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Thinking about four months ago when I could go across the street and get a rapid + PCR test done in 10 minutes as I also try to remember how close I was standing to my now-infected coworker at the recent outdoor event.
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Aug 16, 2023 07:44
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Al! posted:as long as you cover your cough with your hand you should be fine Please don't give bad/incomplete advice, if you cough in your hand you should wash both hands afterwards. But ideally you should cough into the crook of your elbow so we can see your smiling face again more quickly. Precambrian Video Games has issued a correction as of 17:56 on Aug 16, 2023 |
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Aug 16, 2023 17:51
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harrygomm posted:i know it’s overkill and only tangential to covid but the aranet4 has been brought up before here. looks like it’s 20% off on their site right now and this listing on amazon is even a bit cheaper still It's a useful device. I learned from it that my apartment has really lovely ventilation - a horribly loud fan in the kitchen vent hood that can lower CO2 by maybe 100 ppm per hour, and one in the bathroom that runs automatically but doesn't do much beyond venting shower steam. 12 hours with closed windows and 2 people inside gets CO2 up from 5-600 to 1800 ppm. Obviously opening the windows clears it out but it sucks to have to do it when it's hot/humid/smoky/lovely AQI outside which for some reason is happening more often lately.
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Aug 17, 2023 00:45
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NYT asks "How Bad Is a Second (or Third or Fourth) Case of Covid?" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/17/well/live/covid-reinfection.html (note the live well; live your best life!) quote: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. The first loving sentence is complete garbage! gently caress you!!
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Aug 18, 2023 03:09
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Real Mean Queen posted:Sure, but the second, third and fourth sentences are probably better because you build up immunity lol. Either that or get permanent brain damage. (there's a commenter who described taking every precaution but still catching covid seven times and having to give up her successful psychology practice due to long covid brain fog but I refuse to believe all of that)
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Aug 18, 2023 05:17
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Some people think covid is airborne, others just want to wash their hands of the whole affair.
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Aug 18, 2023 17:45
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I feel like there's a fairly broad spectrum of Americans who could be convinced that powerful disinfecting light inside their bodies will be effective, whether it's true or not.
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Aug 19, 2023 21:09
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bedpan posted:this is antivax How so?
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Aug 20, 2023 05:50
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https://twitter.com/scottlincicome/status/1693271300460962195 Food for thought about the unintended consequences of the very real lockdowns that must still be happening somewhere (in my imagination).
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Aug 21, 2023 07:20
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Let me be clear about a couple of things: you should not post about giving prescription medications to other people, or about your plans to hoard medications. If you do those things, you're really better off not mentioning it on the internet at all. And before somebody asks "what about getting soon-to-expire doses from a licensed medical professional", in case that comes up again in the fall, as long as you're not self-administering that's pretty clearly different.Skyl3lazer posted:How do you get it if you dont have positive tests or anything to show? Even online I've had the doctors ask for some sort of proof whatsoever. I did not know this, but apparently per this letter from the FDA, you do not necessarily need a positive test, but a diagnosis: quote:In its February 1, 2023 revision, FDA revised the scope of authorization to no longer require positive results of direct SARS-CoV-2 viral testing. As revised, the scope of authorization required, in addition to other requirements, that adults and pediatric patients (12 years of age and older weighing at least 40 kg) have a current diagnosis of mild-to-moderate COVID-19. Corresponding changes were also made to the authorized Fact Sheets. If you don't have a diagnosis or a positive test, are not Dr. Michael Thomas Osterholm, and want Paxlovid or some other medication anyway, I'm sure you can find advice on doing so outside of these forums. Is that all fair?
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Aug 22, 2023 00:58
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mrbotus posted:so is the reason this thread is so shitted up with trolls and drama now because everyone is forced to get infected by their family, job situation etc? like sour grapes? Amongst other things, there is a SAD thread which naturally invites more scrutiny and occasionally new posters. The answer is not to lash out at real or imaginary posting enemies but to post normally, report anything you find egregious, and put anyone you find especially annoying on ignore if they bother you that much.
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Aug 22, 2023 17:46
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Lib and let die posted:i'm going to make a very blanket statement here as a former restaurant worker: And lald, you know this is a really stupid response to someone who didn't even suggest nefariously lying about having seasonal allergies (or pet, dust, whatever), conditions that effect I'm guessing a majority of the population to some degree and the mitigations for which mostly just involve spending a few hundred bucks to filter air with virtually no drawbacks.
