Your insurance should cover the shot, but there are no more free covid shots for anyone without insurance which is probably why no one advertises them.
I've heard of other countries using older vaccines, but all the ones available in the US should be the latest. Older vaccines should be past the expiration date at this point.
A lot of people recommend Novavax, as it uses different tech and seems to last a little bit longer that mrna shots, and with less side effects, but it's also harder to get for whatever reason. I've only had moderna, and it's knocked me on my ass for about two days every time.
There are dozens of us!
Of the ones I've had experience with, I would recommend all the iota-carageenan based sprays: Betadine, Luca V-defense, Flo Travel Spray. What little studies they've done have shown at least some effectiveness. It coats your nasal passage with a thin film of carageenan which is derived from seaweed and traps small particles like dust and virus. Super-snot, basically. Doesn't irritate the nose like other sprays do.
I've also seen generic saline sprays with iota-carrageenan added, which should basically do the same thing.
Covixyl has done animal studies that showed effectiveness, but it stings which some people don't like. I used this a lot unti they added an xylitol that irritated my nose and made it start running for an hour.
Xylitol based sprays supposedly work, but it bothers my nose so I can't vouch for them. The main brand is called Xclear. They are easy to find. Supposedly changes the ph of your nose to make it hostile to viruses. Didn't work for my friend who used it when their partner was sick, but that might just be a limitation of nasal sprays generally.
There's also nitric oxide sprays, but the main developer of those types of sprays (Enovid) is based in Israel and it's not authorized for distribution in the US so you have to import it.
There were also some evidence that the ingredient in neosporin can trigger an immune response and fight of viruses that way, with some people suggesting you take a q-tip and apply a little bit to the inside of your nose when going someplace high risk, like taking a flight or whatever. But that's anti-bacterial and probably not a good idea to do too often. If you are doing something particularly high risk, like a concert in a crowded bar or something, I would do the q-tip thing on top of a nasal spray.
But if you are exposed to a lot of virus in the air for a long duration, these probably won't be enough to prevent infection, but reducing the amount of virus you are exposed to is a good thing.
I just find it funny that they think she's a crank for saying the ukraine war could have been avoided, and not for all the other reasons she's bad. Maybe Trump is picking these freaks as a negotiating tactic like you say, or maybe he's rewarding loyalty, or maybe he just wants people who are outsiders and won't challenge him. It seems like we're in for a wild ride.
“This war and suffering could have easily been avoided if [the Biden administration and] Nato had simply acknowledged Russia’s legitimate security concerns regarding Ukraine’s becoming a member of Nato,” she tweeted.
That statement was only the latest of a series of outlandish stances on foreign policy, including her scepticism about chemical weapons attacks in Syria that followed two controversial meetings with Bashar al-Assad.
"outlandish" lol.
And his name sounds fake
Yep. Can't wait for dems to thank him for his service.
He reportedly persuaded Trump to pardon three American soldiers accused or convicted of war crimes related to the shooting of non-combatants in Iraq. Hegseth, who was a platoon leader at Guantanamo Bay during his military service, defended the treatment of inmates detained there.
LMAO, wtf?
BREAKING: Trump names Fox News host Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense
I'm guessing this guy is a demonic genocidal freak like the rest of them?
Previously it was reported that cows were barely effected, which showed the virus wasn't as deadly to other species. So unless we were being lied to about outbreaks in other parts of the country, then it seems like the virus is adapting to become more deadly among cows.
But don't worry, if it gets worse in people the government won't do anything. No masks, no lockdowns. Just capitalism. 
I've never had a job respect my scheduling limits, so I do know how people do this.
Watch Trump just expand the court.
"Barrack HUSSEIN Obmana"
Yugoslavia had the coolest music scene, goddamn.
Have there been any serious attempts to document any of this with higher quality recordings?
It's because Covid is going away, right? Herd immunity is working?
The World Health Organization (WHO) today published a new report on tuberculosis revealing that approximately 8.2 million people were newly diagnosed with TB in 2023 – the highest number recorded since WHO began global TB monitoring in 1995. This represents a notable increase from 7.5 million reported in 2022, placing TB again as the leading infectious disease killer in 2023, surpassing COVID-19
There is plenty of evidence covid attacks the immune system, and reactivated TB is common with people who have AIDS. Could all just be a wierd coincidence and TB just does that sometimes.
Related: TB cases in Scotland rise by 40% in 'largest annual increase' observed to date
Game looks cool. Watched a couple of reviews. Now youtube is recommending me rage-baiting gaming weirdos whining about DEI and attacking a reviewer for saying it isn't diverse enough.
And then the developers have this clause reviewers have to agree to get a review copy of the game:
So chuds are championing the game now for being anti-woke?
