Cygnia Posted February 8, 2022 Report Share Posted February 8, 2022 Lawnmower Boy, Old Man, Joe Walsh and 2 others 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted February 8, 2022 Report Share Posted February 8, 2022 New York Deer Infected With Omicron, Study Finds Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted February 9, 2022 Report Share Posted February 9, 2022 Kansas medical board faces threats from lawmakers for probing ivermectin use Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 9, 2022 Report Share Posted February 9, 2022 FWIW, this sort of thing has been going on at the federal level for decades, albeit different motivation and targets: one senator from Oklahoma, who is a bought-soul tool of Big Oil, has been subpoenaing atmospheric scientists and grilling them in the Capitol about climate change and CO2 emissions at the behest of his satanic masters. These subpoenas are timed to be inconvenient, but you have no choice but to obey them or be jailed for contempt of Congress. Joe Walsh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted February 10, 2022 Report Share Posted February 10, 2022 7 hours ago, Cancer said: FWIW, this sort of thing has been going on at the federal level for decades, albeit different motivation and targets: one senator from Oklahoma, who is a bought-soul tool of Big Oil, has been subpoenaing atmospheric scientists and grilling them in the Capitol about climate change and CO2 emissions at the behest of his satanic masters. These subpoenas are timed to be inconvenient, but you have no choice but to obey them or be jailed for contempt of Congress. When was the last time someone was actually jailed for contempt of Congress? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted February 10, 2022 Report Share Posted February 10, 2022 If you have money? It's been quite a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted February 10, 2022 Report Share Posted February 10, 2022 Late Jan 2021: passed 100M cases Late July: 200M cases Early Jan 2022: 300M cases this week: 400M cases Old Man and Joe Walsh 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 11, 2022 Report Share Posted February 11, 2022 Unfortunately, I do seem to have passed the virus on to at least one person in the gaming group last Friday evening. His symptoms sound rather like mine. Group's not meeting this week. BarretWallace, rravenwood, Matt the Bruins and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted February 11, 2022 Report Share Posted February 11, 2022 On 2/9/2022 at 6:56 PM, Old Man said: When was the last time someone was actually jailed for contempt of Congress? 1974 during the Watergate scandal, Richard Kleindienst and G. Gordon Liddy. There's been a lot of people who should have been jailed for it. But Congress has been reluctant to refer people for criminal prosecution. Likely because of the fact that criminal prosecution is at the discretion of the DoJ and there's always some amount of pressure from the party of whichever president that's in charge to let things slide. So Congress rarely refers anyone for prosecution and the DoJ even more rarely follows up and does it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 I feel OK, but my COVID test yesterday has come back DETECTED again, so I am probably still contagious. I will bunker down for a few more days, run my classes via Zoom, and revel in the extra hour of sleep I get for not having to do the physical commute. Long live pants-optional lectures! Grumble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 1 minute ago, Cancer said: I feel OK, but my COVID test yesterday has come back DETECTED again, so I am probably still contagious. I will bunker down for a few more days, run my classes via Zoom, and revel in the extra hour of sleep I get for not having to do the physical commute. Long live pants-optional lectures! Grumble. Unsolicited information: pay attention to what type of test you're taking. PCR tests (or PCR-equivalent NAAT tests) can return positive results for up to 90 days from infection -- they don't really represent transmissibility. Antigen tests are less accurate than PCR, but better for determining if you're infectious. Again, the above is unsolicited info that you likely already know...just posting it because I wasn't fully up to speed on that when I had it over the holidays (likely stayed in full isolation a bit long as a result). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 15, 2022 Report Share Posted February 15, 2022 The paper handout from the kiosk doesn't specify which sort of test it was, but there are links to chase so I can find out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted February 16, 2022 Report Share Posted February 16, 2022 A Porno-Metal Song About Gay Cowboys Is Disrupting the Anti-Vax Trucker Convoy Ranxerox, Matt the Bruins, pinecone and 2 others 1 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ranxerox Posted February 16, 2022 Report Share Posted February 16, 2022 3 hours ago, Cygnia said: A Porno-Metal Song About Gay Cowboys Is Disrupting the Anti-Vax Trucker Convoy Oh, great. 