anyone else had the nose swab test? because GAHHHHHH that is some intense shit
― sleeve, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 00:13 (three years ago) link
https://www.thecut.com/2020/05/dr-steven-levine-on-plastic-surgery-during-quarantine.html
Extremely successful people are used to getting what they want, when they want it. That is the reality of their life. One very well-known entrepreneur wanted to come to my office on the Upper East Side and get her face done, like, yesterday. She offered me more than four times my usual fee, all cash, and told me she’d have her lawyer draft a nondisclosure that she wouldn’t tell anyone we did it. I told her, “I love you to death, but no.”A lot of my clients have cornered themselves off in their mansions around the world, and they want to get things done while they’re there. I’ve had people be flirty or playful to convince me to come over with injectables or open up the office for surgery. There’s a lot of, “Hypothetically speaking … would you come over and treat me in my house if I let you leave with my car?”
A lot of my clients have cornered themselves off in their mansions around the world, and they want to get things done while they’re there. I’ve had people be flirty or playful to convince me to come over with injectables or open up the office for surgery. There’s a lot of, “Hypothetically speaking … would you come over and treat me in my house if I let you leave with my car?”
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 00:15 (three years ago) link
― sleeve
Yes. Hated it.
But results were negative :)
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
had the swab today. not that bad tbh, thought it would be worse.
― micah, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 04:24 (three years ago) link
you wouldn't imagine you have that much space for them to cram it in, but you do
― j., Wednesday, 20 May 2020 04:30 (three years ago) link
it's such a weird feeling, like your body knows damn well nothing should be up there
― sleeve, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 05:07 (three years ago) link
of course, i've had it in the ear before
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 09:06 (three years ago) link
lol
seeing Cuomo take the swab test right there definitely reassured me about it somewhat
― nashwan, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 09:58 (three years ago) link
I’ve had my sinuses MRIed as a prelude to having and alien removed from up in there and there are vast unexplored realms.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 10:02 (three years ago) link
my 18 month old also had it today (throat and both sinuses) and he cried for less than a minute.
― micah, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 11:23 (three years ago) link
Cuomo's had his nips pierced which I assume is worse
― frogbs, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 13:43 (three years ago) link
I aint so tough, but the swab isn't as rough as a bone biopsy
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 14:00 (three years ago) link
ouch, I bet
― sleeve, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah i mean the swab is unpleasant but it's over fast.
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 14:38 (three years ago) link
hmmm
https://interestingengineering.com/cannabis-might-block-covid-19-infection-study-shows
So yes, while the findings are promising they are yet to be peer-reviewed. The results cannot be taken as conclusive evidence of cannabis’s ability to treat the virus since the researchers haven't been able to identify what the ideal ratio is of THC to CBD, or even if the active ingredient is CBD or some other component or combination.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 15:18 (three years ago) link
the researchers haven't been able to identify what the ideal ratio is of THC to CBD
oh, i know that one
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
right there with ya, buddy
― sleeve, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
Kinda fed up with the whole weed-as-panacea trend tbh.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 15:29 (three years ago) link
cannabis probably good for everything it turns out
― Mordy, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 15:30 (three years ago) link
hell yeah i've been inoculating myself with WEED this whole time
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
Except for those cancers that only LSD and/or magic mushrooms can cure.
xp
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 15:31 (three years ago) link
some uptight assholes told me back in march that i should stop smoking to protect my lungs from covid but i told them to fuck off and my health thanks me for it <3
― Mordy, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 15:33 (three years ago) link
Is the ratio in the vicinity of 1:5 maybe
― Appleman Appears: 20/2/2020. Whose Cider You On? (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 15:34 (three years ago) link
^ cool guy who knows about drug jokes
i can't think that inflaming one's lungs with hot vapor is a good idea tbh as much as it pains me to say it
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 15:50 (three years ago) link
xp Mordy: there's been some work on both smoking and nicotine that suggest a mixed role. Basically, smokers and vapers are underrepresented in hospitalized cases, but if hospitalized, smokers have worse progression. A protective role for nicotine is hypothesized, and the French are doing a trial with nicotine patches in hospitalized patients.
My local snus outlet (a cigar/pipe tobacco shop) closed, so I've been surviving off convenience store vapes.
