now this is a thread:
I've talked about my Tuberculosis story. Here's what the Gov't told me when I was diagnosed:-Go home.-Don't leave your house.-Tomorrow we will begin treating you. -A gov't worker will come to your house to treat you for 6-9 months-If you refuse treatment, you will go to jail— Magdi Semrau (@magi_jay) December 20, 2021
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 December 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link
Huh, I’m not allowed to see that on Twitter. Yet I can see the embed on ILX.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 20 December 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link
early signs that UK Omicron wave may be slowing. even the author cautions again forming firm conclusions yet but he's a pretty reliable source and I think we all need hope
Anyone care for some hopium, at very reasonable rates? I should stress it’s very early days, but there were a couple of positive signs in today’s London hospital data. That doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods, and it could all change in next few days. Let’s take a look… 🧵— James Ward (@JamesWard73) December 20, 2021
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 December 2021 19:36 (two years ago) link
Hope is less valuable than waiting for fuller data.
― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Monday, 20 December 2021 19:45 (two years ago) link
"Hope” is the thing with feathers -That perches in the soul -And sings the tune without the words -And never stops - at all -
And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -And sore must be the storm -That could abash the little BirdThat kept so many warm -
I’ve heard it in the chillest land -And on the strangest Sea -Yet - never - in Extremity,It asked a crumb - of me.
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 December 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link
Hope and reasonable behaviour are more useful to the general population than waiting for data tbh
― Angela's Seshes (darraghmac), Monday, 20 December 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link
I start each day with breakfast, coffee, and a perusal of the data so I know what the rest of my day will look like.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Monday, 20 December 2021 20:20 (two years ago) link
― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Monday, December 20, 2021 2:45 PM bookmarkflaglink
This is one of the more WTF things you've said. Esp since you were sharing lambda scare data well before we had full data.
By the time fuller data is here, it's too late. That's why everyone is preparing for the worst, because by the time the data arrives, we're already engulfed.
I'm not basing my actions on incomplete data, I'm basing it on what experts themselves have suggested. But many of us want to read the tea leaves now and then have hope for the future. That's human psychology. If news comes out that appears positive, great...as long as we recognize it's preliminary.
I also notice the doomers who doom based on prelim data never advise people to "wait for more data" before announcing the apocalypse.
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 December 2021 20:38 (two years ago) link
My fav song from Peter Pam
Never never hoooope
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 December 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link
Hope is also by definition something that can only exist in the absence of full data
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal
otm
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 December 2021 20:41 (two years ago) link
Laying on the floor of the CVS after my booster, since they don’t have a cot…
― DJI, Monday, 20 December 2021 20:51 (two years ago) link
…dud
xpost - It may be false hopium, but until y'all can sell me the pure, uncut shit, I'm happy to take a little dose of the fake.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 20 December 2021 20:52 (two years ago) link
yikes - sorry to hear that DJI, that sounds rather unpleasant!
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 December 2021 21:00 (two years ago) link
I got my booster at CVS, and they told me to hang around the store for 15 minutes afterward, in case I blew up or something. Anyway, it is nigh impossible to kill 15 minutes in a CVS, now that they no longer have a newsstand. I squeezed about 5 minutes out of the art supply aisle, maybe a few more in greeting cards. It was agony! (Not the shot, but the boredom.)
― henry s, Monday, 20 December 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link
lol, otm
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 December 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
yeah i've never waited more than 5 minutes. you can just go
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 20 December 2021 21:16 (two years ago) link
DJI, I know it's difficult for you and I'm really glad you got the booster.
― Jaq, Monday, 20 December 2021 21:18 (two years ago) link
same. also CVS should have one cot if they're going to jab people ffs
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Monday, 20 December 2021 21:23 (two years ago) link
after my third shot I asked them if they had a "fainting couch", jokingly, but the pharmacist thought I asked if they had a farting couch. we pretty much agreed it was best if I just left immediately
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 December 2021 21:26 (two years ago) link
Thanks Jaq. I’m glad too.
