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The future of the specially-built quarantine centre at Howard Springs NT Australia is currently in doubt, they had up to 3,000 people quarantining there at the height of the pandemic but earlier this week they only had 3 people staying there https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-04-01/nt-howard-springs-three-people-quarantine/100958780 Cup Runneth Over posted:I mean that's literally just applying knight/warrior logic to medicine. If your armor's shiny and smooth then you must be inexperienced. I remember an old TV ad for some laundry liquid where the wife kept cleaning her husband's overalls too well and he ends up getting fired from his mechanics job because they assume he's been slacking off because he's not filthy enough Snowglobe of Doom has issued a correction as of 05:16 on Apr 1, 2022 |
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100 degrees Calcium posted:It's officially hit the point where my husband is regarding me as a killjoy because I don't want to have visitors over to smoke weed during a loving pandemic. He's going out instead, and now that I know that I'm the only reason he's not huffing stranger's farts at home, I have to assume he'll be taking his mask off at some point out there. At this rate I'm gonna have to start wearing my respirator in my own home. divorce your dumb husband op
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Gunshow Poophole posted:nobody replied to this but just in case: Not that this changes anything, but the gas carts don’t really react with organic vapors. Gas masks of the early twentieth century did use various chemical reactions, but the common commercial filters work via adsorption, where the gas sticks to a solid (e.g. activated charcoal) with intermolecular forces. This isn’t conceptually all that different from how particles are caught by their filter media, usually polypropylene, but the scale is very different. The channels in the adsorbent are enormous compared to the gas molecules. This has some practical consequences.  All the above mechanisms work to capture particulates, with varying strengths against particles of different sizes and masses. With gas molecules, the only one of any significance is diffusion. They’re so tiny that they’re ping‐ponging around at hundreds of metres per second, smashing into another molecule after a handful of nanometres. Sometimes that molecule is a gas and they both go their separate ways. Sometimes that collision is with the filter media, and they get stuck. If the problematic gas molecule happens to hit not the media, but rather some other molecule that is already stuck there, well then it can just bounce off. Hopefully it hits bare media next time, but as you can imagine, the more molecules have already been captured, the less likely this becomes. This is why gas cartridges stop working. Gas molecules are tiny, so they don’t block the channels like particulates do. Instead, when the media is saturated, gases pass through unimpeded, after a number of ineffectual collisions with the saturated media. Particulates always pass through gas-capture media unimpeded. While a person might expect that “if this filter can catch minuscule gases, surely it can capture much larger viruses”, this is not the case. The virus isn’t bouncing around at hundreds of metres per second, so it’s much less likely to bumble into contact with the media. Capturing particulates requires media of a different structure that can take advantage of mechanisms other than diffusion.
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pig gas and forest fire smog etc NOT RELEVANT to this thread lol give me a break. having carts with both is practical for lots of us.
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100 degrees Calcium posted:It's officially hit the point where my husband is regarding me as a killjoy because I don't want to have visitors over to smoke weed during a loving pandemic. He's going out instead, and now that I know that I'm the only reason he's not huffing stranger's farts at home, I have to assume he'll be taking his mask off at some point out there. At this rate I'm gonna have to start wearing my respirator in my own home. he's not just taking his mask off, he's sharing bowls, pipes, blunts, etc with the people he's smoking with, while smoking in each other's faces so it's a literal 100% certainty that he will get covid doing this eventually
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U-DO Burger posted:my mom is concerned that im masking my kids too much and its keeping them from building their immune system against other viruses
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I guess I miss sitting in a room and smoking weed with a bunch of my friends at once. I feel like I've aged out of doing that though, like even before the pandemic it wasn't something I particularly felt like doing much anymore. I mean first of all I go through weed way faster that way. an ounce will last me for like 5 weeks these days, way longer than it used to. but I'd also have to get blasted with covid particles to smoke with other people? gently caress that I have video games to play in my cave.
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U-DO Burger posted:my mom is concerned that im masking my kids too much and its keeping them from building their immune system against other viruses This is the biggest bullshit. Just playing around outside is gonna gently caress with their immune system plenty. I also assume your mom fundamentally doesn't understand that various vaccine shots are literally beefing up your immune system.
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The Saucer Hovers posted:pig gas and forest fire smog etc NOT RELEVANT to this thread
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Demon Of The Fall posted:I do billing and coding for a major US hospital chain and within the last few days thousands of accounts that were on hold for being COVID related and billed to the government are now getting dumped into the billing system and statements are being sent out for everyone who came in uninsured. our call center is inundated with people who can’t afford any of this. Lol? 
