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augieray

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VP/Analyst of #CustomerExperience (#CX) research and advisory. Analyst by nature, not just by profession. Politically active to foster a world that has more #equity, respects #diversity, and embraces #progressive causes. Promoting #COVID19 awareness and caution because people, businesses, and the economy will suffer years of consequences for our failures to control the virus. Milwaukee, WI, US (He/Him)

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I'm astounded at how common Long COVID is, how little we talk about it, and how many ignore what it means. Discussions I've had in the past two weeks because I probed topics:

  • Guy tells me his wife has Long COVID for a year. A week later, he posts photos from a crowded, indoor concert.

  • Friend tells me he's had mild Long COVID for 2 years. Also says he's "moved on" and doesn't consider COVID risks any longer.

This is not going to end well. Here's what I foresee in the future: (1/3)

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My new four-minute post on #COVID19. The current situation, what's happening this spring, the risks ahead, and the considerable risks of repeated infections everyone is ignoring.

https://medium.com/

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AMR (antimicrobial resistance) is a growing problem. is adding to it. Antibiotics don't treat COVID; using them to do so risks accelerating AMR.

STUDY finds "a substantial prevalence of MDRO (multidrug-resistant organisms) infection (42.1%) in COVID-19 patients, and a notable overall proportion of antibiotic use (76.2%)." This highlights "the urgent need to enhance antimicrobial stewardship strategies to mitigate the risks associated with future pandemics."

https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(24)00117-8/fulltext

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I understand the frustration with Biden over Gaza. But you have two choices in November. If you care about Palestinians and Gaza & cannot vote FOR Biden, then vote AGAINST the party that wants to ...

Deport pro-Palestinian protesters (https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2024-05-13/ty-article/.premium/trump-ramps-up-campus-protests-over-israel-as-a-key-campaign-issue-against-biden/0000018f-71b4-d7ad-abdf-f5befa1a0000)

Allow Israel to use nuclear weapons in Gaza (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/lindsey-graham-gaza-israel-hiroshima-b2544204.html)

Force Biden to stop trying to limit Israel's aggression (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/politics/house-bill-reverse-israel-arms-pause.html)

If you care about Palestinians, you want to help Biden win, not Trump.

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“The depth of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. …He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life.”

Trump's former Chief of Staff, Gen. John Kelly, on Donald Trump

https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2024/05/14/a-republican-warning-of-national-political-suicide-editorial/

augieray,
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@chessert True, but we're better off if we welcome the criticism of Trump, aren't we?

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US summer surge of —hopefully modest—is starting. Biobot & NWSS report small increases in the past week (particularly in the West & possibly South) driven by a new wave of immune-evasive variants. Nationally, COVID in wastewater is near our 12-month low point last summer. Outdoor activities may help limit this surge. A room with 25 people has an 18% chance of including someone infectious.

https://www.cdc.gov/nwss/rv/COVID19-nationaltrend.html

https://biobot.io/data/

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportions

https://www.pmc19.com/data/index.php

augieray,
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@Ramblingproses I believe Biobot is making some changes. But, to my knowledge, wastewater data will be collected and shared by the NWSS/CDC (which was more thorough than Biobot, anyway). I'd be shocked to see it reduced--it's been very effective at tracking not just COVID but other viral infections, as well. In fact, tracking was added for Influenza A to help track H5N1. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/h5-monitoring.html#waste

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No surprise here: A STUDY on risks in public settings finds that "The pooled SAR (Secondary Rate of Attack) for community indoor settings was 20.4%. The setting-specific SARs were highest for singing events (SAR 44.9%), indoor meetings and entertainment venues (31.9%), and fitness centers (28.9%). "

https://academic.oup.com/jid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/infdis/jiae261/7675302?login=false

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Monitoring for CO2 and air filtration can work to reduce risks.

STUDY: "There was a statistically significant correlation between the total time of room CO2 concentrations ≥1,000 and SARS-CoV-2 cases in an IDD school. Merv-13 filters appear to decrease the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection. "

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0291840

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Greg Abbott just pardoned a man who posed he was going to kill Black Lives Matter protesters and claim self-defense, then killed a BLM protester and claimed self-defense but was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

North Carolina Republicans are advancing a bill to ban masks in public, even for those with legitimate health reasons and concerns to wear them.

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augieray,
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Ron DeSantis signed a law that erases most references to climate change from state law. The state government will no longer consider climate change when crafting energy policy.

Republican Lawmakers in West Virginia were so excited that raw milk was recently legalized there, that they decided to drink some of it. Now, many of them are sick. (They claim it's a coincidence.)