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Aug 22, 2023 17:49
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Engorged Pedipalps posted:Yeah there's nothing specifically wrong with a DO they just spend a year learning to lay on hands. I have never once witnessed my DO give up even 5 HP from his healing pool to cure a disease. Bullshit.
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Aug 22, 2023 19:35
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It's midnight,
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Aug 23, 2023 05:03
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Epitope posted:I think I'm going to join team "close the cspam covid thread." The virus is currently ripping through friends family and coworkers, and I'm tired of believing there's anything that can be done about it. Ignorance is bliss A lot of my otherwise smart coworkers who abandoned precautions in the last year are getting it now, some for the first time. My bold prediction is that the next 6-8 weeks will be critical to determine if anyone does something about it in the subsequent 6-8 weeks.
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Aug 23, 2023 15:56
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A colleague of mine had to jump through a bunch of hoops to first get married (because common law isn't a thing in most of the world) and then quarantine for ... a few weeks? before he could start his job in Japan. Meanwhile, other colleagues in Western Australia were extremely mad that they couldn't travel back home for months after vaccines became available there, back in the heady days of fearing getting infected in a country where you might not have health insurance. Anyway it's all starting to come back, the hazy memories of lockdowns and banging on pots and pans. I found a picture of myself in a surgical mask the other day because we had gently caress all besides a couple of Moldex valved N95s for home repair poo poo. Precambrian Video Games has issued a correction as of 03:44 on Aug 24, 2023 |
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Aug 24, 2023 03:41
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There was a reasonable stretch of posting about COVID until about a couple of pages ago and I'd like to get back to that and avoid relitigating drama from months ago unless it's really incredibly relevant to the present. To that end:Shiroc posted:In my brief period as IK, I had queued longer probes on dongicus, who was openly trolling the thread, calling us r-slurs, going on complete breakdowns about how we don't get enough pussy and was told that it would just escalate things to probe people beyond what the rules said. This led to me quitting when it just built up into this absurd thing with posting Mega Tard over and over and WAIST getting an avatar mocking the death of his uncle and feeling like me and Trixie were just getting tons of heat without any support. I'm sorry if you have lingering resentment over your time as IK, but I don't really know what can be done about that. Dongicus hasn't posted here since the reboot a week ago. If they begin to spam the thread relentlessly again, or post anything gross or rulebreaking, I'll do something about it. Shiroc posted:I feel like posting a screenshot of a report and giving it 30 days or giving trashy owl a week for getting frustrated and making a couple dumb posts completely runs against the whole "disproportionate" poo poo vylekin gave me and that people in this thread keep being told we are obligated to be on our best behavior when people can go around making up whatever dumbass lore about the thread and individuals that they want in the fractal drama threads. Look, silicone thrills was mostly posting reasonably until then, but claiming someone wants to genocide immunocomprised people by closing a thread is ludicrous, in a report or otherwise. It could have even been a funny and much more accurate point had it said "lockdown" instead of genocide. Lashing out at the wrong poster for posting a fairly innocuous video game screenshot is also not typical posting. You can argue about the severity of the punishments and mitigating factors or whatever else but they were not dismissable incidents, let alone valuable valuable contributions. Now about current issues: - are there posters who want this thread gassed? Sure, you can find comments like that in SAD, the forum dedicated to posting feedback of that nature. - are there brigading outsider trolls running amok in this thread since it was rebooted? Not really. There was certainly an uptick in reports when the SAD thread was reopened, but very few people actually came here to post, and I don't think any stayed. Not that it really matters, since nobody needs permission to post here. - are there shitloads of reports? Yes, they and they are no more interesting to litigate than to read in context. Too bad for forums janitors, but I have a hard time believing that many people actually enjoy these extended slapfights. - does this thread need special protections due to handling a sensitive topic? I think it already gets more than the average C-SPAM thread. Demanding that emptyquotes or lol/lmaos stop is not going to happen, though. Again, ignore posters if you find them that annoying, and report judiciously.
