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The Second Annual [Quarantimes] Thread

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    We'd juuuuust started to allow people back into the lab, but given that I have to take public transport in I might revert back to 90% WFH, in light of breakthroughs and delta spread.

  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    I think I've had my entire daily caloric intake today in cough drops.

    Fuckin chain smoking lozenges.

  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    That appears to be a cigarette in your mouth, Jugg. Have you been taking hallucinogens?

  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    I got a second rapid test swab (negative), got swabbed for strep (also negative), then got a third swab for the actual send off test because why not?

    I've been swabbed more than a poop deck.

    Alright fuck you yeah that wasn't a funny joke but I've been up all night and that last swab went back into a place in my nose I didn't even know existed and now my eyes burn and I don't know why

  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    No, no - you're wrong. That joke was awesome.

  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    I'm traumatized by swabs and the only way I know how to cope is with belligerence

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    edited July 2021
    They did some omt on my neck and it really helped

    He said he thinks my trapezius muscles are really tense from something and limiting my range of motion and kind of pushing on everything else in and around my neck including the nerve in my arms.

    As he did it I felt the range of motion coming back into my neck as the muscles relaxed. He wants to me too come back in 6 weeks for more as I continue with the PT and stuff.

    Tallahasseeriel on
  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
  • 3cl1ps33cl1ps3 I will build a labyrinth to house the cheese Registered User regular
    please, for the love of fuck, stop it you idiots

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    fucking god damn it

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    lalala I can't hear you

  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    EXECUTIVE ORDER

    WE MUST NOT HAVE GOVERNMENT MANDATES

    what a dipshit

    desantis signed one of these several months ago

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    They did some omt on my neck and it really helped

    He said he thinks my trapezius muscles are really tense from something and limiting my range of motion and kind of pushing on everything else in and around my neck including the nerve in my arms.

    As he did it I felt the range of motion coming back into my neck as the muscles relaxed. He wants to me too come back in 6 weeks for more as I continue with the PT and stuff.

    Did they recommend a hot pack for home use?

    Mind, I'm not a doctor or a PT, but I worked in a PT clinic for about 6 years and the general use cases of thermal modalities are: hot is for loosening muscles, which increases ROM, and increasing blood flow to the area to speed up natural healing processes; cold is for reducing inflammation, which usually reduces pain and restores some ROM lost due to said inflammation. They make hot/cold packs that are filled with a gel material that you can microwave (not particularly recommended as heating is uneven and some parts can be dangerously hot while others feel fine), oven or freezer. Hitting the traps, SCM and neck is very easy for a lot of these.

  • David_TDavid_T A fashion yes-man is no good to me. Copenhagen, DenmarkRegistered User regular
    PCR test also says negative, it's just a really bad flu. I'm guessing something snuck through while my immune system was busy looking at "Do not accept checks from this man" posters of COVID-19.

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    I really love a superspreader event, can’t get enough of ‘em

  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    They're bad, though!

    Moriveth!!

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    Oh I’m sorry am I canceled now

    All because I am the avatar of pestilence?!?

    You are all so closed minded, god

  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    shit we're in the presence of papa nurgle?

  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    Jedoc wrote: »

    Yuuuuup

    Not loving being here right now, let me tell you

  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Jars wrote: »
    shit we're in the presence of papa nurgle?

    Yes, an Ordinary Human Father

  • LabelLabel Registered User regular
    Oh hey, that sturgis motorcycle thing starts in like a week, doesn't it? Wasn't that a big shitfest last year too?

    My heart goes out to the nurses and health system people. I find myself past anger and despair, and on to resigned disappointment.

  • SharpyVIISharpyVII Registered User regular
    edited July 2021
    My wife's manager in the UK is fully vaccinated.

    He went to a festival with 40,000 people.

    He's tested positive and is now bed bound and has missed several days of work. Which for him is pretty major.

    100,000 people is insane.

    SharpyVII on
  • StraightziStraightzi Here we may reign secure, and in my choice, To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered User regular
    Lolla is a shitshow every year, but usually it's just, y'know, don't go downtown if you can help it, the trains are gonna suck, your bar will be more crowded, that sort of thing

    To add in the clause "and you'll definitely be exposed to someone with covid" onto all of those is not great, even fully vaccinated and having been through a bout of it already

  • honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    SharpyVII wrote: »
    My wife's manager in the UK is fully vaccinated.

    He went to a festival with 40,000 people.

    He's tested positive and is now bed bound and has missed several days of work. Which for him is pretty major.

    100,000 people is insane.

    Euro final at Wembley was like what, 65k people? Just inside the stadium, and more outside?

