Posts by johncormier@mstdn.ca
(DIR) Post #AZtvsocx7OjPjdtRa4 by johncormier@mstdn.ca
2023-09-18T15:47:26Z
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My dad enquired about getting paxlovid for he (80) and my mom (79). He was told my mom doesn’t qualify because she is “low risk”, and he was told he doesn’t qualify because he is “high risk”. At that point, I think my brain just broke because absolutely nothing makes any sense anymore. #Paxlovid #COVID
(DIR) Post #AZtvsqFH6OyokmpYx6 by johncormier@mstdn.ca
2023-09-17T19:49:38Z
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Not the most beautiful #corsirosenthalbox box I’ve ever seen, but it works. And if it keeps Covid from spreading further in our home, that’s all that counts.
(DIR) Post #Aa20GiXLe7viz5QXs8 by johncormier@mstdn.ca
2023-09-19T12:45:45Z
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Fuck. Not the greatest way to start the day. Managed to stay Covid-free throughout the pandemic, until today. The line is faint, but it’s there. #COVID19
(DIR) Post #Aa20GkAjZB1s3WrVtw by johncormier@mstdn.ca
2023-09-19T18:01:23Z
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Btw, here’s a photo of the same test kit, taken approx 2 hours later. You can see that the line is much darker than it was at the 15-minute mark. The time limit has more to do with liability and related legal issues than it does the science of the test, which does not magically end after 15 minutes.
(DIR) Post #Aa20GlW2ZRfODtq2ka by johncormier@mstdn.ca
2023-09-19T12:55:25Z
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Ironically, another natural disaster, Hurricane Lee may have played a part. For 36 hours, we had all the windows in the house shut tight as the storm passed over us. Isabelle tested positive Sunday morning, at which point we opened all the windows and implemented household masking and other measures. I slept in the basement. But that may well be all the virus needed to spread.
(DIR) Post #Aa20GlsjD5oZMGSA76 by johncormier@mstdn.ca
2023-09-20T17:42:24Z
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Day 2 and I am SOOO tired. Can’t keep my eyes open longer than a few minutes. I wake up long enough to take note of sore muscles and dry scratchy throat, then doze off again. #COVID19 #zzz
(DIR) Post #Aa20GoME0Ob72KGkMq by johncormier@mstdn.ca
2023-09-21T17:37:59Z
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Day 3 of my Covid infection, and things seem.. different. Fatigue and muscle aches have all but passed, which is good. I actually slept well last night. But there are also some subtle signs that the virus may be finding its way to my lungs. My spontaneous breathing feels just a bit more shallow than usual, and even when I try to take a deep breath it feels like the volume may be slightly reduced. And I seem to get tired more easily from doing normal things, like washing myself. #Covid
(DIR) Post #Aa20HYG7LR2pOhlWEa by johncormier@mstdn.ca
2023-09-19T17:46:33Z
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Since I’m going to be isolating for the next week or so, I decided to treat myself by buying Baldur’s Gate 3. #dnd5e #baldursgate3 #videogames #WearAMaskSaveALife #COVID19
(DIR) Post #Aa20KGzdzjHgiYMFWK by johncormier@mstdn.ca
2023-09-21T14:16:03Z
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LOL at the irony of Dominic Cardy starting an evidence-based party. As NB’s education minister, he blocked me for offering to organize parent volunteers to build CR boxes for schools for free. He actually claimed that CR boxes spread virus around, and that NB classrooms were found to be fine. You’d have to be willfully ignorant to not notice the huge spike in Covid cases that occurs about a week after NB schools resume classes, unmasked. #COVID #corsirosenthalbox https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/new-federal-centrist-party-canada-1.6972891
(DIR) Post #Aa2gzmCd3l4xSYu85A by johncormier@mstdn.ca
2023-09-22T14:56:39Z
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Important research with profound consequences. All 23 bodies that were autopsied died of Covid. After the autopsies revealed inflammation of the lungs, tissue samples were analyzed for the presence of Covid. None of the deceased had been diagnosed with Covid while they were alive. https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4418/13/18/2980 #COVID #science
(DIR) Post #Aa2gzoU4ZsDkXF55Y8 by johncormier@mstdn.ca
2023-09-22T15:01:01Z
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The authors observed that “the higher the virus expression in the lungs, the lower or undetectable it was in the nasopharyngeal swab. This may explain false negative results during life in swabs.” This means that there is another important reason why you should not believe a negative test result after having tested positive: the virus may have moved from your upper respiratory tract to your lungs or another part of your body.
