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  On 3/25/2022 at 11:19 PM, Bama Chick said:

lol Bari Weiss

Jennifer Sey is full of shit.

She was fired for a lot more than what she’s now claiming and Levi’s is calling bullshittery on her claim that she was offered $1 million to keep quiet. Her and her husband tweeting a lot of COVID denial conspiracy crap and she was a guest on Laura Ingraham spewing nonsense too.

And she was a guest in a Naomi Wolfe YouTube video - Wolfe is an absolute anti-vaxxer QAnon adjacent nut job.

She’s a kook and she made herself a public kook. Levi’s gave her multiple opportunities to knock it off and she didn’t. So, she has to deal with the consequences.

In the future don’t use absolute hacks like Bari Weiss - who has been proven to twist facts and outright lie to promote her agenda.

A more balanced telling of the story -

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/business/levis-jen-sey.html

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Why are you screaming me, ma’am?
 

I used her own medium article, self-written and published. Maybe she’s lying or being dishonest, but it’s her firsthand account.

That said thanks for the link, I will read it. 

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  On 3/25/2022 at 10:49 PM, Brisketexan said:

This.

Someone who works for Tyson foods publishing open letters on the benefits of veganism, and open letters on how meat is murder.......you bout to lose ya job.

If you are hurting your company's bottom line, you will lose your job.  Ordinary political activity will not do that - your vote is your business.  Basic political contributions to a candidate actually running for office generally won't do it (I say generally because there are a few recent cases of actual fucking nazis winning party nominations for local offices....so, yeah, if you're writing checks to nazis, which is a matter of public record, that reflects poorly on your business).  Hell, you can feel and think lots of things.  But when you take a public position or public action, that can and does reflect on you and your business.  And if it hurts the bottom line, adios.  

Employees are just an asset that translates to dollars.  And if keeping you on is worth $X, but letting you go to buy public goodwill is worth $X+1, then a good capitalist shows your ass the door, because that $+1 is where it's at.

It's funny.  The people who whine the loudest about this are almost always the biggest champions of capitalism and the free market.  The cognitive dissonance is real.

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Yes we agreed on this basic axiom, some of us begrudgingly and some of us more happily. Why do you post duplicative and re-worded opinion pieces on that which has already been established, without adding anything, like all the time? Is it your nature due to the bad lawyer blood coursing through your veins?

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  On 3/25/2022 at 11:19 PM, Bama Chick said:

lol Bari Weiss

Jennifer Sey is full of shit.

She was fired for a lot more than what she’s now claiming and Levi’s is calling bullshittery on her claim that she was offered $1 million to keep quiet. Her and her husband tweeting a lot of COVID denial conspiracy crap and she was a guest on Laura Ingraham spewing nonsense too.

And she was a guest in a Naomi Wolfe YouTube video - Wolfe is an absolute anti-vaxxer QAnon adjacent nut job.

She’s a kook and she made herself a public kook. Levi’s gave her multiple opportunities to knock it off and she didn’t. So, she has to deal with the consequences.

In the future don’t use absolute hacks like Bari Weiss - who has been proven to twist facts and outright lie to promote her agenda.

A more balanced telling of the story -

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/25/business/levis-jen-sey.html

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Crap. Paywalled. The Capitalists win again.

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  On 3/25/2022 at 11:26 PM, TurkeyChew said:

Why are you screaming me, ma’am?
 

I used her own medium article, self-written and published. Maybe she’s lying or being dishonest, but it’s her firsthand account.

That said thanks for the link, I will read it. 

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Screaming?

Fuck off, Ivan.

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FDA has authorized a 2nd booster for adults 50 and older (Pfizer & Moderna).  Wait 4 months after first booster.

Booster #2

 

Free article, but I'll spoiler it regardless:

  Reveal hidden contents

 

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Yeah, I've got that third shot booster.  I'm not OPPOSED to a fourth shot booster, but I won't rush out and get it.  I was thinking that I'd get my next shot in the fall, and my hope is that by then, there will be a shot formulated to target the omicron variants in particular that's broadly available.  So, get boosted, but boosted as to a more targeted approach.  Kind of like we do with the flu (new formulation each year aimed at the dominant strain).

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Pinko commie rag New York Times, but still:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/30/health/covid-ivermectin-hospitalization.html

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Ivermectin Does Not Reduce Risk of Covid Hospitalization, Large Study Finds

“At some point it will become a waste of resources to continue studying an unpromising approach,” one expert said.

