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road potato posted:Someone made a comment a few pages back that at-home rapid tests are less effective. I had my allergies kick up last week, which lead to a bad night of sleep, which lead to sore throat, that has now generally turned into what feels like a low-grade cold. I had a tiny headache yesterday (monday) and was generally a bit more tired on Sunday/Monday. I've been testing every day or every-other day and getting negative results. Would there be any other way to tell if it was/is Covid, other than... just assuming it's COVID? you have covid for sure quote:Unrelated, but two previously healthy thirty-somethings that I'm friends with on facebook posted the "Hey everyone I'm having serious heart problems and the doctors don't really know" posts. We're distant acquaintances in real life, so I have no idea if it's worth it to share any of the literature. vaxxed
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nexous posted:Have you considered the repurcussions of asking someone to come to your house and drink your homemade cocktails for a first date. Well, I am going to have many more dates first then. Make a pick-a-nick myself and share it in the sun, or go hike. Though yeah, something I should have thought of more, not a drinker or a barfly type.
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celadon posted:it'll either be fine or noone could have known it could happen, either way our jobs are secure yep. the system works.
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nexous posted:Have you considered the repurcussions of asking someone to come to your house and drink your homemade cocktails for a first date. baby its covid outside
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nexous posted:Have you considered the repurcussions of asking someone to come to your house and drink your homemade cocktails for a first date. You're right its an unsolvable problem.
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silicone thrills posted:My in laws are about to do a doomsday econ / pestilence cross over thread event: there have been at least 1,939 norovirus cases on US cruise ships so far this year though they're on target to have like 14 million cruise passengers this year so 
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StratGoatCom posted:Well, I am going to have many more dates first then. Make a pick-a-nick myself and share it in the sun, or go hike. Hike is a good first date 
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Temiko posted:Agreed, a curated list of sad trolls and instructions on how to use the ignore button would be very helpful. This would be great, but shouldn't be in the OP. Making the OP needlessly aggressive towards individuals (even if they are garbage posters) will poison the posting well. Now if a thread mvp (of which there's are several) wants to make a best/worst list and post it right after the OP well that's something else entirely.
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fosborb posted:there have been at least 1,939 norovirus cases on US cruise ships so far this year My mother in law has had 2 open heart surgeries and has a pile of health problems. They went on a cruise last year and she told me it was the sickest they'd ever been and they had to go to the ER a few times over a 3 week period. But I guess the cruise was worth it because they're doing it again!
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Temiko posted:Agreed, a curated list of sad trolls and instructions on how to use the ignore button would be very helpful. 100%. Let's see the list
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road potato posted:Someone made a comment a few pages back that at-home rapid tests are less effective. I had my allergies kick up last week, which lead to a bad night of sleep, which lead to sore throat, that has now generally turned into what feels like a low-grade cold. I had a tiny headache yesterday (monday) and was generally a bit more tired on Sunday/Monday. I've been testing every day or every-other day and getting negative results. Would there be any other way to tell if it was/is Covid, other than... just assuming it's COVID? you probably don't if you're doing serial testing like that. a lot of the efficacy drop off is during day 1 and 2 and when you are not symptomatic. two things you can do: take a PCR test. your state may still do them free for you. but that will tell you for sure you can also swab your cheeks or tonsils before your nose (Ontario Health Dept recommends this) to increase test sensitivity
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I'd rather Fosarb set a minimum troll quality thresh tbh, while I get his and nexious's points at least sort out the  or vitrolic fuckheads, at least Cal or Asp when they were in that mood were capable of being intentionally funny. Goon lists often do not end well.
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grain of salt, etc. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2808358  
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silicone thrills posted:My mother in law has had 2 open heart surgeries and has a pile of health problems. They went on a cruise last year and she told me it was the sickest they'd ever been and they had to go to the ER a few times over a 3 week period. Money shifting the death drive into third gear for a highway pull
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if you like going on cruises you've already normalized the idea of locking yourself in close quarters with potentially plague-ridden passengers. there's huge outbreaks of random-rear end poo poo every couple of years. i was loving stunned when my sister went on a cruise for her honeymoon, not specifically because of COVID but for the heightened possibility of getting seriously ill at all while stuck on a giant boat undergoing a localized outbreak of loving, cholera or some poo poo
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I ruled out cruises when the elevator on one of them smooshed a passenger and it looked like the blood elevator from The Shining. Thats scarier to me than covid/norovirus/ecoli/whatever
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StratGoatCom posted:I'd rather Fosarb set a minimum troll quality thresh tbh, while I get his and nexious's points at least sort out the yeah also the constant posts about ignore lists are more tedious than the troll posts at this point. i see a short, flippant remark about COVID and roll my eyes but it sucks even more having that followed up by a dozen posters tripping over themselves to say "heh, another notch for my ignore list  "
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all i want is for all cruise ships to be commandeered, retrofitted with nuclear engines, and transformed into gigantic floating hospitals traveling from port to port helping people out is that so much to ask
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Buddy of mine out of town invited me to come hang out with him for the weekend but he tested positive last Tuesday and has been completely asymptomatic the entire time (he tested because his housemate tested positive earlier in that week). I dunno if rapid antigen tests will continue to show up as positive after somebody stops being contagious or if a faint line means somebody is still contagious. I know the CDC or whatever says that covid stops existing after 10 days no matter what but I would also like to know what the other side has to say. Anyway, he tested negative on one test this morning and then a faint line on another test a little while later and we're planning on rescheduling my visit unless he tests negative with both brands of tests tomorrow or on Thursday morning and I hope he does because I really wanna put my tongue in his mouth.
