James answers your coronavirus questions thread

[Glub]

CW, there are some potential short term side effects like injection site pain and headache, nothing we all haven't worked through before.

Meow meow meow?

[cxwx]

CW, there are some potential short term side effects like injection site pain and headache, nothing we all haven't worked through before.

I wasn’t seriously suggesting I’d not get the vaccine if offered. I hoped my post didn’t come across as anything other than hyperbolic silliness.

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[MeatGrease]

Meow meow mew mew meow meow mew!

[cxwx]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/arti ... -16-6.html

.7% asymptomatic infection rate

Do you even know what any of these statistics mean? Do you know what a secondary attack rate is? Did the haunted make you do it lord dead lifts?

[Geeheeb]

vaccine delivery to Lansing is delayed... from Kalamazoo WTF won't be here until Monday

[Jesus.Fucking.Christ.]

How long before this thing starts becoming available for regular, not particularly useful or vulnerable people?

[Geeheeb]

That depends on so many things like where you live and and how the state coordinates its rollout but probably in the spring.

[Jesus.Fucking.Christ.]

Thanks! Good to see the pessimists that we all knew where right back in march where right after all.
Is there any sort of mask you would recommend? I assume that cloth masks don't do anything and any "xn95" mask produced after the PANDEMIC began and sold to consumers is a fake made at a napkin factory. It would be nice to stop having to cover my disgusting handful of pre-pandemic masks with other masks.

[FVBTVS]

my closest lady friend's dad is dying of this

an unbelievably all time great and weird dude

im so angry it is rapidly aging me

[godofdeadlydeath]

Sorry to hear that dude. One of my buddies has it and he's currently in quarantine from his wife and two kids. He has no taste, a terrible cough. He's only 37 and in good shape so hopefully he'll be fine. But my other buddy's brother who is 43 was quarantining at home two weeks ago because he was positive and he unexpectedly went into cardiac arrest and dropped dead. This shit fucking sucks.

[MeatGrease]

Don’t be a fat guy or unhealthy boomer

[godofdeadlydeath]

Don’t be like me, I eat poop for breakfast

Thanks dude but I don't see how that adds to the topic at hand

[Glub]

Don’t be like me, I eat poop for breakfast

Thanks dude but I don't see how that adds to the topic at hand

Things can get confusing during a pandemic, so kittengrease was doing you the rare kindness of reminding you not to lose sight of the fact that poop is not a breakfast food.

All in all, a helpful hint from a usually worthless poster.

[MeatGrease]

Just saying “omg, this guy I know died of covid!” without mentioning what an unhealthy piece of shit they were in the first place, is being willfully obscurantist. Come on now. Someone testing positive for covid at time of death =/= dying of covid, but the vast majority of “covid deaths” are actually recording that instead. Pretty sure cardiac arrest has nothing to do with a respiratory affliction. That guy dropping dead probably has as much to do with covid as George Floyd did (another recorded “covid death”).

If someone was in good health when they died of covid, that fact would be front and center because it would provide ballast to the lie. If that isn’t mentioned, what they really mean is that someone was dying of something else but they just happened to test positive for the virus, which they probably picked up from the filthy hospital they were in.

[MeatGrease]

At this point it appears that hospitals are intentionally creating situations likely to transmit the virus to incoming patients as much as possible. They do this because they have a financial incentive to propagate the virus. They should do what other countries are doing and tell hospitals to stop testing for it, let the chips fall where they may, but stop creating a system of perverse incentives.

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[Glub]

I have a separate toothbrush for after breakfast (poop).
Sometimes, though, I mix up my poop toothbrush and my regular toothbrush and end up getting my teeth dirty (poop) and having to rebrush them. Then I have to replace my regular toothbrush because it also has been contaminated by poop. It's so frustrating!

This is, as mentioned, both strangely off-topic as well as displaying a mastery of grammar and punctuation that you usually are not capable of. Combined with your recent apparent love of cats, this has me wondering if you're doing okay. Everything okay at home and work (just kidding!), kiddo?

Fun/morbid fact: when we TUBE someone, it's usually because they are surprisingly young/healthy and have a decent chance of survival after a few weeks of support. We have TUBED quite a lot of young and healthy people with next to nothing in the way of comorbidities the past few weeks. If you ever wonder whether health care is rationed, I'll affirm that it is. We have a finite capacity and a finite amount of equipment.

[MeatGrease]

MEW MEW MEW

[cxwx]

I have a separate toothbrush for after breakfast (poop).
Sometimes, though, I mix up my poop toothbrush and my regular toothbrush and end up getting my teeth dirty (poop) and having to rebrush them. Then I have to replace my regular toothbrush because it also has been contaminated by poop. It's so frustrating!

