If u call losing successfulIm a winner
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:42 (four years ago) link
things are gonna change, i can feel it
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 May 2020 17:45 (four years ago) link
if assholes could fly this place would be an airport
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
a deep cut for the true heads:
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Screen-Shot-2020-05-05-at-9.14.07-AM.png
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/05/05/calibration-and-recalibration-and-more-recalibration-ihme-forecasts-by-publication-date/
the IHME model is garbage. we shouldn't have trusted it a month ago, and we shouldn't trust it now.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 22:04 (four years ago) link
Just spent about 48 hours in the hospital due to a low platelet count -- basically, it's when chemo turns you into a bleeder in very frightening fashion. And my count isn't too high now, either. :/
I was given the swab test, am COVID negative.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 5 May 2020 23:57 (four years ago) link
ugh, get better Morbs :(
― genital giant (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:02 (four years ago) link
morbs <3
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:07 (four years ago) link
sounds hard and unpleasant. wish you the best morbs
― Dan S, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:08 (four years ago) link
Morbs glad you’re on the other side. Did you get any sleep?
― silby, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:10 (four years ago) link
Bon courage, Morbs. <3
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:11 (four years ago) link
that sounds shitty, and also i'm glad you tested negative. be well morbs
― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:11 (four years ago) link
Fuck, that's scary, hope you are ok
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:13 (four years ago) link
Yikes — take care, Morbs.
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:16 (four years ago) link
Did you get any sleep?
That's always a fun morning question from the nurse when they've been waking you up every 2 hours to measure your vital signs.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:38 (four years ago) link
(I can't even sleep when I know they're gonna do that.)
I wouldn’t either :(
― silby, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:40 (four years ago) link
I haven’t been woken up in the middle of the night as a patient, but I know from seeing it on the other side how people don’t really get any sleep in a hospital
― Dan S, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:45 (four years ago) link
shit Morbs, thinking of you
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:59 (four years ago) link
get better dr. m
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 01:07 (four years ago) link
Get well, Morbs!
― DJI, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 02:16 (four years ago) link
been in enough hospitals to know its a shitty experience made slightly better by the fact you're getting help and the nurses understand it's a shitty experience and try to soften it a bit. glad you've been released, cuz that means the general trend is up, not down. get well(er), morbs.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 02:40 (four years ago) link
actually the reason I was given for my release is "we can't wait/watch for it to happen," and indeed the problem has returned on a so-far-incidental scale.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 05:15 (four years ago) link
Best wishes for better days
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 05:31 (four years ago) link
Best wishes Morbs
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 07:04 (four years ago) link
Take care, man.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 07:57 (four years ago) link
best wishes Morbs
― Ste, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 08:49 (four years ago) link
oof, best thoughts Dr. M.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 10:36 (four years ago) link
take it easy morbs, feel better soon
― Millennials are using this app to speak in just 3 weeks. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link
thanks all
most amazingly I got a bed w/in 20 minutes of walking into the ER
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 14:02 (four years ago) link
Be well and maintain your crank, Morbsy.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
good wishes morbs :)
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 14:54 (four years ago) link
Virtual hugs until I can give you a real one, Dr. Morbius!
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 15:14 (four years ago) link
Hope you feel better soon, Morbz
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 15:35 (four years ago) link
sending you good wishes Morbs
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 15:35 (four years ago) link
Good luck Dr. M
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 16:15 (four years ago) link
best wishes dr m
― lefal junglist platton (wtev), Thursday, 7 May 2020 07:47 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/may/07/peru-jungle-iquitos-coronavirus-covid-19
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 7 May 2020 12:55 (four years ago) link
A hospital in Alsace reports that they had a case of the virus already on 16 November.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Thursday, 7 May 2020 13:04 (four years ago) link
I saw Goody Sibber with the virus in November
I saw Goody Proctor with the virus in August
― Rodent of usual size (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link
Not sure how credible miscellaneous French doctors are, as a class or individually.
― silby, Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:51 (four years ago) link
t'inquiètes, j'ai un ordonnance pour ça
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 7 May 2020 14:56 (four years ago) link
I can't imagine a chest CT scan that reveals bilateral interstitial pneumonia would have much specificity - there are other diseases that have similar presentations. If there was a preserved blood sample from that 16 November patient for a rtPCR test, which has pretty much perfect specificity, though lackluster sensitivity, I'd give the report more credence.
― speaking moistly (Sanpaku), Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
i liked my joke better
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:08 (four years ago) link
lol
― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 7 May 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
this is depressing as hell, passing along in case DJP or the late Fred B may find interestinghttps://www.middleclassartist.com/post/nats-panel-of-experts-lays-out-sobering-future-for-singers-no-vaccine-no-safe-public-singing
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 7 May 2020 16:05 (four years ago) link
I've been mostly avoiding CNN lately--Doomsday Central, which I hate; do not in any way take that as cutting slack for Trump--but I just watched the whole of this segment from last night's weekly town hall, Laurie Garrett, and she's really good.
http://www.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/05/08/entire-may-7-coronavirus-town-hall-part-4-sot-vpx.cnn
― clemenza, Friday, 8 May 2020 12:31 (four years ago) link
Ya, I recently started following Laurie Garrett on Twitter. Once your emotions adjust to her "36 month best-case scenario" position, she's a welcome resource.
― doug watson, Friday, 8 May 2020 14:42 (four years ago) link
Another sobering read.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/finally-virus-got-me-scientist-who-fought-ebola-and-hiv-reflects-facing-death-covid-19#
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:05 (three years ago) link
The kind of piece that defines that self-censorship poll last week. I hesitate to link, but I will.
http://www.aier.org/article/woodstock-occurred-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic/
I realize it's written from the right and has a definite agenda. I'm aware of that, so I roll my eyes at things like "Was there a political element here in that the media blew this wildly out of proportion as revenge against Trump and his deplorables?"
I think the basic question, though--what changed between then and now?--is interesting. It goes along with something I said about CNN the other day, that they've become Doomsday Central. Trump and CNN right now are two sides of the same coin. Trump tries to sell you the Yellow Brick Road; with CNN, they're selling the end of the world. They do it because 1) they hate Trump and don't want him reelected--that's a good reason; 2) because something more nuanced than those two extremes is hard work and requires thought (the in-between is how I've experienced this: one bit of news looks promising, the next looks dire); 3) something more nuanced doesn't make for good TV (very influenced by Audience of One here.)
Something's obviously changed even between SARS and now.
― clemenza, Saturday, 9 May 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
Cable news and Donald Trump are two sides of the same heap of fecal matter is basically how I'd sum it up.
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Saturday, 9 May 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link