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seremtan
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PostPosted: 11-11-2020 10:05 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


oh yeah that'll help :rolleyes:
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PostPosted: 11-11-2020 12:27 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Have we not had any forum members actually come down with the Covid?
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PostPosted: 11-11-2020 03:27 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


It's possible someone got it and didn't know. :shrug:
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PostPosted: 11-11-2020 03:54 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


That narrative is all too common.

“I was sick in February and felt like shit for two weeks! I’m convinced it was Covid...”
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PostPosted: 11-12-2020 07:13 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


xer0s wrote:
Have we not had any forum members actually come down with the Covid?


Gramps died from covid and got his gay biker lover to pretend to be him postmortem... Does that count?
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PostPosted: 11-12-2020 07:22 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Why won’t Gramps admit he had Covid?
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PostPosted: 11-12-2020 07:28 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Because he was told he would get it if he went and did anyway? Admitting he was wrong isn't exactly one of his strengths...
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PostPosted: 11-12-2020 07:37 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


We also haven’t heard from him since before the election. He got Covid and Trump lost. He’s 0 for 2. :olo:

He’s obviously the kind of guy that clams up and goes silent when he’s wrong or loses...
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PostPosted: 11-12-2020 09:12 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Atlantic Canada is among the safest places on earth at the moment.

https://www.voanews.com/americas/canada ... nt-reality
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PostPosted: 11-12-2020 10:28 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


xer0s wrote:
That narrative is all too common.

“I was sick in February and felt like shit for two weeks! I’m convinced it was Covid...”

Well, in February in the states they were refusing to test for covid.
I was more sick than I had ever been in my life for three weeks. I was in and out of urgent care; inhaling was like trying to drink honey through a straw. Breathing was only possible in very shallow breaths. A normal breath was excruciating; xrays showed that I had a ton of fluid in the lining of my lungs. 103 F fever for three days.

I was told "you would know if you had coronavirus" when asked to be tested during this suffering.

I came down with this a few days after taking care of a sicko who just came back from a conference in Seattle that was 70% people that just flew in from China. Supposedly a few people left the convention straight for LA and then the cruise ship thing happened :paranoid:
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PostPosted: 11-12-2020 10:42 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Is it possible for you to test for antibodies?
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PostPosted: 11-12-2020 11:15 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


More than likely the antibodies wouldn’t be there 9 months later...
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PostPosted: 11-13-2020 06:02 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


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More than likely the antibodies wouldn’t be there 9 months later...


yeah... and nobody as far as I've heard really has yet said something nailing that question... It does bother me with the vaccine-question.
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PostPosted: 11-16-2020 08:34 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Just a week passes and there's a jump in numbers.

Cases worldwide

3 Nov 47,217,651

10 Nov 51,243,488

17 Nov 55,349,529

Total deaths
• World 1,332,328
• USA 252,651
• Brazil 166,067
• India 130,559

and Mexico 98,861

Source #1 Source #2



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PostPosted: 11-17-2020 02:50 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Pump those numbers
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PostPosted: 11-17-2020 06:23 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


remember when the 1m milestone was noteworthy?

a happier time, all made of unicorns and lollipops and cotton candy, not like the dark times of now
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PostPosted: 11-17-2020 06:59 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Hahah... you think we're in dark times. Oh this is just dusk. Dark times is when the healthcare system begins to fail and you die because you do something stupid that's perfectly curable but can't get access to healthcare.
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PostPosted: 11-17-2020 08:19 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


seremtan wrote:
remember when the 1m milestone was noteworthy?

a happier time, all made of unicorns and lollipops and cotton candy, not like the dark times of now
Κracus wrote:
Hahah... you think we're in dark times. Oh this is just dusk. Dark times is when the healthcare system begins to fail and you die because you do something stupid that's perfectly curable but can't get access to healthcare.

Lots of americans already live in that situation thanks to their backwards healthcare system.
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PostPosted: 11-17-2020 08:30 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I don't feel sorry for them. Most Americans I speak to on the subject think their healthcare system is perfect and that ours (Canada) is the real problem. All while their loved ones are dying from preventable diseases or going bankrupt for life saving drugs that cost pharmaceutical companies pennies to make. They vote for these shit cakes and support them because they grew up with a particular political brand and stick by that brand even when it's abusing the fuck out of them. Trying to convince them that they're wrong doesn't work so let them have their cake and eat it too.

