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Fluffy Bunnies posted:if there are, I'd really like to see them for scientific curiosity. To the best of my knowledge, the only covid deaths counted are the ones that directly die while having the virus, not the ones that die months later from complications; in the US anyhow. It's totally possible that I'm wrong, though It's frustrating to me personally because my grandmother died from post-covid complications (it damaged her liver, pancreas, heart, and brain) but because it was 4 months after her diagnosis and she wasn't positive at the time, it wasn't a direct cause of death. I am wondering how many deaths like that there will be?
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Jigsaw posted:Love the feeling of hoping that my state will keep indoor mask mandates until my jury duty in a week and a half. I’m concerned they’re going to get rid of the mandate and the courts won’t allow wearing one at that point for ~*reasons*~ I honestly don't have hope for most states. Washington has been one of the better states about protections in general but Inslee yesterday said they were going to lift the mask mandate, which shocked the hell out of me. I did see that Mass and Hawaii are keeping theirs for now at least.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Went to my local Publix in FL, curious to see what mask usage was like now as the company is following the CDC thing of not requiring masks for vaxd people. It’s not a store I’ve ever seen anyone not wear a mask on, or any kind of commotion. Where in Florida? I grew up in Pinellas and my brother still lives in relative chudville in central Pasco, and he says most people are still wearing masks in the Greenwise Publix they shop at, too. I'm in Seattle now and I bounce between, it's a very easy NPI to continue doing, and I don't want people to think I'm a republican. Also, King county has "strongly suggested" that we keep wearing masks indoors.
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EL BROMANCE posted:South East, Broward county. Ha I wonder what the difference between Greenwise and Regular publix is. Pay the extra cost to not be surrounded by anti Vaxers! Actually, I would bet it's popular with anti vaxxers! They started the Greenwise store thing when I still lived there, it's basically Publix branded Whole Foods. Looks like there's 2-3 in Broward.
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smoobles posted:my theory is Ron Desantis is a doomscroller (like all of us) but with the unique power to create his own content, since he is a governor It continues to be loving weird that this lovely rear end in a top hat kid I went to Catholic school with is trying to play evil personified or something. 
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I grew up going to the Publix referenced in the 6th tweet, it's very strange to see it referenced and I feel bad for the people who work there.
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ShadowHawk posted:Today I learned that somewhere between 5 and 15% of people have a fear of needles. That's a shockingly high number. I suspect this has a lot to do with vaccine hesitancy; people often channel specific phobias into "reasoned" arguments that just so happen to support their fears. I have a major fear of needles, it kept me from getting some vaccines when I was younger because my mom didn't want to fight with me over it (I've rectified it as best I can). But I definitely get all necessary vaccines now including yearly flu shots and was ecstatic to get my covid shots. Fear of covid > fear of needles for me.
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Ccs posted:My sister had a 106 degree fever from Pfizer second dose. I got Moderna and only got a slightly sore arm. Dunno if Pfizer generally has worse side effects or its just some people's immune system dislikes Pfizer more. It's also anecdotes. Here are links to the vaccine information sheets for healthcare providers, which list side effects in the trials in test vs control populations: Moderna: https://www.fda.gov/media/144637/download Pfizer: https://www.fda.gov/media/144413/download J&J: https://www.fda.gov/media/146304/download
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Crimson Harvest posted:I had the fever and dissociation usually reserved for flu after mine. Was no fun at all but taught me a lot about which parts of being sick are me and which are the germs. I think about this a lot and I have definitely been better equipped to point this out to people who tell me they don't get the flu shot because it makes them sick (as happened again yesterday...) Also, my family lives in Florida and I'm really glad I don't give a poo poo about seeing them for the holidays. The ones I want to see, we see each other when we can and when it's cheaper.
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boquiabierta posted:Random question: why could the polio vaccine be delivered this way and why can't we do any other vaccines this way? You may consider this similar, there's an oral typhoid vaccine in the same vein (no pun intended). One pill every other day, 4 total pills. It really hosed me up on the last pill when I received it.
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Got my Pfizer booster last night and the side effects are like dose 2 but dialed up. Almost 102.5 fever, horrible chills, bones ache, head aches, skin aches, can't sleep, so thirsty. Interesting thing is that I got it a couple hours earlier in the evening than my first two, but the next day symptoms timeline followed the same timing. Wonder if there's something tied in with my circadian rhythm. I am very, very glad I never had covid to my knowledge, I imagine I would have been hosed up by it. On the other hand, husband is just feeling generally blah.