(DIR) Post #Aa2gzrCoSVCGya1qYy by johncormier@mstdn.ca
2023-09-22T15:17:35Z
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Note that this important finding applies to both rapid antigen tests (RAT) and PCR tests, when these tests rely on nasopharyngeal (i.e., nose/throat) swabs. Neither RAT nor PCR tests using nasopharyngeal swabs should be considered accurate if the individual has previously tested positive for the virus, because the virus may have left the nose/throat only to infect the lungs or another part of the body. #COVID #science
(DIR) Post #Aa2gztLkUFX7csE0lk by johncormier@mstdn.ca
2023-09-22T15:35:23Z
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Here’s an excerpt from the paper discussing one of the 23 deceased individuals in the study. The child, 7, died from Covid despite having negative test results from RT-PCR tests. #COVID #science
(DIR) Post #AaAn524Xdd9f7Egra4 by johncormier@mstdn.ca
2023-09-26T14:12:32Z
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If you work in healthcare and you are not properly masked, then I will automatically assume that you are incompetent. Because there’s no other plausible explanation for your failure to grasp enough of the basics of modern sanitation to keep your patients and yourself safer from deadly airborne diseases. #COVID #WearAMask #science
(DIR) Post #AbXfhbwn3b1KL9uLrc by johncormier@mstdn.ca
2023-11-06T21:22:20Z
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@clive your experience with laptops is significantly different from mine. My early 2011 MBP still works fine. Prior to that purchase, the last 3 laptops I owned were all Windows-based. The first, a Toshiba laptop, lasted 3 years. The second, a Dell, lasted 2 years. The last one, a Sony machine, lasted less than a year (9mo). In fact, my MBP has lasted 12.5 years, more than twice as long as all 3 Windows laptops combined (6 years total).
(DIR) Post #AbXpvpvItGH9HXdOoC by johncormier@mstdn.ca
2023-11-06T23:16:58Z
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@clive think you’re right about how MBP build quality has trended over the years. But, in 2017 I accidentally dropped my new 15” MBP on my desk at work, and the only thing that was damaged was the desktop that lost a divot of wood the size of my thumb. Interestingly, at that company I was given the choice between a MBP and a Thinkbook. Wonder if the desk would have fared better had I chosen the Lenovo instead. 😂
(DIR) Post #AbuJfAxpw41tM3MfYW by johncormier@mstdn.ca
2023-11-15T00:18:35Z
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It’s becoming harder and harder to escape the conclusion that brain fog and cognitive decline are in fact precisely the intended political goal of the past four years. Prove me wrong. #COVID
(DIR) Post #AbuJfDFdQrSGRphuZk by johncormier@mstdn.ca
2023-11-15T17:00:13Z
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And the assault on your mental faculties doesn’t just come from Covid. Here’s a fun fact: about a quarter of cholesterol your body produces is used by the brain for cognition. Reduce your cholesterol, and you are likely to experience cognitive decline. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8248815/
(DIR) Post #AbuJfFcOdCqln0N7Ka by johncormier@mstdn.ca
2023-11-15T17:05:23Z
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Which is why you should be extra extra suspicious of this: doctors want to PERMANENTLY reduce your cholesterol using Crispr gene editing.https://www.wired.com/story/a-single-infusion-of-a-gene-editing-treatment-lowered-high-cholesterol/
(DIR) Post #AdNVSGPvWQV2WsAGmG by johncormier@mstdn.ca
2023-12-19T21:00:37Z
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Was reading an article recently about lead plumbing in the Roman Empire, and it got me thinking about our own population-level cognitive decline due to Covid. Has anyone done research or modelled what happens to critical systems like health, education, transportation, etc if the workers experience, say, a 5% decline in cognitive skills? I’d be curious to know at what point these systems simply can no longer perform their core missions and break.