That's from following the political thread imo
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link
I felt like that yesterday, just like useless rubbish. Today I woke up at 6 and have been going non-stop since then and I am weary but I have to finish some slides and write a quiz, so not too shabby recovery time imho
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Wednesday, 21 September 2022 23:37 (one year ago) link
boosted 10 hours ago, feeling a little shaky tired and arm is sore. let's see how the night goes.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 22 September 2022 03:40 (one year ago) link
"Fauci admits that he knew the draconian measures could impact children"
Dude - you KNOW everything you say is going to be used against you, don't fucking give them shit like this, which is now Very Popular Indeed & still being forwarded as proof of something or other etc. JFC
― StanM, Saturday, 1 October 2022 06:46 (one year ago) link
what does it matter? On a personal level, he can be no more hated and nothing will ever change that. To great swaths of population, he is either a) corrupt and controlled by conspiratorial groups or b) totally incompetent and barely holding on at any given moment. He may as well just put a comedy villain outfit and hat on and talk like Darth Vader. He can’t possibly make people distrust or hate him more than they already do. Those people are long, long, gone, and when the next pandemic affects the most selfish and empthetically bankrupt , callous people in the United States, they will find a new person who is in charge to hate and distrust and connect to every conspiracy they can locate. It just doesn’t matter, and unless you’re related to these idiots (like so many of us are) it’s best to avoid thinking about the dumb ways that reactionaries react
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 1 October 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
of course, ymmvBut I just think of the tight pulled lips saying “I just don’t trust that...fow...Fochee, I can’t say his name. Doctor F!” - laughter in background about this ignorance - “I just don’t trust him. There’s something about him...”
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 1 October 2022 14:10 (one year ago) link
exactly. at this point he's already been demonized and even if he doesn't give them fodder, they'll invent it.
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Saturday, 1 October 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link
That's how you win an argument in bad faith. Repeat the same invented or exaggerated bullshit for years and years on end, then the second someone comes even close to saying what they've been saying for years, they jump at it and go "see!?!? SEE!?!?"
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 October 2022 15:15 (one year ago) link
Fauci is great.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 1 October 2022 20:50 (one year ago) link
Without a quote being given, there’s nothing to even object to in his phrasing. “Protective measures will also protect children” is not a bad thing to say?
― Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Sunday, 2 October 2022 00:34 (one year ago) link
One day of being tired and achy was my only negative on the new booster. Same for my partner. When it goes, it's like a light switch has been thrown.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 3 October 2022 01:07 (one year ago) link
Throwback for the thread OGs:
Ebola outbreak in Uganda:- New cases: 3 confirmed- In hospital: 24 (-)- New deaths: 1 confirmed- Total cases: 60 (41 conf.)- Total deaths: 28 (9 conf.)- Case fatality rate (closed): 93%- Case fatality rate (all cases): 47%— BNO News (@BNOFeed) October 3, 2022
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Monday, 3 October 2022 02:52 (one year ago) link
And with my boss' kid and another coworker down with it, that's 15 new cases in my orbit I've learned about since just Saturday. Feels like the reported stats are further disconnected from reality than at any other point.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 October 2022 15:27 (one year ago) link
Interesting. We've entered a lull here. No new reported cases in my orbit for weeks, the quietest all year.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 October 2022 15:29 (one year ago) link
yeah, same here in Central Florida. my county is now considered low risk based on hospitalizations/cases for the first time in forever. positivity rate in single digits also for the first time in a while.
but it definitely varies by location.
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 October 2022 15:31 (one year ago) link
Last week MDC dropped to moderate risk, whatever that means.
Looks like I see spikes in the Northeast and Upper Midwest without their looking like a wave.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 October 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
State wide and county wide stats would lead you to believe we are in a lull, but our city stats are wild right now. For months we'd been ranging between 1-6ish new cases per day, never breaking 10 per day. Suddenly on the 9/20 we had 94 new cases and then 208 the following day, presumably some sort of reporting backlog involved somehow, but we've been over double digits in new cases per day since.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 October 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
It's been betterish around here, but transmission is clearly continuing; we've never zeroed out at the hospital, even if it's been single digits for a while. Honestly based on the amount of people I saw at shows last week without masks -- I was in a distinct minority when it came to masking up at indoor shows -- I have to wonder, but no way to know for sure quite yet unless there's a clear spike. As it is it may just be a flowing miasma at this point.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 October 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
Masking in my classes is down to single digits: three in a class of 50, for example.
Nine of 10 colleagues no longer mask.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 October 2022 15:44 (one year ago) link
I'm the lone masked holdout in my building. Could live without having to hear comments on it every week.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 October 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
Almost nobody but me is masking, but also nobody comments about it.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 3 October 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
Granted, it's usually from one of the same three obnoxious people, but I can't get through a week without some sarcastic comment about it.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 October 2022 17:03 (one year ago) link
They're not libs, are they?
