Has anyone started taking nicotine and Pepcid for prep?????
Has anyone started taking nicotine and Pepcid for prep?????
"Birds born in a cage think flying is an illness." - Alejandro Jodorowsky
"America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers." -- William S. Burroughs
sonatine is this site’s best poster. Every poster, besides me, should be fetching this guy’s morning coffee and donut order.
I’m 100% serious. I’d post a picture if I knew how to do it and remove data. I grabbed a box of 21mg 28 patches when I read that study a week ago off Amazon. Sitting here on desk.
Didn’t know the Pepcid part. I read about people using pulse oximeters when they caught virus to monitor their lungs and then couldn’t find one anywhere by the time I wanted to grab one. Still can’t find one on shelves. I didn’t even have a thermometer that worked and couldn’t find one and ended up snagging an extra from my dads place. Ran out of hand sanitizer. It’s basically been that every time I need something. It’s already hoarded. So when I read that story I looked and they were in stock so I grabbed a box in case there is anything to it.
I figured if I lost my taste I’d slap one on and hope to fend it off. Worst case I wear a patch for a few days and it does nothing.
If anyone here over 45 gets it and they are hoarded by then, hit me up and I’ll overnight it.
If you have a parent who has a Medicare Advantage plan with an optional supplemental OTC benefit, you can probably still order them from the catalog, but not for long.
Pulse ox's you can probably find online now. Hand sanitizer is coming back to the market in spurts. Same with gloves and thermometers. The market prices for these items is up like 100% or more.
no offense, but I can’t take you seriously as a person when your avatar is a cock standing on a basketball.
5-2 x2
it figures, i quit nicotine on the 17th of last month and I'm always pissed off and I'm already starting to get fat and now I'm gonna get COVID 19 and probably give it to all the hot chicks I fuck on the regular
A 3 way circlejerk does not constitute brilliance. Remember hold each other’s cocks real right when old man Biden loses.
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Ronald Reagan
Yeah I had access to a pulse. The girl I was seeing has a 10 year old with asthma, so if I got sick, I’d have had her drop it worst case. I didn’t want to take it unless I was already sick.
I just wanted to buy one to have it and give it to her as an extra once this thing passes and they were back ordered weeks at the time and no where local had any. All the articles I read said the Chinese made ones were shit and to buy a pricier American one, so I’ll grab them now. Hers was made in China so I’ll probably order a couple as I wanted her to have better one. She wasn’t aware the Chinese ones were bad.
I just saw everyone saying it was the only thing that kept them sane and not having panic attacks when they struggled to breathe when they’d see their oxygen was above 95 still. Just wanted to throw it in medicine cabinet in case.
Have hand sanitizer again. Was out for a week. Wasn’t even sure if nicotine was any good after contacting. That study said active smokers were infected less, but I grabbed it anyway just in case. Wasn’t going to develop an addiction to nicotine again after twenty years preemptively. I wouldn’t prep with it unless someone around me got sick that I knew likely got me.
Thx for info
You can download pulse oximeter apps onto your phone that use the camera. I don't know how accurate they are.
This is from someone who is starting residency next month. Great news for doomsday ppl like split and tine
Funny you mention HIV, because I remember about 30 years ago I was annoyed with the government and media narrative that AIDS was a major threat to non-IV-drug-using heterosexual men. They knew it wasn't -- at least not in the US -- and a glance at the stats would quickly confirm that. However, they were not as easily available in those days because of no world wide web, and I had to count on catching the new case stats published in the LA Times. I finally cut those stats out and saved it, so I could show idiots at my college who really believed that "it's almost as dangerous for heterosexuals as it is for gays".
The "AIDS is an epidemic for the average heterosexual male" tale was spun for various reasons:
1) There was a desire to get public buy-in to increased funding to study AIDS cures and treatmemts. Many at the time looked down upon the gay population, and a large portion of the population believed homosexuality to be a choice. In 1990, many people felt the solution was just "don't be gay" or "stop having gay sex or using IV drugs", and that the disease wasn't worth spending big money studying. I actually agreed with the increased funding for studying AIDS, but it irked me that this was sold as "a disease which gravely threatens everyone" in order to get public support.
