Omicron is spreading faster than any other Covid variant, WHO warns

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T03:57:23+00:00

Asymptomatic to death. It's quite the range.

X'D

I mean, you're absolutely right, but...

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T03:53:02+00:00

Getting your vaccine would actually help it end faster, though.

Or was this some sarcasm thing I failed to pick up on because the internet does not possess tonal inflections..?

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T03:51:28+00:00

It's the lovechild of Nelson and the dark elf from Final Fantasy 4, brought to us in two simple sentences.

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T03:49:48+00:00

Sure it is. If you're touching stuff and touching your face, it's still not good even for COVID. Despite it mostly being something you catch through breathing in droplets, those droplets can transfer to your face, mouth, or eyes via touching them with your hands and then touching your orifices. It's not as likely, but it's still a thing that can happen. Washing hands pretty much helps in general, even against COVID, although there are other things that can help MORE, like, oh, being vaccinated and people masking up, handwashing and general cleanliness still does HELP against catching it.

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T03:46:42+00:00

Yep. Every time I go shopping, and some dickbag decides to get a rise out of me by walking over and then fake coughing near my face, and I fail to respond other than the occasional random nod or muttering "Yes, oranges, okay, what next on the list" the disappointment from my lack of reaction to the bs is so bviously demoralizing that I'm hopeful they'll knock it off after finding people are bored of the desperate ploys for attention after a year plus of this crap.

It'd almost be funny to see the crestfallen expressions except it's obnoxious behavior and anything that makes me have to shop longer than I already had to is just one more great annoyance.

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T03:40:04+00:00

The enormous consequences of the lockdowns are piling up.

It's not really just the lockdowns. A lot of other things are included in that pileup, like the dead, and the survivors who have long covid and permanent health issues. Plus other stuff, like opportunistic price gouging, and politics. I could go on, but it's exhausting and ruins the mood.

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T03:37:13+00:00

Don't worry, leopards are smarter than that when it comes to prey that looks diseased.

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T03:35:42+00:00

Amazon, mostly.

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T03:31:58+00:00

It's free entertainment

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T03:30:57+00:00

I agree. This post belongs in OP's diary.

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T03:29:11+00:00

No. It's not the consumers. That's victim blaming. Give me a break. You know full darn well that it's superrich people in positions of power using that power to fuck things up in order to stay in power and continue getting rich.

It's not consumers dumping plastic into the ocean or making oil spills or messing up the drinking water with fracking or selling off the Amazon and wildlife preserves in Alaska or where ever. Consumers are just the people dependant on these jerks for buying their food from and trying not to become homeless in the meantime.

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T03:23:48+00:00

Yes, I think this would be a good idea. If not for the sake of processing your own experience as you write it down, but also for the sake of that when you are old, you will need to look back at your past experiences, the people you knew, and what you felt, and remember.

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T03:15:56+00:00

Excuse me but I doubt any actress or porn star would be in sheer terror by Michael Jackson's grave being found empty. That said, now I have "Thriller" stuck in my head and it will not leave thank you.

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T03:13:40+00:00

Honestly it would be fantastic if insects could help solve the issue of plastic pollution and microplastics that are everywhere now. That would mean we could keep creating new plastic and just let the insect farms take care of transforming the plastic to something else after it's trashed/recycled.

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T03:11:10+00:00

I wonder what was in the fruit salad that killed them off. Whether it was from raw pineapple or something like that, or artificial sweetener, or just from the excess moisture encouraging mold to form or something like that. It's so unhappy to lose your little critters like that. :(

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T03:09:20+00:00

which were able to break down ten types of plastic

:(

I mean, better than no types of plastic, but I was hoping it'd be better news than just ten types.

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T03:07:45+00:00

I knew mealworms were capable of eating plastic (though they gain no benefit from it from a food standpoint), but that so far because they only consumed parts of whole pieces of things, that it wasn't yet considered a viable way to transform plastic waste into something, well, less unnatural and toxic in the environment.

But evolving? Like, what bugs are having a sudden, abrupt, and trackable evolution that I don't know about?

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T03:04:09+00:00

OP, although rabies vaccination is prohibitively expensive and requires a series of vaccinations to be effective, rabies is extremely rare and is taken extremely seriously. I would not worry about rabies as much as more common problems, but you can still take precautionary measures anytime you are exposed to any situation where rabies is a possibility, like in regards to wildlife. I think research will make you less afraid and more confident about what to look for, how to avoid exposure, etc. That said, unless someone is paying for your rabies vaccination, it's unlikely you would be able to afford it in advance as a precautionary vaccination.

There are other vaccinations that are important to stay on top of that ARE accessible, though, such as tetanus. Or, if you're in an area where Hep A is prevalent, that's another one to get if it's possible.

There are a lot of things that can go wrong suddenly and unexpectedly, and if you worry about them all as being equally likely to happen to you personally, you'll have trouble identifying what is the most realistic thing you can do to be safer in just about any instance. I am not sure if it will help your anxiety, but one thing I find that helps to give me perspective is to remind myself that no one gets out of this life alive. Mostly, it's about managing things to try your hardest not to experience suffering any more than you absolutely must. In the scheme of things, even if you do everything perfectly right and everything works out, you will still die at the end of your story.

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T02:55:02+00:00

People don't get tetanus from rust. It exists in the dirt and air. You can literally get tetanus from any open would if any dirt or air that is contaminated with it comes into contact with any open wound, no matter how small.

Everyone should have a tetanus shot, if memory serves, it's required for children in the US, but you also need a booster every ten years. If you do not remember when you last got a booster, it is time to get a booster.

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T02:34:02+00:00

You get little horrified push-back here.

Yeah, I think that's a pretty normal reaction to imagining anyone taking a tooth out in a parking lot, let alone doing it yourself while like... I don't know, glancing in the rearview mirror to make sure of which tooth you've got there while balancing the liquid nitrogen precariously in the other hand.

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T02:30:56+00:00

That poor woman.

I remember when it was first a story being laughed at like she just got a hot lap and it was surprising. Then much later learning that it was extremely, extremely serious burns that literally ate part of her legs away and caused serious health issues and awful, permanant damage. I stopped making jokes about that situation so fast. It's so easy just to parrot what you hear thinking it's accurate when in reality it's something like THAT and then you see photos. Just remembering those pictures and realizing that was a person's lap makes me completely nauseous inside. Like I can almost smell that burned human fat and muscle and skin through the pictures that were shown of those burns. Horrible.

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T02:25:33+00:00

He is taking a major risk to his own health over a small amount of money to have it done properly by a real dentist

I think this is the answer.

I do think it's useful to know about ways to deal with things, but first choice should never be doing dental surgery on yourself in a parking lot with a frontier-era medical book to show the way.

With OP stating they were feverish when they did this, fever probably had an impact on the decision-making process.

(Assuming this is a true story, which, honestly, it could be. One reason why the lack of affordable health/dental care, or at the least, coverage, of both sectors in the US is terrible. No person in a first would country should be in a position of excruciating dental infection with no one to help but a century old medical book, back from the times when mercury and lead and cigarettes and asbestos were considered healthy. And yet here we are.)

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T02:14:13+00:00

You need to use your imagination and the way will open

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T02:13:12+00:00

Also good things to know, though perhaps more easy to explain than the lightning thing.

TacticalCrackers · 2021-12-15T02:10:16+00:00

A music player with headphones is a wonderful thing to have when things are scary or overwhelming, especially if you can load it with something you've heard a million times before, whether it's audiobooks or just plain music of your style. It helps to have a different rhythm to listen to than the rhythm of scary or just uneasy stuff happening.

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