― mafia sleepover (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 15:53 (three years ago) link
We've been eating pot brownies mostly. Slower to act, but mellower.
And CBD for the hyper kid.
― no new snail to snell (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
One month ago today, Trump claimed that the American death toll from COVID-19 could reach as high as 50,000 fatalities by August 4th.
We will pass 100,000 deaths by the end of this week.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
yeah, but many are saying it could be as high as 2-3 million, so compared to that, we're actually doing #1 in the entire world in terms of how good we are
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
three years pass...
this seems scary: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/19/asia/china-coronavirus-spike-intl-hnk/index.html
― JoeStork, Monday, January 20, 2020
From that CNN article:
SARS infected more than 8,000 people and killed 774 in a pandemic that ripped through Asia in 2002 and 2003.
It's interesting to track ilx's conversation about it going forward up through the end of March. It has been one hell of a year so far.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
It's a 'badge of honor', he said.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
during hard times, when thinking about how bad things are and how much better they could have - no SHOULD have - been, i find it useful to take a deep breath and then say:
"i did the very best job that has ever been done"
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:37 (three years ago) link
fwiw the WH's predictions that we could reach 3,000 deaths/day by June 1 probably aren't coming true so I guess that's a small bit of good news
― frogbs, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:40 (three years ago) link
Larry Kudlow, close advisor to the President, said on February 25: "We have contained this, I won't say airtight but pretty close to airtight."
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
Words are meaningless and forgettable.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link
god if only anything else were
― j., Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:48 (three years ago) link
If someone is in an airtight space they will suffocate and die, so... Kudlow... otm?
― no new snail to snell (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
Enjoy the virus.xp
― No mean feat. DaBaby (breastcrawl), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 20:59 (three years ago) link
All I ever wanted, all I ever needed is something like SARS
― Unparalleled Elegance (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:04 (three years ago) link
You'll see your problems multipliedIf you continually decideTo faithfully pursueThe policy of truth
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:09 (three years ago) link
No one in this red suburb (in one of the most effected metro areas) is wearing masks out shopping.
https://i1.wp.com/digbysblog.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/download-97.jpeg
It's appalling. We may hold under 3k deaths/day through 1 Jun, but I'll be surprised if that number isn't regularly broken through the month.
― mafia sleepover (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:24 (three years ago) link
fwiw the WH's predictions that we could reach 3,000 deaths/day by June 1 probably aren't coming true so I guess that's a small bit of good news― frogbs, Wednesday, May 20, 2020 4:40 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― frogbs, Wednesday, May 20, 2020 4:40 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
not so sure. the current death rate and trajectory is a function of the social distancing that was happening a month ago.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
also, what is the percentage of actual covid related deaths we think are accurately being reported in the US? 60%? 70%?
― Yerac, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
Maybe we all died
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
My suburb is where the first covid-19 case in the state of Oregon was discovered, in a janitor working at a local elementary school about 2 miles from my house; my town of 30,000 has a large concentration of professionals and college grads and leans more to the liberal-moderate side of the political spectrum. Very white middle class or wealthy, very polite.
Here I see masks aplenty when grocery shopping, but almost no masks worn among people out for daily walks on the street. It is dead easy for those walkers to maintain a 6 ft distance when passing one another and that amount of proximity is only momentary. I can live with that. Since I have no other contact with anyone around here other than on walks or grocery shopping, I can supply no wider observations for comparison.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:42 (three years ago) link
Here in small town AZ, nobody was wearing a mask. Then all the sudden everyone was. Mine finally arrived in the mail, and then once I started wearing it, it was back to nobody wearing one! I assume everyone thought the cooties magically disappeared once the Gov opened stuff back up.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:48 (three years ago) link
god aimless i didn't realize we were basically neighbors
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:16 (three years ago) link
Clay, too, I think. I know he grew up in LO.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:57 (three years ago) link
i mean sure if you call that "local"... :)
― Kate (rushomancy), Thursday, 21 May 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
While we are talking Portland, I drove past Voodoo Donuts last weekend and there was a line of about 60 people, elbow to elbow. Only a few were wearing masks.
― Darin, Thursday, 21 May 2020 01:31 (three years ago) link