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augieray,
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Republicans in many states are weakening child labor laws so that businesses will have an expanded pool of low-cost labor.

A Republican candidate in Wisconsin said recently most nursing home residents are not “at a point to vote” because of limited life expectancy.

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augieray,
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Republican leaders are flocking to show support for Trump in the courtroom as people testify how the serial adulterer and sexual abuser committed campaign crimes to hide his infidelity from voters.

A Republican candidate in Missouri posted a video of her running through a historically LGBTQ neighborhood and saying, "Don't be weak and gay."

Every election. Every race. Every Democrat.

augieray,
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@chrisod Never underestimate the appeal of self-interest, privilege, greed, economic fear, racism and bigotry, I guess.

augieray,
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@mikewaghorne Asking for logic from the right feels like a useless effort.

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@augieray — Hey, Augie, I’m looking to buy a CO2 monitor, and I’m considering the Aranet 4. Is that the one you use? (Yours sounds portable and useful.) TIA!

augieray,
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@cwgrody yes, that's the one. It fits in a pocket (although I wish it were a tad smaller). Integrates via Bluetooth to an app so you can record history. I like it!

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STUDY notes that the severity of an infectious disease depends on the level of the infectious dose: The higher the dose, the more serious the infection outcomes. "The dose of exposure is determined by human behavior, environmental conditions and mitigation strategies, such as indoor versus outdoor exposure, indoor crowding, indoor air ventilation and physical distancing." Even if you get , being cautious (masks, lower crowds, shorter times, better air) matter!

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1391719/full

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Many cautious are posting endlessly about H5N1. I am not going to follow them down the rabbit hole. Avian flu may or may not become a human-to-human pandemic, but...

  1. I continue to believe we're ignoring the immediate and real risk we face with COVID

  2. We don't help mental health by constantly promoting POTENTIAL risks

  3. If it becomes a pandemic, we'll know

  4. If morons want to drink unpasteurized milk and risk death, blindness and illness, I am powerless to stop them, anyway.

augieray,
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I already spend around a dozen hours a week tracking studies and sharing the very real risks we are ignoring. I don't need to become a "doomer," chasing after every possible Monkeypox, Avian flu, and mystery illness report. Instead of focusing on all the risks that may not be real or immediate, I'd urge us to pay more attention to the fact COVID is still mutating, reinfections are dangerous, COVID damages brains, hearts and other organs, and Long COVID is a growing risk in 2024.

augieray,
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@samohTmaS I'm sorry, but this is an example of what I'm talking about. The CDC isn't even tracking mpox because "Low-level transmission of the mpox clade II subtype is occurring in the U.S. There has not been a marked change in weekly or monthly national case counts during the last 6 months."

Now, compare that to COVID.

No one is listening to the very real COVID risks because some people are constantly posting "breaking" and "concerning" news about risks that are darn close to nonexistent.

augieray, to random
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Same energy:

"I'm angry at my knee pain, so I'm going to let cancer spread throughout my body. That'll show my knee!"

"I'm so angry at Biden, I'm going to let Trump destroy democracy, demolish the environment, weaken our allies, and dismantle healthcare. That'll show the Democrats!"

augieray,
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@slim If you're unwilling to help Biden win and think it doesn't matter if Trump does, you're just MAGA.

augieray,
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@ariaflame @slim Beautifully said and succinct, Aria.

augieray,
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@slim @ariaflame You are not listening. We're not arguing maintaining order. We're arguing of the two paths ahead of us, one path is full of danger, violence, and harm, and the other is not. If you're standing in the middle of the street and the only two options are to be hit by a semi or a bike, you jump in front of the bike and are grateful. Accepting being struck by the semi because you don't like either option is the definition of idiotic.

augieray,
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@slim @ariaflame Bottom line: If you care about Palestinians and Gaza, and if you cannot vote FOR Biden, then maybe vote AGAINST the party that wants to ...

Deport pro-Palestinian protesters (https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2024-05-13/ty-article/.premium/trump-ramps-up-campus-protests-over-israel-as-a-key-campaign-issue-against-biden/0000018f-71b4-d7ad-abdf-f5befa1a0000)

Allow Israel to use nuclear weapons in Gaza (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/lindsey-graham-gaza-israel-hiroshima-b2544204.html)

Force Biden to stop trying to limit Israel's aggression (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/politics/house-bill-reverse-israel-arms-pause.html)

EVERYTHING you care about will be worse if Biden loses. Vote!

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