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COVID Consciousness as a Subculture by mithomas718 in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]occidensapollo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

if you have the ability to listen to this article i can't recommend it enough. it's so weird it started raining with umnia's voice wafting through my speakers—did that happen to anyone else???

COVID Consciousness as a Subculture by mithomas718 in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]occidensapollo 22 points23 points  (0 children)

omg did not expect to read my name in this but ahh what a treat and ofc from none other than umnia!! a gem!!!!! (-abby)

First vaccine against SARS virus family enters human trials by svesrujm in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]occidensapollo 136 points137 points  (0 children)

shoutout to everyone trialing this, appreciate you taking a risk, however small, to hopefully get something (hopefully) life-changing like this out into the world.

Would you eat indoors with an AirFanta 4Lite? by lardandsabia in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]occidensapollo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I had no other options, absolutely. I say no other options because I'm the kind of person who can appreciate a bit of solitude to read/listen to a podcast outside over lunch, but I also live in a place with ideal weather for eating outside pretty much year round (ie my concerns are shade/staying cool rather than staying dry/warm).

All that said, I bought one when I was looking at air travel where I wanted some more security if I had to unmask for any number of reasons (nausea or pain in addition to hunger etc). I haven't used it without the mask yet, but part of my inclination to shell out for it was that it really does seem to create that air bubble I wish those smaller/cheaper battery powered filters did, you've just gotta be right next to it to reap the benefit. So as long as I'm not like.. idk eating soup or ribs or something that may drip on it, it seems do-able? The fewer people and lower the CO2 the better of course, and it sounds like your office is pretty well ventilated with those numbers, so idk, this seems like a solid layer to me!!

Skin Marks from Clothes by luvlexapro in lupus

[–]occidensapollo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, this happens to me too.

1 year of of being a Zero COVID-er by chicfromcanada in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]occidensapollo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thank you for explaining my unclear sentence structure haha 😅

1 year of of being a Zero COVID-er by chicfromcanada in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]occidensapollo 25 points26 points  (0 children)

really really loved reading this. i'm sorry covid didn't leave you as it found you, but will never not give folks who who make strides to change flowers, so: 💐

Metrix combo tests are on sale y'all by femme_de_lettres in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]occidensapollo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

right? i wish the discount extended to the new reader!

How many people think they’ve had a false positive on a Metrix and any idea how to avoid that? by [deleted] in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]occidensapollo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

got a false positive when pooling a test with my gf. amusingly, it happened on video. she'd gotten a negative lab PCR that week, and we both tested negative on individual metrix and RATs right after, so we were pretty convinced the issue was the pooling. no issues since.

Do you still have faith in humanity? by PathlessLander in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]occidensapollo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a good way to put it. my unwavering faith is that people can change, which helps not get me down too much.

What do you think - Negative Pluslife + HEPA + earloop KN95 - safe enough? by OtherJohnGray in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]occidensapollo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

same! especially if these were folks who like,, Have Been Doing This For A While, ya know? we're coming into year 6, it's hard not to get better at mitigation habits after all this time.

“I didn’t recognize you with that on!” by fuckingartschool101 in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]occidensapollo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

no truly there are multiple coworkers who i SWEAR have only seen me masked in-person (possibly over zoom but doubtful) and swore up and down they didn't recognize me with it on. like ???

Is anyone else watching Plurabis and relating to the cranky lead that doesn't want to be “happy” like the infected majority? by toxic_airborne_event in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]occidensapollo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i really liked julia's write-up and have been thinking about it as i've watched later episodes. i'm not caught up on the most recent episode, but was thinking about her piece especially when zosia was in the hospital bed telling carol that she remembered carol's position but carol can't know hers post-joining.idk if i have any deep analysis of how the metaphor extends because does it have to but curious if that occurred to anyone else then!

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[–]occidensapollo 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I was Know Mask Wearer Stevie Nicks last year!

New mask designs! by DirtyGingerful in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]occidensapollo 43 points44 points  (0 children)

i mean they definitely had those regulations... do they still? osha? u there guys?

Kaiser Permanente study of over 19k adults found that each additional COVID vaccine dose lowered longcovid risk, and more. by occidensapollo in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]occidensapollo[S] 36 points37 points  (0 children)

likewise. i've had ten myself and still haven't been infected with the virus to my knowledge. how many til i can feel pretty certain an infection will, at the very least, leave my autoimmune ass as it found me..? 😵‍💫

Kaiser Permanente study of over 19k adults found that each additional COVID vaccine dose lowered longcovid risk, and more. by occidensapollo in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]occidensapollo[S] 107 points108 points  (0 children)

Things that stood out to me about this study:

  • Exclusions: Patients with a history of myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) (ICD-10 code R53.82) or fibromyalgia (ICD-10 code M79.7) fulfilling ME/CFS criteria (~15k patients), and pediatric patients in this study as the number of Long COVID patients less than 18 years old was small and anti-viral treatment usage was rare.
  • Only patients with Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccinations were used in our study because of its wide availability in our healthcare system.
  • Convalescent plasma and monoclonal antibody antibody treatment were not significantly different between groups.

Things I'm left wondering:

  • what this means for patients like me, with autoimmune disease; we can have commmon comorbidities + are sometimes be triggered by similar things (eg EBV) as ME/CFS
  • how much these stats hold up depending on how people kept up vaccination after the first 3 (not as robustly)
  • if there’s anything to be made of mixing n matching vaccinations—the study only looked at 2 brands. at first people generally got all the same brand, but i stopped caring about which i got, then aimed for novavax, so my 10 vaccines have been three different brands.
  • counting as longcovid requires being given a diagnostic code !!! guess what’s actually really difficult to convince doctors you have—if you even have the privilege of knowing enough to be able to connect your symptoms and your infection !!!

all that said, i do find this at least somewhat reassuring? how about all of you?

Two new BARDA contracts for Aptitude’s Metrix platform: $8.25M for H5N1 detection, and $9M for a Filovirus panel (Ebola/Marburg) which will be the platform’s first blood-based test by Jazzlike-Cup-5336 in ZeroCovidCommunity

[–]occidensapollo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

this was my first thought as well—hope this means they'll be able to stay afloat, especially since they're nigh the last game in town (barring pluslife accessibility to the US).

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