Jonny 290 posted:

old people dying is not a bad thing

MononcQc posted:

https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/1237577750480740353?s=20

lancemantis posted:

well, you know, as wealthy people they can just get a short-term lease or maybe decide the box-truck-life isn't the best idea after all and finally get a place

Kind Friend posted:

wfh has made it impossible for me to ignore that i absolutely do not care about my job. scheduled a meeting with my manager to let him know im quitting.

PIZZA.BAT posted:

dude at least haul in the free checks until this blows over and you have to go back in

lancemantis posted:

lancemantis posted:

what's the cutoff for a holiday?

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

you forgot seeds, mother fucker

burning swine posted:

well poo poo

only one option left then

Fuzzy Mammal posted:

what's everyone's daily routine? i've been at it over a week now and i'm pretty settled

- get up at like 8:30, make breakfast
- work 9-12.
- make lunch, take dog around lake 12-2
- work 2-5

i'm trying to set a hard stop at 5 after the first few days going till 8 before realizing i was damned hungry.


feels sustainable, but gotta fix my ergo situation

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.

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

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

theadder posted:

i read some of them op

lancemantis posted:

Maybe a positive thing that will come out of all of this is some actual useful food donations for pantries

Kind Friend posted:

looks like the bay area is about to go on pseudo-lockdown

https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/Bay-Area-must-shelter-in-place-Only-15135014.php

I missed my loving chance to leave. gently caress. Looks like I may have to un-quit my job because I don't see how I'm gonna be able to move.

quote:

People who are homeless are exempt from the order but encouraged to find shelter.

SmokaDustbowl posted:

canada's borders are shutting down

Sagebrush posted:

lol the university just decided we're teaching online for the rest of the semester (third week of may). that's gonna work just great for wood shop and cnc machining and all that poo poo.

just call the school year over already. this poo poo is hosed

Jonny 290 posted:

wfh without a strong social support network is absolute death from madness. Don't be too excited about it unless you are planning to take specific steps to see other humans on a regular basis.

CLASS 2 PERVERSION posted:

I've worked from home for two days now and I'm already driven to posting instead of lurking

Kazinsal posted:

the mix of pandemic and the start of spring allergies owns

FMguru posted:

did you really, though?

Stereotype posted:

what if we were right for once though.

Endless Mike posted:

https://twitter.com/tentwentysixpm/status/1240089341864493057?s=20

Jonny 290 posted:

we have a 24/7 channel set up now and ppl just ping in the social channel "hey on the hangout zoom". it's nice and is helping a bit