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100 degrees Calcium posted:It's officially hit the point where my husband is regarding me as a killjoy because I don't want to have visitors over to smoke weed during a loving pandemic. He's going out instead, and now that I know that I'm the only reason he's not huffing stranger's farts at home, I have to assume he'll be taking his mask off at some point out there. At this rate I'm gonna have to start wearing my respirator in my own home. empty whippet box posted:he's not just taking his mask off, he's sharing bowls, pipes, blunts, etc with the people he's smoking with, while smoking in each other's faces so it's a literal 100% certainty that he will get covid doing this eventually have fun scrolling this list https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/stars-with-covid-19-2022-celebs-who-tested-positive-for-coronavirus/ they're all sucking & loving & smoking & chilling and they all got covid and that's just the celebs, not the workers supporting it all that go unknown and unannounced your SO is playing with loving fire
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100 degrees Calcium posted:It's officially hit the point where my husband is regarding me as a killjoy because I don't want to have visitors over to smoke weed during a loving pandemic. He's going out instead, and now that I know that I'm the only reason he's not huffing stranger's farts at home, I have to assume he'll be taking his mask off at some point out there. At this rate I'm gonna have to start wearing my respirator in my own home. I’m really sorry. I’d never give a stranger relationship advice but your husband prioritizing his weed friends over y’all’s safety seems like a negative directional indicator in regards to your marriage. empty whippet box posted:he's not just taking his mask off, he's sharing bowls, pipes, blunts, etc with the people he's smoking with, while smoking in each other's faces so it's a literal 100% certainty that he will get covid doing this eventually
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:dr ding is saying stupid poo poo about how dystopian Shanghai is again https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1509409031307337728 https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1509182808173989889 but also https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1509478938321559554
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silicone thrills posted:https://twitter.com/gregggonsalves/status/1509690719618965511?s=20&t=rUkqZEtLziSgSsmfLk7iRQ lol I think they mean "don't grow up"
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Salt Fish posted:I think they mean "don't grow up"
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silicone thrills posted:https://twitter.com/gregggonsalves/status/1509690719618965511?s=20&t=rUkqZEtLziSgSsmfLk7iRQ Should we really be putting wheelchair ramps on all these buildings just for the small portion of Americans who use a wheelchair?
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Pink Mist posted:Should we really be putting wheelchair ramps on all these buildings just for the small portion of Americans who use a wheelchair? Gosh why do we put brail on anything? those blind idiots should just suck it up.
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Should we really be putting airbags and seatbelts in cars for the small number of cars that get into wrecks? It just drives up the cost of cars for everyone else, needlessly
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silicone thrills posted:This is the biggest bullshit. Just playing around outside is gonna gently caress with their immune system plenty. Does anyone have good articles on this? I mean about the myths of "training-up" the immune system by strong exposure to all possible infections? Not for me, but for my colleagues whose arguments is constantly "I am so healthy (with regard to infections) because I never took too much precautions in my life" (and not the fact that they are living the most privileged life with regards to living conditions, contact with nasty germs, contact with a restricted number of people, ...).
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new variant just dropped: https://deadline.com/2022/03/new-xe-covid-variant-omicron-most-transmissible-1234992060/quote:New Mutant “XE” Omicron Variant May Be The Most Transmissible Version Of Covid Yet, According To WHO
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Lacrosse posted:new variant just dropped: https://deadline.com/2022/03/new-xe-covid-variant-omicron-most-transmissible-1234992060/ lol quote:But a new wave of infections from the now-dominant BA.2 has not materialized, even as restrictions have been eased. So hopefully the trend with XE, should it out-compete BA.2, will be similar. Only time — and good surveillance — will tell. Everything's going great!
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I know the spreadsheet is a meme but really covid is such an obvious line in the sand for relationships. Like if your SO isn’t worried about giving you something that could kill you how do you process that and coexist with them? And what are the odds they’re ready to be your caretaker if you get disabled by covid? What is your life insurance situation? Have you planned your finances if one or both of you get covid? Are your advanced directives in order? All that’s basic “spending the rest of your life with someone” stuff but if you’re not on the same page with how you both approach covid how to you figure all this out? This isn’t directed at weed buddy OP, just thinking in general about couples who have this divide. One of the first things my husband and I did at the start of the pandemic was reiterate that we were going to look out for each other and I don’t understand what the point of any of this is if it’s not to look out for each other.