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 October 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
One of them is 100% straight up conservative, one claims to be liberal and seems to be on some issues but really haaaates masks and the third is just a weirdo who comments on everything and I can't figure out their actual position on anything at all.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 October 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
"Tonight on Crossfire"
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 October 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
Lol
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 October 2022 17:10 (one year ago) link
haha it would be entertaining for about five minutes before the entire audience starts looking for the cyanide pills
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 October 2022 17:11 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxqgdU1QI5g
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 October 2022 17:17 (one year ago) link
listen, can someone help joe gonzales understand something here
https://i.imgur.com/wV88xrH.png
Federal officials have spent the past year urging Americans to get booster shots to bolster their protection against the coronavirus, which wanes over time. In early September, they rushed out the first new shots — reformulated to target the still-dominant omicron variants — to give people time to get inoculated before a likely cold weather surge, when respiratory infections increase as people head indoors, and recommended that all Americans 12 and older receive a third and fourth dose of vaccine.But the campaigns have lagged badly. Only about 105 million U.S. adults — roughly 40 percent — have received the third shot of vaccine initially offered a year ago, according to federal data, a far lower rate than countries like the United Kingdom, where more than 70 percent of adults have gotten a third dose. That figure is also well behind the 200 million U.S. adults who completed their primary series of shots.Early data shows that just over 11 million Americans — or about 4 percent of those eligible — have received the new bivalent booster shots. A third of adults say they eventually plan to get those shots, according to KFF polling.For public health leaders, the low booster rate is startling in a nation that financed the shots’ development, offers them free and touts them as the best way to protect against a virus that has already claimed more than 1 million lives in this country.
But the campaigns have lagged badly. Only about 105 million U.S. adults — roughly 40 percent — have received the third shot of vaccine initially offered a year ago, according to federal data, a far lower rate than countries like the United Kingdom, where more than 70 percent of adults have gotten a third dose. That figure is also well behind the 200 million U.S. adults who completed their primary series of shots.
Early data shows that just over 11 million Americans — or about 4 percent of those eligible — have received the new bivalent booster shots. A third of adults say they eventually plan to get those shots, according to KFF polling.
For public health leaders, the low booster rate is startling in a nation that financed the shots’ development, offers them free and touts them as the best way to protect against a virus that has already claimed more than 1 million lives in this country.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/10/07/covid-booster-winter-surge/
― Karl Malone, Friday, 7 October 2022 23:19 (one year ago) link
The case for not getting the (widely available, free) omicron booster for people who are already vaccinated is one I don't understand. Like, 40% of adults get their flu shot each year. What's the reasoning for "I'll get my annual flu booster but I won't get the omicron booster"?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 7 October 2022 23:39 (one year ago) link
What's the reasoning for "I'll get my annual flu booster but I won't get the omicron booster"?
I had a in-person doctor visit on Sept. 22. They asked if I wanted my flu shot. I said yes. I asked if they could give me a covid booster. They said 'we don't have any'. That was my reasoning.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 7 October 2022 23:43 (one year ago) link
I think they made a strategic mistake restricting (officially) who could get the last booster. Yeah, I know, you could always jump the line or lie or whatever, but I didn't, which meant almost a year between shots, which meant almost a year with I assume reduced protection. I got the bivalent the first day I could, but hadn't really altered my behavior the preceding several months. And I'm one of the very compliant ones. Everyone else, the great unwashed, even those open to vaccines? I wouldn't underestimate the impact of inertia.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 October 2022 23:56 (one year ago) link
My parents finally got their bivalent booster this week, despite resistance, because their doctors told them to. The reason for my mom's resistance? "Walensky said it hadn't been tested on humans."
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 October 2022 23:58 (one year ago) link
my dad is biv boosted. yesssssssssss. whole family is DONE.
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Saturday, 8 October 2022 00:19 (one year ago) link
the whole 'not tested' thing, like....it isn't like they made a whole new vaccine, they took the existing one and tweaked a few things.
this isn't gonna be like the shitty I Am Legend remake
got mine on Thursday, flu and COVID, one in each arm. still feeling a bit achey and sweaty, and awake at 03:30. i just walked in to a chemist 10 minutes away, was no need for an appointment
― koogs, Saturday, 8 October 2022 02:38 (one year ago) link
I got my bivalent booster Monday, no problem at all, besides the sore arm. A minor sniffle Tuesday, that could have been anything else.
― nickn, Saturday, 8 October 2022 03:18 (one year ago) link
Bivalent just becoming available to all adults in my area. Will get sometime. Has the thing been updated yet to the hottest new strains?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 8 October 2022 13:36 (one year ago) link
and like most other under-65, relatively healthy people here that will be my 4th total. got 3rd (first boost) back in January
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 8 October 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
It works against the first couple omicron strains.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 October 2022 13:50 (one year ago) link
Seeing the new Pfizer bivalent is more up to date. No idea when I might be able to get that. Get poked with something or other soon.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 8 October 2022 13:57 (one year ago) link
Get it today.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 October 2022 14:16 (one year ago) link
Splikevax bivalent Original / Omicronelasomeran / imelasomeran
call it by it's name!
― koogs, Saturday, 8 October 2022 14:23 (one year ago) link
soonest is oct 14, and in Bay Bulls! cmon Alfthey'll open some city clinics soon probably
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 8 October 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
and 20 weeks later i can get the extra tasty crispy
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 8 October 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
Ah. I wasn't sure on your chronology based on your posts.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 October 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
it's all confusing. there might have been a one week window i was eligible for a non bivalent 4th hit
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 8 October 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
FL's surgeon general actively faking studies to try and indicate mRNA vaccines cause heart problems.
I fucking hate this state
#vaccineswork this is yet another example of write your conclusion and then fashion an article. @DrSusanOliver1 https://t.co/RxTjt8zSs7 . @FLDeptofHealth tried to analyze deaths after COVID vaccination starting from their rollout till June 2022. 🧵(1/9)— Frank Han MD 🇺🇦Pediatric/ACHD/GUCH Cardiologist (@han_francis) October 8, 2022
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 October 2022 15:34 (one year ago) link
Our Department of Health now recommending against people 18-39 not getting mRNA vaccines. Unfucking believable
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Sunday, 9 October 2022 15:40 (one year ago) link
Well this latest booster (Pfizer omnicron updated one) absolutely put me on my arse.
Went to bed, woke up after 3 in the afternoon and back in bed by 10.
― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Sunday, 9 October 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link