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fosborb posted:every time I have visited St Louis I've had a 104 fever Every time I've been to Texas they had to take my gallbladder out. I'm afraid to go back since I'm all out of gallbladders.
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Aug 16, 2023 20:10
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hailthefish posted:Puzzling, you post in this thread, and yet you believe the doctors when they tell you that you don't have any more gallbladders. We all watched the CDC bow to the antacids lobby and reduce the number of gallbladders per person from 10 to 5. Fun fact, I asked the surgeon if I could have my gallbladder after they removed it from my body, and he said no because they needed to present it to some insurance guy to prove they weren't just performing fake surgeries. Then they charged me 100,000 dollars. Which I'm never going to pay.
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Aug 16, 2023 20:58
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Mr. Pizza posted:I noticed hidrb.com wasn't in the list of Paxlovid providers in the OP and I want to chime in that I got pax through them just last week, $15, never had to actually talk to anyone. Literally took 3 minutes from submitting the thing to receiving email confirmation that it was approved and the prescription had been sent to my local pharmacy. I said I was unvaccinated, former smoker, and moderately overweight. I've also had no problem with hidrb, but apparently they have in the past requested a photo id and/or a photo of a positive test (IIRC they only wanted a positive test from me, thank you photoshop) so it's a couple of extra hoops to jump through. It's still the cheapest though so I stuck with it. Pyrolocutus posted:Well this is ominous. RIP to a real one, either the guy or the variant
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Aug 17, 2023 01:44
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Pitcher Witcher posted:Are these new boosters going to cost money? lol yeah, $100-ish
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Aug 17, 2023 03:30
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brugroffil posted:Hi thread what's the latest on new boosters? Coming beginning/end of September, maybe? There was apparently some fuckery with the ending of the emergency that resulted in them taking more time to come out. Rick posted:Anyone here do trucking? In my imagination you could stay pretty covid safe despite all the driving around but maybe I'm missing something. Not a trucker but as someone who spends a lot of time at truck stops  they're not always most welcoming of masking. I tend to get more remarks behind my back/fake coughing/fake coughing that turns into real coughing at those sorts of places than anything else.
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Aug 17, 2023 12:57
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eXXon posted:Doctors and scientists who study Covid-19 agree that for most people, getting infected for a second — or third or fourth — time is basically inevitable. (Padme face)  Per lifetime, right?(Padme face)  Per lifetime, right?
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Aug 18, 2023 05:16
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Bruce Hussein Daddy posted:quote: Sounds like the author wasn't listening to the Surgeon General and thus, to science
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Aug 18, 2023 20:37
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As long as we're posting our greatest hits, I've had this image saved for like two years and thankfully never had the opportunity to use it (the one time I caught covid I managed to not give it to anybody).
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Aug 20, 2023 01:41
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eXXon posted:https://twitter.com/scottlincicome/status/1693271300460962195 Apologies if this is starting to get off-topic, but christ I cannot imagine having money and wanting to go to Applebee's. I don't have money and don't want to go to Applebee's. What is wrong with America's rich?
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Aug 21, 2023 14:41
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Further on the horse paste discussion, a reminder that a doctor in Arkansas was running his own little captive research group by secretly treating all the covid positive inmates in a Washington County jail with ivermectin Starting a SAD thread about these inmates not being willing to trust their doctor.
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Aug 22, 2023 03:59
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The Demilich posted:Part of me wonders if they've actually caught it a few times previously and were simply asymptomatic, and now that they've caught it enough times it's to the point where being asymptomatic is no longer possible. They never had covid, as they tested negative on an expired RAT that they briefly inserted into their nose. They have, however, had three of those summer colds we all remember people getting all the time.
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Aug 23, 2023 19:21
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Just reminded of the time about a year ago when I took a tour of some old underground tunnels and the tour guide started handing out masks. One or two people scoffed, and she said, "It's not for covid, it's really musty down there." Which caused the skeptics to mask up super quick lest they catch... must.
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Aug 23, 2023 20:10
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With actual natto, the texture is more of a barrier than the taste, IMO. It's pretty good with a raw egg mixed into it but we can't do that in America since our eggs are hosed.
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Aug 23, 2023 20:59
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nexous posted:of loving course they did. the flu literally disappeared! gone! none of it when we tried. I still can't believe this isn't widely known. Half-assed disease control measures killed half the flu. Like, assuming governments were capable of handling this sort of thing, they could have gone, "Covid has died out, but we're gonna lock down for an extra week just in case and to see if we can get rid of one of the seasonal cold variants and eradicate the flu for good. Here's food and $2000." Better worlds are possible, we just choose not to live in them.
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Aug 24, 2023 02:49
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Pingui posted:I got the sense that Japans inbound travel was heavily restricted, is that wrong? Yeah, that stayed in effect until like... September of last year, I think? All inbound travelers had to quarantine, unless they were Japanese nationals in which case it was "please don't go anywhere for 2 weeks, kthx bye" and then people would immediately go out to, uh, I guess Saizeriya is the Japanese equivalent of Applebee's. Of course, there was plenty of homegrown covid to go around.