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Ginette Reno posted:It hit me in a similar way. Good news for you is those side effects only lasted for a night and a day or so. I was pretty much 100% after that. So you probably won't feel awful for too long. Oh yeah, this is maybe 20% worse than dose 2 and for that I woke up the next day feeling 100% until a little slump in the afternoon then nothing. It was really bizarre. And I definitely am not upset that I have side effects! I appreciate my immune system very much. And it's an excuse to groan on the couch and not do anything constructive.
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Beartaco posted:I just had my second Pfizer dose about a month ago and it completely hosed me up in much the same way. I feel like maybe it's lovely of me to say, but I've been happy to read other peoples accounts of similar experiences. Everyone else in my life, my friends, family, flatmates, they had literally zero issues whatsoever so I like knowing that I'm not alone. Honestly I'm happy to hear that it helps! It felt a bit self-serving to post but it's helped me to hear others' experiences, so I was hoping I could share as well. I do hope it doesn't dissuade anyone from getting their shots, I just was happy to be able to plan for side effects. And like dose 2, I woke up feeling absolutely fine today (2 days later) except for a short wave of extreme fatigue around 3pm.
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Re: restaurants, everyone's risk tolerance is different, and it also depends on where you are. In Seattle there's lower spread and restaurants and bars and events are required to ask for proof of vaccination in King County so we feel like it's within our acceptable risk tolerance to eat inside occasionally. Edit: both of us are vaccinated and boosted too. Involuntary Sparkle fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Dec 6, 2021 |
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Kuule hain nussivan posted:Third shot of Pfizer received. Looking forward to the fever dreams, though the nurse said it shouldn't be nearly as bad as my second shot due to the longer interval (5 months versus 3 weeks). Good luck, but my third Pfizer was worse than the second.
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Blooster posted:So I'm visiting NYC and was chatting with some guy in a pub who turned out to be a complete chud. He told me he's a ferry operator for the Staten Island Ferry and that he was able to get a religious exemption for the covid shot, so he never had to get it to keep his job. Also NYC has a vaccination requirement in restaurant and bars, did they not check at that one?
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Dec 26, 2021 23:56
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I bought a poo poo ton from Bonafide a few months ago and my husband had been bitching about how much space they were taking up (small house). He's not bitching anymore.
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GRECOROMANGRABASS posted:That's interesting. OTOH, I don't believe I have known a woman that hasn't had irregular / heavy / "gently caress it, kill me now" periods from time to time. I imagine if you sampled millions of people given a breath mint, and followed up with them for adverse reactions for a while, you'd have all kinds of crazy poo poo attributed to the breath mint, no? Anecdotally, I haven't really had a period in years because of having sequential IUDs, but I did get a light one after the second dose, which was really odd to me. Also for exercise, we bought a Peloton and adjustable dumbbells. Lived in a 5th floor apartment at the time. Adore the Peloton because it's the first indoor cardio that I've ever been able to stick with and enjoy, as an ADHD-haver.
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Wearing a 3M Aura for the first time today at the office and it feels comfortable and secure, but in a way it's kind of useless because part of my job is to sit with my teammates and taste products together. At least everyone is boosted.
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Jan 11, 2022 20:08
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MrQwerty posted:yeah my order is like 2 weeks in and they told me it was going to get fulfilled in late february with stock on hand, those guys are skeleton crew and they let you know why for sure That's good to know, thanks. I'd made another order on Jan 3 and was wondering what I should expect for timing this time around. Luckily I'd bought a bunch last year.
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Got two email notifications that someone who was in the office that I had contact with last week tested positive afterwards. Yay. At least the free Washington state rapid tests arrived today too. I found out that the way they "contact trace" is by asking the person who they spent 15 min or longer within 6 feet. But not everyone knows everyone in the office, or they might forget, so some people I know definitely were in close contact but never got an email. And unfortunately a lot of my job revolves around in-person work so I can't just WFH.
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Betty Wight posted:That’s the way we do it in our office unless we can verify it on camera. Contact tracing is hard and it would have been cool if the federal government had carved out some pandemic relief for hipaa. As in, allowing us to ask everyone if they were around so and so. So instead we ask sick person A who they were around the last three days and they are expected to remember. Super dumb. We all have to badge in to the office though - I'd prefer if they sent an email out to all of the people who badged in that day. They claim it's about privacy but the way it's done now just leaves too many holes.
