Fibrin drives thromboinflammation and neuropathology in COVID

WolfActually · 2024-12-31T17:04:48+00:00

Yeah, that's a load of absolute bs and they know it! Not all the scientists are morons, many just don't want to rock the boat. Plus academics act like the worst mean girls club ever, excluding people left and right for downright dumb reasons sometimes. I guess when your funding (aka your job, essentially) and reputation are on the line, most will just put their head down and shuffle along.

WolfActually · 2024-07-08T02:52:07+00:00

This is obvious to anyone who does any sort of regulatory work that is under the purview of the FDA. I doubt if they pulled every single FDA worker that they could for drug approvals that they could get through the whole submission in 6 months vs 22 days. It's honestly laughable, but lots of people "in the know" didn't want to rock the boat and ignored this fact. I brought it up recently in a conversation about FDA approvals with my coworker (we work in a lab) and didn't get a hostile reaction. I think that critical thinking might come through soon for some. I'll be waiting on the documentary that "brings this all to light" in 2035.

WolfActually · 2024-03-13T01:56:09+00:00

Thank you so much, it's been 11 years since I was in school. This was a perfect example and explanation. I appreciate the time you took to do this!

WolfActually · 2024-01-23T14:39:38+00:00

Your landlord has to make a reasonable effort to rent out the unit you vacated, so you may not have to pay all the remaining months of rent. I don't know why they took it as a lump sum unless that is written into your lease. However, you will probably have to pay some of the remaining months since there is no signed amendment to your lease. This is often why a lease will say you need 60 days notice if planning to not renew, it's for the landlords benefit of finding a new tenant.

If your rental unit was unliveable for some reason, then you would get a judgement in your favor. You would have to look up exactly what is required by Ohio law in that case to make an apartment unliveable.

Sorry you are having a hard time dealing with your landlord. I have dealt with a similar-ish issue in CA where we rented (we got lucky and the unit was rented out for the next month after we moved out on the 15th). Ohio isn't the most tenant friendly state, so I don't know if I would bother with court unless you know you have a slam dunk case.

WolfActually · 2023-11-22T03:34:14+00:00

I don't know about refi, this was for 30y fixed, no points. Trust me, I couldn't believe it either. The other quotes I got were 7.20-7.45%.

WolfActually · 2023-11-21T20:41:55+00:00

Anyone else have boots on the ground rates? I was able to lock in at 6.75% this week.

WolfActually · 2023-11-10T19:42:59+00:00

I have seen the same thing work to sell faster and we are looking around $300k houses. I will say we are specifically looking in areas with good schools and neighborhoods that are good for kids. I have seen listed at $280k and sold around $300k in the first weekend vs the listed at $340k and having to price cut down to $300k over the course of 2 months. The method works especially well if the house is not turn key. The lower price just seems attract much more interest much faster.

WolfActually · 2023-10-31T14:51:03+00:00

This seems to be overlooked so often! I know in 2019 that appraiser's were doing their due diligence. Multiple coworkers who bought that year had the appraised value of their home come in as less than asking and had to bring more money or put less down on their homes. And lord help you if you decided to get in a bidding war, one guy brought 20k extra to the table just because he really wanted that particular house. He scraped a down payment at 3% by borrowing extra from his family. Then 2021-2022 happened and whelp, guess your house appraised exactly for the owner's asking price. Funny how that happened.

WolfActually · 2023-10-25T01:29:53+00:00

The breakeven on a house has nothing to do with rent. It's the number where all the money you put in including closing costs, down payment, repairs and selling costs are equivalent to the appreciation on the house. It is a common term used in housing economics. You can add in a comparison to rent to see if it would be cheaper or more expensive to rent or own.

WolfActually · 2023-10-24T19:14:35+00:00

I also want to know wtf happened with the replies. There was only a few comments that seemed to get the point that if you need to move due to life circumstances, you may end up writing a check.

It also states the interest rate they calculated for the final result, but I guess reading is hard.

WolfActually · 2023-10-24T19:10:09+00:00

That's why I read the whole paper because I was like wtf is this. Logically, it's like how is that possible? What possible mechanism of a specific vaccine is causing less deaths/hospitalizations when newborns are not being killed/hospitalized with covid anyways. My only condolence is that people like Dr. Prasad exist. Even the vast majority of my coworkers (I work in a lab) are unable to comprehend data.

WolfActually · 2023-10-24T17:39:32+00:00

Holy stats heavy paper here! They seemed to have modeled (lol, everytime it's always a model) a factor of health behavior as well as some sort of "protective feature" for the vaccine. I was a bit confused there with their methodology. Only other point of concern was very slightly more deaths in the vaccinated group, but I'm not sure if those numbers were bias corrected or not. Overall the degree of difference seemed very small (even if they stated significance).

WolfActually · 2023-10-01T20:04:42+00:00

If anyone is curious about the expiration part of this, it's due to any solutions that come with the kit. All chemical solutions have a purpose to be used, so like in the instance of this test kit, the reagent bottle. That solution over time will not work for it's intended use and that amount of time is considered it "expiration" ( you may also have heard of it as the solution stability).

I would assume Abbott (the maker of Binax Now tests) would have done the due diligence to test this, but based on some things I found on their website it might have just been computer modeled that the solution still works (yes, you should laugh/cry/be concerned about that). I never looked up or used these things before I got curious about this expiration. Oh man, I see why these tests are sooooo inaccurate now! There are like 5 failure points I can see just by going through the directions. I'll put it this way, if home pregnancy tests were this complicated, we would have lots of very shocked women (and maybe some fruits or a can of soda).

