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    ~*Official #COVID-19 Thread of Doom*~ Revenge of Omicron Prime

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    4 minutes ago, ThreePi said:

     

    Maybe its different in other countries, but Taylor Swift, The Beatles, and Prince are all on Spotify. Only thing I can see was there were a few years that Taylor Swift had her music removed, but seems to have gotten added back as of 2017.

    Yeah, I think all of the artists I mentioned weren't on Spotify and then they were. Swift pulled her music and then came back and they made a big deal out of it. My point is that they've lost HUGE (by today's standards) artists in the past (albeit for a limited time) and have been fine. I also think Podcasts are a big part of their strategy over the last 5 years. The Joe Rogan licensing deal is one of a few moves they made in the podcast space. They bought The Ringer from Bill Simmons and they are home to their podcasts now, although I still listen to most of those on Google Podcasts. 

    ~*Official #COVID-19 Thread of Doom*~ Revenge of Omicron Prime

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    13 hours ago, Spork3245 said:


    Not sure what state you live in, but Florida (specifically, Orlando-area) is pretty bad: A491-C670-903-B-4-C8-F-A56-E-A508488888-

    We're in San Diego, California. That is basically making the same point I was making. This isn't going to be the worst surge of covid deaths because not as many people are going to die, even though the number of people hospitalized might end up higher than it was at the peak. But I don't even think that is going to happen. From what I understand even the people that are being hospitalized are not spending as much time in the hospital as they were in previous waves of the virus. 

     

    I just don't know how the type of histrionics displayed in the tweet are helpful in any way. 

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    ~*The Capitol Hill Beer Belly Putsch Official Thread*~

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    Peter Navarro: Trump Distributed Bogus Election Fraud Research to ‘Every’ Congressional Republican

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    Former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro discusses his involvement in the plan to get Mike Pence to block the 2020 election certification.

     

    My takeaways from this were: 1). Peter Navarro's brain is fucking fried. He's insane; 2). Trump had no idea what the fuck was going on behind the scenes; 3). I kind of believe Navarro when he says that if the Capitol riot never happened that the Green Bay Sweep that they had outlined may have worked and they will arguably be more emboldened and more capable of pulling something similar off in 2024. 

     

     

    ~*Official #COVID-19 Thread of Doom*~ Revenge of Omicron Prime

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    Country-level factors dynamics and ABO/Rh blood groups contribution to COVID-19 mortality

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    Scientific Reports - <ArticleTitle Language="En" OutputMedium="All" xml:lang="en">Country-level factors dynamics and ABO/Rh blood...

    I think this study shows that people with  a B+ blood type tend to fair better when dealing with Covid. This is what they've been saying for awhile now, but it sounds like they were able to determine that blood type stands out over many other indicators. 

     

    At least, that's what I think this says.

    Can France Resist the Woke invasion?

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    2 hours ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

    It’s also worth remembering what caused these incidents to occur: a potential flashing (in certain contexts) of a white supremacy hand gesture and potentially some white guy using the n word. Proper investigations in these cases would probably have cleared both of these men.
     

    But what is the alternative? That white and white passing guys can just apparently throw the n word around or flash white supremacy symbols? Nah I don’t want to live in that world (any more brazenly that is)

    I think you're letting the online mob off the hook for the SDGE firing. The guy has a segment in a doc that is on Hulu that goes over what happened to him. 

     

    As for the alternative, what's wrong with not jumping to conclusions and investigating things thoroughly in the face of public pressure? For instance, when I get cut off in traffic or someone does something stupid while I'm driving, I instinctually throw the "Okay" sign. Like "okay, buddy, good fucking job you idiot" but because I'm white passing (Mom is an Indonesian immigrant), if someone sees that and shares it, I could be labeled a white supremacist. That world seems fucked up in a very different way than what you're describing as the world you don't want to live in. 

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    Can France Resist the Woke invasion?

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    12 minutes ago, b_m_b_m_b_m said:

    I’d argue there’s close to zero cases of “going overboard” causing “real harm” as the whole edifice falls apart upon closer inspection or specific cases or examples

    What's your take on this guy?

     

     

    Everything that I've seen/read seems to indicate that he was really fucked by the internet outrage culture. 