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Aug 24, 2023 03:18
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Delta-Wye posted:im happy to see itt mods agree with me - people making pharmaceuticals to combat the pandemic are clearly pandemic profiteers and should be punished *sees a worker standing over a cooler of syringes* What do we have here? Looks like somebody's hoarding vaccines!
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Aug 24, 2023 04:36
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This is either a fancy new fortune telling method or a chart of Catholic feast days.
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Aug 24, 2023 19:36
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Pingui posted:Seems bad. drat it's crazy how much time these deer are spending indoors. I bet fish are doing pretty good against the novel coronavirus because they're usually in schools.
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Aug 28, 2023 15:08
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It's likely impossible to track, but I'd like to see how infectivity correlates with people bothering to give a poo poo about covid. A mutation needs to be fit when some people are actually trying to stop it from spreading, but now? Any old variant will do. I've been debating whether or not to post about this just because of how rattled it left me, but I've been out traveling this week and when I was at Yellowstone, some fuckhead ripped my mask off in the parking lot. I had just been to see Old Faithful and was putting my bike back on the car when I heard some giggling, I turned around and two beefy dudes were there, one of them with his hand in my face. I was too surprised for any kind of witty retort, so I just batted him away and got in my van. It was a pretty low-risk situation (I was about to take it off anyway, lmao) and it's been several days since then so I figure I'm in the clear, but christ, I can't even post what I hope happens to that fucker. Anyway, southeastern Wyoming is nice as well, never been here before.
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Sep 1, 2023 02:27
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Thanks for the various comiserations, not quoting any because I'm phone posting from an empty field in Nebraska.Steve Yun posted:new twitter slang dropped It is possible to both be horny and have covid (until your dick stops working).
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Sep 2, 2023 01:33
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Gunshow Poophole posted:I've been using epothex for the last two weeks, can't really comment on its efficacy obviously cause I haven't gotten sick lol. It has a bit of burn when you spray it, because of the preservative / alcohol ingredients that I think are solvents for whatever gunk it claims to be "active". I am not a doctor, but I'd bet a good deal of the efficacy of the various nasal sprays is just putting something in your nose. Like just spraying distilled water up in there would probably do something. Who's to say whether it's 10% or 40% or 70% as effective as saline, but it's just a bit of hygiene that a lot of people don't do. I sure as hell never cleaned my nose. Likewise with the mouthwash thing, gargling with tap water is probably good for you. Every anti-covid message in Japan emphasized washing your hands and gargling, and at the time I would make fun of them for saying that gargling would stop covid, and then it turns out it might actually work lol.
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Sep 3, 2023 02:39
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Steve Yun posted:are confined Covid concert cancellations kosher here "Did the test come back positive?" YEAAAAAAUHAAAAHHHHH-UH!
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Sep 3, 2023 04:44
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eXXon posted:I checked out Ontario's guidance for Paxlovid out of curiosity: Like, that's just everybody. Find me someone over the age of 18 who hasn't ever gotten covid and doesn't have any comorbidities. There's probably like 200 people total and they're all on some sort of government list to be ushered into the vaults when the nukes come. This is what people are gatekeeping so hard?
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Sep 5, 2023 01:02
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PoundSand posted:The talk of potential masking at a few of the gov jobs we do at my company has come up and people are very mad about it. Old man inspector, that mind you is never going to be going to the site or have to mask anyways as he is strictly in desk jockey territory, went into a long winded rant about having heard the science on his radio stations that covid is too small and no known mask can stop it from getting through. Tell him that N95s can't stop virus particles, but they can stop shedding particles produced by the vaccinated. Dr. Dr. Jill Biden probably has more drugs in her system right now than an entire Berlin underground rave club, her blood type just comes back as "No" Rochallor has issued a correction as of 01:22 on Sep 8, 2023 |
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Sep 8, 2023 01:19
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DeSantis probably racked up at least a quadruple digit death count with his various covid policies (beyond the baked in 50,000 or so every governor has) in his vain attempt to become President, which currently has him in a dead heat with Vivek Ramaswamy.
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Sep 8, 2023 18:08
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Jizzny Princess posted:In some other, still pestilence related news, new strain of mutated avian flu is popping off. *reflexively* bird flu uh, can't spread in schools
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Sep 9, 2023 03:58
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maxwellhill posted:post-nasal drip is a symptom of damaged tissue, because dripping is normal but you're never supposed to perceive it unless the nerves got sensitized somehow. can happen with upper respiratory acid reflux i think All mine says on the bottle is USE AS OFTEN AS NEEDED. I AM NOT A DOCTOR, however in terms of ingredients I don't see how spraying your nostrils once or twice a day is fundamentally different from swimming in the ocean daily. It's just salt and water and occasionally a binding compound
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Sep 10, 2023 00:54
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The Maroon Hawk posted:Because flu shots are just shots, they're not vaccines, thus perfectly safe BRB, stealing a tranq rifle from the zoo and loading it up with 5.56 vaccine cartridges
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Sep 12, 2023 04:03
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It's not like Novavax is a miracle drug. There is apparently some value in being, I forget what the phrase is, but basically "immunologically interesting" where you immunity comes from a variety of sources instead of 4/5/6 Pfizer shots. So having a bunch of shots of different make is better, but that doesn't make the new mRNA one useless.