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U-DO Burger posted:yeah I’m not even flippant about covid is the craziest part lol
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celadon posted:all i want is for all cruise ships to be commandeered, retrofitted with nuclear engines, and transformed into gigantic floating hospitals traveling from port to port helping people out i always thought floating prison colony for all the deposed CEOs and billionaires. It'd be a bit of a poetic irony, I think
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nexous posted:I ruled out cruises when the elevator on one of them smooshed a passenger and it looked like the blood elevator from The Shining. Thats scarier to me than covid/norovirus/ecoli/whatever I would honestly wear a PAPR with scent control to things like gencon or the like even before covid, between the Crud and... well... https://twitter.com/anxious__latina/status/1554563483903021056 which would be even worse now, come to think of it as folks would be less able to tell they have The Fench. It would be easy to dress one up as something from the Expanse too.
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If I had to be in a room with sweaty people I would simply choose an event with people I wanted to sweat with.
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yep. i'm just here for the orgy.
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Some of us have to do the kind of work where that is a need rather then a want to. That poo poo was backburnered for a while, but I have some personal projects where a con might be a business need.
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I'm cooking up an incredible List and it's going to be so epic when I post it
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Immediately breaking my vow of lurking just to share a small anecdote that might tickle people: Went out grocery shopping, and was literally the only person in a mask. At least everybody was cool about it this time, except for one guy who upon spotting my mask in the parking lot instantly homed in at me, loudly enunciating 'ACHOO. ACHOO. ACHOO. ACHOO' in a repeated monotone until he passed me. like, lol, dumbass, what do you think the mask is even for
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Also just to be clear, I appreciate the nice thoughts and kind words, but not-posting also works out fairly well for me personally because while I have thoughts about being seen and identified in a particular way, those are usually overshadowed by my desire not to be seen or identified at all lol
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empireofcrime posted:grain of salt, etc. I mean we all knew that it wasn't all Malpractices Georg MD, but still pretty rough stuff. And yea the mixed methods element means there's definitely a limit on the precision and strength of the findings.
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Doctors being dumb as hell is a finding that will replicate for as many bogus investment vehicles as you want
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celadon posted:all i want is for all cruise ships to be commandeered, retrofitted with nuclear engines, and transformed into gigantic floating hospitals traveling from port to port helping people out They brought out one of the Navy hospital ships at the beginning of COVID and then the crew immediately all got COVID and it only managed to treat like 20 people
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Dog Case posted:They brought out one of the Navy hospital ships at the beginning of COVID and then the crew immediately all got COVID and it only managed to treat like 20 people Also a guy hijacked a train and tried to ram it into the ship but missed it by several hundred yards
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Also a guy hijacked a train and tried to ram it into the ship but missed it by several hundred yards what???
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why do I not have have thread god rights yet? Excel has promised me better color palettes if I become COVID thread god.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Also a guy hijacked a train and tried to ram it into the ship but missed it by several hundred yards lol this was one of the most incredible events of an incredible time
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fosborb posted:what??? I love that everything is so insane that this is a forgettable event. I also didn't remember
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Pillowpants posted:why do I not have have thread god rights yet? Excel has promised me better color palettes if I become COVID thread god. can’t trust a guy who go Covid 3 times. the Covid is controlling you now
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fosborb posted:what??? lol that this incident has already been forgotten. it was incredible
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Pillowpants posted:why do I not have have thread god rights yet? Excel has promised me better color palettes if I become COVID thread god. you're my thread god 
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Dog Case posted:I love that everything is so insane that this is a forgettable event. I also didn't remember i only remember sailor so thank you for this delightful and insanely funny reminder
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