     

    There's also that story about the USC professor: 

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    How a Mild-Mannered USC Professor Accidentally Ignited Academia's Latest Culture War

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    Dr. Greg Patton's use of a Chinese word that sounds like a slur to American ears led to calls for his dismissal

     

     

    Are these the exception to the rule? Or am I missing something about these specific cases? 

    ~*Official #COVID-19 Thread of Doom*~ Revenge of Omicron Prime

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    3 minutes ago, sblfilms said:


    My family of 5 are all fully vaccinated, wife and I boosted, and all 5 of us caught it. Not all of us were exposed via the brother in law, so most likely a vaxxed-to-vaxxed transmission for at least 2 of us.

     

    Game over on the trying to stop the spread via segregation of the vaxxed and unvaxxed.

    Yeah, I'm having people around me catch it too that are fully vaxxed. Really getting nervous about my wife catching it. She's 26 weeks on Wednesday and I just want us to get to at least 30 before we would have to deal with this shit. 

     

    How is your family doing? Anyone have anything more than a Cold? How are you feeling?

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    ~*Official #COVID-19 Thread of Doom*~ Revenge of Omicron Prime

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    4 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

    "Hey, what should we, as incredibly essential healthcare workers, do right before the holidays?"

    "How about all get together in the same room at the same time with no precautions?"

    "Sure, nothing could go wrong!"

     

     

    Fucking EMTs. The bro culture of cops merged with the drinking culture of firefighters, at least where I live.

     

    Actually, on that note—firefighters in my city were caught paying a homeless man money to get vaccinations for them (they gave their health cards and he went pharmacy to pharmacy getting shots). Pharmacists caught on and healthcare staff were notified...but the firefighters never faced any punishment, at least so far.

    I have alot of friends that are nurses and I've seen them flood their social with holiday gatherings. In person, unmasked with alcohol. It's definitely a recipe for covid spread. All of that said, I completely understand their need to get together and blow off steam. It's no different than my own. They aren't fucking robots and the shit some of the nurses on the Covid ward have gone through would probably break me. I'm sure these EMTs are the same, but if you're emts are anything like ours, they're doing it for shit wages. 

     

    I've taken to lurking the r/nursing and some of the stories there are just completely batshit insanity. Dr.'s and nurses are leaving the profession, probably in record numbers right now because of the shit sandwiches they are having to eat on a daily basis. I've read about them watching patients die, being punched by anti-vaxx family members that just lost their family member to covid, on top of that they are having people come into covid wards and threaten a mass shooting. 

     

    This shit is wild. 

    ~*Official #COVID-19 Thread of Doom*~ Revenge of Omicron Prime

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    2 minutes ago, Jason said:
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    Do vaccines protect against long COVID? What the data say

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    Vaccines reduce the risk of developing COVID-19 — but studies disagree on their protective effect against long COVID. Vaccines reduce the risk of developing COVID-19 — but studies disagree on their protective effect against long COVID.

     

    What are the odds of either of us getting long covid? According to that article not great. 

     

    From the article: 

     

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    Another study in Israel, of around 1,500 vaccinated health-care workers, found that 7 (19%) of the 39 breakthrough infections produced symptoms that lingered for more than 6 weeks5. However, the numbers of infections studied are too small for firm conclusions to be drawn about the absolute risk.

    This is among healthcare workers. That has to put those people in a higher risk group than either of us (unless you're a healthcare worker). That said, even those healthcare workers had a .47 chance of getting long-haul covid.  

     

    If your point is that the chance isn't 0, you're absolutely right. There is a tiny chance that you could get long-haul covid and then a smaller chance that down the road this could be the primary cause or contributor to your stroke or heart attack. But aren't we getting into "the vaccinations cause myocarditis" levels of probability here? 

     

     

     

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    ~*Official #COVID-19 Thread of Doom*~ Revenge of Omicron Prime

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    4 hours ago, Jason said:

     

    I'm saying that most people are just ignoring that vaxxed/boosted breakthrough cases can still result in long term COVID complications.

    Everything that I've seen is that if you're vaxxed and(or) boosted and you get a breakthrough, the worst you're looking at is a bad cold, if anything at all. I also haven't seen anything that indicates that Omicron is causing heavy covid symptoms or hospitalizations. This is something to celebrate, right? 

     

     

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