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COVID-19 Discussion Board / Re: Realistic vaccine date- end of 2021?
« on: Today at 08:07:41 PM »There have been people who got PCR results for the wrong person, they may have gotten someone elses results.
Much less likely to happen if the antibody tests were part of clinical trial data (not sure whether that’s the case here or not). I would assume they’re much more careful with that.
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Deals/Deal Requests / Re: Uber Eats Promos Master Thread
« on: Today at 06:35:13 PM »
I just got and email+in-app notification NEWYEAR15 after it didn’t work for me the last few times it was mentioned. $15 off $20
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Amazon & Walmart Deals / Re: Alive Again! 6 Pack Nescafe Taster’s Choice French Roast Listing Mistake? $6.87
« on: Yesterday at 04:10:30 PM »Ordered one at $17, only 1
Unit arrived.
Not surprised, considering the price.
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COVID-19 Discussion Board / Re: Realistic vaccine date- end of 2021?
« on: Yesterday at 03:59:49 PM »Or antibodies were a false positive.
On a quantitative test? Does that make any sense?
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COVID-19 Discussion Board / Re: The Pfizer Vaccine and do people who had COVID already need the vaccine?
« on: Yesterday at 02:39:29 PM »After 23 days there is a 60% drop?s=21Full description pic.twitter.com/cUeSmVtFC2
— Eran Segal (@segal_eran) January 22, 2021
This is nice, quick, and transparent data analysis. Can’t wait to see the data in a month, when we’ll have more clarity on 2nd dose results.
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COVID-19 Discussion Board / Re: Realistic vaccine date- end of 2021?
« on: Yesterday at 02:21:16 PM »Update: She got the placebo. So much for that. Still interesting that she somehow tested for high antibodies mid-trial after receiving the placebo and not getting sick until much later.
https://www.imamother.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=399108&start=100
So she’s a confirmed case of reinfection with high antibodies (with the first infection presumably with little or no symptoms). I guess her antibodies faded and/or she was infected with another strain. Things we don’t have enough data on.
Uncommon, but it does happen.
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Politics / Re: 2022 Races
« on: Yesterday at 02:02:17 PM »
What’s the point in discussing this now? Isn’t that like trying to predict the weather in 2022?
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COVID-19 Discussion Board / Re: UK COVID Mutation
« on: Yesterday at 01:55:11 PM »UK officials on early evidence showing UK variant may be slightly more deadly:
— BNO Newsroom (@BNODesk) January 22, 2021
With the old variant, out of 1,000 people in their 60s, roughly 10 are expected to die.
With the new variant, in the same group, 13 or 14 are expected to die. Other ages seeing similar increases.
How are they isolating the UK variant? Did they decode x amount of PCR positives in their 60s until they had 1000 of the UK variant, and then compared that to those that were decoded and found to not be UK variant?
ETA: What does “expected to die” mean? If they aren’t comparing actual deaths then how do they determine whether death is “expected”?
Is it possible that higher viral load for UK variant just means faster progression of the disease, and that’s what’s being observed here?
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COVID-19 Discussion Board / Re: UK COVID Mutation
« on: Yesterday at 01:53:18 PM »IOW they're seeing a 30-40% increase in fatalities. Among 60 years that just means a death rate of 1.4% compared to 1%, which is not substantial. The question is if it applies to 80 year olds where a 40% death rate increase would mean a huge increase in deaths.
40% increase coupled with increased transmission/spread is certainly significant.
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COVID-19 Discussion Board / Re: Tweets, Pictures, And Videos That Are Coronavirus Related
« on: Yesterday at 01:35:43 PM »We should have a running counter of all the unborn babies being killed in the US.
If the data was available and you were a major media outlet with an agenda you could certainly have that.
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Deals/Deal Requests / Re: DR: Hot Chocolate Maker / Frother
« on: Yesterday at 01:32:11 PM »Just noticed that it's a "free gift" for $180 donation to the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation auction
They must've gotten some old stock somewhere. Amazon stopped selling it almost 4 years ago and since then the 3rd party price skyrocketed:
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Tech Talk / Re: Old Tech Or New Tech, Choose One.
« on: Yesterday at 01:26:31 PM »Right, the same way Apple makes a convenient charging cord to accommodate human beings who already have charging cords.
C'mon man, it's not a regular charging cord, it's a Lighting® cord!
Apple, the Apple logo, Lightning, cr@pple, and other brand names and marketing BS are property of Apple Inc. and may only be used with express written permission of Apple Inc.
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COVID-19 Discussion Board / Re: SBA PPP and EIDL Small Business Loans (some money is forgivable)
« on: Yesterday at 01:21:25 PM »Correct, and although Scratch allows you to apply for Forgiveness now, they display this message:
ATTENTION: YOU MAY BENEFIT FROM WAITING TO SUBMIT THIS FORGIVENESS APPLICATION. CHANGES ARE COMING TO THE PPP FORGIVENESS PROCESS THAT MAY MAKE YOU ELIGIBLE FOR MORE FORGIVENESS.
A new law was recently enacted that includes changes to the PPP forgiveness application. You may benefit from waiting to submit your application so you can take advantage of the upcoming updates, which are not available in today’s forgiveness application:
New categories of expenses will be eligible for forgiveness, including certain operational costs (such as business software), certain supplier costs, COVID-19 worker protection costs (such as personal protective equipment or changes to your business space for safety), and property damage costs not covered by insurance. Read more about newly forgivable expenses here.
The forgiveness application will be simplified for loans of $150,000 and under.
Borrowers will be able to change their covered period to end any day that’s between 8 and 24 weeks after their loan disbursement date.
If you would like to take advantage of these changes, we recommend you wait to submit your forgiveness application until the updated application is released in February 2021. You’ll receive a notification over email when this application is available.
If you don’t expect the above changes to affect your forgiveness amount, it’s okay to go ahead and submit your forgiveness application now.
Remember that your PPP loan will not enter repayment until 10 months after the end of your covered period. You can apply for forgiveness at any point before the maturity date of your loan.
I guess I didn't realize they still haven't implemented the simplified version. But that makes sense, Planning, compliance, and IT all need to work together to implement it and make sure all their bases are covered. Then it goes to QA/testing, eventually some executive has to sign off on it.
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Tech Talk / Re: Old Tech Or New Tech, Choose One.
« on: Yesterday at 01:17:30 PM »An iSD?
He means some proprietary cr@pple SD card that’s not compatible with anything but iXxxxx/Apple devices.