🙄 Now, in addition to being ignorant and belligerent, they are going to be horny as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted February 16, 2022 Report Share Posted February 16, 2022 Good news. Daily new case rate is down 40% from the peak, 3 weeks ago. Bad news. It's still over 2 million cases a day. SURPRISING (to me) news. The daily death rate has started to drop (!!!). The peak new case rate was only 3 weeks ago; with prior strains, deaths lagged by, IIRC, 3-5 weeks. But the peak was Feb. 6th, and it's down 8% since then. Based on the WorldOMeters 7-day moving average. BarretWallace 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt the Bruins Posted February 17, 2022 Report Share Posted February 17, 2022 This is purely anecdotal, but a friend who works in healthcare pointed out that all the omicron cases among vaccinated people she knows have involved nose/sinus and throat symptoms but not the lungs. If that bears out more widely, it seems this variant would be much less likely to take a turn for the lethal in a given patient. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted February 17, 2022 Report Share Posted February 17, 2022 In warning to U.S., COVID rates soar after Denmark lifts all restrictions archer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 17, 2022 Report Share Posted February 17, 2022 Warning? We don't need no warnings from no European elitists! This is Murrica! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted February 17, 2022 Report Share Posted February 17, 2022 Right, because Murrica's experience with disease from Europeans has been so insignificant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted February 17, 2022 Report Share Posted February 17, 2022 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-06629-2 ...Thus, our data indicates that mRNA vaccination may generate more neutralizing RBD antibodies than natural immunity. It further suggests a potential need to maintain high RBD antibody levels to control the more infectious SARS-CoV-2 variants. Cancer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarretWallace Posted February 17, 2022 Report Share Posted February 17, 2022 8 hours ago, archer said: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-06629-2 ...Thus, our data indicates that mRNA vaccination may generate more neutralizing RBD antibodies than natural immunity. It further suggests a potential need to maintain high RBD antibody levels to control the more infectious SARS-CoV-2 variants. How dare you pierce the bubble of my willful ignorance with science! Just kidding of course, I look forward to reading that article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted February 17, 2022 Report Share Posted February 17, 2022 On 2/15/2022 at 9:42 AM, Simon said: Unsolicited information: pay attention to what type of test you're taking. PCR tests (or PCR-equivalent NAAT tests) can return positive results for up to 90 days from infection -- they don't really represent transmissibility. Antigen tests are less accurate than PCR, but better for determining if you're infectious. Again, the above is unsolicited info that you likely already know...just posting it because I wasn't fully up to speed on that when I had it over the holidays (likely stayed in full isolation a bit long as a result). Whatever the full story is, I have it from my campus COVID honcho that I am OK to go back to campus, so I will be returning tomorrow to hand back graded exam papers. Thus I can resume my official task of infecting students' minds with scientific knowledge, as opposed to their bodies with d----d hitchhiking viral dirtbags. Joe Walsh and assault 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archer Posted February 19, 2022 Report Share Posted February 19, 2022 The study enrolled 490 patients with mild to moderate illness at 20 hospitals and a COVID-19 quarantine center in Malaysia. Everyone received standard care; half the group also received ivermectin.Severe disease developed in 21.6% of the patients given ivermectin and in 17.3% of those who received only standard care, the researchers said. They defined severe disease as requiring oxygen to help with breathing.There were no statistically significant differences between the groups in rates of ICU admission, need for mechanical ventilation, or death, according to the study. https://news.yahoo.com/ivermectin-ineffective-preventing-severe-covid-162202670.html https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2789362 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted February 19, 2022 Report Share Posted February 19, 2022 On 2/17/2022 at 2:53 PM, Cancer said: infecting students' minds with scientific knowledge Yes, but how many of them seem to be vaccinated against this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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