I'd feel bad if most of the ones I've spoken to didn't sound exactly like gwamps. If I was an American and wasn't completely braindead I'd move out of that shithole country.
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Here's a cool website that shows how we're all going to die. The different color represent the different mutations of covid I believe. I'm sure one of them will have a 99% fatality rate or some shit at some point.

https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global
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PostPosted: 11-17-2020 01:23 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Κracus wrote:
https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global


neat. thanks for sharing :up:

Κracus wrote:
one of them will have a 99% fatality rate or some shit at some point.


I'm pretty sure this is not the case.

Κracus wrote:
I'm sure one of them will have a 99% fatality rate or some shit at some point.


I'm pretty sure this is the case.
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PostPosted: 11-18-2020 05:03 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Κracus wrote:
Here's a cool website that shows how we're all going to die. The different color represent the different mutations of covid I believe. I'm sure one of them will have a 99% fatality rate or some shit at some point.

https://nextstrain.org/ncov/global


i am both baffled and impressed by this viz
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PostPosted: 11-18-2020 08:09 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Fun!
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PostPosted: 11-24-2020 02:11 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Another week passes....

Scroll down a little on this BBC website for an interactive map of cases & deaths.



17 Nov 55,349,529

24 Nov 60,017,173

Total deaths
• World 1,412,610
• USA 265,578
• Brazil 170,115
• India 134,743

and Mexico 101,926

Source #1 Source #2



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PostPosted: 11-26-2020 10:07 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


uhhhh...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11 ... questions/

looks like there's still some work to do :|
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PostPosted: 11-26-2020 11:20 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Fortunately it's not the only vaccine in the works. I think Moderna has another one that doesn't need to be kept at such low temperatures, making it easier to distribute.
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PostPosted: 11-26-2020 11:46 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


had the flu jab today. easy peasy. hope the covid vaccine is this uneventful
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Yeah, I got mine a month or so back. Was driving by the hospital and there was a big sign out front that said “Flu Shots”. I whipped in there and they had a drive through. Rolled my window down and they stuck me. No charge. 10 seconds, in and out...:up:




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PostPosted: 11-26-2020 02:13 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


i had to fill in an online form, then an actual paper form once i got in. with a pen. like in the olden days :dts:
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Our work does a flu clinic at the office every year, but since we're all WFH this year, they branded a party van and sent a mobile clinic out to everyone's home so you and your spouse could get the shot.

It's nice to work for a company that cares about the health of its people.

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PostPosted: 11-26-2020 02:41 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


xer0s wrote:
Yeah, I got mine a month or so back. Was driving my the hospital and there was a big sign out from that said “Flue Shots”. I whipped in there and they had a drive through. Rolled my window down and they stuck me. No charge. 10 seconds, in and out...:up:

Not sure I'd trust a flu shot from a place that spelled it 'flue'. Might wanna make sure you don't have hep c now. :tard:
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PostPosted: 11-26-2020 02:56 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Still, I'd prefer that method of delivery above getting it through getting bumfucked by Geoff.
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PostPosted: 11-26-2020 03:49 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Transient wrote:
xer0s wrote:
Yeah, I got mine a month or so back. Was driving my the hospital and there was a big sign out from that said “Flue Shots”. I whipped in there and they had a drive through. Rolled my window down and they stuck me. No charge. 10 seconds, in and out...:up:

Not sure I'd trust a flu shot from a place that spelled it 'flue'. Might wanna make sure you don't have hep c now. :tard:


lol, my thumb typing has become super sloppy. I’ve gotten to where I don’t even double check my text. Not a good habit...
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PostPosted: 11-26-2020 07:31 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


It's better than meticulously checking and re-checking each post before submitting it, like I do. :up:
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PostPosted: 11-27-2020 12:03 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Captain Mazda wrote:
Our work does a flu clinic at the office every year, but since we're all WFH this year, they branded a party van and sent a mobile clinic out to everyone's home so you and your spouse could get the shot.


nice :up: ditto on the flu clinic, but this year all we got was a voucher :|
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