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The anti-parasitic drug ivermectin, which has surged in popularity as an alternative treatment for Covid-19 despite a lack of strong research to back it up, showed no sign of alleviating the disease, according to results of a large clinical trial published on Wednesday.

The study, which compared more than 1,300 people infected with the coronavirus in Brazil who received either ivermectin or a placebo, effectively ruled out the drug as a treatment for Covid, the study’s authors said.

“There’s really no sign of any benefit,” said Dr. David Boulware, an infectious-disease expert at the University of Minnesota.

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The doctors who falsified the data sets in some of those early ivermectin studies that showed it as being 100% effective should be covered in fire ants and thrown into oubliettes.

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The key results were released last summer. The NEJM manuscript has all the data, and additional subgroup analyses. 

 

This is probably the table that Topol should have tweeted.

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  On 4/1/2022 at 4:01 AM, Anastasis said:

 

 

Broken brains for everyone!

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I know I shouldn't express shock at the lack of actual content in your post, but what is the broken brain part? Are you saying Farid has the broken brain? The Ivermectin study? The fluvoxamine study? I <think> that Farid is expressing irritation irritation about the quality of journal that the respective studies were published in and not either of the actual studies. That said, I don't know (and I suspect that the vast majority of people reading this don't know) much about the relative impact that NEJM vs Lancet has. I know enough to know that, say, getting a paper published in Science or Nature is a big deal but once you go down a tier, you've lost me.

Do you think she has a point?

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  On 4/1/2022 at 5:13 AM, Serak The Preparer said:

Do you think she has a point?

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Absolutely.  His frustration is exactly on point. The part of that post that is a bit of a head scratcher for me is the last part.  It could be interpreted as a swipe at the trialists that led the study, authored the manuscripts, and ultimately chose where to submit it, and where it got published.  If you are calling out the journal editors call them out, don't obfuscate behind the term "academia". I guess maybe that the other head scratcher is that apparently Dr. Jalali just learned about publication bias. 

  On 4/1/2022 at 5:13 AM, Serak The Preparer said:

I know I shouldn't express shock at the lack of actual content in your post, but what is the broken brain part?

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That wasn't really directed at Jalali.  COVID has made obvious the failings of our public health system and various components that tie into that system.  Add perception of peer reviewed published research to the heap. It's interesting to see folks emboldened to attack the journal industry in the context of the emergence of pre-print platforms during the pandemic.    

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A "challenge study" in the UK reports interesting results after intentionally trying to infect 36 healthy volunteers with covid.  18 of those people became infected.

  • Tiny amounts of virus, about 10 microns – the amount in a single droplet someone sneezes or coughs – can make someone sick.
  • Covid-19 has a very short incubation period. It takes about two days after infection for a person to start shedding virus.
  • People shed high amounts of virus before they show symptoms (confirming something epidemiologists had figured out).
  • On average, the young, healthy study volunteers shed virus for 6½ days, but some shed virus for 12 days.
  • Infected people can shed high levels of virus without any symptoms.
  • About 40 hours after the virus was introduced, it could be detected in the back of the throat.
  • It took about 58 hours for virus to show up on swabs from the nose, where it eventually grew to much higher levels.
  • Lateral flow tests, the rapid at-home kind, work really well for detecting when a person is contagious. The study found that these kinds of tests could diagnose infection before 70% to 80% of viable virus had been generated.

Covid-19 challenge study

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  On 4/1/2022 at 3:40 PM, jimmyjazz said:

A "challenge study" in the UK reports interesting results after intentionally trying to infect 36 healthy volunteers with covid.  18 of those people became infected.

  • Tiny amounts of virus, about 10 microns – the amount in a single droplet someone sneezes or coughs – can make someone sick.
  • Covid-19 has a very short incubation period. It takes about two days after infection for a person to start shedding virus.
  • People shed high amounts of virus before they show symptoms (confirming something epidemiologists had figured out).
  • On average, the young, healthy study volunteers shed virus for 6½ days, but some shed virus for 12 days.
  • Infected people can shed high levels of virus without any symptoms.
  • About 40 hours after the virus was introduced, it could be detected in the back of the throat.
  • It took about 58 hours for virus to show up on swabs from the nose, where it eventually grew to much higher levels.
  • Lateral flow tests, the rapid at-home kind, work really well for detecting when a person is contagious. The study found that these kinds of tests could diagnose infection before 70% to 80% of viable virus had been generated.

Covid-19 challenge study

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This is interesting.  The ethics of challenge studies were discussed a couple years back in the context of COVID vaccine testing.  Looks like a very deliberate study design, accumulation of experience with COVID and the outcomes, and the availability of therapeutics provided a path forward.  

