Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
(Thread IKs: PoundSand)
 
  • Post
  • Reply
deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

this is framed as good news/bad news but I think it’s more good news/business as usual. super hosed up variant doesn’t appear to be extremely fit but surprise there’s a new more fit minor variant

https://twitter.com/solidevidence/status/1691782805334749676

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007


rip ohio supershitter we will miss you

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

let's goooooooooo

https://twitter.com/SolidEvidence/status/1692200994632089809

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

yooooooooo i ordered an aranet4 off amazon and it appears that ups may have lost the package

might be getting a free aranet4 :toot:

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

Gunshow Poophole posted:

setting over/unders:

uploaded sequenced cases of BA.2.86 at 1,000 by this date

predominance of BA.2.86 in the USA at large at 40%

under for both, it's going to take a hell of a variant to pull us out of the variant soup phase and ba.2.86 doesn't appear to be that hell of a variant. i would hedge my bets on ba.2.86 loving up people who have a significant wall of prior immunity from previous infections, while xbb.whatevers continue to gently caress up people who haven't had many prior infections

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

https://twitter.com/alexselby1770/status/1694732375077339501

(thread)
hard to tell for sure based on the current State of monitoring but BA.2.86 does not appear to have a major growth advantage

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

StratGoatCom posted:

On that note, would anyone know the component markings to make sure it's a genuine aranet, given what we've seen with masks there?

just got mine in, and followed the Official Checks (fwiw they tell you to buy on Amazon here)

https://aranet.com/buyer-beware-only-purchase-aranet-products-from-listed-locations/

being able to connect to the app and push a firmware update seems to be a pretty foolproof way to see if you have a fake or not

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

Gunshow Poophole posted:

lol I ordered both flo and betadine nasal sprays from Amazon (usa #1) and both showed up open box no seals lmao I'm sposeda squirt this in my nose??

wish there was a reputable importer available

the flos coming with no seal seems pretty common, you can tell if it has been used by seeing if you need to PRIME THE PUMP (a term my president invented)

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

Soap Scum posted:

first day of eZoo festival just got cancelled due to "global supply chain issues"

:hmmrona:

they literally didn't finish building the main stage lmao

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

https://twitter.com/KashPrime/status/1697850562476179883

:thunk:

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

https://twitter.com/sbmpediatrics/status/1701045902100603213

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

kreeningsons posted:

Well I got my Moderna juice. Side effects about a 6/10. Gave a PSA at our staff meeting that the vaccine is available if anyone so chooses.

I’m 100% sure this is bogus but one coworker then told me that his doctor told him that Pfizer is in the news for paying the biggest fine by a pharmaceutical company in history and that his doctor recommended against the Pfizer vaccine. this isn’t in the news though and not even in right wing channels that I can find. anyone know wtf this is about?

By 'his doctor', he means someone with a blue checkmark and 'MD' in their name on twitter

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

Ragaduffin posted:

Loving all these animals!

Not loving that I got my booster yesterday and the only effect is a sore arm! WTF. How do I know my body is working right?! For the last 6 (7?) It's been very obvious, both physically and in my watch readouts like HRV and HR.

Now I'll have to be worried that I just recently had secret super mild COVID

i got mine yesterday as well and was like 'this booster ain't poo poo' until ~15 hours after the shot when all those good ol symptoms came rushing in

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

we have the tools!!!!!!!!

https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1714044347648504021

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

the new kid on the block is ready

https://twitter.com/JPWeiland/status/1716956327732531409

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

WrasslorMonkey posted:

Just a little psychic damage from the Musk thread to start your morning



I like the scare caps on MONTANA

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

shazbot posted:

couple married dudes I know are convinced they have mono cause they have a sore throat and extreme fatigue

covid can reactivate mono

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

Hybrid Immunity is Back (note: you have to do the opposite of what everyone who says they have hybrid immunity does and actually continue to keep getting boosters)

https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1732447948058096070

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

Pingui posted:

News article on this study:

As a reminder it is a macaque study and the viral doses used were excessive (though from a purely statistical standpoint, I feel confident that quite a few people have been exposed to very high doses). It is nevertheless interesting and it is worth considering what this looks like in a) a human population, b) what it looks like past people trying to minimize exposure (in effect upping the dose, relative to earlier) and c) what bespoke direction viral lung reservoirs will take in humans after 18 months (contingent on being present).

"COVID-19: The persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in the lungs and the role of innate immunity"

quote:

Another finding was that the amount of persistent virus in the lungs was lower for the omicron strain than for the original SARS-CoV-2 strain.

