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Neslepaks posted:hi im now in the pandemic wfh club first wfh day is finished, and i feel the need to quote this again
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lol first day of wfh and looks like all the tasks i have depend on hardware we won’t be able to install for weeks. i barely had anything to do today and played smash during an hour long pointless call
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:i run i3wm. me too, king. join me in laughing at the mouse touchers Scud Hansen fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Mar 13, 2020 |
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Scud Hansen posted:me too, king. join me in laughing at the mouse touchers i use a trackball 
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echinopsis posted:i’m personally hoarding a few masks and antibiotics too. gotta be some perks lol
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Displeased Moo Cow posted:his master’s feet lol
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ok i did some thinking and ive got a new plan this pandemic is predicted to go very wide, right? like 40-70% of the earths population is gonna get it in the next year or two? and the big threat is that if (when) you get it the health care system will be overloaded or in a state of collapse? the optimal strategy seems obvious: arrange to get the coronavirus NOW while there are still hospital beds and working ventilators available brb off to lick all the doorknobs at my gym
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FMguru posted:ok i did some thinking and ive got a new plan with incubation the time to do that was two weeks ago now you’re just a fast follower
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yeah, plus treatment options in the future will hopefully be better. i also heard a thing that pandemics tend to get less deadly as time goes on because the super deadly viral strains tend to kill off their hosts and therefore can't spread as effectively.
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Mar 13, 2020 19:59
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also i dont think that getting it now means you can't get it later, thats chicken pox
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already wfh 1 or 2 days a week, so when we went full time earlier this week i pretty much have it down. we've been told to wfh through april 3rd but everyone's kinda figuring it will be until summer at least. i'm waiting to see if the spring quarter happens all online or if it happens at all. a bigger problem for me is dfh, as i currently never drink at home but am instead a barfly. i'm 59 and i'm stupid enough to be a smoker, so i'm more at risk then i need to be, but if i don't go to the bar my health will improve and ill probably just taper smoking down to nothing. so it'll either kill me or make me get healthier my inlaws will be fairly inlikely to survive if they get it as they're in their early 90s and my mom probably woudn't survive it either and i have mixed feelings about her. the person i worry about most is someone super close to me who is immunocompromised and i can't imagine the hole in my soul if she ceased to be. still, working in sweats is nice
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Mar 13, 2020 20:49
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latest age breakdown of deaths from italy get in the urn, grandpa
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rotor posted:also i dont think that getting it now means you can't get it later, thats chicken pox often times once you recover from a virus you can’t get it again. it’s if the virus mutates that you can get sick again, like the flu. it’s also why the flu vaccine isn’t 100% effective. they pick a strain that they predict will be the most common and vaccinate you against that.
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:often times once you recover from a virus you can’t get it again. it’s if the virus mutates that you can get sick again, like the flu. it’s also why the flu vaccine isn’t 100% effective. they pick a strain that they predict will be the most common and vaccinate you against that. biology is so weird
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gotta say, not really a fan
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eh there are some parts of biology i like birbs 
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Sagebrush posted:eh there are some parts of biology i like  
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Sagebrush posted:birbs rip tom hanks
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rotor posted:biology is so weird also the current thoughts are that testing isnt reliable enough and people they thought were "recovered" from it, really weren't. https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/487436-can-you-get-coronavirus-twice quote:“Once you have the infection, it could remain dormant with minimal symptoms,” Philip Tierno Jr., professor of microbiology and pathology at New York University, told Reuters last month.
