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The Voice of Labor posted:I notice missing from the op is how pat from achewood would approach covid Etsy mask banging pots and pans -> vaccine -> showing up at school board meetings to demand a return to normal
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Aug 16, 2023 05:58
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fosborb posted:people seemed very interested in having a covid thread in the goon doctor forum and I was surprised they didn't know it already had one Yeah that wasn't sincere
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Aug 16, 2023 06:01
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Gunshow Poophole posted:I made an iraqi beet stew with chicken kubbeh this week and have rarely been more powerful That is extremely cool lookin
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Aug 17, 2023 20:27
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eXXon posted:NYT asks "How Bad Is a Second (or Third or Fourth) Case of Covid?" Sure, but the second, third and fourth sentences are probably better because you build up immunity
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Aug 18, 2023 03:34
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jetz0r posted:it's funny how the absolute worst people are always very concerned about mental health, but never about physical health. it's almost like there's some kind of pattern Hard not to notice that the concern begins and ends where the concerned party is getting annoyed, too. It's not one of those problems that you work on or solve, it's just kinda "hey shut up."
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Aug 18, 2023 21:33
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My read with Wachter is that this stopped being practical and became ideological for him at some point. He’s like the old joke about how to survive a bear attack, you don’t need to outrun a bear, you just need to outrun your slowest camping buddy. Protected for him does not mean protected, it means more protected than the least protected person he can imagine. It doesn’t matter that his poo poo doesn’t work and it doesn’t matter that he knows that, because somebody else’s poo poo works even worse and he believes that this is graded on a curve. You can see this is a pretty popular mindset if you look at the booster numbers.
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Aug 19, 2023 10:54
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eXXon posted:https://twitter.com/scottlincicome/status/1693271300460962195 I've seen a few things like this and I just don't understand the premise. When I was selling food to people, I don't recall any occasions where getting to see a rich guy did anything for me. It's fairly likely that somebody was walking out thinking "wow those broke fucks sure can put food on a plate" at some point, but whether or not they did didn't seem to change much about anyone's situation. I have never made a rich friend while at target. jetz0r posted:i worked in concerts for 20 years, and show/tour cancellations are up by an absurd amount compared to pre-covid. it went from under 5% of shows being canceled, to 20-30% getting canceled. with the end of year shows getting closer to 50%. Yeah I spent a lot of time around live music for a good percentage of my life, and I don't remember cancellations being very common at all. Somebody's lovely van breaking down or something, sure, but big acts cancelling this often definitely feels new.
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Aug 21, 2023 17:19
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Zerg Mans posted:Whats the current cdc regs on boosters going into fall? Last one I got was the original bivalent. There's supposed to be a new one coming out in the next month-ish, so probably wait for that
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Aug 21, 2023 17:24
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Rosalind posted:I was like 90% sure this was going to send me to anime catgirl porn but it's not--thank you! Genuinely surprised they sent something back, and so quickly! Having a little giggle about having omicron be its own color and then all these other colors for things that are also just omicron
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Aug 21, 2023 21:00
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lol everything you need to buy one of those masks is clearly written on the front of the mask, come on guys
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Aug 22, 2023 13:45
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States out east have too many counties
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Aug 22, 2023 21:59
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The Oldest Man posted:I'd like to see some data on increased symptomatic negative rates themselves before deciding it's a real thing; it's not like we haven't seen fifty different mass delusions that this variant causes hives or that variant is milder that got started on social media and didn't pan out when studied later. Like, there aren't even an overwhelming number EG.5 cases in the mix that you should notice a variant-specific presentation relative to the soup of other variants going around right now. You've got people out there talking about strains of covid and how this one makes your eyes dry but this other one makes them sweaty and it just sounds exactly like somebody being difficult at a dispensary
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Aug 23, 2023 17:31
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silicone thrills posted:Last year when the bolt fire was going on just outside seattle and we had like insane 300ppm airquality readings and poo poo and ash fall - my mask turned brown from the air in about an hour and a half and meanwhile I saw so many people just like raw dogging that air. Some years before covid I was in a town near a forest fire and saw a dude skateboarding around with a takeout bag from subway and an elastomeric and thought to myself "well that guy's got today figured out"
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Aug 23, 2023 20:45
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bedpan posted:if all viruses can potentially lead to longterm impacts then that means the requirement to going to work, school, and social engagements when sick is in fact bad and not good Something I didn't enjoy about kitchen and retail work was the dynamic where if you called out sick, that was Bad because somebody had to cover your shift, but showing up and getting everybody else sick was some real team player poo poo Learning more about how this stuff works has not made me like that dynamic more
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Aug 24, 2023 15:18
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WrasslorMonkey posted:Vaxxed? lol sure, why not
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Aug 24, 2023 16:54
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SardonicTyrant posted:What's the reason? Wanted to
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Aug 24, 2023 18:48
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eXXon posted: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. Definitely. Toward the beginning of things when I was in that awkward pre-real-mask phase, I was trying to do surgicals at work and it just sucked. They just sat right on my mouth and got real muggy. Not fun at all to work a flattop in, let alone trying to do dishes. Luckily for me there was roughly nobody ordering anything at that point, could have been much worse. I felt mostly the same about the knwhatevers I tried, but I could at least tell those were doing something so it felt like a better trade. These days I'm doing elastomerics or auras depending on the situation, and they're no trouble at all.
