COVID-19: Chapter 8 - Ongoing source of viral information, and a little fun

Surprised not to see suicide on this list.

Why in the ever-loving fuck would a doctor prescribe him a z-pack for Covid?

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There are many things I know. There are some things I do not know. This is one.

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Antibiotics for a largely unknown virus that has killed millions during a pandemic is malpractice imo

I know it’s hard to ask questions when you’re that sick, but you have to at least try when that’s the treatment.

I think the inverse is more likely to be the case. The sick person is just begging the walk in doc to prescribe something so they default to z-pack, because maybe they also have a bacterial infection and this will shut them up? I don’t know. It’s really dumb.

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Z packs cure everything. Duh.

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It’s hard to say for sure, especially with Delta, but there are reasons to think that teachers are a bigger transmission risk than kids. They’re more likely to get symptomatic cases. When kids are indoors, it’s usually the teacher doing most of the talking and aerosol-generating. Teachers have more social contacts outside the school community than kids. Maybe they’re more likely to obey mask rules, which could counteract that to some extent.

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“Take it. What have you got to lose?”

----Donald J. Trump----

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I don’t think azithromycin is even the proper antibiotic if you suspect some kind of bacterial pneumonia or are trying to ward it off. Also, if you were worried enough that you felt the patient needed an anti-inflammatory medication, wouldn’t you just prescribe a steroid?… Paging @CaffeineNeeded

There are definitely bacterial pneumonias that azithromycin will treat.

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You must be furious b/c you were claiming in Vegas that your making strategy was “don’t wear one, so we can kill off the unvaxxed.” Which I guess includes young kids.

Doctors Z-packed CM Punk when he suffered a concussion. Then this happened

It’s clear that Ambrose smelled it around 1:25 and screamed to cover up his disgust. He backed away to breathe again and went back to the match.

Why would I be furious? I want the government to do mask mandates and vaccine passports. They won’t have the will to do so unless the numbers get higher. I’ll do my part to increase those numbers so we build the political will to be stricter, hopefully during a wave of the current variant before a worse one comes along. More people dying in the short-run can help save more lives in the long-run.

This is… umm… bad. LIke really bad.

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south puget sound 911 dispatch hit with an outbreak. this stage of the pandemic is starting to make me judgmental about some occupations/communities that are just letting themselves get this bad. i feel like there may have been an episode of ST TNG or firefly about this

Eh…. Technically but only very technically. Azithro is used so much for random bullshit it’s not a good choice really. I don’t use it it anymore.

Azithro does nothing for covid (not meant for you there was further talk upstream)

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Steroid only has a net benefit for people who are hypoxic.

More Bruce edgelording. Pretty standard.

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Is it edgelording if I practice what I preach?