2) AIDS was a threat to heterosexual women who had sex with gay/bisexual men. Since many gay and bisexual men were in the closet in 1990, some women had sex with gay/bi men and put themselves at risk without knowing it. These women were also at risk if they had sex with IV drug using men. Therefore, it was simple for the government/media to state that all heterosexuals were in danger, without clarifying that these women were only in danger if they had sex with men in one of these risk categories.
3) Heterosexual men were the most powerful demographic in the country at the time, by a wide margin. If heterosexual men were made to believe that they'd be safe from Super AIDS unless they shot up drugs or banged other dudes, they would shrug their shoulders and stop caring about the disease, knowing it didn't affect them. In order to get buy-in from heterosexual men, they had to lie and tell them they were gravely at risk.
Lots of stats were manipulated at the time to do this.
For example, by 1990 the number of cases of gay men was shrinking, because of safer sex practices. At the same time, heterosexual female cases were slowly rising. The new cases from gay sex were still VASTLY outnumbering the new cases from hetero sex, by orders of magnitude, but the media was able to state, "Heterosexual females are the fastest growing group of new cases", and not be lying, while completely misleading everyone.
I remember arguing about this in college with kids in my dorm. Most of them legit thought that hetero females were catching it more often than gay men by that point.
I kept making the point, "Why not just tell the truth about the stats -- that it's mainly a disease of gay males and IV drug users -- but that these people are also human beings, and we need to find a way to help them?"
Nobody liked this point. People on the right felt that it was a lifestyle disease and didn't deserve extra funding. People on the left believed it was a major threat to all of humanity, and that it was just right-wing manipulation to claim it was mostly a gay and IV-drug-user disease.
But you know what? At least the stats were published in the newspaper. They were often buried in little-read pages, and the articles about AIDS at the time intentionally misled everyone, but at least you could find the stats if you wanted.
This is even worse. We have both the false media/government narrative AND what seems to be an intentional lack of meaningful stats, beyond just some very raw numbers (such as number of deaths) which don't mean much on their own.
The AIDS thing pissed me off 30 years ago because it was dishonest. I knew it was a serious matter and needed scientific attention, but the stories and statements about it were dishonest. However, at least I knew it wouldn't affect me. I wouldn't ever have gay sex, and I wasn't ever going to do intravenous drugs.
This one bothers me more because it actually does affect me, and I just want to know the full truth.
https://twitter.com/BarrettWilson6/status/1258144821048418305
LOL media
"You were prepared for that"
So none of their questions are prepared?
Campus life in 1990. I remember being irritated at the same shit because you had to convince every girl that you didn’t need a condom and you weren’t going to give her AIDS. I remember having conversations with actual girlfriends where I’d be saying,”do you think I’m secretly gay? No, well then you aren’t getting fucking AIDS from me unless you think I’m actually a fag.” The AIDS hysteria was the absolute worst because everyone knew it was a gay thing primarily, but they’d inundate you with it so much they had every girl convinced they were at risk. Everyone knew the truth, yet it was still a fear. Really annoying.
I lived with my buddy I grew up with. We just constantly were fucking with each other because we were both ballbusters. I remember Ohio State had this office for GLAAD with all these colorful brochures printed out. Do you think you’ve been exposed to AIDS? How to tell your parents your gay. Shit like that.
So I’d wait until no one was around and I’d grab a huge handful of those brochures and shove them in my backpack real fast, and then plant them in my buddy Patrick’s backpack. Throw a few in his trunk. Shove some under his bed. He had these sweaters rolled up and I’d unroll a few and shove a few in there. I can picture it like it was yesterday. Me sitting there and rolling them back up meticulously just like he did.
He’d go to class and pull out a book and those brochures would come falling out. His girl would be in his bedroom and see the ones I shoved under his bed. Someone would throw something in his trunk and that shit was wadded up. He had no idea where I was getting them but I’d walk by that GLAAD office for my one class and kept grabbing more. I tortured him with those fucking brochures for an entire quarter. That was peak AIDS hysteria. Now I’d be ostracized and probably kicked out of school for homophobia, but just the hint of anything AIDS freaked everyone so badly that it was a great run for me killing him with that shit. It was the worst thing you could do to your buddy.
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