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loading... posted:now that we're 100% openerup i am becoming more and more alienated from more and more of my friends whose social media posts indicate they are incredibly selfish and will gladly spread a horribly infectious, deadly, mass disabling disease at every available opportunity, until i have no one left 
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welp, wife’s rapid test is positive I have a sore throat 
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Mar 24, 2022 19:57
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Note to thread: wife's nasal swab was negative. 2x throat + nasal swabs were positive. Throat swab lyfe.
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Mar 24, 2022 20:19
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places the positive wife and presumed positive i have been in the past week: 1. dentist (no masks, but masks for staff w/portable hepa filters running on full) 2. grocery store (just her, but in an aura in a still mask-dominant area of the country) 3. a home nannyshare, where everyone tests routinely and is pretty careful. all have tested negative recently. welp. two years of locking down in every way we could without quitting our jobs down the drain. right after the moderna news, too. awesome.
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Mar 24, 2022 20:56
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Nocturtle posted:I'm sorry to hear this! Hope you can take it very easy for a while. yeah, we're in auras right now. air filters are running. isolating from the toddler is hard to impossible. rules. most recent nasal vs. throat + nasal swab comparison:  throat's nice and dark. Insanite has issued a correction as of 21:08 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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Mar 24, 2022 21:05
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is there any benefit in continuing to mask and isolate in a household if you're all confirmed positive? i have not taken a bio class since high school and i don't know how immune systems work. i will therefore be taking over as the white house's covid response coordinator.
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Mar 25, 2022 00:12
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entering day two of my symptoms living with a covid positive spouse. my morning rapid test is negative. so, uh, probably don’t bet it all on rapid tests early on.
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Mar 25, 2022 12:54
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Chad Sexington posted:Lots of people on work Slack saying they are sick with "allergies" and reporting negative antigen tests. still testing negative on rapid tests, though i definitely have it and have been symptomatic for over a day. lol. we'll never reach 200 cases per 100k pop. in the past 7 days again. as designed.
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Mar 25, 2022 18:43
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welp, toddler is offically RAT-positive three days after my wife popped positive. i remain negative, but i assume it is still coming. it's been a long two years. good thing covid is over, now. what's omicron infection immunity good for? twenty, thirty years?
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Mar 26, 2022 15:58
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silicone thrills posted:University of Washington is doing a shingrix study aimed at people aged 30-40. Think imma jump on that poo poo drat, wish there were something like that around boston. (day 3 of being around two positive family members. still rapid testing negative while symptomatic the whole time lol.)
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Mar 26, 2022 23:52
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welp. finally RATted positive ~3 days into symptoms and ~5 days after exposure. was beginning to think that i had ~~superior genes~~ or something
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Mar 27, 2022 19:50
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papersack posted:How are the Binax rapid tests at detecting COVID nowadays? I've taken three, all negative, but still got lingering doubts. I swab my throat twice, then nose twice. Anything else I should be doing? depends on when you test over the course of an infection. you are likely to have symptoms for a bit before you test positive if you’re vaccinated. I’m lightning mine up right now, but it took three days after exposure to show even a faint line. home rapid tests are kinda garbage unless you serial test according to instructions. they are okay but imperfect when used as directed. (my wife is five days out from her first positive. ready to go back to work, according to the cdc, but very very much still positive.)
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Mar 29, 2022 17:46
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papersack posted:Thanks. My first potential exposure was Friday, and last was yesterday. I've got tons of these things so I'll be doing one a day until Saturday. No symptoms yet, hoping I made it out ok. consider making a PCR test at the end of the week your final say. the rapid tests are definitely not bulletproof. assume that you are positive until you get your results. if you're american--home PCR test that you can probably get for free: https://www.ondemand.labcorp.com/at-home-test-kits/covid-19-test-home-collection-kit Nocturtle posted:Hope your family's doing OK. Don't let the CDC drag your wife back to work IMO. she's not going back for a while, but when she is, she'll be around people who are following company/cdc guidance, so, uh, looking forward to getting this over and over again with no long-term ill effects at all.
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Mar 29, 2022 18:11
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currently infected with covid over here. does this mean my brain is becoming streamlined and more efficient?
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Mar 30, 2022 12:30
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not_superiority posted:It would be worth calling ahead to ask. My new dentist's office had air purifiers in the exam room so I felt pretty good about it. also, think about positioning even if they have purifiers. the dentist is our #1 suspect for how covid hit my family. they did have portable purifiers, but they were positioned in such a way that your head is pretty much in between the filter and everything it is drawing in.
