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 23:56 |
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Weka posted:https://twitter.com/nikstankovic_/status/1785324216138514843 covid definitely started in America and not China lol.
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 23:56 |
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I think that the idea with the four months is that people are expected to get two (or zero lmao) doses per year. There’s just some margin baked in so that getting one shot a little late doesn’t screw up the timeline of when they can get their next dose.
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# ? Apr 30, 2024 23:56 |
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I mean in that cdc announcement the other day, they did confirmed that the rapid rise of influenza A in three wastewater site is from the bird flu. They go on to announce that two of the wastewater site is linked to a sewer system where the farmers had permission to dump their waste milk. But they never said anything about why the third waste water site was seeing a huge rise too
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# ? May 1, 2024 00:18 |
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The Oldest Man posted:i think that's only for olds and only for this most recent shot, once? Platystemon posted:I think that the idea with the four months is that people are expected to get two (or zero lmao) doses per year. There’s just some margin baked in so that getting one shot a little late doesn’t screw up the timeline of when they can get their next dose.
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# ? May 1, 2024 00:57 |
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Welp, good news/bad news. Bad news: my formerly COVID-doomer primary care doc has been successfully pod-peopled. He had no problem wearing a mask for me, nor admitting that long COVID was a thing, but he now thinks COVID has mutated to be much less harmful, and is no longer masking at large. Good news: my fear of long COVID and the religiously adhered to exercise program that fear spawned has me no longer pre-hypertensive! 110/78 baby! I fully recognize that COVID may append an ironic, "lol thought you'd escaped blood pressure meds?" coda after my next infection, but for now I'll take the win it gave me and take a victory lap with a salty bacon cheeseburger.
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# ? May 1, 2024 01:53 |
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Welp, good news/bad news. good job!
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# ? May 1, 2024 05:07 |
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Nocturtle posted:This was figured out in a previous version of this thread. People are wearing masks like this in case they meet an obviously sick person, in which case they think RED ALERT and pull up the mask to cover their nose. Otherwise wearing a surgical or cloth mask all day is uncomfortable so if no-one around is sick why not breathe comfortably? It's not irrational. Ah, hadn't recalled this discussion. That does make some amount of sense, in a hosed-up hellworld information asymmetry kind of way
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# ? May 1, 2024 05:28 |
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# ? May 1, 2024 07:15 |
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"IQ's" lmaoooo
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# ? May 1, 2024 07:25 |
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# ? May 1, 2024 08:19 |
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7194295/ house flies seem to be able to spread h5n1
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# ? May 1, 2024 08:33 |
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Steve Yun posted:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7194295/ flies spread disease, so keep yours closed
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# ? May 1, 2024 08:42 |
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Steve Yun posted:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7194295/ it's crazy to me that they did all this work on this huge project without a word about HOW it could be a transmission risk, how viral particles might even make it into the bloodstream of anything once moved around in fly form. i assume chickens eat flies but could that destroy the virus? the paper doesn't say
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# ? May 1, 2024 09:19 |
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maxwellhill posted:it's crazy to me that they did all this work on this huge project without a word about HOW it could be a transmission risk, how viral particles might even make it into the bloodstream of anything once moved around in fly form. i assume chickens eat flies but could that destroy the virus? the paper doesn't say quote:However, the actual ability of infected house flies in disseminating the AI H5N1 virus to the chicken has not been determined in this study. presumably, the spread of disease by the houseflies is via the typical route e.g. (stop eating now) fly lands on food/animal/water source, promptly regurgitates saliva onto said food source/animal/water source, saliva breaks down food into slurpable slurry (flies have no teeth, they just drink) then ingests said slurry, lands in another spot, lather rinse repeat. Flies are known to drink from eyes/mucous membranes of animals (e.g. snotty noses) as well. They also defecate often, some speculate every time they land. The beauty of nature.
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# ? May 1, 2024 13:58 |
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I think this is a good plan for Pfizer; sadly price gouging makes it pretty worthless from a public health standpoint, but at least rich people will have easy access https://www.ft.com/content/4e7a2bc7-0de7-4948-bfd3-bda210e56c12 posted:Pfizer plans direct-to-consumer platform for Covid and migraine treatments That last line quoted isn't thread relevant, but lol.
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# ? May 1, 2024 16:00 |
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Pingui posted:I think this is a good plan for Pfizer; sadly price gouging makes it pretty worthless from a public health standpoint, but at least rich people will have easy access They're the ones who matter, after all. It's their world, we just live here.
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# ? May 1, 2024 16:07 |
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Pingui posted:I think this is a good plan for Pfizer; sadly price gouging makes it pretty worthless from a public health standpoint, but at least rich people will have easy access I'm surprised they're going this far, I figured with current levels of open Biden we'd get the level of Pax gatekeeping the rest of the world has. Guess it's time to start a savings account for antivirals.
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# ? May 1, 2024 16:09 |
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Anne Whateley posted:Lost my place in the thread but anyway, boost juice acquired with zero hassle or questions. Apparently now it just has to be 4 months since your last dose, so I didn’t realize, but I could have been honest. (I’m over 5 months, but moved up this dose a little because of the rumors Novavax would be expiring.) I got hassled pretty hard by Costco in the Seattle area. They checked the state database on my immunizations because they were leaning on wanting me to be over 65 or immunocompromised but luckily my record was 2 years out of date.
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# ? May 1, 2024 16:13 |
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OVER https://twitter.com/Nature/status/1785600998431481926
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# ? May 1, 2024 16:19 |
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quote:The first participants got the same tiny dose of the ‘ancestral’ SARS-CoV-2 strain as did those in the first trial. When nobody developed a sustained infection, the researchers increased the dose by more and more in subsequent groups of participants, until they reached a level 10,000 times the initial dose. A few volunteers developed short-lived infections, but these quickly vanished.
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# ? May 1, 2024 16:24 |
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# ? May 24, 2024 17:35 |
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I question the usefulness of the data you'd get by infecting people with OG Covid
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# ? May 1, 2024 16:27 |