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Dr. Medulla wrote:
31 Mar 2022, 6:34pm
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Am sure I read the same piece, or something very simular. A girl in one of the trials, basically having infected droplets shoved down her nostrils and yet the virus just wouldn't grip. I think one theory was it could be genetic but nobody seemed sure.
Right—pretty sure it was in the Guardian. She said that her family just doesn't get colds.
I would certainly have some faith in medical science moving us forward because otherwise I can just see the same mistakes being repeated the next time a global crisis strikes, whether 20, 30 or 50 years down the line. The politicians will just fuck it again because they always do.
The politicians will resist the science if it requires sacrifice and angers their base. So, yes, fucked.
It's not all bad, though. I am fairly confident that proliferating extreme weather events and the failure of G8 governments to take them seriously until it's way too late will get us in the meantime anyway. So no real need to worry about future pandemics. Swings and roundabouts.

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Low Down Low wrote:
01 Apr 2022, 11:55am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
31 Mar 2022, 6:34pm
Low Down Low wrote:
31 Mar 2022, 6:22pm
Am sure I read the same piece, or something very simular. A girl in one of the trials, basically having infected droplets shoved down her nostrils and yet the virus just wouldn't grip. I think one theory was it could be genetic but nobody seemed sure.
Right—pretty sure it was in the Guardian. She said that her family just doesn't get colds.
I would certainly have some faith in medical science moving us forward because otherwise I can just see the same mistakes being repeated the next time a global crisis strikes, whether 20, 30 or 50 years down the line. The politicians will just fuck it again because they always do.
The politicians will resist the science if it requires sacrifice and angers their base. So, yes, fucked.
It's not all bad, though. I am fairly confident that proliferating extreme weather events and the failure of G8 governments to take them seriously until it's way too late will get us in the meantime anyway. So no real need to worry about future pandemics. Swings and roundabouts.
I love an unwavering optimist. :cool:
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Holy fuck. What a knot to work thru mentally, tho. Celebrated by the hard right for being an extreme libertarian approach, but it seems more authoritarian and brutal social engineering.
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Holy shit. I knew the basics of their "approach" and figured it'd have bad results, but this is all somehow even more disturbing (and tragic) than I'd have imagined. Makes me pretty upset at not only the twerps who want to pretend covid doesn't exist anymore now but especially the Nate Silvers of the world obsessed with Monday morning quarterbacking all if the different health decisions to argue about how overly-aggressive we were.
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Back when shit first broke, a public health official here explained the bind of politicians and health policy officials of dealing with a major outbreak. If you go super aggressive and it contains the damage, critics will say being aggressive wasn't necessary because the outbreak wasn't that harmful. If you go too mild, you're irresponsible in the face of a health crisis. So doing everything right in terms of policy is bad politically if you succeed because we're all looking to buy Lisa's anti-bear rock.
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In the UK a lot of very prominent anti lockdown people, Great Barrington signatories, were given huge platforms to spout their nonsense, always citing Sweden as their go to model. Boris Johnson even had the Swedes over to consult on covid policy at one stage. The truth is, even if the Swedish strategy was a success, and i always doubted it was, that would not automatically have made it a model for others to follow. The UK would have suffered a hell of a lot more carnage than it did but those lockdown sceptics don't strike me as the kind of folk who would ever willingly back down.

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There's a great but depressing Bergman film in here somewhere.
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There's a great but depressing Bergman film in here somewhere.
It could also have been one of his class farces!
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
04 Apr 2022, 2:48pm
Kory wrote:
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There's a great but depressing Bergman film in here somewhere.
It could also have been one of his class farces!
I wouldn't have thought of Bergman as a creator of farces (maybe Smiles of a Summer Night), which ones are you referring to?
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Kory wrote:
04 Apr 2022, 2:50pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
04 Apr 2022, 2:48pm
Kory wrote:
04 Apr 2022, 2:47pm
There's a great but depressing Bergman film in here somewhere.
It could also have been one of his class farces!
I wouldn't have thought of Bergman as a creator of farces (maybe Smiles of a Summer Night), which ones are you referring to?
I'm just being snarky at the redundancy of saying "depressing Bergman film."
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
04 Apr 2022, 2:52pm
Kory wrote:
04 Apr 2022, 2:50pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
04 Apr 2022, 2:48pm
Kory wrote:
04 Apr 2022, 2:47pm
There's a great but depressing Bergman film in here somewhere.
It could also have been one of his class farces!
I wouldn't have thought of Bergman as a creator of farces (maybe Smiles of a Summer Night), which ones are you referring to?
I'm just being snarky at the redundancy of saying "depressing Bergman film."
Ah, sorry, It's a foggy Monday in my brain for sure.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/c ... -1.6411345

Woohoo, we're breaking records here in Ottawa for wastewater virus levels since ending all mandates and restrictions! Take that, nanny state, with your lying scientician "experts" who know better than everyone else.
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6mo was a wreck Friday night to the point that my Fitbit says I didn’t sleep (I did, just in like 45-60 minute chunks). 4 yo threw up in the middle of the night too.

Wife was going to her sisters bridal shower yesterday, took a test and sure enough, positive. I took two and came back negative. Waiting on the PCRs for the kids.

Thank god the kids slept last night. The previous nights was one of the hardest we’ve had as a parents. Had a real scratchy throat last night and am developing a cough but still tested negative just now.
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matedog wrote:
08 May 2022, 9:21am
6mo was a wreck Friday night to the point that my Fitbit says I didn’t sleep (I did, just in like 45-60 minute chunks). 4 yo threw up in the middle of the night too.

Wife was going to her sisters bridal shower yesterday, took a test and sure enough, positive. I took two and came back negative. Waiting on the PCRs for the kids.

Thank god the kids slept last night. The previous nights was one of the hardest we’ve had as a parents. Had a real scratchy throat last night and am developing a cough but still tested negative just now.
Sorry to hear about your wife, hope she's better soon and the little ones continue to test negative.
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