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We had a cabana for the day at stormalong. Lunch and drinks from Hannah’s

Haven’t eaten yet. Reservations at the Brown Derby at 7:10. Spent the day at the pool. I think it hit 82 today. Back to Massachusetts tomorrow. No Covid test results yet, but CVS told us 3-5 days.

We have spectrum here. I hate them. They gave an antiquated system of using a tuning adaptor that calls for channels that aren’t being used on a particular node. Their bandwidth is too small to push every frequency so they hold back some channels until they’re called for. If you have a box, it’s not an issue. But we have TiVos, 3 of them, and they all require the stupid tuning adapter. We have to reboot it at lest 3 times a week and it craps the bed invariably at a time we are recording something

My wife signed up for the appointment online and we got confirmation numbers. Getting the names matched up with the numbers and having to communicate that through a driver who’s first language is Hindi was a little tough but we got it done.

Said 3-5 days. So we’ll see. I have to go to work Monday and the kids back to school, so hopefully we’ll have them by Sunday.

Went to CVS this morning and did my Covid testing duty before returning to Massachusetts. Did it in line in a Meers taxi van. They handed us 4 test kits through the drivers side window. We sat there while the lady watched us swab.

Same

Allergy or just don’t care for it?

The early rapid tests could pop a false positive due to cross reactivity with other similar coronavirus’. The newer one is pretty specific. My opinion is that if you are positive on the rapid test, there’s enough virus to have symptoms and be contagious. The estimate to test every person 3 times a week with the rapid test would cost 7 billion a week. That 200 billion for 6 months. That’s peanuts compared to what we spent and will spend on Covid relief money. Like I posted before, companies are just following state guidelines. The state says you have to have a PCR test in order to not quarantine for 2 weeks.

Tough to give you a concise answer. The false negative rate, which is the most important, has been touted as anywhere from 2% to 14%. But you have to understand how they come up with those numbers. The rapid test is compared to the PCR test which is considered “the gold standard” (cough cough, BS). So for example, if someone test negative by the rapid test, but test “positive” by PCR, the rapid test in that case is considered a false negative. But is it really? If the PCR test showed a positive at a Ct of 39, I would say the PCR test is a false positive and the rapid test is spot on. Id have to dig a little and see if anyone has compared the rapid test to the real gold standard which is viral replication assays. Without a ton of research, I’d guess the false negative rate for the rapid test isn’t much worse than what Abbott says, which is around 3-4%

We did the boat house a couple years ago last trip. Great food.

The newer Abbott one is pretty good. In my opinion, if you’re negative by that one, you’re either truly negative or haven’t got enough virus to be sick or contagious. The PCR test was the first one out and powers that be are stuck to it. Again in my opinion, the PCR test as interpreted now is junk. If we dont go to widespread rapid antigen testing on a weekly basis, testing asymptomatic people by a PCR test that takes 1-4 days to get the results back is useless. Companies require it since the state of Massachusetts mandates the PCR test. Otherwise, I don’t think Corporation X would care much which test you take.

Brown Derby with wall to wall people not socially distanced whatsoever. Actually the tables are distanced like anywhere else.

The demographics for the deaths are about the same as before. As much as the hospitalizations are up, from what I hear from some of my buddies at the Brigham they’re not as sick as they were in the spring. Some of it is because they are admitting cases that aren’t as bad off. In a lot of instances, it’s a couple a three days or so then release. Of course there are others that require a longer stay, but the whole nature of this wave is a little different. 3000 cases per day in Massachusetts aren’t the same as in April. I really really wish they would publish the Ct numbers somehow. That would give us an idea of what the viral loads are. If half the daily cases are like 33-40, then those people aren’t really contagious and I’d say probably aren’t even having symptoms in some instances. The other thing that would be helpful is to know how many people test because they have symptoms, or is the test done because they traveled or want to travel. Next Sunday I know of 4 tests that will be done on asymptomatic people to get back in school and work.

Hopefully. This one doesn’t require low temp storage. This one might be the ticket for 3rd world and remote distribution.

It’s an oddball vaccine, but it looks like it might work. What they did is to take a chimp cold virus, inactivate it so it won’t infect humans, then they drop in the spike protein antigen from Covid. The immune system then makes antibody to the virus, spike protein and all. They already had the virus engineered before Covid was even heard of in 2019. They were using it to make vaccine for Ebola and Mers. When Covid came along, they just dropped in the spike protein and off they went.

Could be some selective pressure going on, hard to say without some extensive sequencing efforts. A lot of the decreased severity is likely due to the age groups being affected now.

Holy smokes. I just looked at the radar. I haven’t kept up with much since I’ve been down here in Fl, but man, what a deluge in spots.

We Stein

Stein fail?

This quarantine business is a little silly at this point.

I had just gotten back and was getting a quick nap Le Cellier tomorrow night

Wow. Only about 10 degrees warmer here in Fl.

Yea, my boss has a camp in Jackman where he keeps his sled. I’m sure he’ll abide by the rules (eye role).