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Mar 30, 2022 12:56
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::ill with covid, trying to take care of equally ill toddler while without childcare for another week at least, burning through pto:: wow i'm so free
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Mar 30, 2022 19:28
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BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:Welp I'm feeling back to normal after ~24hr of feeling crappy + diarrhea so I assume it was food poisoning/norovirus. Too close for comfort though, I'll have to be more diligent w envomask and not just kn94 it out of laziness. PCRs will be positive for a long while after a covid infection, iirc.
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Mar 31, 2022 13:49
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theflyingexecutive posted:I cruised the op but didn't see it, what's the best covid recovery strategy? I'm on day 8 of symptoms, drinking water and resting, but I'm being hit a lot by fatigue, headache, and gi symptoms. are there medications to take/avoid? I've been taking mostly ibuprofen and acetaminophen same boat, basically, if a little earlier in the course of infection. my rear end is thoroughly kicked. am taking ibuprofen and acetaminophen as needed. also plan to avoid alcohol for the next several weeks. maybe forever--i've been drinking too much during this pandemic, anyway. have resumed taking fish oil in the bro science hope that it does anything for microclots. /shrug it's sort of scary that there's nothing really out there for us to do but wait and hope that our numbers aren't up. shouldn't having good tools for recovery be part of "living with covid?"
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Mar 31, 2022 23:37
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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? Ty for reminding me that I have to have this conversation. I hate it. and we have a kid. spreadsheeting neither eliminates my risk nor the young child’s, so that’s cool. we have covid _currently_ and I got bristled at for talking about NYC’s mayor demanding that people get back to work because restaurants need their lunch crowd, damnit. “what are people supposed to do—never go to a restaurant again?” 
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Apr 1, 2022 12:21
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Cheesus posted:Same boat with spouse and child. my spouse isn't even an open biden person! she masks in indoor settings and has generally been okay with cspam-level precautions for most of the pandemic. she hates emily oster, for god's sake. but she also wants to start doing "normal" things, like being in the office sometimes or taking the kid to swim lessons indoors. it's not that i don't understand the desire, but does reality support "normal?" does doing enough "normal" mean that one of us will have a pulmonary embolism w/in the next five years? she's okay with talking about long-term care insurance, supplemental disability, advance directives, etc., but says that they are "depressing." indefinitely committing to behaviors that will reduce the need for these things is not acceptable, though, i guess. i think that what another poster earlier ITT called western "senioritis" is a big part of this. like, why be so careful if you know the world will collapse around you in a few years, anyway? Insanite has issued a correction as of 13:08 on Apr 1, 2022 |
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Apr 1, 2022 13:05
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NeonPunk posted:Is there a product or something that people can buy to be able to poo poo into? it's called a bucket, op lol let's ride this public health disaster into pre-plumbing times
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Apr 1, 2022 14:11
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wife and i are 9 and 6 days out from first positive tests, respectively. cdc says we're ready to go to work with any mask at all, lol.  e: while discussing this, wife said that she's read things that say that being 10+ days out still RATting positive is not necessarily a sign of infectiousness. this would be news to me if true. does that sound familiar to anyone? i thought this was only the case with PCRs. Insanite has issued a correction as of 14:32 on Apr 2, 2022 |
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Apr 2, 2022 14:24
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Buffer posted:the challenge trials that just got published had infectiousness at 12+ days after a positive test this was also my thought. it seems like the Japanese preprint that is floating around noted that it was hard to get cultured virus ten days out or something, but that seems quite different from “nah, you’re good to work and mingle regardless of what the test says, now.”
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Apr 2, 2022 15:01
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CGI Stardust posted:i don't think these have been posted in the last few days? provides some more support for SARS-CoV-2 doing unpleasant things to brains as a layperson, I’m seldom able to tell whether things like this mean “this virus isn’t great to great” or “100% dead or disabled in 5 years”
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Apr 3, 2022 14:08
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The other thing that humanity has to keep in mind is that we all have to respect each other's choices. "The big message is that at this point [if you live in an area] with levels low, everyone has to evaluate their own risk, their own family's risk," says Weatherhead. And those decisions, she stresses, "should be respected" by all. lol
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Apr 3, 2022 14:23
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:I don’t think I ever ate in a sit down restaurant more than two times in my entire childhood and people literally dying for it is funny as hell and also incredibly sad I grew up similarly. we ate out maybe once every couple of years and, maybe as a result, I’m not devastated about avoiding restaurants for these last couple of years. I don’t really get it. really makes for tension in relationships, though!
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Apr 3, 2022 16:26
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:“There’s a narrative that the only legitimate socialization happens on commercial real estate” is 100% correct. Capitalism monetizes everything eventually, even basic human nature. yup. it can perversely chip away at the value of “free” experiences, too—I’ve known people to poo poo on the idea of hiking or having a picnic in the park rather than dining out. like, what the gently caress? is it the socialization they miss or is it just a specific variety of consumption?