  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited July 2021
    I know this isn't the way virus spread works, but based on efficacy of the vaccine versus delta and grossly simplified

    if every single person at that event is fully double vaccinated and one person is infected with the delta variant

    12,000 people will become infected at that one event.

    #pipe on
  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    Pinfeldorf wrote: »
    They did some omt on my neck and it really helped

    He said he thinks my trapezius muscles are really tense from something and limiting my range of motion and kind of pushing on everything else in and around my neck including the nerve in my arms.

    As he did it I felt the range of motion coming back into my neck as the muscles relaxed. He wants to me too come back in 6 weeks for more as I continue with the PT and stuff.

    Did they recommend a hot pack for home use?

    Mind, I'm not a doctor or a PT, but I worked in a PT clinic for about 6 years and the general use cases of thermal modalities are: hot is for loosening muscles, which increases ROM, and increasing blood flow to the area to speed up natural healing processes; cold is for reducing inflammation, which usually reduces pain and restores some ROM lost due to said inflammation. They make hot/cold packs that are filled with a gel material that you can microwave (not particularly recommended as heating is uneven and some parts can be dangerously hot while others feel fine), oven or freezer. Hitting the traps, SCM and neck is very easy for a lot of these.

    They recommended alternating hot and cold at the er when I went. I've got a heating pad and it does help a little but it's really inconvenient to use honestly because it acts up most when I'm laying down and that's really the only way I can keep the pad in place on my traps is too lay on it. I also have gel bead ice packs that are a little easier to use because they are smaller and can flex.

    I think I need an adjustable bed frame to make laying down more comfortable but even for my full size mattress those are expensive.

  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    Sitting outside cooking up some sausages, overhear my dumbass neighbor talking about how "75% of people that got that COVID are vaccinated"

    So the media is doing a bang up job

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    or your neighbor is dumb

    I've heard no such statistic

  • useruser Registered User regular
    edited July 2021
    Maddoc wrote: »
    Sitting outside cooking up some sausages, overhear my dumbass neighbor talking about how "75% of people that got that COVID are vaccinated"

    So the media is doing a bang up job

    That, that one particular typo or mis-transcription was allowed to slip without any repercussions is pretty bad. The credentialed journalistic institutions that circulated it should have been fined so heavily that news about the size of the fine woulda reinforced 'previous reported stat was very very wrong'.

    user on
  • MaddocMaddoc I'm Bobbin Threadbare, are you my mother? Registered User regular
    Well I'm in Massachusetts, you see

    https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/30/cdc-study-shows-74percent-of-people-infected-in-massachusetts-covid-outbreak-were-fully-vaccinated.html

    Unfortunately, news organizations aren't really concerned with the way that they disseminate information as long as it's eye catching

  • useruser Registered User regular
    Ah, base rate error ;-;

  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    I have had the hiccups all day today.

    At the drop of a hat I have gotten the hiccups and I am about ready to tear my diaphragm out of my fucking chest. There is no biological need for me to be doubled up in pain, spasming because I took a sip of Coke a cola.

  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Maddoc wrote: »
    Sitting outside cooking up some sausages, overhear my dumbass neighbor talking about how "75% of people that got that COVID are vaccinated"

    So the media is doing a bang up job

    Correct response: "Wrong, dipshit.

    Actual Response: "Oh?"

  • MayabirdMayabird Pecking at the keyboardRegistered User regular
    David_T wrote: »
    PCR test also says negative, it's just a really bad flu. I'm guessing something snuck through while my immune system was busy looking at "Do not accept checks from this man" posters of COVID-19.

    Thinking about people getting smacked hard about "ordinary" colds now that they're spreading again and...before the lockdowns we were just all sick all the time and had forgotten what it was like to not be sick continuously, hadn't we? This last winter was the first winter I had been able to breath through my nose because I wasn't constantly stuffed up and hacking the entire season. I had been nonstop sick three-six months of every year if not more and I thought that was normal.

    "We have to get back to normal!" Fuck you.

  • TallahasseerielTallahasseeriel Registered User regular
    Yeah the past few years before the pandemic I would get a respiratory infection of some kind leading to bronchitis attacks every single winter.

    Normalize masks, I like not getting coughing fits that make me feel like I'm going to black out.

  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    Ok I’m tired of vaccinating people now. Wait no a man dressed as a pirate is next, all is forgiven.

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    "Okay, which arm would you...ah, I see, never mind."

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  • Endless_SerpentsEndless_Serpents Registered User regular
    You might think to yourself, did he work at a pirate themed restaurant? Perhaps a tourist boat doing trips around the harbour? No, that’s just what he wears.

  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    I mean yeah

    He's a pirate.

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