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9/11 also did a lot of expensive property damage, which is very traumatic for Americans.
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There is so. Much. Weird Trump stuff. Nothing ever seemed to stick because we were careening from one weird Trump thing to another like an ADHD addled nerd playing a pinball machine.
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I’ve used something called an envomask a bunch, it has a nice gel cushion around the edges. It’s also small and discrete compared to more serious respirators but not as easy to breathe in because the surface area of the filtration medium is smaller. Only N95 rated though. I like the shield in my rainy climate too
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Envomask website has a decent number of pics! https://envomask.com/
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I’ve got an envomask that’s my go to and it’s definitely overprice compared to reusable respirators. It’s also not as easy to breathe in. Also gets condensation up the wazoo. The discrete size is great though—most people don’t look at me twice—and I absolutely adore the gel cushion seal. The shield is also very useful in my rainy climate, and there’s no out vent to worry about for others if you get the ventless type or the blocker.
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Jul 5, 2022 07:21
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I was just in a Japanese garden absolutely covered in tree bukakke so I think pollen is still happening in places.
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Oct 23, 2022 22:31
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It definitely was noted at the start—remember hearing a lot about ground glass opacity for lung scans.
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Dec 31, 2022 21:57
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A lot of pandemic caution can also still be found at Metafilter.
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I know that Fred Hutch was doing an observational COVID study…which was abruptly shut down in January when funding was cut off.
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A doctor put me on Zyrtec in high school and next thing you know I was sleeping twenty hours a day, just conked out sleeping on desks and tables in my classes and at meals, for two weeks until we put two and two together.
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Oh yeah, we ended up putting me on Claritin and I guess that worked okay but now I’m wondering if it was just a placebo effect! Luckily my allergies seemed to more or less disappear once I went to college in a different state.
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MrQwerty posted:Phenylephrine is the placebo, the substitute for almost-speed pseudoephedrine as a decongestant. Antihistamines and expectorants are proven medications that work to do what they say they do, as is pseudoephedrine. Phenylephrine is the placebo drug, OTC decongestant is fake. Oh I’m referring to what Bored and CaptainSarcastic are saying about Claritin’s normal dose being so low that it’s not super efficacious.
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Paxlovid and vaccination are about the only tools we have that have been shown to cut your odds of developing long COVID. Recently there have been studies suggesting metformin, a drug usually used for diabetes, also cuts Long Covid risk: https://covid19.nih.gov/news-and-stories/can-diabetes-treatment-reduce-risk-long-covid But I don’t know how easy it would be to convince a doctor to give it to you
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I’ve been reading various accountings of other diseases over the past few years, how they’re handled historically, and if you think any X consequence that COVID could cause would make society in general take it more seriously I am pretty sure no, such a deterrent does not exist. Hookworm in the US South: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/how-a-worm-gave-the-south-a-bad-name/ The struggle for hand washing to prevent purpereal fever: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/handwashing-once-controversial-medical-advice The way traditional funeral practices in Africa spread Ebola Antivax sentiment started with the smallpox vaccine: https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/covid-19-anti-vaxxers-use-the-same-arguments-from-135-years-ago We’re a species that until fairly recently in historical terms (a couple hundred years) had a quarter of infants die before the age of one and half of kids die before age 15, COVID’s consequences are nothing in comparison
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Sep 17, 2023 22:08
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Fun vocabulary time: the word for your sense of smell getting distorted is parosmia. Anosmia is when it goes missing or gets reduced.
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Sep 20, 2023 04:40
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Close, but reduced sense of smell is hyposmia. Thank you, adding that one to my stable!
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Sep 20, 2023 05:04
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chainchompz posted:Purely anecdotal but I've heard from multiple folks in my circle that the latest strain doesn't show up in tests until well after you've already got symptoms. Edit: like a few days after symptoms show up. I did see a study recently that suggests rapids are a coin flip until the third and fourth day of symptoms: CIDRAP: Evolving peak SARS-CoV-2 loads relative to symptom onset may influence home-test timing The New Normal: Delayed Peak SARS-CoV-2 Viral Loads Relative to Symptom Onset and Implications for COVID-19 Testing Programs “Median SARS-CoV-2 viral loads, as measured by polymerase chain reaction cycle threshold (Ct) and antigen concentrations, rose from symptom onset, peaking on the fourth or fifth day of symptoms. Estimated rapid antigen test sensitivity was 30.0% to 60.0% on the first day, 59.2% to 74.8% on the third, and 80.0% to 93.3% on the fourth.”
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Hippie Hedgehog posted:Good point. The first is indeed what I meant, because I had seen that reported at some point long ago. There's a preprint I know about that gives you the best chance of knowing Long COVID rates for vaccinated Omicron infections, I think: Long COVID in a highly vaccinated population infected during a SARS-CoV-2 Omicron wave – Australia, 2022 94% of the population in the study had >=3 vaccine doses when they got COVID, and they excluded people with a previous infection, and since Australia more or less kept COVID at bay until Omicron that's likely the strain they had. It's a pretty large survey -- 11,697 out of all 70,876 people reported to the DOH with COVID during that period. 18.2% of the survey respondents could be classified as having Long COVID 3 months from their infection; the vast majority were not hospitalized. Among people without previous chronic health issues Long COVID incidence was 16.2%.
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Apparently a new antiviral is coming that won’t do that https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1717547079168647317?s=20
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Oct 26, 2023 21:29
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Any word on what the window is for this? Something more generous than Paxlovid's "by the time you test positive, it's too late" would be great. Alas https://biopharma.media/xocova-powerful-new-japanese-drug-for-coronavirus-treatment-3494/#google_vignette posted:Xocova, which is suitable for the treatment of adults and children (12 years and older), should be prescribed if no more than 72 hours have elapsed since the onset of symptoms. Otherwise, the effectiveness of this antiviral drug will not be as high.
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Oct 26, 2023 23:20
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Tagra posted:"not as high" but is there any effectiveness at all? How much "not as high"? My guess is they don’t know because the study was set up for within three days of symptom onset: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05305547 https://www.shionogi.com/global/en/news/2022/09/20220928.html The source saying not as high may have just been assuming.
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Oct 27, 2023 16:22
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When I have to unmask at the TSA, I take in a big breath, hold it while unmasked, then exhale vigorously when I put my mask back on, thereby hopefully ensuring my next breath won’t contain any unfiltered air. This is probably as efficacious as avoiding stepping on cracks so you won’t break your mother’s back but I figure it can’t hurt.
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For a stretch in 20/21’s respiratory season a lot of people masking were in cloth and surgicals and flu cases absolutely cratered. I wouldn’t trust them for personal protection but on a population level it feels like it makes a difference.
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