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Aug 25, 2023 18:34
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DominoKitten posted:We are no longer in a pandemic, I say, as ten percent of my conference attendees fall ill and are disappeared. lol it’s like when you see a band a few times over some years and you get to watch a song evolve. I see they dropped the flabby “okay that’s a lot of cases but” part so they can just go straight into the part about how the thing that doesn’t happen yet hasn’t happened yet. I miss when it was a little more improvisational, but you have to admit they’ve got their sound figured out and they’ve found their audience
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Aug 26, 2023 10:18
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Tulip posted:I still can't believe that there's a Dick Zoutman in this world. What a miracle we were blessed with. You can't tell me the world isn't funny
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Aug 30, 2023 14:25
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Tzen posted:it's incredible how bad his response has been, incredible, entirely predictable, and cruel I hate this pobody's nerfect bullshit around masking. "There's this perfect person just off camera that wants me to do this, but folks, I'm just like you, I like to not wear a mask and I like to eat ice cream and I love my country, and if that's wrong I don't want to be right" Like, bro, that guy you're folksily defying doesn't exist, and if he did he'd work for you. This isn't some cute little foible, you didn't sleep in half an hour on a Saturday or have a french fry, this is fairly important
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Sep 7, 2023 13:54
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rockear posted:"Consider wearing a mask, especially in a crowded indoor setting" As far as I can tell that's exactly what it is. Pausing to feel bad for a second before doing the bad thing anyway is more than somebody else did, and that means you're not the worst person in the world. Liberalism is about incremental improvement, so you can do all the same things as the worst person in the world as long as you feel weird about it for a second, because that's better than what somebody else did.
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Sep 7, 2023 14:12
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I believe Mexico also invented the nose mask a few years ago, and it looked pretty dumb then tooParadoxish posted:It's also not mild or endemic or "just the flu" and yet There is something kind of funny about a new thing showing up and everyone just being all "no no no, that's that old thing, we already had that." Like a guy holding up a tablet and calling it a newspaper because it has the news on it, it's just sort of silly. Real Mean Queen has issued a correction as of 06:14 on Sep 8, 2023 |
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Sep 8, 2023 06:12
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I was walking around last night and it seemed like every fourth or fifth person had a super hosed up cough. Normal!Tzen posted:
And as always it's in that weird "if you see somebody wearing a mask, it's probably because they're all hosed up and sad" framing. You can't just not want to get covid on its own merits, there's got to be more to the story
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Sep 11, 2023 03:31
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I currently have covid BUT no I don’t because lol that’s so 2020 am I right Anyway see you tomorrow
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Sep 12, 2023 11:27
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It's going to be so nice to have a normal Christmas instead of a locked down masked zoom Christmas like everyone has had for the last three years
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Sep 13, 2023 15:10
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I got to shake Le Guin's hand once. Nice lady. My girlfriend had stolen her dad's copy of I believe Left Hand so she could secretly get it signed for him, the whole situation was pretty adorable puncturewound78 posted:"read any other book series" Dune was right there Real Mean Queen has issued a correction as of 21:13 on Sep 13, 2023 |
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Sep 13, 2023 21:05
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Pingui posted:Another public health economics success story! Yeah I mean can’t really blame them, those ideas all have at least one expert attached to them
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Sep 15, 2023 12:47
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Yeah no poo poo. The place I always get boosters is a cute little mom and pop pharmacy and they just prop the door open, people line up outside, you do your paperwork while you're waiting and then they get you your shot and you leave, it's been an incredibly smooth and easy experience every time. You want the thing, they give it to you, it works. Getting money and god forbid insurance involved in this very simple system is not going to make anything better for any actual person that matters to me.