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  On 4/1/2022 at 3:28 PM, jimmyjazz said:

I'm not sure it's shocking that two journals align in publishing one study but don't on another.

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What is interesting here is that publication bias is usually discussed in terms of failure to publish negative results while positive results get trumpeted. In this case, negative results get the top tier platform and positive results get a lower tier outlet. 

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Comeback Momma Said Knock You Out GIF by LL Cool J

 

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Polio has reemerged in Malawi.

And yes, you should care.

The last wild polio case in the southeastern African country was 30 years ago, and polio was declared eradicated in all of Africa in 2020.

It came back. Not on a wide scale. Not in a way that will set the world afire. Yet in a way that should make us understand the importance of prevention, vigilance and vaccination — for Covid and for everything else. Diseases that we scarcely think about and no longer fear, like polio or measles, can and do re-emerge.

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https://www.politico.com/newsletters/politico-nightly/2022/03/28/polios-back-blame-covid-00020977

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  On 4/4/2022 at 7:29 PM, Neonmoon said:

He can get cell service underground now

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I was going through the holland tunnel this weekend and the radio signal died.  I was thinking to myself that if only the uber driver had gotten his car vaccinated, we'd have gotten to finish hearing that shittastic song that was playing on the radio.

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  On 4/4/2022 at 9:57 PM, NameAlreadyInUse said:

 

I was going through the holland tunnel this weekend and the radio signal died.  I was thinking to myself that if only the uber driver had gotten his car vaccinated, we'd have gotten to finish hearing that shittastic song that was playing on the radio.

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instead you had to talk to each other. the horror!

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I’ve been to pretty much every region of the country since July and nowhere but Kauai was more Covid strict than Philly. 

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https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/11/us-state-department-orders-all-non-emergency-government-staff-in-shanghai-to-leave-as-covid-surges.html

 

The U.S. State Department has ordered all non-emergency government staff and their family members in Shanghai to leave as Covid surges and told U.S. citizens to reconsider travel to China, according to an announcement dated April 11.

“Reconsider travel to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) due to arbitrary enforcement of local laws and COVID-19-related restrictions,” the State Department said.

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  On 4/13/2022 at 5:24 PM, Incredulity said:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/13/us-extends-mask-mandate-for-airplanes-and-transit-by-15-days.html

 

The Biden administration is extending a mask mandate for airplanes and transit for 15 days, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.

 

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Thank goodness.  Hopefully they will keep the 24-hour test requirement when flying back into the country as well, since I'm going to Isla in a month.  

But they sure better not change the requirement of not testing anyone that walks across the border.  That would be ridiculous.

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  On 4/13/2022 at 8:36 PM, landman said:

Thank goodness.  Hopefully they will keep the 24-hour test requirement when flying back into the country as well, since I'm going to Isla in a month.  

But they sure better not change the requirement of not testing anyone that walks across the border.  That would be ridiculous.

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This is false
 

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/aug/13/ken-paxton/biden-administration-not-even-testing-migrants-rel/
 

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COVID-19 testing protocols have existed at the border under both the present and former administrations. Testing is done via a patchwork of federal agencies, local governments, organizations and contractors at various stages of the immigration process. 

In April, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security told PolitiFact that it works with state authorities, local authorities and non-governmental organizations to ensure that "100% of noncitizens" are tested for COVID-19 "at some point during their immigration journey." The agency also has told PolitiFact that a negative coronavirus test is required by the federal government before entry to the U.S. 

"CBP takes its responsibility to prevent the spread of communicable diseases very seriously," a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol spokesperson told PolitiFact in a statement. "We value our partners in local communities whose work is critical to moving individuals safely out of CBP/USBP custody and through the appropriate immigration pathway." 

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  On 4/13/2022 at 5:24 PM, Incredulity said:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/13/us-extends-mask-mandate-for-airplanes-and-transit-by-15-days.html

 

The Biden administration is extending a mask mandate for airplanes and transit for 15 days, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.

 

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So we're back to "just 2 weeks" huh.  And that decision will be made at that point based on what exactly?  Just Fauci's "gut feel" SMH.  If they can't lift this now seems like they are never going to.  I know a minority opinion on this forum but the CDC/FDA has lost all credibility with respect to Covid over the past year in my mind.  This is just another decision based on zero data or science.  I feel for the airline employees that still have to enforce this nonsense.   And the alternative scares me but these policies are absolutely going to hurt this administration at the polls.  Most of my circle voted for Biden but i don't know a single person in real life that supports continued mask regulations in April of fucking 2022.

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