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Sep 13, 2023 00:28
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Making my appointment and apparently the actual name of the Pfizer shot is SPIKEVAX. Why the hell aren't people calling it that, that rules Edit: See below Rochallor has issued a correction as of 19:07 on Sep 13, 2023 |
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Sep 13, 2023 18:40
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BusError posted:I'm just about through my bottle of Enovid and I'd like to replace it with some iota carrageenan spray instead of dropping another jillion dollars on something that by all accounts works less well. US goons who have purchased some, where'd you get it? I've pretty skeptical of getting anything that really needs to be the genuine article from Amazon, but that's all I've found via googling... You can just buy epothex from epothex dot com, that's about as secure as you're gonna get when it comes to online stuff. They have a bunch of brands, make sure you're buying the iota carrageenan one which is the sticky stuff. road potato posted:Ah, thanks for clarifying. I assume that you mean 'people who are asking questions but not fully folowing the thread orthodoxy of 100% safety precautions. FWIW, I feel like the thread has been a super helpful place for mostly-lurkers like myself who don't take the full-tilt set of precautions like many others. This thread has been a huge help in explaining how covid actually works; how it's not some capricious ghost targeting people at random. You can't bargain or reason with it, but you can prevent it with a pretty drat high degree of certainty. If you just wear a properly fitted N95 mask (assuming nobody rips it off your face) you can basically live like it's 2019! I wish I would have known that while I was messing around with a surgical mask for years. For all the poo poo the thread gets it's made me much less afraid.
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Sep 16, 2023 22:44
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Abraham Lincoln, tragically after-birth aborted by the coward John Wilkes Booth
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Sep 18, 2023 16:57
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I also got a call from Walgreens canceling my appointment because they hadn't gotten their shipment yet. Good to see that everybody's on the ball about thisLouisgod posted:vegas shouldn't exist and it's depressing that people think going there to spend all your money on lovely alcohol is a vacation counterpoint: vegas is fun and all the fun things about it you can do wearing a mask
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Sep 18, 2023 18:23
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U-DO Burger posted:This has been an interesting day From now on I'm listening to U-DO Burger's wife's doctor.
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Sep 19, 2023 00:57
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fosborb posted:well that's a hell of a google result This is why you want to get it in a different arm each time, gotta spread the weight around. I found out the other day that my uncle died of/with covid (we weren't close). This happened about two weeks ago but the nursing home didn't contact my mom until now because they're so short-staffed they didn't have anybody on hand to inform next of kin. Perfectly normal and sustainable, I'm sure.
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Sep 21, 2023 18:10
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Saagonsa posted:A walgreens participating in the Bridge Access Program tried to charge me $182.99 for a covid shot. A bridge too far. I was initially signed up for a covid shot and a flu shot, but apparently Walgreens doesn't take my insurance (?) and they wanted to change me $70 for it. And I'm sure this is a thing that has happened to everybody before but it's just loving unbelievable, really. The biggest pharmacy in the country can just go, "nah, we don't do this" and that's just considered normal. gently caress this dumb country.
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Sep 22, 2023 01:30
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A couple days ago I started getting a sore throat and some congestion after about 2 weeks of traveling through Canada and New England. Two negative RATs and no progression of symptoms later think I have to admit I somehow dodged covid but did pick up that summer cold that's always going around. Glad it's (probably) not covid but gotta say, being sick sucks! Avoid it if you can!
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Oct 1, 2023 16:17
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Majorian posted:https://twitter.com/GinaShirah81815/status/1708314727422513629 Step 1: Distribute inactivated Marburg virus through vaccines. Step 2: Activate the virus at a time where barely anybody has gotten vaxxed due to incompetent rollout. Step 3: ??? Step 4: Joe Biden wins 2024 election.
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Oct 3, 2023 18:48
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There are a bunch of times I wish I could time travel back to 2018 or so, but even if I could I still wouldn't get on a loving cruise, good god.
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Oct 8, 2023 00:17
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I caught the flu for the first time in my life about three months after I started teaching, went to the doctor and he told me to stay home for five days. At the time I didn't really get that the flu wasn't just a cold and figured I would use the time off to get some shopping done. I tried to walk up one (1) flight of stairs in the mall and felt like I was gonna die. The flu sucks! Still dunno whether what I had this last week was covid or not. I tested negative on 4 RATs, but I also mostly lost my sense of smell for a couple of days and that's never happened with a cold. I'm just going to assume I had a "mild" case and take it easy for the next couple of weeks.
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Oct 8, 2023 23:23
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