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   Ben Foote (benpocalypse@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 05:32:42 JST Ben Foote

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs Where is this photo from? I'm willing to pay whatever it costs to get some of these - my family has basically been sick straight since thanksgiving with "not covid" but of course we don't know what it is since that's the only test we can get.

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     tinfoilhat (tinfoilhat@cybercult.biz)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 04:01:30 JST tinfoilhat

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs you could make these and if there was demand, they’d become popular reducing the price in the process

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     phiofx (phiofx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 04:09:46 JST phiofx

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs the amount of talent and knowledge and resources that exists
     today in the world are astonishing.

     It takes very effective corruption, trickery, lies and fake narratives to hold us back and perpetuate avoidable misery and suffering.

     Let us hope (and work) during the next orbit around Sol towards a more empowered world, with more advance warnings and tests against diseases of all kinds.

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     Pino Carafa (rozeboosje@masto.ai)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 05:04:08 JST Pino Carafa

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs is this a photoshop jobbie or do tests like these actually exist somewhere?

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     jack the nonabrasive (karabaic@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 05:04:53 JST jack the nonabrasive

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️
     • tinfoilhat

     @thomasfuchs @tinfoilhat The #USA's dysfunctional, centralized approach to testing is detailed in #ScottGottlieb's #UncontrolledSpread and contrasted with the #EU approach that worked better in the pandemic.

     It's more than just testing regulation, it has to do with billing and insurance, too.

     It's worth noting that this regulatory structure is what also kept the USA from widespread use of thalidomide for morning sickness in the 1950's.

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     No Gods , no Masters! RESIST (palin@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 05:15:04 JST No Gods , no Masters! RESIST

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Capitalism!

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     Brian Hawthorne (bhawthorne@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 05:32:41 JST Brian Hawthorne

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @benpocalypse @thomasfuchs Unless you went to the doctor to get a real test, odds are your “not covid” is Covid. Current dominant strains in the US generate many false negatives on the home rapid tests. If you have Covid symptoms, assume you have Covid.

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     Dr Pieter Peach (pieterpeach@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 08:48:44 JST Dr Pieter Peach

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs these may have utility, but they need to be put into the context of each test’s sensitivity and specificity, and what actions are to be taken with the result.
     Rapid antigen tests have notoriously low sensitivity and the behaviour change that a negative result may have (eg going into work when you can WFH) needs to be understood.
     You don’t do a test unless you know, beforehand, what you will do with the result.

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     Dr Pieter Peach (pieterpeach@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 08:58:18 JST Dr Pieter Peach

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs this has been an ongoing conversation since the beginning of the pandemic. These kits should be available, but they need to be accompanied by the appropriate advice and systems to make the results actionable. To this day they aren’t. They are merely sold and most people still need education to understand how to use them effectively to protect themselves and those around them.

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     Ben Foote (benpocalypse@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jan-2024 04:01:08 JST Ben Foote

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Found em!

     https://www.medical-supply.ie/product/sars-cov-2-influenza-ab-rsv-adenovirus-m-pneumoniae-antigen-combo-rapid-test/