This is, as mentioned, both strangely off-topic as well as displaying a mastery of grammar and punctuation that you usually are not capable of. Combined with your recent apparent love of cats, this has me wondering if you're doing okay. Everything okay at home and work (just kidding!), kiddo?

Fun/morbid fact: when we TUBE someone, it's usually because they are surprisingly young/healthy and have a decent chance of survival after a few weeks of support. We have TUBED quite a lot of young and healthy people with next to nothing in the way of comorbidities the past few weeks. If you ever wonder whether health care is rationed, I'll affirm that it is. We have a finite capacity and a finite amount of equipment.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but from my understanding All viral deaths also calculate co morbidly. So it’s not some special conspiracy thing to make Covid look more dangerous than the flu. So it’s literally the easiest piece of misinformation to debunk.

[Glub]

:Stress Eats from a bowl full of fresh turds:

For those not in the know, hospitals tend not to be incentivized for bad outcomes.

I could share tales of the hoops we jump through to give the false appearance of either a mistake or a good/expected outcome, but at no point will you hear an administrator exclaim "Oh, the patient died after 4 days? KA-CHING!"

What you're more likely to hear is "Fuck, he didn't make it past 28 days, so we're not being fully reimbursed."

The dimwitted rumor that "HOSPITALS ARE PRETENDING STUFF IS COVID TO GET $13K FOR PUTTING SOMEONE ON A VENTILATOR DUDE!!" is shockingly stupid, perhaps mostly due to the fact that, given the astronomical cost of treating these patients, 13,000 is jackshit.

Then again, to the chronically unemployed, I could see how the number 13,000 could look impressive, but for those of us in the field that are sending survivors home with bills well over a million, we know better. I'm sure Geehab (who is in administration, am I correct?) can shed even more light on the specifics of what we get reimbursed for.

And now the rest of you know better as well.

And, I repeat, it's probably not a great idea to eat poop, especially for the most important meal of the day.

[cxwx]

Ventilators are what kill people not the virus. Perfect illustration of a cure being way way way worse than the disease. It’s industrial scale medical malpractice. You deserve a bullet before Kitchell.

I love it when you try to throw in these little “I’m not a capitalist” things in here. It’s so cute. Have a piece of catnip.

[Glub]

Ventilators are what meow people not the virus. Perfect illustration of a meow being meow meow moew worse than the disease. It’s industrial scale medical meowpractice. You deserve a bullet before Kitchell.

I'm not an RT, you hopeless fucking retard.
That's probably who you'd want to talk about the evils of ventilation with, you hopeless, hopeless, retarded kitten.

Anxiously awaiting your attempt to put a bullet in anyone. I've heard a lot of you running your cocksucker, but haven't seen much in the way of action. Whatever happened to heading to DC due the THE STEAL? No gas money, sport?

And don't worry, squirt, my malpractice insurance is paid in full.

[Glub]

I have a separate toothbrush for after breakfast (poop).
Sometimes, though, I mix up my poop toothbrush and my regular toothbrush and end up getting my teeth dirty (poop) and having to rebrush them. Then I have to replace my regular toothbrush because it also has been contaminated by poop. It's so frustrating!

This is, as mentioned, both strangely off-topic as well as displaying a mastery of grammar and punctuation that you usually are not capable of. Combined with your recent apparent love of cats, this has me wondering if you're doing okay. Everything okay at home and work (just kidding!), kiddo?

Fun/morbid fact: when we TUBE someone, it's usually because they are surprisingly young/healthy and have a decent chance of survival after a few weeks of support. We have TUBED quite a lot of young and healthy people with next to nothing in the way of comorbidities the past few weeks. If you ever wonder whether health care is rationed, I'll affirm that it is. We have a finite capacity and a finite amount of equipment.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but from my understanding All viral deaths also calculate co morbidly. So it’s not some special conspiracy thing to make Covid look more dangerous than the flu. So it’s literally the easiest piece of misinformation to debunk.

I'm unsure of what the first sentence references; I'm sorry.

There is no dimwitted conspiracy to make COVID look worse than the flu; no.

The financial incentives to label something COVID are not there; if you're moribund in a hospital bed for 6 weeks, you're racking up a bill whether it's COVID or the mumps or tennis elbow. Fraudulently listing a patient's status as COVID, if anything, gives insurers recourse to deny funds when we eventually request payment (and insurers have a vested interest in denying as much a humanely possible).