Anti-vaxx Chronicles: Joe Biden is dead and played by actor and nurses are actually deadly witches Facebook is a menace. COVID-19 is a menace. Conservatism is a cesspool. Together, those three ingredients have created a toxic stew of malevolent death and devastation. We can talk about all those things in the abstract, look at the numbers and statistics, and catch the occasional whiff of seditionist right-wing rhetoric. But I hadn’t really fully understood just how horrifying that combination of right-wing extremism, Facebook, and a killer virus was until I became a regular at the Herman Cain Awards subreddit. This series is documenting some of those stories, so we are aware of what the other side is doing to our country. Today’s cautionary tale is short and sweet, because sometimes, less is more than enough. Oh boy, this one is … something. Let’s start with the husband: 1) No one is trying to arrest anyone for not vaccinating. Unfortunately. 2) DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH AND READ THIS 14TH AMENDMENT THING THAT I CLEARLY DIDN’T BOTHER READING BUT IT SAYS WHAT I WANT IT TO SAY. 3) Joe Biden was WHAT? Yeah, that “Joe Biden is dead and it’s all a Hollywood stage” thing comes from the Q fringe. 4) Joe Biden was never governor, but that seems like a really minor error given the rest of that paragraph. 5) OMG, it’s not even a paragraph, it’s a sentence. Not even a comma! 6) Was Donald Trump also elected president of nothing, because Washington, D.C. is not a state, it’s the District of Columbia? Maybe we’re just too sheeple to understand MAGA, could that be it? Husband and son are in the hospital. Son is in deep shit, as survival rates are low for those who are put on ventilators. (And even if they survive, ventilators do a number on lungs, leading to long-term challenges.) It is amazing, however, how being "moved down a ward" is the biggest miracle in COVID history, something no doctor had ever seen before! That totally sounds real-y and not fantasy. COVID is from hell, so ... what does that say about the vaccine that dramatically reduces associated risks from the disease … eh? If something is anti-Satan, then it is … eh? Come on, deplorables, work with me here! It’s GOOD! It’s GODLY! I guess her husband’s miraculous recovery unseen in the entire history of COVID turned out to be not so recovered or miraculous. Oh well. They’re both still in bad shape, but now we know why. Witches. You know the ones—the witches. Some call them “nurses,” but we know better. Take a look at their badges: “RN, BSN, witch” Just don’t talk about the godly vaccine that would’ve countered the devil’s COVID and the Christian-murdering witches. That would be “opinion” and not “speaking life.” Let’s focus on the cold hard truth and deal only in facts. Like witches. And Joe Biden is dead. Oh man, I feel for hospital staff having to deal with your garden-variety ivermectin warriors, and these utterly unhinged … whatever they are. One Redditor commented: My wife is an ICU respiratory nurse in a big-city hospital; all of the COVID patients end up in her unit when they need a ventilator. A year ago they were celebrated as heroes, today they are yelled at, blamed, and called witches because the ONLY patients that end up in her unit are unvaccinated. So in addition to tagging multiple toes per shift (before the vaccine she was tagging 6-10 per SHIFT!), 100% of her patients and their families think she has culpability in their loved ones death. She talks about quitting almost every day. 30% of her unit's nurses have already left. What a fucking nightmare.
Can you get the AstraZeneca vaccine in the US? I was under the impression you cannot although and an anti vaxxer associate is claiming he knows someone getting a leg amputated because of it I would like to stop this from spreading further and body slam him in a group chat
They very likely do, but it'll depend on fit and length of exposure. Most good disposable surgical masks have iirc like 80%+ filtration when it fits your face tightly with no leakage anywhere. That is to say, if you're in and out somewhere where mask usage for everyone is really high its probably not a big deal to run. The masks in that list are almost all disposable too, and you can wear them multiple times, but try not going over a week with the same mask (or maybe really more than 4 days) Edit: i dont know whats up with most cloth masks but some have pockets you can insert filters into to up their effectiveness. I get the feeling cloth masks without filters do more to protect others from a sick cloth mask wearer than a cloth mask wearer is protected by a cloth mask
After spending a 5 days at a conference in Vegas where vaccination and masks were required, I liked being able to go through two or three disposable masks a day than just one KN-95 I had to keep around.