― DJI, Monday, 20 December 2021 21:27 (two years ago) link
glad for all the boosted itt
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 December 2021 21:30 (two years ago) link
not sure where else to post this but if you get the vasovagal response like I do (that sudden drop in blood pressure after a needle that makes you wanna pass out) a couple tricks are 1) tense your muscles and 2) start multiplying numbers in your head. the first one has a real medical basis to it (it rushes blood to your head), the second is just a weird trick I use sometimes
― frogbs, Monday, 20 December 2021 21:44 (two years ago) link
frogbs
what are
7x911x322,100x431x5822x314,354,358x17
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 December 2021 21:49 (two years ago) link
getting sick of being bullied online
― frogbs, Monday, 20 December 2021 21:51 (two years ago) link
all of those except the last one are piss-easy
― imago, Monday, 20 December 2021 22:06 (two years ago) link
Look, some of us only learned our multiplication tables up to 12
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Monday, 20 December 2021 22:10 (two years ago) link
they totally DNGAF after I got my drive through booster, the nurse was like "cool, see ya!" and off I drove
― chaos goblin line cook (sleeve), Monday, 20 December 2021 22:12 (two years ago) link
and god DAMN did my arm hurt for around 36 hours
that's 2160 minutes!
― imago, Monday, 20 December 2021 22:14 (two years ago) link
NEW YORK (AP) — Omicron is now most common coronavirus variant in U.S., accounting for nearly three-quarters of COVID-19 cases, CDC says.— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) December 20, 2021
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Monday, 20 December 2021 22:44 (two years ago) link
that was fast
the booster gave me my least mild symptoms of the 3, but i definitely took half of the next day off work anyway, because it's rare to have such a ready-made excuse for using sick hours just dropped into your lap.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 20 December 2021 22:47 (two years ago) link
xpost that is fucking crazy. there are literally opinion pieces less than a week old wondering if Omicron would dominate or kind of share with Delta, and now it's already done. scary as hell.
what remains to be seen now is whether Delta gets fully displaced or if it continues to hang around in large numbers even as the minority. originally I thought this was a preferable scenario since our boosters do better against Delta, but Trevor Bedford explained that it'd actually be worse, especially since immunity to one doesn't necessarily crosspollinate. that while obviously it would be better for Omicron to not exist at all, that it's better for cases to be only Omicron than 20% Delta/80% Omicron.
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 December 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
I knew Florida had to be mostly Omicron because the case increase has been vertical the last week or so
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 December 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
(the framing of that tweet, specifically, seemed to be “let’s leap to hope while I acknowledge that it is a leap at this point and might be struck down tomorrow!!!” - it just rankled a bit.)
― dark end of the st. maud (sic), Monday, 20 December 2021 23:22 (two years ago) link
I can understand that, but this is also a Tweeter who is pretty quick to frame all of their findings as preliminary and they tend to be more conservative than reckless in forming conclusions.
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Monday, 20 December 2021 23:32 (two years ago) link
Good.
The Biden admin says it's focusing on hospital support and vaccination capacity:1,000 military doctors, medics and nurses will be deployed to overburdened hospitals in Jan. and Feb.FEMA will set up pop-up vaccine clinics nationwide and deploy hundreds of federal vaccinators.— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 21, 2021
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 December 2021 16:19 (two years ago) link
....but they're already overburdened. Why can't it be "now and January"?
It is:
https://wtaq.com/2021/12/21/390810/
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 21 December 2021 16:28 (two years ago) link
Whew.
Great news: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-21/fda-expected-to-authorize-pfizer-merck-covid-pills-this-week
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 December 2021 16:30 (two years ago) link
annnnnnddd....
NEW: President Biden to announce 500 million free instant tests will be sent to Americans.— Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉 (@ASlavitt) December 21, 2021
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 December 2021 16:39 (two years ago) link
that "three-quarters Omicron" headline is almost certainly not true:
https://theprepared.com/blog/73-of-covid-cases-arent-omicron-yet/
― frogbs, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 16:39 (two years ago) link
sampling bias is what Trevor Bedford said yesterday.
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 21 December 2021 16:40 (two years ago) link
wait...what? they're FINALLY going to do something about testing?
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link
now that we have an extra $2 trillion over the next 10 years, there's plenty of money I guess
wonder if this would have happened without Psaki being incredibly dumb on the issue last week
― frogbs, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 16:47 (two years ago) link
The tests will be shipped by USPS and thanks to DeJoy, we should have them well after the wave has peaked!
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 21 December 2021 16:48 (two years ago) link
it's just...WTF? why only now? out of nowhere? what happened to the covid white house team, formerly starring mike pence and jared kushner? don't they now have people giving them advice that are world-renowned experts? did none of them ever bring up the whole "testing" thing and recommend it? did it just come up months ago and they figured the idea was rejected then so it was just impossible?
WTF?
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 21 December 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link