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Wendigee posted:Earl grey smells like fruity pebbles because they are both flavored with bergamot... Which is a citrus fruit It all specifically comes from linalool, an aromatic compound that citrus oils are high in. Fruity Pebbles, Froot Loops, Earl grey - all have a significant amount of linalool in their flavoring.
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Wendigee posted:i've always found the smell to be quite pleasant... thanks for the compound name! Oh yeah, I once had a flavorhouse send me a bottle of just linalool as part of a project and it was heavenly 
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Pyrtanis posted:TIL! I didn't bring it up myself, but Dr. Pepper is a spiced cherry flavored carbonated beverage. The main characteristic flavor compound in cherry (real cherries and cherry flavor) is benzaldehyde (same as almonds!). So there can be some flavor connection between cherry cough syrup and Dr. Pepper depending on the flavor used in the cough syrup. The flavorhouses that make soft drink flavors are the same ones that make cough syrup flavoring. It's all just chemistry. ETA: I'm a food scientist and I rely on my sense of taste and smell for my career and I am terrified of losing them.
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Drunk Nerds posted:I always thought (and tasted) that Dr Peppers key twist was caramel flavoring. Seems weird that they would release a Cherry Dr Pepper if it already was Cherry flavored. I'm in the USA so there might also be some sort of regional differences at play, here They use caramel color, which does have some flavor impact (mostly by muting added flavors), but Cherry Dr. Pepper is just extra cherry flavored. Sorry for flavor derail!
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Professor Shark posted:What makes Creed’s Erolfa so distinctive? Oh I've never heard of that cologne, I had to look up what it was. Unfortunately I'm not a fragrance scientist! I live on the Pacific coast and the smell of the ocean is always one of my favorite things. So I looked it up, that's a marine fragrance and a lot of people say it does smell just like the ocean. And from what I could find, apparently the smell of the ocean is largely characterized by dimethyl sulfide. https://www.acsh.org/news/2021/07/20/what-gives-ocean-its-wonderful-smell-vile-chemical-15667 DMS is important in a lot of things (it gives berries their distinctive tastes), too. But in higher concentration, it's pretty gnarly. Oracle posted:This is cool. Now tell me why when I try to make a raspberry chocolate torte I lose the raspberry flavor no matter how much chambord I put in. Raspberry is just one of those really difficult flavors to capture in food. Chambord doesn't have a lot of raspberry character, unfortunately. Does the recipe call for raspberry jam? Also on the cola side, Coca Cola is a combination of seven different flavors: lime, lemon, orange, neroli (orange blossom), cinnamon, coriander, nutmeg. I actually used to work in the same compound where the Coke flavor was blended, that section was protected by crazy amounts of security and 12 foot high razor wire. Involuntary Sparkle fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Jan 27, 2022 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:What's it like regionally in the US? One thought that occurred to me is January is (normally) peak flu month in the UK for both societal (people going home for Christmas then going back to work and school giving the pot a nice stir) and environmental (coldest, darkest month so almost all socialising is indoors, often in poorly-ventilated spaces) reasons. It'd be interesting to get a read between the states with a British-ish climate (PNW), and much colder and much warmer January climates, but I suppose that's going to be badly skewed by different levels of NPIs and testing, especially as the warmest states are also the most covid-denying (and unvaccinated) ones. At work and phone posting so can't share data right now, but it's been interesting to watch cases in the Seattle metro area decline while the eastern part of Washington state continue to see case rates climb. Eastern Washington is chud country though. But what I'm trying to say at least here in Washington state it's not just about climate but also locality, population density, vaccine uptake, etc.
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gohuskies posted:I believe Washington, Hawaii, and New Mexico are the only states which don't have an end date stated for their mask mandate by now, and WA's Governor today sounded like it wasn't too far off. Personally I don't get it, there are some NPIs that you can reasonably argue about whether they are worth it or not, but the downside of a mask mandate is so incredibly low that there's almost no reason not to keep it. Apparently the outdoor one here in WA is ending shortly but I had forgotten about that one since I don't go out in crowds with more than 500 people these days. At least in my part of Seattle people were still largely wearing masks even after Inslee ended the mask mandate briefly last year.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:
I'm privileged that I can do some of my work from home, but I've really been breaking lately because people in my company working from home has made my life and most of my work so much more loving difficult. I have to spend a lot of time making up for the people working from home, but I'm expected to still meet the same timelines. Some tasks that used to take me one hour now takes ten or more, and all in the lab and not at home. Mentally I'm at the point of, I don't give a poo poo about how they feel, everyone back to the office because I'm tired of carrying the extra weight and stress.
