I use it on the weekends, and sometimes after work. At first to see if it would help with anxiety and job related pain , then a few days after trying it I noticed it killed my desire for alcohol and I kept using it 3 days on, 4 days off type thing. 2.5-3grams a couple times a day. Eventually I quit alcohol entirely. Whatever is in it helps me focus on tasks, too. If I’m mentally and physically exhausted from work, taking a dose when I get home will help me relax and focus on doing things besides being completely worn out.

Capitalism, famous for not crushing unrest or having an extensive state security apparatus.

Good advice in this thread.

Also: get rest and try not to push yourself physically for the next month or two, even after you feel better.

I had to work the whole time in a busy store. Didn’t get any time off. It was nice eating lunch outside and not having to listen to traffic for a few weeks, though.

It would be nice to know if the flu shots they give out have any crossover protection. Oh well, I guess we’ll find out.

The anti vax campaigns people and governments have been running are doing damage, for sure.

In the UK at least, vaccination rates are at a 10 year low. With something as infectious as measles that might be enough to see the huge outbreaks we are seeing.

Then you have Dtap vaccines, which are down a couple percent in the UK over the last few years, but is that enough to explain things like this:

And we are also seeing a rise in rare cancers and other diseases that are usually only associated with immune disorders like AIDS.

Anti-sinovac stories were popular in a lot of western media.

It was the Wuhan military games. It took place October 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Military_World_Games

Its pretty good. Totally worth $3. More enjoyable than the sequel.

I guess I’m lucky. There are still a few people who mask where I work, and a lot of our customers still mask, and seem to appreciate how many employees are still masking. I would guess like 10% of people mask during the spring/summer, and 20-25% in the fall/winter.

I haven’t been sick in nearly two years, it’s great. Before covid it was roughly once every two or three months, and most of winter. At this point, even if covid went away I wouldn’t stop. Work isn’t worth getting sick for.

I thought it was implied the US sabotaged them

I love the mall. The album before this is also really good.

Also this performance from the main singer’s bedroom kicks ass.

His fifth infection did it. Awesome.

Once again, every study that has tried to measure the risk of reinfections shows that risk of long covid goes up with each infection.

And since most people have had “mild” covid infections at this point, survivorship bias kicks in and people think it’s no big deal.

Not great.

We have to do it because China is CHEATING.

I have mixed feelings about him. I grew up listening to his music and it has been a major influence on me, was amused by him being a loudmouth asshole twerp or his petty beefs with other bamds over the years, and admired his work ethic. According to people who knew him he was a pretty generous person to anyone wanting advice or help with any aspect of the music industry. He understood that the mainstream music industry was a poisonous ripoff and warned everyone he could away from getting involved with it.

His early music is full of dark topics and it seemed clear to me, and from reading interviews, that the intent was to shock and confront people with the darker nature of humanity, with satire and irony. Similar in the vein to something like Hunter S. Thompson. Transgressive, irreverant and confrontational, but the intent was not to promote bigotry, violence, or sex crimes. Anyone familiar with the evolution of 4-chan can see how that approach can turn out. He pretty much owned up to it in recent years with basically “This is what my intent was. I was a privileged white male asshole in a sea of them and was in the wrong. I regret it. I don’t expect forgiveness for any of it, and deserve whatever bad feelings people have towards me” Which is better than most, I guess?

I first saw the pedo shit being posted as a response to him calling out Dave Chappelle for being a transphobic asshole, so I assumed it was some obscure shock writing from his younger days taken out of context to sound as bad as possible. Considering who were attacking him for it, I was inclined to be charitable about it.

But I don’t know what the fuck was up with him and his long time friendship with Peter Sotos, or the the tour diary where he finds child porn in the porn shops in holland. Even under the most charitable interperetation it is legitimately gross and fucked up. Albini only ever touches the topic of pedophilia in one of his songs, and it’s based on an incident that turned out to be fake, and is meant to be disturbing. I’ve listened to almost everything he’s put out, and it’s not a running theme in any of his music or writing. So, it’s just kind of a moment. He’s owned up to most of his bullshit, but not that specifically, because it’s not really defensible.

Also, he was a -stan.

Glasser presented her findings to wildlife officials in Uganda, who responded encouragingly, she says, adding hand-sanitising stations at the start of trails.

Every respiratory pathogen that has caused a chimp outbreak in Kibale was present in children living nearby. Then, during Uganda’s most stringent Covid-19 lockdown between March and September 2020, the researchers observed an “extraordinarily clear” drop in infections across the board, Goldberg says, suggesting that schools are indeed a major source of transmission.

Focusing on making children living near great apes healthier, then, could be the best bet for keeping human diseases out of great ape populations. Programmes have already been launched to reduce transmission among local children, teaching handwashing and other hygiene measures.

Eelco steps down

Is the fork still going to happen?

It doesn’t sound like you need to coat the inside of your nose, just put enough to trigger an immune reaction, so I would guess occasional use wouldn’t destroy your nasal biome. Plain neomycin without the petroleum jelly should work the same, if you want to avoid petroleum jelly.

This needs more study to measure exactly how effective it is, but the one of the researchers doing the study, Prof Akiko Iwasaki, is a highly regarded immunobiologist.

You should be able to use both, neosporin causes an anti-viral immune response in the nose, carrageenan acts more like a barrier.

It’s not being used to treat a bacterial infection in this case, whatever properties it has causes the immune system in the nose to go into virus-attacking mode. So I would think the of overuse is minimal.

Probably not best to use it daily, but for occasional high risk situations it shouldn’t be a problem.