But not all people had to agree to the clause, just some people? And it's from a marketing partner working with the developer? And the developer may or may not be run by sexist creeps according to internet rumors?
suggestive recruitment ads ran by the devs
Google translate text:
Don't mess with colleagues
In addition to sex partners, we found that many of the previous benefits only looked good. But here, we have more thoughtful services that will make you cry, whether it is meal allowance, car allowance, unlimited taxi reimbursement, or unlimited ZESPRI kiwifruit or KIRKLAND nuts.
Forced self-pleasure
You can easily say "play your own games more" and then turn around to play five-player mid, and you may also make money. But here, we require you to experience the products you develop seriously, and there is no room for compromise.
Fat man die
Reminding employees to pay attention to their health and providing free physical examinations still cannot prevent colleagues from dying from overwork.
But here,
We can go to the gym, run or swim during working hours without anyone's approval, and all expenses are borne by the company.
Must work overtime
We have never concealed the fact that overtime is a cancer in our industry, but here,
We can sleep until we wake up naturally, have lunch and then come to work;
After the project is launched, we will have transparent project profit-sharing bonuses every month.
<-- this but unironically
I know none of this matters, and I spent way more mental energy writing this stupid post than any of this deserves. I was expecting dumb backlash to the game just because it's from China, but this is far stupider than I expected.
Fuck youtube for giving the most awful reactionary gamergate losers a career and promoting them every fucking chance they get. Whenever they attach themselves to a cultural object this bullshit starts popping up like a flea infestation.
Fucking gamers.
Like, best text editor? Helix, Neovim, vim, emacs? All of the above, because why not? Currently leaning helix, becuase there's less setup involved with plugins and what not, but I'm not a serious programmer or anything.
Any reason to use an alternative to bash?
Any cool games? Best terminal file manager? Tmux or Zelij? Etc.
Useful aliases you use?
I'm currently messing around with NixOS, and was trying to build up a replacement for my current debian media server, and (eventually, hopefully, 
) as a replacement to my current windows install.
I like debian a lot, but after installing it on both my laptop and server there was a lot of program drift between the two, when I wanted them to basically be identical, and then I found nix, and thought "this looks neat" and the idea of being able to reproduce everything on each install, with the same config format, appealed to me. I am currently playing around with it in a vm until the config is to my liking.
Seeing as the .nix config files are so portable I started working on a "module" for terminal apps to get about as close to a fully functional system as you can get with only a command line or terminal session, just to see what I could do.
So far I have quite a list, and looked over quite a few top 10 lists for this stuff, but was wondering if there was anything else out there I'm overlooking?
Pic is of my current bash prompt with starship, which was incredibly easy to get working and tweak thanks to home-manager modules. If anyone else is running starship and has a cool config they want to share, please do.
US millennial women saw their well-being decline, a first in modern times, per non-profit PRB.
Homicide, maternal mortality, and suicide rates have all increased for women aged 25 to 34.
The sudden reversal in progress for young women's safety comes despite an improved economic status.
Contributing factors to the overall rise included the COVID-19 pandemic, which increased domestic violence rates, and a recent leap in gun violence incidents, the report also said.
Homicide is now also the leading cause of death for pregnant and postnatal women, more so than typical maternal mortality causes, the report noted.
His advice: Get the vaccine, wear an n95 indoors, and avoid public indoor spaces.
“I find it very distressing that we, as a society, aren’t willing to talk openly about COVID,” Dr. Dick Zoutman declared.
“The media are almost completely silent, and it’s really perplexing,” Zoutman said of the disappearance of COVID-19 from the headlines in the fourth year of the pandemic. “We are missing a huge opportunity to protect our loved ones, our children, our elderly, our vulnerable … by taking simple interventions.”
Although the mortality rate for COVID-19 has declined thanks to mass vaccinations, the infectious disease specialist stated that long COVID threatens the health of the general population.
“We don’t understand all the implications of long COVID,” he said of the lingering symptoms that may develop after the acute phase of the illness. “Basically, this virus gets into your body and it doesn’t leave. …And it invades the lining of the blood vessels and every organ of your body,” he explained.
“Long COVID syndrome occurs in at least 10 per cent of every infectious episode and may be as much as 30 per cent. Stop and think about that: if you get COVID twice a year, that’s a 20-60 per cent chance that you’re going to get long COVID. And the next year, it’s now 40-120 per cent. Almost certainly … you’re guaranteed statistically to acquire some form of long COVID.”
"You can't wear a mask forever" coughs in your face "I'm following CDC recommendations and washing my hands."
https://archive.is/5cMzk
1 in 4 people.