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Sep 15, 2023 19:50
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icantfindaname posted:I wonder how this compares to Clinton in the 1990s. I wasn't around but my understanding is he ran as mildly center-left in 1992, and then the rightward turn was explained away as triangulating towards the Republicans out of necessity. This time around it feels more like there's much more explicit memory-holing and in a year or two Biden will have always been a center-right figure, will have been elected in 2020 as a center-right figure, and all the articles about how he is the most progressive president since FDR will have been taken offline Why bother? If you think the audience wants him to be center right, you can just say that, and if someone says that's bad you can hit them with the Well Actually list of legacy-defining progressive memos or whatever. The point is just to say whatever sounds good and it doesn't matter that nobody falls for it, it's just about getting the brand out there
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Sep 18, 2023 01:23
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U-DO Burger posted:got a text from test2treat that they've shipped my tests and gave me a tracking number. I had already gotten the shipment a week ago, but hey it's the thought that counts I guess They keep emailing me about how I've successfully signed up, and that's fine, I can use the encouragement, but I am wondering where those tests are at
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Sep 20, 2023 03:16
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euphronius posted:didn’t they have 3 tiers in the initial roll out and everyone complained so they added like 6 sub tiers to tier 1 My favorite part of this was when somebody in charge of something in my state pressed the wrong button and accidentally sent out ten or fifteen thousand invites to people who were not yet eligible. This caused a serious moral crisis for many while I boogied down to the convention center to get in line
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Sep 20, 2023 16:48
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Just had a coworker full-on forget a conversation we had five days ago. He didn't really believe that we had just talked about this so I forwarded him the whole thing, he seemed surprised and then he mentioned he just had covid and maybe that was related. I said that can do stuff to your brain, then he said "what are you gonna do, it's just like the flu now," and then sort of repeated that a few times
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Sep 20, 2023 20:41
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Oh yeah I meant to say mine showed up today too but then something funnier happened. Still waiting on that tracking though
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Sep 20, 2023 20:48
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Calde posted:My family doctor is the opposite. Corsi cubes and air purifiers in every room of her office, wearing an Aura N95 properly, promising to prescribe us Paxlovid if our house gets caught again. It's probably a pretty low bar
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Sep 21, 2023 16:47
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mooshiga posted:it’s a trash fire. me and one of the hall monitors are the only staff out of ~250 who still mask. staff are quitting mid-year, staff are sick, kids are sick, kids aren’t engaged because they know most of what they’re supposed to be doing isn’t gonna matter in ten years. and like…….we already did this too. everybody already got sick. everybody already quit. it’s exactly the same as it was last year. and now this is just gonna be how every year is. living the dream! 👍 School was pretty bad when I was a kid, but I can't imagine what it's like now. We at least had classes that reliably had teachers in them, sometimes very good ones, and buses that would reliably take us to where the classes were. I don't understand how a kid in this situation is supposed to look around and think "yep, everyone is clearly taking this very seriously and I should too."
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Sep 22, 2023 19:58
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They're making jokes about the "you can't say somebody might have or have had covid" rule, because it is dumb
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Sep 23, 2023 04:35
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Encountered some burning popcorn smoke, and now my mask smells terrible
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Sep 23, 2023 10:15
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Indoor Dying posted:This too, it is so bewildering how COVID always seems to be an exempt issue. "Yup we are going to brunch in a pandemic but we're going to that good place that stopped using plastic straws!" I think it's an easy opinions vs hard opinions thing. You can think whatever you want about most topics and it won't have any bearing on what you're doing with yourself most days. You open up a news website and there's all the day's stories, and you can feel very strongly about as many of them as you like all day long while going through your normal routine. You can go to that concert and grandma's house and everywhere else no matter how you feel about any of them, it's great and super easy. One of the things about covid is that there's a kaleidoscopic array of easy opinions you can have that still fully allow you to do whatever the gently caress you feel like, and then there's a very small range of hard opinions that mean you actually have to do stuff. Because we live in a marketplace of ideas where everyone is free to choose a fully customized set of personal truths, the ideas that involve forgoing stuff end up being pretty unpopular. There are a bunch of variations on "it's fine to get on a plane while you have covid," there's one that says it isn't, and that one involves inconvenience, so nobody's going to pick it. Real Mean Queen has issued a correction as of 00:00 on Sep 24, 2023 |
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Sep 23, 2023 23:55
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Tulip posted:I've helped 3 people get paxlovid and had...not sure how many others go "no thanks, don't need it" but definitely more than 3. I think it's not so much that we want a pill, it's that we want an easy answer. Taking a pill is still doing something, you go to a website, there may be a side effect, it's not much but it's not nothing. Another option is to just decide you don't need the pill, and then you can do gently caress all. That's easier, so most of the time that's probably what's going to happen. It's also well supported, as there are millions of people who will go out of their way to tell you that you don't need scary big pharma to treat a disease which does not exist or is mild or can be cured by putting garlic in your pockets.
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Sep 25, 2023 04:21
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Jizzny Princess posted:Found out some of my relatives caught Covid from their recent cruise they returned from. They plan to go to the local Olive Garden or AppleBee's tomorrow while still positive and don't understand why I don't want to go and meet up with them. What you don't want to hear all the cool stories from the cruise? Think of all the pictures of food you're missing out on before you do anything hasty here
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Sep 25, 2023 04:33
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