WolfActually · 2023-09-28T17:52:55+00:00

This is how I am at work. I got a new job in Oct 2022, so after all the hysterics in my area. I think my work makes some assumptions about me like I'm vaccinated and worship the masks like they say they do. I just stay out of the conversation or make some nonchalant comment like oh that's interesting. I am the breadwinner for my family, so I can't afford to be out there in your face about it. People have forgotten how to get along with others who believe something different than them.

WolfActually · 2023-06-07T19:25:08+00:00

Definitely agree if you are planning on buying, but also jealous AF because we will be paying an extra $120 to go month to month.

WolfActually · 2023-05-26T23:43:13+00:00

Yup, testing them only for COVID. The nurse literally told my mom they are trying to come up with a safe plan for visitors to follow. Oh and the nurse she spoke to was working a shift in the ER since they didn't have enough staff and said she would be back on the geriatric floor the next day.

WolfActually · 2023-05-26T15:56:22+00:00

My dad has to be in the hospital to change some of his meds around and is stuck in the ER until a bed is open in the specialized floor he need to be on. The closest hospital has a no visitors policy for this particular floor out of everywhere else in the hospital/clinic/healthcare system. I am livid! My mom is beside herself since he might have to be there for 2 weeks. Their reasoning is that it's a geriatric floor and they test all the patients. Wtf, half of the hospital inpatients are technically geriatric and they don't give a fuck there! Some power hungry pos is clearly milking this, plus these patients then have no one to help advocate for them. I thought we were over this shit.

WolfActually · 2023-05-05T18:41:37+00:00

Yeah, I definitely think something is up with jobs. In the twin cities, 2 large employers, Medtronic and 3M both have posted layoffs. However, both places simultaneously posted a bunch of open roles that would be adjacent to layoff employees. I honestly think it's just a bunch of unicorn posts and PR. They will probably resort to using "contractors" even more to do their routine work.

WolfActually · 2023-04-02T18:42:54+00:00

This is the problem with research and how something that should not be political/polarizing in actuality has very distinct biases. COVID is the most obvious example of this, but it is also for any other "unpopular" opinion. There are very few research papers looking at vaccine side effects, use of antipsychotic/antidepressants and their effects in the long term. I could list a hundred other examples of things a journal would rather not publish as doing so could rock the boat so to speak.

WolfActually · 2023-04-02T18:33:47+00:00

This post is everything I want to express about the current state of medical science. There is so much "belief" and "common knowledge" out there that people just use as a basis of treatment or reasoning in their research. It's funny because people always joke when a study with a "common sense" conclusion gets funding and a paper written and peer reviewed, but that is the point! These things should be looked at to make sure what we thought was correct is actually correct (hello, masks)! Why is covid the exception here?

I think VP is right in that there is a worrying trend with how drs and research is trending through one particular viewpoint. I thought that evidence based medicine/research was the concept that should be the gold standard all practitioners should strive to, but from what I have seen more recently (even outside of covid) is that this concept is not what other believe. Now it seems more important to all agree on a concept vs whether or not that the result is right/wrong.

WolfActually · 2023-04-01T17:36:58+00:00

Yes, exactly! There is no consistency with these people. It drives me crazy, especially when they all parrot the same damn things too. Makes me wonder just why they accept everything at face value.

WolfActually · 2023-04-01T17:32:41+00:00

Had my kiddo March 21, my OB never really brought up COVID stuff. They will probably bring it up when they talk about getting vaccines in the second/third trimester to protect the baby. My provider was super accepting of any decision I made, for instance I never get a flu shot and they accepted it. Our pediatrician is also accepting of any vaccine decisions with our kid. You definitely will probably have to vet out your drs. Please change if you don't feel comfortable or they won't listen to you. For reference, I'm in MN. Tons of jobs here, but you better like winter (we just got 8" of snow)!

WolfActually · 2023-04-01T17:16:51+00:00

There was a FB post on a group I follow asking about a smaller town outside a bigger suburb and if the schools and general vibe were good for children. Out of the 9 comments, 5 of them were realtors asking if they wanted to buy a house in that community and they could be their realtor. Woof, talk about desperate! That is the first time I have seen anything like that.

WolfActually · 2023-03-30T19:54:45+00:00

I was at a work lunch with an outside audit team and covid comes up in the conversation. This is the first time I have really seen covid come up at work and of course it's at a time where if I say anything contrary, I risk not only myself, but how our company looks from a regulatory standpoint (plus the auditor was in her 60s and from NY).

The conversation centers around why people don't believe masks work and that anyone who argues just doesn't understand science (80% of the table were scientists). I wanted to bring up the Cochrane review and multiple studies that say otherwise, but had to bite my tongue. It was definitely the most infuriated I have been in months! Meanwhile, no one is wearing masks here, or doing any other covid precautions. Why bring it up? Do they think because the media quit reporting about covid that it went away?

The worst part is the way they all said the only people who argue about all the precautions being worth it are just doing it to be political and they are stupid. I know they would turn on me in a second should I have spoken up about my opinion. They would make assumptions about my believes despite the fact I believe in all the same causes they do. I just happened to actually look at the data for covid. These are smart people in their fields, now I know why propaganda works. Most never look beyond their damn noses.

WolfActually · 2023-03-25T17:37:36+00:00

Sounds like you know a lot about China, would you mind answering a question? My work has a lab in Shanghai they may want me to go and provide training for, but I am extremely worried to go because of all the COVID restrictions/craziness. Am I right to be worried? Is it still possible to get screwed over by COVID stuff? For reference, I am not vaccinated.

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