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Coronavirus
1. Not dying.
But there are other goals, like
2. Unimpaired lung function
3. No persistent vascular damage
4. Smelling still works
...and so forth. The word so far is it's 100% effective at preventing death, so good on #1. How are we doing on the others?
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Shellhead wrote: I really hate that we are facing a major crisis as 50 small countries instead of one great nation.
This is an interesting quote for someone outside the US who has studied US history.
I hope all at risk and in quarantine are doing well.
Great to see the discussion here turned to vaccines, isn't it though?
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I just ordered some certified kn95 masks for my daughter who attends face to face high school four days a week.
It has been a year and information about masks feels all over the place. I've started double masking.
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CranBerries wrote: It has been a year and information about masks feels all over the place. I've started double masking.
The initial messaging about masks was bad, because there was a fear that people would horde masks the same way they were hording toilet paper, leaving medical workers unprotected. Then even after the message changed about masks, one of our two major political parties decided to make masks into a political issue instead of a public safety issue.
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JoelCFC25 wrote: Accordingly, my wife got an email last night from the superintendent that 123 slots have been allocated to the district and they are choosing to prioritize preschool and early primary grades. If she gets a slot she'll get another email this week, apparently.
To close the loop on this: she did get included in the priority group, then got an email from the state allowing her into the online system to book a slot.
Unfortunately, a couple high school principals in St Paul ignored the directives and shared the private link with family and friends outside of the priority groups, who in turn shared it on further. So the system was overrun with people who were never meant to be in it (i.e., non-educators), and she didn't get an appointment--ended up on the waiting list.
So until we get to wider availability/distribution, these Hunger Games episodes will probably continue.
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Gregarius wrote: There was some official on Meet the Press on Sunday who addressed the double masking thing. He said the problem is the fit, not the mask. The metaphor he used (he actually had a LOT of metaphors in his interview, which was fun) was with swim goggles: they leak around the edges, not at the front plastic. When you double-mask, you have twice as much fabric, but you increase the chance of a loose fit around the edges where it really matters.
So I'm double-masking well-made cloth masks with double interfacing over top of KN-95s and I have no doubt I am getting better filtering than either one on its own. The cloth masks helps the paper mask stay put and hug my cheeks. Additionally, it keeps it cleaner longer so that my family of six doesn't need to order them in bulk every two weeks. I don't know who the official was, but my own experience has made it pretty clear to me that it's an appropriate strategy, one that helps keep better quality masks in stock for other purchasers.
I don't have a fancy metaphor for any of this. I usually do. I'm pretty good with metaphors and on good days I can work in a solid double-entendre or even an oxymoron. But honestly, I got nothing.
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jeb wrote: Tough read, but a good read.
www.jayamcsharma.com/new-blog/2021/1/28/full-of-sound-and-fury
That was intense; thank you, Jeb.
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jeb wrote: Tough read, but a good read.
www.jayamcsharma.com/new-blog/2021/1/28/full-of-sound-and-fury
It's possible that my sister works at the same hospital. I just sent the link to her.
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JoelCFC25 wrote:
JoelCFC25 wrote: Accordingly, my wife got an email last night from the superintendent that 123 slots have been allocated to the district and they are choosing to prioritize preschool and early primary grades. If she gets a slot she'll get another email this week, apparently.
To close the loop on this: she did get included in the priority group, then got an email from the state allowing her into the online system to book a slot.
Unfortunately, a couple high school principals in St Paul ignored the directives and shared the private link with family and friends outside of the priority groups, who in turn shared it on further. So the system was overrun with people who were never meant to be in it (i.e., non-educators), and she didn't get an appointment--ended up on the waiting list.
So until we get to wider availability/distribution, these Hunger Games episodes will probably continue.
Fuck those principals, they ought to lose their jobs.
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I believe that she got the pattern from the NYT. They are better than any mask (cloth or surgical) that we have found out in the wild (my experience is those do break too easily).
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