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Aug 24, 2023 06:44
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tuyop posted:I’m not trying to call you out. I still see surgicals around every so often and it’s always confused me because it’s like taking a risk so you can be less comfortable. Does anyone find surgicals uncomfortable? I mean they leak out the sides and the nose bands don't seal as tightly as most (K)N95s so the only annoying thing for me (besides the "not working well" aspect) is that they're tighter to the lips than stiffer masks. The Oldest Man posted:It's not a common symptom but COVID can do a bunch of hosed up stuff to your mouth https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8762203/ A friend of mine had awful mouth sores the first time they got COVID around a year ago. That link says they're rare but there are other papers specifically about oral lesions (not sure how important the "mucosal" qualifier is). At that point I hadn't heard anything about mouth sores being a common symptom so I didn't know if that's why some people were recommending listerine or other potentially antiviral mouthwashes.
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Aug 25, 2023 17:47
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Rated PG-34 posted:the disdain for ‘anti-vaxxers’ was always dumb because the vaccine doesn’t stop spread and the risk calculation is nebulous especially for younger people as the vaccine is not without side-effects Why are you putting anti-vaxxers in scare quotes like they don't exist and haven't since succeeded in stoking unfounded fears of actually sterilizing childhood vaccines that nearly eradicated the diseases they targeted? The risk calculation for young people being nebulous may have been debatable while approval for under 18s was still underway but luckily there's plenty of evidence now that the risk for myocarditis is lower for the second dose (I assume that means of the original primary vaccine schedule) than for an actual COVID infection. "Bbbut it's not sterilizing" well good thing there's another study posted here practically every week that mrna vaccines reduce the risk of many of the other bonus COVID features that can hospitalize or kill you beyond myocarditis. Precambrian Video Games has issued a correction as of 17:10 on Aug 26, 2023 |
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Aug 26, 2023 16:53
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Whooping and coughing as I successfully lobby for the return of measles, mumps and rubella
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Aug 26, 2023 17:16
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Rated PG-34 posted:except you’re not guaranteed to get Covid but you are guaranteed the vaccine with the mandates. never mind the disingenuous public messaging that the vaccines are perfectly safe I was hoping to hear a truly creative leftist/anticapitalist argument against vaccination but this is some tepid poo poo.
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Aug 26, 2023 19:03
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nexous posted:why do you love vaccines at this point? it was an enormous bait and switch. the mRNA tech improved nothing, caused all sorts of anti vax sentiment, and we shitcanned things like novavax because politicians wanted their Pfizer stock to go up Novavax wasn't shitcanned, it's supposed to become available next month along with pfizer/moderna. blue squares posted:please help, friends. hosting a baby shower for my wife’s coworker. she ate lunch yesterday with someone who tested positive this morning. trying to figure out whether my wife could be contagious already tonight. going to tell everyone regardless, but trying to decide if we need to cancel preemptively or just let folks decide. no one she works with wears a mask anyway I would personally not risk infecting anyone if I thought I had been exposed, let alone someone expecting.
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Aug 26, 2023 19:59
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Still wishing there were a politically acceptable third way between zero covid and open biden, maybe it's just missing a catchy name not like choose your own covid.
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Aug 27, 2023 01:37
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I think Kafka was Bohemian.
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Aug 27, 2023 17:03
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I would simply manufacture more medicine. And if I've learned anything from Tradle, it's that every developed country in the world exports a significant amount of packaged medicaments.
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Aug 28, 2023 03:08
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Pingui posted:It is a natural experiment. The researchers looked at data available, but did not create the data and the only reason that data was collected in the first place, appears to be the Connecticut ACLU making a ruckus: This makes it sound like the researchers were "just" making what use of unethical data they could, but looking at the press release for the paper which provides a lot more context, they're making considerably more dubious choices than that: quote:The study was performed within the Connecticut Department of Correction system to understand whether the immunity gained after vaccination or a prior infection was less effective or “leaky” in situations where people are exposed to high levels of the virus, said Margaret Lind, lead author of the paper and an associate research scientist at Yale School of Public Health. Personally I would have done those other studies in non-carceral settings first and not patted the Connecticut Department of Corrections on the back for a job well done with the contact tracing that, as far as I can tell, did not actually prevent infections in any way.