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so, like always, chalk it up to human incompetence
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welp, just heard spring quarter is going to be remote, so I probly won't see my cube till summer at the earliest
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:often times once you recover from a virus you can’t get it again. it’s if the virus mutates that you can get sick again, like the flu. it’s also why the flu vaccine isn’t 100% effective. they pick a strain that they predict will be the most common and vaccinate you against that. the antibodies we create that recognise pathogens require unique antigens to identify. once our immune system can identify an antigen it can usually take care of it very well our immune system is mental. it was described in university as something like a random protein generator and those proteins will “stick” to things and are antibodies and they act like tags for other immune cells to swallow up. it was described as if the protein stuck to our own cells it could tell so it didn’t use them (this always felt like an obscene simplification when it was taught) that’s what an autoimmune disorder is, where our immune system tags our own cells for destruction. it’s possible type 1 diabetes results from the body creating antibodies for some kind of virus and those antibodies also bind to the beta cells in the pancreas so that the immune system attacks the beta cells thinking it’s a virus. it’s possible we will be able to immunise against this in the future rheumatic fever can lead to a similar situation there the antibodies will bind to cells in the heart (to do with the valves?) and so the immune system will attack the heart so that’s why you get this weird situation where rheumatic fever leading to CV problems the H and N in flu strands like H1N1 represent the two most common antigen families expressed on the flu virus, although they aren’t the only ones I’m not sure why some immune responses last longer than other though. why we can give the immune system dead cells for some things and live attenuated for others and it’s also worth nothing most viruses don’t target all our cells but just a limited number. things like coronavirus attack the respiratory cells. measles is nasty because it attacks our immune cells itself and is one of the worst viruses because it can “erase” some or all of your immune “memory” most common cold are either rhinovirus or coronavirus. why this one in particular is much more deadly is something I’d like to understand also sometimes in healthy people we can get situations where our cells lyse and release huge volumes of viral particles into our body and our immune system sees this as an extreme attack and can have something called a “cytokine storm” and lead to shock and this is how you get very healthy people dying of flu, different to vulnerable people dying from respiratory failure from the flu just some ill-remembered info for ya. it’s probably all wrong now echinopsis fucked around with this message at 10:03 on Mar 14, 2020 |
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<seven of nine voice> “cytokine storm”
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echinopsis posted:the antibodies we create that recognise pathogens require unique antigens to identify. once our immune system can identify an antigen it can usually take care of it very well 100% not gonna read all those words
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https://twitter.com/round/status/1238529082960171009
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rotor posted:100% not gonna read all those words just watch that one episode of storybots
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:also the current thoughts are that testing isnt reliable enough and people they thought were "recovered" from it, really weren't.   some good reads: Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study (thorough breakdown of symptoms & treatment outcomes) First known person-to-person transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the USA (it's been documented in the US since late january) How will country-based mitigation measures influence the course of the COVID-19 epidemic? (an everything-you-need-to-know on the unknowns currently) COVID-19 and Italy: what next? (models ICU capacity to be reached March 14...) if you want to follow along: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/onlinefirst https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/onlinefirst https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/onlinefirst
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hi friends i'll be wfh next week. possibly longer - they're not super clear right now. anywho, just happy to be here
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rotor posted:100% not gonna read all those words hey i’m just pleased i haven’t been put on ignore by everyone
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whole team got up in arms about the importance of social distancing and flattening the growth curve on covid-19 in response to hearing that our department would not be allowing everyone to wfh because "it looks bad if people aren't in the office" this is despite the larger organization urging it "Just wash your hands, you will be fine. You guys are young and idealistic, and you're all about 'power to the people', but you have to balance that with the needs of the organization" all of our jobs can be done fine from home what is wrong with people
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lol who does it look bad to, the office inspectors?
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echinopsis posted:hey i’m just pleased i haven’t been put on ignore by everyone lol. no one should ignore you.
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https://twitter.com/jonny290/status/1238667884638818304 i am not joking in that i am hanging by a thread more than i have been in my entire life. i no longer care. just do it
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Jonny 290 posted:i am not joking in that i am hanging by a thread more than i have been in my entire life. i no longer care. just do it Hang in there jonny 
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just DO ITTTTT I dont want to spend the next three years hunting raccoons for food and learning how to make my own soap out of raccoon fat and mcmansion ash just to be told i still don't qualify for a mortgage, keep renting, oops they all do credit checks hope you got a bed in your truck
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like im not actively looking to end it but i dearly wish it would all end
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