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Phil out of the bunker, wow

Going forward be proactive with the toe... as soon as you notice it getting painful or red, give it a soak with water as hot as you can stand and epsom salts. If it's really bad get some bentonite clay, add a few drops of ... (take your pick)... make a poultice around the infected area and wrap overnight with gauze to hold it in as best as possible. I've dealt with it many times, which I attribute to nail bed damage from skiing and a few unrelated accidents. But as long as you catch it early the above really works I promise.

I was pondering this... Normal supply and demand would certainly suggest you're right... but given that there's no inherent value, if the price excluded mass participation and folks just moved on to other more accessible alternatives, the currency could simply collapse. This can be said about all currencies of course... Inflation, for all it's evils, keeps people in the game.

Don't eat the rotten shark.

The mountain lion would have to be holding 2 forms of government ID or they'll say it was a bobcat

Let me know when we get UFO footage in Technicolor.

Not surveyed, but FWD is recognizing 3 more tornadoes in Ellis Co and another in Bell Co based on video and radar. So the total from yesterday is 6. Not bad for a day with primarily a heavy rain risk.

Survey confirmed 2 tornadoes in Dallas Co yesterday, EF0/75mph and an EF1/90mph.

Crazy flooding going on Love Field -> N Dallas -> Plano

Pretty good chance this clarification means masks back on at the gym tomorrow. Kind of wish the CDC announced yesterday for leg day instead.

I heard yesterday that at least one was symptomatic. The odds that they'd all test positive based on standard PCR false positive rates are tremendously small. And it wouldn't surprise me if they tested again to rule out some kind of contamination. But that hasn't been confirmed. Maybe they were all exposed with a fair amount of viral load that otherwise wouldn't have infected them? In a way it could wind up being an advertisement for vaccines (aside from that one guy) but the question is can they transmit? Maybe put the rest of the team in a sauna with them and do an experiment for the good of humanity?

Gets easier with age

We maskless at the gym right now. Finally

How bout that super strain that's infected all your vaccinated staff I say we quarantine the entire team, can't be too careful

Certainly no crypto expert but I think participating in an effectively mercantilist ecomony holds appeal for some. The incremental difficulty with mining bitcoins puts a limit on the number of coins that can be in existence, essentially finite for all practical purposes. And for obvious reasons it pays to be in early when the coins are easier to come by. The backdrop of whirring printing presses, huge national debt, and TBTF stokes it IMO.

This calls for some stimmy!!

I wonder if this mode of operations should reduce fears or increase them

I don't think the Stop and Shop robot even works for its simple task. I'm always hearing 'cleanup needed on aisle ..." but I can't recall seeing any actual spills in forever. It's basically a giant, lazy Roomba. Folks should remember this when they're saying robots replacing human workers is imminent.

They have one of those cashier-less markets at Dallas Love Field now. The employee is still required to ease the confused customers.

Well.. Yes and like Tip said... Vet the source. But I do think if they assume that antibody counts are in fact a proxy for immunity and they are seeing lower and variable counts in young people, it would be a natural conclusion to draw. My issue is with their assumption, in light of the study that used a likely better proxy... Actual reinfections with PCR tests. Not perfect in their own right, granted.

Well... The paper actually states the opposite. See bold. Interestingly the abstract starts with: "The persistence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies may be a predictive correlate of protection for both natural infections and vaccinations." It concludes with: "However, the magnitude and durability of the antibody response after natural infection was lower and more variable in younger participants who did not require hospitalization for COVID-19. These findings support vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 in all suitable populations including those individuals that have recovered from natural infection." However... From the very large Kings College of London study that used actual tests, we know that reinfection risk for young people is vastly lower than that for older people. Assuming the actual antibody analysis of this paper is correct, the infection data partially calls into question the assumption that the paper starts off with. The binary presence of antibodies may be correlated with immunity but antibody counts do not in fact appear to be a good proxy.

I really can't make any kind of assessment because we've had exactly one frozen precip event in Tarrant County since we set them up. I'm a little bit skeptical of their performance because acoustically speaking, wind driven graupel would behave quite differently than pure dendrites falling softly. But anyway, I'd have to look more into it. Our own sample size aside, the Parsivel disdrometer should be good at that because it images the hydrometeor shapes and calculates their fall speeds, which, when combined with air resistance equations should give an estimate of density. We submitted a proposal to NOAA to install two of those here in the northeast, one in a coastal location, and another at an elevated inland location to look into that exact problem, but the decision is still pending.

FWIW these are the sensors that we're using... Vaisala WXT536. They have an acoustic disdrometer on the top. At DFW airport we also have an OTT Parsivel laser disdrometer that's pretty cool and we think *should* be the most accurate of them all, but of course it's very hard to say for sure.

Can you use it to provide a parallel estimate as the previous gauge you have or are you going to remove the other one? If the former, please post the differences you're seeing sometime.

This. We have access to like 20 sites around DFW with collocated tipping buckets and disdrometers, and also have radar based QPE point measurements over each site. Tipping buckets on average seem to run about 5-10% lower than disdrometers. The radar estimates are pretty close to the tipping buckets or a shade higher, but with more variability... (maybe a function of beamheight or X band attenuation in given events?). But really there's nothing like a stratus gauge... too bad you need the man in the loop.