On cloth masks, since october: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cn...r-covid-surgical-masks-vs-kn95-explained.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/15/are...r-covid-surgical-masks-vs-kn95-explained.html https://www.poverty-action.org/site..._RCT____Symptomatic_Seropositivity_083121.pdf
I'm a big fan of the KF94 masks. They're super comfortable and it's away from your face so your voice isn't muffled. Been using the BOTN brand mostly.
I like the fit of them better than the KN95’s as well. It stays off my nose more and doesn’t tend to make my up my nose or move around as much when I talk in it
flying out of europe? Wait you're military, ya? Can you get fitted and get a requisition through them?
Yeah flying out of London. Im a dirty reservist now but even before I got off active duty it was all cloth masks. I do have a CBRN gas mask I “found” but the filters are ancient and it’s insanely uncomfortable.
From reddit ^ "For KF94s specifically, H Mart often have them - they're a Korean store in London. Otherwise, industrial suppliers like Zoro, RS, maybe Screwfix - they'll usually have a bunch of FFP1/FFP2/FFP3 respirators."
"Deepti Gurdasani is a British-Indian epidemiologist who is a public health researcher at the Queen Mary University of London. Her research considers the genetic diversity of African Populations" from wiki Edit: On the effectiveness of current mAbs. Some still seem okay off the bat with omicron
Ok seems like we have absolutely zero clue as to the question of severity. Hospital #s are going up but apparently in SA they do "watchful waiting admissions" so that data point is sorta meaningless.
This guy says the ventilation numbers are starting to go up in gauteng so that may be an indicator to use for the time being Which can probably be put together from clicking day by day on this site, since the time series graphs looks to only be set up for cases and hospitalizations. https://www.nicd.ac.za/diseases-a-z...ts/daily-hospital-surveillance-datcov-report/ I haven't checked the dude's numbers
And the % of those patients on O2 or ventilated, as I eyeball it, is the same or less. So who the hell knows
Have had the longest flu of my life, tested negative after getting annoyed and wondering if it was covid. A lot of people I know having a rough flu season. I’ve been strong enough to do bike the last week but too weak for weights and cough/throat soreness is pretty bad. Wake up feeling like I’ve swallowed 100 loads every day /diary
I did and people I got it from did too. My brother gave it to me over thanksgiving sleeping in same room, think dad gave it to him
Most practices will test for the flu as well with a rapid test, I'm guessing you didn't get one and you're assuming you got the flu?
Jfc aetna. Is no marketing person over there looking at this who’s not an idiot of the message on the cover? this is actually about getting your blood drawn. But given the current environment I mean come the fuck on.
Today is 10 days since onset of symptoms for my 3-year old. He is perfectly fine and hasn’t had a fever for about a a week but is still testing positive on Binax tests. Are we supposed to keep him quarantined?
I don’t get why Canada implements rules like this. It would be hard not to be angry with the world if you’re South African right now.
Canadians love elephants, that’s why so many go to Alabama, South Africans kill elephants pretty simple really
My guess is because a PCR test result may take a few days and if you’re still in a country with lots of omicron you could be infected after taking the test. It’s still asinine but it’s got nothing to do with trusting a test in those countries.
I don't believe so. My 2 y/o went through it as well and they basically say to not test again for 90 days after positive since the virus can still be detected even if it's "dead" in the kid's nose. After 2 weeks of his symptoms starting, and he no longer showed any, we sent him back to daycare.
lost my sense of smell this morning and Binax at home test gave me a positive. FML no fevers or aches Pfizer vaccinated what should I expect
Scotland is also picking up and highly vaxxed so vaxxed effectiveness against omicron will probably have some preliminary statistically relevant data in 3 or so weeks
Dogs can get covid and spread but there isnt any significant data saying theres any significant lethality at all for dogs
Beware of the “how X beat Covid” examples October https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...res-are-helping-germany-beat-covid-19/620466/ December