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MrQwerty posted:You get to sit in your loving house instead of go to work through a pandemic, yeah it sucks how everyone took advantage of that to make your work day longer and everything is inefficient as gently caress, at least you aren't actively working through outbreaks and being told 6 days later you had close exposure. That's literally what I'm doing though. I take one day a week at home to do my paperwork but the rest of it is in person in the lab with everyone else in my lab and taking the bus to and from work. And I work longer days every day because of the people who are 100% at home.
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liz posted:Welp, it’s the last weekend of masks anywhere now… Please tell me they are not removing them on planes/public transit King County in Washington still has a mask mandate and they've said they don't plan to drop it at this point. It'll be interesting to see what they do after whatever the CDC says. quote:February 23, 2022: King County's indoor mask order is still in effect.
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:Sometimes I stalk people’s Instagram or Twitter accounts and I judge them entirely on what they were doing during april/may 2020 My husband and I were going back through our March-May 2020 Google photos the other day and it's a weird mix of pictures of the cats, random fun things I cooked, fake date nights in the living room, and memes. We were almost nostalgic for it.
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I work in a lab and this is the best hand soap I've found, we buy it from Fisher Scientific but you can find it in other places too. It's unscented and non drying and is the only soap that doesn't absolutely tear up our hands at work. https://deconlabs.com/products/skin-care-bacdown-handsoap/
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liz posted:I’m well aware about the eyes and such, I’m just trying not to think about I was mid flight on Monday when it made the news, I was just glad that the pilot didn't say anything. I flew home today and the gate agent said how glad she was to not have to announce the mask "nonsense" anymore. Very few masks until I got home to Seattle. Someone sneezed on me mid flight. Lots of chest coughing. I did keep thinking about my eyes... Here are a couple things that kept baffling me, though. Very, very few elderly people without masks. And so many kids under 5 and babies. My friends with kids too young to be vaccinated don't even take their kids to the grocery store. This was my third business trip in three weeks (all business critical and nothing that can be done remotely) and I am pretty done.
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Zil posted:Brother is in Florida for work, and this greets him at check in. I was going to suggest to report them to the FDA but they've already gotten a warning letter: https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/secret-islands-616344-08102021
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Stickman posted:If you're in Florida your hospitalizations have been rising since early April, at an accelerating rate. My brother's in Tampa and he and his wife have been nearly shut-ins since the beginning, but they both had to go back to the office recently. They wear KN95s but he caught it finally last week. Thankfully they're both boosted and I told him about Paxlovid and he was able to get a prescription but it's been hitting him pretty hard.
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It's been all over the place in flights and in stores from my experiences,in Seattle. Went to Home Depot a couple weeks ago and about 90% masking. At Home Depot. Grocery store this weekend was about 75%. Flights seem to depend on route. I have to fly to Phoenix for work next week so that'll be fun. Involuntary Sparkle fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Jun 27, 2022 |
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I had three Pfizer, the second and third knocked me on my rear end. I had Moderna as my second booster and I barely felt it.
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loudog999 posted:I called my doctor after testing positive and he said based on my medical history he was giving me Molnupiravir. I got it and took my first dose earlier. I have stopped following Covid things lately so I’m not sure the effectiveness of these new meds. Anyone have experience with it? How did it work out for you? I'm not a doctor, but did he say why? Doing a quick Google search makes it sound like it's a last resort option. Maybe Paxlovid has an interaction with another medication you're on? https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/02/22/1081898013/doctors-find-limited-use-for-less-effective-covid-pill quote:Data reviewed by the FDA showed molnupiravir was just 30% effective at cutting the risk of getting hospitalized with COVID-19. Paxlovid works much better, reducing the same risk by nearly 90%. Antibody and antiviral infusion treatments also reduce the risk of severe disease more than molnupiravir, according to published data. And molnupiravir comes with reproductive risks, so it's not generally recommended for patients who are pregnant or trying to conceive.
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