Mild! :blessed:

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

shazbot posted:

in my 4 days at the hospital
techs were 75% masked
nurses 33%
and I saw a single dr with a mask. he was the one examining my swollen balls

nicki minaj tried to warn you and you didn’t listen

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007


this michael guy sucks and doesn't know poo poo fwiw, he is huge on assumptions, take everything he has to say with a massive grain of salt

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

Dog Case posted:

I've been checking the news occasionally and Mystery Dog Illness is still a mystery

But of course it was the lockdowns that caused it



lmao

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

still fairly quiet covid-wise here in the Plague Peninsula but I'm sure that's going to change very quickly with holiday travel :)

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:

What's the first thing everyone is going to do when the pandemic is over?

probably get hit by a car and die

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

Pingui posted:

Merry Covidmas!

and a happy new strain to all

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

lmao flo prices on amazon currently at an eye-watering 30 bucks a pop, just bought 10 more from that Australian pharmacy for a whopping 97 bucks instead, should be good for a couple years

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

Rescue Toaster posted:

What percentage of people haven't had COVID even a single time yet though?

almost certainly way lower than people think

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

Hungry Squirrel posted:

I don't trust the Flo on Amazon, the seller looks hinky and the reviews suck.

just buy it from Australia Pharmacy Online, even with international shipping it's half to a third of the price, depending on the current Amazon price.

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

Cabbages and Kings posted:

Well it took a while after the virus (2 weeks?) but I am quite certain my already dire tinnitus is louder and more annoying and doing a better job cutting through the meds I take for it so that's awesome.

fwiw mine was noticeably worse for like 2 months after getting got and either my brain got used to it or it got better

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

first day back in the office after the holidays and I am chuffed as chips that it’s loving empty lol, hopefully that means the sick people are actually staying away

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

i know marc is an iffy post here but worth getting ahead of what's sure to be the new hot study on the antivax front

https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/1746245868179611847
https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/1746245914220532131

lmao

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

Teabag Dome Scandal posted:

This is a few days old but since I've had covid back in September I've been having silent acid reflux flareups that manifest in me as jaw pain. I've also been having discomfort along my sternum that some medication for stomach ulcers has helped.

yeah just another fun post-viral thing you can get, I had a silent reflux for like 2 years after getting a bad case of the flu. it eventually resolved itself but still was not fun

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007


aj and ebright are both grifters, hth

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

Johnny Cache Hit posted:

because of this? or something else? need to update the aj row in my covidposters.xlsx accordingly thx

for the last year and a half or so he's been more interested in twitter slapfights, substack subscriptions, and poorly interpreting studies than offering anything insightful or useful

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

Rescue Toaster posted:

When was the last time we had a monoclonal that worked? Summer '22 ?

iirc one was approved a few months ago

good luck getting it tho lmao

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

Soap Scum posted:

whitenoise post

i've had a legitimately extremely mild sore throat for the last week (feels a bit raw if i yell/sing but painless when talking or swallowing, for example). zero other symptoms that i've noted, essentially no exposure (masking everywhere), and i've tested either four or five times very thoroughly in the last week and all have been unambiguously negative. i'm pretty positive it's not covid but at this point i'm like annoyed that i somehow got something else and also that i used up a handful of tests on it u_u world is dumb. okay that's all thanks

my wife had this sore throat for like 5 days until it broke into a really bad cough that has been pretty persistent for the last 4 days or so, with a very mild fever noted a couple of times. all covid tests continue to be negative and I continue to not be sick, we are both testing daily since we have so many tests that need to go anyway lol

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

yep, I have fairly high confidence that there will be some decent treatments for post-viral conditions within the next two years, which is awesome

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

Pingui posted:

Cope weasel: "T-Cells will protect us!"

T-Cells: :blastu: :brainworms:
"Bystander activated CD8+ T cells mediate neuropathology during viral infection via antigen-independent cytotoxicity"

News article on the matter:
"Immune response, not acute viral infections, responsible for neurological damage, McMaster researchers discover"

igg4 crew stays winning, max titers is the luckiest man on earth

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

Silent Linguist posted:

What lozenges and sprays do you use?

not OP but in the plaguelands of Florida I am currently using Flo for the nasal spray and Now OralBiotic as the lozenge. I do both every morning no matter what I'm up to, and then do an additional 2x lozenges and a nasal spray when I get home if I'm out doing a relatively risky activity (going to work, seeing friends/family, hitting the bar, etc). if I know I'm going to be out of the house for an extended period of time, I bring the nasal spray along with me for a midday top off.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

deadwing
Mar 5, 2007

https://twitter.com/naomirwolf/status/1755727910680350976

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • Post
  • Reply