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Apr 3, 2022 17:09
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mawarannahr posted:
we live in hell
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Apr 3, 2022 20:21
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Zisky posted:Are you just realizing this now? I guess it’s more like a mantra than anything
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Apr 3, 2022 20:32
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Zugzwang posted:1. lmao the symptoms are virtually always mild to start. give me some follow-ups, VIPs.
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Apr 4, 2022 01:22
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are the blue "'HEPASilent' but not actually HEPA" filters trash? i recall seeing them performing well with tiny particles, e.g. smoke, so i assumed from that that they were probably okay regardless of the filter design
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Apr 4, 2022 19:07
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Trixie Hardcore posted:BlueAir has a whole page on their website devoted to how serious they are about covid that makes it sound like their purifiers do something for covid but the only filter BlueAir actually claims does anything to filter the virus is the Protect 7400 filter. If any of their other filters were effective filtering the virus I would assume they would mention it explicitly but since they don't I wouldn't count on a HEPASilent to filter the virus. interesting. consumer reports is pretty into them, and their air purifier testing setup is so legitimate that they made a tiktok video about it: https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7075069660026178862 the dentist's office where my wife probably caught covid does, however, use portable blueairs exclusively. 
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Apr 4, 2022 19:55
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wife's boss is in the office today while her husband has just come down with covid why risk giving it to others when you have an easy phones 'n' computers job? "what am i supposed to do? stay at home for two weeks?" lol i can't deal with this am i an alien? why does anyone think behaving like this is acceptable?
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Apr 5, 2022 17:07
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Pingui posted:Someone said silica packages should do the trick. while this might be true, the new job + key car option does seem best.
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Apr 6, 2022 00:03
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 Feel like I'm going insane when I see things like this. I just struggled to walk my dog around the block after 'recovering' from a 'mild' COVID infection. 
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Apr 7, 2022 23:39
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Thoguh posted:I'm starting to feel like the best case scenario is being able to try and be infected fewer times than the average person over the next couple of years because between having to work to pay the mortgage and having a kid in daycare and eventually school there's just no way to avoid it forever when the official government stance is that catching COVID is fine and good and there is no reason at all anyone should be avoiding that. yup. if I were single and childless I’d be able to keep up the hermit thing more successfully, but I don’t see a way to not tally up multiple infections while raising a kid. beyond this, the “fewer” part is really dependent on how over one’s partner feels covid is. feels awesome given that we know so little about what repeated covid infections do to us!
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Apr 10, 2022 16:40
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FT devoting a lot of space to long COVID today: https://twitter.com/ftopinion/status/1513004524323147777 Random quotes: quote:While long Covid is taking a heavy toll on the individuals affected, it also represents a disaster in the making for businesses and economies — potentially pushing significant numbers of people out of labour markets where employers are already struggling to hire. quote:Policymakers are starting to suspect the condition is a factor behind the labour shortages seen in the US and UK, where many older workers are looking to work fewer hours or have left the workforce completely. One study by the Brookings Institution in January speculated that long Covid could potentially account for upwards of 15 per cent of the 10.6mn unfilled jobs in the US. quote:So far, the scale of the problem globally is unknown: very few countries collect data on the incidence of long Covid, and employers are not always aware of cases among their staff, who often struggle to get a diagnosis, or are reluctant to disclose their condition for fear it will affect their position. quote:Research by the UK’s Trades Union Congress found that a quarter of employees with long Covid had not dared tell their employer, while a fifth faced questions about the impact of their symptoms and one in 20 had felt forced to retire, resign or take redundancy. “We have a significant workplace issue, a growing issue,” says Sue Coe, TUC senior policy officer. Followed by a lot of capitalist paper proposing 'humane' capitalist solutions to prevent too much loss of 'talent' stuff. Better to see it covered in mainstream sources than not, though.
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Apr 10, 2022 18:23
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2fat4sex posted:Try looking in the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania. It's very boring culturally compared to NYC (but let's be real, if you're a thread regular that's not your highest priority lmao), but has nice scenery and nature within easy reach and is only a 2 hour drive back into NYC if you ever want to do any events there. Housing prices are slowly climbing thanks to people like you trying to flee the city, but it's still not quite as insane as anything in Jersey is. i'm a citydweller, but good god have i been daydreaming about being able to enjoy nature w/out driving out somewhere. birds are cool. plus, there is less covid outside. the outdoors: good.
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Apr 11, 2022 14:39
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https://twitter.com/fitterhappierAJ/status/1513451481910763526 is this good
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Sex Arse of Calais posted:big same similarly massive same it's amazing that things beside "it's a bad cold" never remain in popular discussion even the scary cardiovascular complications thing from VA data has come and gone
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