Everything posted by StrangeSox
- Playoff odds
- 2021 Celebrity Death Thread
- COVID Thread Part Deux
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COVID Thread Part Deux
There's lots of ways to break the data down. Overwhelmingly, of the 14% of Americans who say they definitely will not get a vaccine, they're strongly white and Republican. There's a decent number of people who are not vaccinated but not strictly opposed to it. They tend to be poorer and lack health insurance, whatever race/politics they may have.
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COVID Thread Part Deux
Rogan got monoclonal antibody treatment, something that has actually been shown to be highly effective.
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Quick Hit, would you take a vaccine?
Got some bad news about one of the main symptoms of COVID e: more directly, the incidence rate of blood clots from the vaccines is much, much lower than with just getting COVID. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/27/covid-not-vaccinations-presents-biggest-blood-clot-risk-study.html
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2021 NFL Season Thread
Just thinking about how we had to keep trash on the roster and couldn't keep Fuller.
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2021 NFL Season Thread
NFC North going 0-4 to open the season Will we see a 6-win divisional winner?
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2021 NFL Season Thread
Lol
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2021 NFL Season Thread
Rams haven't done much outside of a couple of insanely busted coverages
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GT 9/12: Red Sox @ White Sox
Kimbrels dumb stance is annoying if he's pitching well but it's insufferable to watch when he can't find the zone and not blow saves
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GT 9/12: Red Sox @ White Sox
There we go, just like we all knew would happen. Garcia the hero, kimbrel with the win. Perfection again.
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GT 9/12: Red Sox @ White Sox
Why would you pick up the option? He's been terrible
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GT 9/12: Red Sox @ White Sox
If you need a lead blown, kimbrel is there for you
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COVID Thread Part Deux
Aren't the monoclonal antibodies still under EUA, anyway? That would make them more "experimental" than the Pfizer vaccine at this point.
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COVID Thread Part Deux
Hospitals aren't being overwhelmed with strep, and strep doesn't kill hundreds of thousands of people.
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COVID Thread Part Deux
Losing her sense of smell was the worst of it. And she first confirmed it how you described. She couldn't smell our kids' shampoo at bath time, so she tried some perfume and a burnt match. When she couldn't smell anything from those, she knew something was up and took one of the rapid tests we got as part of our "back to school" supplies. It's already started coming back but in strange ways--she could smell the olive oil we were cooking with, but not the very fragrant garlic sautéing in it for example. Mainly, "earthy" smells like that or beans are coming back. We can't run the counterfactual in real life to know, but there's a pretty good chance that my wife's vaccination both made this an incredibly mild infection for her and reduced her transmissibility.
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COVID Thread Part Deux
My wife got a breakthrough infection earlier this week. Lost her sense of smell after dinner Monday night, took an at-home rapid test, positive almost immediately. We masked up quickly but had been sitting and talking, even shared a water bottle a couple hours earlier. We were both vaxxed with Pfizer back in the spring. She had a PCR test on Tuesday to confirm, yep, positive. We also have a 2 and a 4 year old. Not exactly easy to isolate at that age. We're doing the best we can but there's definitely interactions. The weather turning so nice has helped as we've basically lived outside this week, but still. On top of it, my 2yo was already symptomatic on Monday with bad congestion and a cough. He woke up overnight with a fever. We presumed he had it, but brought him to the doctors to test for confirmation. Negative. Yesterday, our 4yo started coughing. Woke up this morning with a fever, bad runny/congested nose all day. Took her to the doctor. Negative. I've been negative this whole time as well. This virus is baffling.
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COVID Thread Part Deux
So literally twice as worse and we're already seeing ICU's and PICU's filling up in hotspots, and add to that complete burnout in emergency medicine that's going to take years to recove from.
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9/1 game thread Sox vs Pirates 7:10 first pitch
kinda wondering how Goodwin didn't get home on that slow, long hit with 2 outs
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9/1 game thread Sox vs Pirates 7:10 first pitch
Lazy, routine DP turns into a run
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COVID Thread Part Deux
try to run try to hide break on through to the other side
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Complain about Kimbrel here:
I think kimbrel has been pretty bad on the Sox and hope he instead starts being good.
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8/29 game thread Sox vs Cubs 1:10 first pitch
Take a seat please
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8/29 game thread Sox vs Cubs 1:10 first pitch
How on earth did that swing get that ball over the fence