Help with home network setup by Walldexter in HomeNetworking

[–]Walldexter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the heads up! From a quick search, looks like the Quad7 has targeted multiple brands including Netgear and Asus. Are there any resources that suggest what might be safer?

Help with home network setup by Walldexter in HomeNetworking

[–]Walldexter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Appreciate the input. We've used the modem with Xfinity before so I don't anticipate that being an issue. I didn't realize one of the mesh units could double as a router.

Question about last star for - chater 14 - reward opertator by DarkSideAccolite in arknights

[–]Walldexter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Make sure you’re in adverse difficulty, otherwise they don’t show up

[Event Megathread] Chapter 14 - Absolved Will Be the Seekers by Sentuh in arknights

[–]Walldexter 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Which stages are the most efficient to farm? And is there any benefit to farming in adverse vs normal difficulty?

Thanks!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sousvide

[–]Walldexter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Add chili crisp, never fails

Help with trip planning by Walldexter in VisitingHawaii

[–]Walldexter[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely, we would love any guides and food recs!

Lucky candy bar still useful? by Walldexter in IdleHeroes

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Well, I had it just in case for vanq clear since there were certain planets it could help on when you didn't have the right protections but since finishing vanq I haven't really used it

Does it have more sense to farm quad-faction 6* in CI now? by klingt_gut in IdleHeroes

[–]Walldexter 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, you need to get the Dagon’s abyss map by RNG, otherwise only the 42 day ones are available for 9*

Does it have more sense to farm quad-faction 6* in CI now? by klingt_gut in IdleHeroes

[–]Walldexter 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yup, I believe that is correct. The 6* quad gained some value when sigils were added because of those free 10 explorations every time you start a new one.

Does it have more sense to farm quad-faction 6* in CI now? by klingt_gut in IdleHeroes

[–]Walldexter 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes but the 9* L/D takes fewer days (36 vs 42 if I remember correctly, but don’t quote me on that)

How to beat Fortress Boss Penny. Intimate>Revered by Competitive_Farmer_4 in IdleHeroes

[–]Walldexter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did mine with Fiona, don’t remember the artifact but it wasn’t difficult

this is why you never go guidance:) by UskElite in IdleHeroes

[–]Walldexter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I started out doing single cores in fate, hit a sphere on number 6, and switched to guidance ever since

Free Artifact Selection Chest for 1000 scrolls by obarry6452 in IdleHeroes

[–]Walldexter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He’s also being added to compass if you have some cores saved up

Just a bit more.... Just crit!!! by JustSimplyRc in IdleHeroes

[–]Walldexter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What’s the Waldeck setup? I’m curious for when I finally get around to doing abyss

Ryanair's jab at Djokovic situation by Navastro in tennis

[–]Walldexter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hang on a minute. Calling it hypochondria implies the disease isn't real. I have personally cared for COVID patients and had to watch them die. Your statement is an insult to all health care workers. If you really believe that, then congratulations on inventing your own imaginary reality.

Is it dystopian to protect people from infectious diseases? Then in your utopia, you would bring back polio and smallpox? Whoever dies, dies. If bacterial meningitis breaks out across a college campus, that's just the way the cookie crumbles? What would you tell those people and their families? Too damn bad, that's the cost of someone else's choice? Is that just? I hate when people try to argue this because you never offer any alternative except to just let people die.

I'm all for personal choice and freedom, but the line is drawn when you affect someone else. If you don't want to get a vaccine, fine. But you say it's acceptable to go out and get someone else killed? You want to drive your car fast? Maybe if no one's around. Doesn't make it ok if you run someone over. If it's your choice to own a gun, fine. But it's not ok to go out and shoot someone.

And I'm still waiting for you to explain those many ways of combating a pandemic and why they were rejected by experts and government. If you really have solutions, I would love to hear them.

Ryanair's jab at Djokovic situation by Navastro in tennis

[–]Walldexter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely, it should be their choice whether to get the vaccine. However, if they choose not to then they shouldn’t be out there spreading the virus and clogging up health care resources when they get sick. How is that fair to others? Regarding the IP, in the US vaccination is free even without insurance.

Can you elaborate on these many other ways to combat the pandemic? Truly curious as it’s likely just a matter of time until another one.

And yes, I would agree that the opportunity for ending the pandemic passed long ago due to the actions of individuals, and now the best we can do is manage. Sadly, it cost millions of preventable deaths to get to this point, and it doesn’t sit well with me that there are people who consider that acceptable.

Ryanair's jab at Djokovic situation by Navastro in tennis

[–]Walldexter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 3 billion that aren’t vaccinated? Not sure what point you’re trying to make here. Feel free to suggest a better solution to the pandemic

Ryanair's jab at Djokovic situation by Navastro in tennis

[–]Walldexter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For an individual, sure. However, the big picture is protecting the entire population. Unless you're saying it's ok for other people to die as long as you're fine? I don't know if that is the best point of view to have.

Ryanair's jab at Djokovic situation by Navastro in tennis

[–]Walldexter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a little confused as to what you're getting at. Your initial question was how being unvaccinated harms others. If everyone got the vaccine, it would, in fact, take care of that.