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Lacrosse posted:new variant just dropped: https://deadline.com/2022/03/new-xe-covid-variant-omicron-most-transmissible-1234992060/
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Loki Kunti posted:Does anyone have good articles on this? I mean about the myths of "training-up" the immune system by strong exposure to all possible infections? Not for me, but for my colleagues whose arguments is constantly "I am so healthy (with regard to infections) because I never took too much precautions in my life" (and not the fact that they are living the most privileged life with regards to living conditions, contact with nasty germs, contact with a restricted number of people, ...). Unless you are gonna go take your kid and drop them off in a fuckin jungle, nothing you do is probably going to make a huge difference in urban/suburban america https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043252/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22003882/ like exposing kids to microbes and bacteria and adults is what strengthens their immune system but that includes their parents and other household members. They don't need a bunch of fuckin rando's breathing in their faces to trigger anything.
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Lacrosse posted:new variant just dropped: https://deadline.com/2022/03/new-xe-covid-variant-omicron-most-transmissible-1234992060/ comrade xe
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Lacrosse posted:new variant just dropped Those are nice but I really think Deltacron is where it’s gonna be and by “be” I mean “end humanity” Pink Mist posted:Should we really be putting wheelchair ramps on all these buildings just for the small portion of Americans who use a wheelchair? My ex boss was really resistant to ADA compliance and did the bare minimum in building the new office and maybe did some bribes idk but I remember having an argument with him and my Libertarian co-worker and telling them that maybe these things seem pointless but what happens when you hire a disabled worker and they can’t reach anything and they both gave me smug weasely answers that amounted to “we just won’t hire disabled people” and long story short like 3 months later my Libertarian co-worker became disabled and wasn’t able to reach anything in the office.
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Pink Mist posted:Should we really be putting wheelchair ramps on all these buildings just for the small portion of Americans who use a wheelchair? i mean, only if they're going to use it for a while.
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Tzen posted:oh no a government response!! holy poo poo that robot has a pilot somewhere and that’s a job
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Trixie Hardcore posted:I know the spreadsheet is a meme but really covid is such an obvious line in the sand for relationships. Like if your SO isn’t worried about giving you something that could kill you how do you process that and coexist with them? And what are the odds they’re ready to be your caretaker if you get disabled by covid? What is your life insurance situation? Have you planned your finances if one or both of you get covid? Are your advanced directives in order? All that’s basic “spending the rest of your life with someone” stuff but if you’re not on the same page with how you both approach covid how to you figure all this out? If one partner's open biden and the other is planning life insurance and advanced directives, there's a big mismatch going on. I'm not sure I'd take things as far as end-of-life planning myself, but I definitely wouldn't just tell my partner to gently caress off and go hang out to spit in my friends' mouths either. Covid really has a way of exposing how much people care about each other.
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Daniel Dales Dick posted:If one partner's open biden and the other is planning life insurance and advanced directives, there's a big mismatch going on. I'm not sure I'd take things as far as end-of-life planning myself, but I definitely wouldn't just tell my partner to gently caress off and go hang out to spit in my friends' mouths either. Covid really has a way of exposing how much people care about each other. We did advance directives after reading several stories about couples who got covid at the same time and were incapacitated at the same time so they ended up in vent limbo while their family fought over how long to continue care and we both agreed we didn’t want to take the chance of that being us and that it was probably something we should have done just in case for non covid reasons anyway but mostly because of the horrors of vent limbo and not being able to trust our families to make those decisions.
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Lacrosse posted:new variant just dropped: https://deadline.com/2022/03/new-xe-covid-variant-omicron-most-transmissible-1234992060/ It's really cool how every one is more transmissible then the last! Love it Edit: New Meshuggah album just dropped if anybody needs some good doom soundtrack for the latest doom https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kXCFEMNL8Ks91r-JkQU-8UYycTrtB1PBM Dog Case has issued a correction as of 06:53 on Apr 1, 2022 |
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Potato Salad posted:My brain is pouring one out over every motherfucker wearing cloth masks You can’t say that. Platystemon posted:
fool of sound posted:"A poster didn't know a fact that was widely published in CDC sources" is not "intentionally concealed". Similarly "masks are much more effective at protecting others than yourself" is not "masks are worthless and exist only to provide cover for politicians". User loses posting privileges for 1 day.
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Platystemon posted:You can’t say that. This is such a great sequence of posting. I love it. loving smooth brains over there in the other forum
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