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Aug 28, 2023 18:09
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Platystemon posted:COVID response confounds SARS expert This guy's heart is probably in the right place but uh, saying that COVID-19 mortality is in the "single digits" and that the odds of getting long covid are up to over 140% are not terribly helpful. He did mention Dr. Tara Moriarty and https://covid19resources.ca. I heard of the former before. She studies... or studied blood-borne diseases, particularly Lyme disease, and is cross-appointed in a faculty of dentistry. She got some media attention for compiling estimates of excess mortality* a couple of years ago and publishing them through the Royal Society of Canada (essentially an academic social club and not at all a peer reviewed journal), after having published not much of anything since 2017. So a lot of people are naturally skeptical and wondering if she's much like those physicists who suddenly became epidemiological data scientists in 2020. Now I guess she has a few more friends and put together a website with somewhat janky visualizations? If I sound too skeptical, consider this page: https://covid19resources.ca/public/vaccine-resources/. Am I missing something or does it contain literally nothing besides the site header, footer, a page-specific logo, and this tiny quote in the middle: "Please note: this resource was last updated in January 2022". ??? The COVID forecast page for Canada looks like this:  The advice is never going to stop being relevant but I'm not sure who any of the rest of that is meant to convince or help. I also don't know what they mean by lowest point of the pandemic but I guess it's July-August 2020, which is by now a gaping void in public consciousness. *Statistics Canada does this, but slowed down the pace of updates in 2020 for some reason.
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Aug 30, 2023 01:48
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Pingui posted:Idk if this is useful to anyone, but considering the state of testing... quote:Right now, the service is cash-only as we prepare to bill third-party insurance plans, but we’re glad to be accepting health savings accounts and plan to accept third-party coverage in the future. Currently, the price starts around $133 depending on the service provided – you just don't have to make any additional trips after.  . Wonder if they can prescribe Paxlovid though.Speaking of the unclear phrasing around whether those are three separate tests or one, are there any other flu + cold + covid tests even trying to get FDA approval besides the existing-in-limbo Luciras?
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Aug 30, 2023 14:04
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RxPass is not on the nose enough until they offer discounted season passes, bespoke DLC and cosmetic microtransactions.
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Aug 30, 2023 17:24
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The Oldest Man posted:Why do I have a feeling that otc narcan is going to make it much easier for cops to acquire data about who purchases it and how often so they can shortlist people to surveil for drug crimes Probably because dystopian prescription drug credit score systems already exist and it's not a stretch to imagine them extending to OTC drugs that need some paperwork but not an Rx. quote:On the most basic level, when a doctor queries NarxCare about someone like Kathryn, the software mines state registries for red flags indicating that she has engaged in “drug shopping” behavior: It notes the number of pharmacies a patient has visited, the distances she’s traveled to receive health care, and the combinations of prescriptions she receives.
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Aug 30, 2023 18:14
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 I don't loving want the center-libertarian variant.
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Aug 31, 2023 22:12
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So what I'm reading is this has the potential to be a great underdog story, or just another disappointing child that couldn't rise above its circumstances.
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Sep 1, 2023 03:57
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Hearty lol at the "general waning of public interest in testing at all". I wonder how that happened??
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Sep 1, 2023 15:47
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StratGoatCom posted:Only six hours? should be a day at least. A longer break will be discussed, in the meantime yes, no ghoulish "actually pestilence is good" poo poo from anyone else, thanks.
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Sep 1, 2023 20:29
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I hope COVID had a nice vacation in Iberia or wherever. Unfortunately I can't do anything but lol sadly at the second half:
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Sep 3, 2023 18:30
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Lowering expectations ftw.
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Sep 6, 2023 18:04
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fosborb posted:okay but what if we also still let some horses do whatever? What I'm hearing is that there are multiple horses in the hospital and they should be allowed to choose the precautions that are right for them.
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Sep 7, 2023 00:19
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Yes, exactly. Unfortunately, I think we're still not allowed to post unedited Gary Larson comics (this is not a joke, he's apparently very litigious and got a comic thread sent upstate).
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Sep 7, 2023 00:54
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Pingui posted:Now your old pal Pingui here naturally won't be getting a booster; I've got my singular wildtype booster 21 months ago and that must be good enough for anyone not 50+ lol. I tried to find some commentary, any on the UK's policy (after getting not much about Europe generally) and found this from January: quote:CLAIM: The United Kingdom is banning anyone under the age of 50 from getting COVID-19 vaccines. 5 pinnochios!! Oh it's 65+ now, not 50+.
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Sep 7, 2023 02:07
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Pingui posted:Guess that's fine then. Everything is fine. Good news! quote:There is no evidence that any of the variants in circulation cause more severe disease or evade immunity adroitly enough to render vaccines ineffective. A wonderfully flexible sentence that you can read however you want.
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