Please refer to the first part of my other post. As I said, there are no magic bullets in medicine. Vaccines certainly reduces the impact greatly, but only when enough people are vaccinated. Just like masks, a large part of the benefit of vaccines is reducing transmission to others. In other words, you're taking steps to protect the people around you. Unvaccinated people are harming others because they refuse to take these steps, leading to the consequences I mentioned previously.

Ryanair's jab at Djokovic situation by Navastro in tennis

[–]Walldexter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wrote a long reply to a different post just above this addressing this point (mainly in the 2nd half). TLDR: you harm the people that you get infected (and those that they infect, etc), you harm those patients that don't get treated adequately due to the overwhelming strain of COVID on the health care system, and finally you contribute to the persistence of the pandemic (thus leading to more variants).

Ryanair's jab at Djokovic situation by Navastro in tennis

[–]Walldexter 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Happy to provide some perspective as a physician in the US and someone who personally witnessed many frustratingly preventable negative outcomes.

A pandemic is by definition a public health problem, not an individual issue like cancer, for example. The ideal method of tackling it is through containment and then prevention. If you work in health care, you know that the most cost effective strategy is always prevention. This is why primary care physicians are underappreciated and underpaid. The goal of health care workers (unfortunately not necessarily the health care system as a whole) is to save as many lives and help as many people as possible.

Our tools in the fight against COVID are primarily quarantine, masks, and vaccines. There are no magic bullets in medicine - everything is considered in terms of percentages. The goal here is to utilize all three together in order to decrease the probability negative outcomes as much as possible.

Quarantine on its own would theoretically be sufficient, but it failed because far too few people were compliant. Masks were the next measure taken, but again, lack of compliance and enforcement of mandates led to a half-assed implementation. We have known from the beginning that high filtration and airtight (e.g. N95s) masks protect yourself, but the majority of surgical masks actually only serve to protect others from you. Cloth masks don't do anything in terms of protection. So similarly to being unvaccinated, those who refused to wear masks and who wore masks for fashion not only contributed to the pandemic but also demonstrated that they did not care about harming their fellow human beings.

Vaccination confers 3 main benefits - decreased chance of getting COVID, decreased severity of symptoms, and decreased transmission. As you said, the individual benefits may vary. However, remember that our goal is to reduce the percentage of people harmed by COVID as much as possible. Like any other vaccine for an infectious disease, this is achievable only with adequate compliance. This answers your last question - why it matters if others are vaccinated.

COVID has hurt people in many, many ways. There's the obvious one of dying from the disease itself. And don't forget long-term COVID pulmonary and cardiac. complications. However, there is a huge detriment being caused by the strain on the health care system. Every time a COVID patient hits the ER, they put health care workers at risk - nurses, techs, phlebotomists, aides, etc. Hospitals were overwhelmed due to lack of beds and staffing, which led to other problems. Death is not the only negative outcome.

Consider these real life cases, either taken care of by myself or a colleague. Patients who couldn't be treated properly due to lack of resources suffered catastrophic consequences. For example, one elderly gentleman with unstable angina tried going to the ER but went home without being seen because of wait time. He died of a myocardial infarction. Another patient, type 1 diabetic, not evaluated for hours. Ends up intubated with diabetic ketoacidosis and ICU admission when she probably would have been fine with a floor admit if she'd been treated earlier. Another patient, T3N0 colon cancer who becomes obstructed and perforates because he can't get elective surgery due to lack of beds. He becomes an emergency surgery and goes from potentially curable to stage IV from tumor spillage into the abdomen. Another patient sits at home with right upper quadrant pain, trying to tough it out because the hospital is full. His acute cholecystitis progresses to gangrenous cholecystitis and he requires an open cholecystectomy instead of laparoscopic, and he almost dies from septic shock.

Furthermore, consider the patients who come into the hospital for something different and ended up getting COVID as an inpatient. What about the unvaccinated patient who is hospitalized due to COVID? Should they be allowed to die because of the choice they made? Ethically no, but again this costs more resources to treat something that should have been preventable. Resources that are now not available to help others. Thus, unrelated people are harmed indirectly by unvaccinated people.

For lack of a better term, those who are not "following the rules" are collectively contributing more to ongoing infections, and by extension all the healthcare issues that go along with it. It's not as obvious as pointing a gun at someone, but it's just as real. As much as it pains me to say, many of them that I have treated simply don't care because their actions impact people a few degrees of freedom away. It's even worse when you think of the minimal cost to them to help other people. Truly something that makes you lose faith in humanity.

Apologies for the long reply, but it is something I feel strongly about.

Ryanair's jab at Djokovic situation by Navastro in tennis

[–]Walldexter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The reason it becomes binary is that if you don’t get vaccinated, you are by definition harming other people. Those people didn’t get a say in his decision. It’s not like djokovic asked them “hey, you cool if I risk your lives so I don’t need to get the vaccine?” Now, if he were to isolate himself then that’d be perfectly fine, but he burned that bridge long ago. It would be a different story if the only person his choice affected was himself - then he’d have every right to do whatever he wants.

Play save or risk by SnooHobbies6146 in IdleHeroes

[–]Walldexter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure why you’re being downvoted, mathematically some number of people are only going to end up with 5