It is quite strange - although kids are commonly show no symptoms, they usually test positive with the rest of the adults. Their lack of symptoms makes many believe they don't have Covid so they act as superspreaders from home-to-school and school-to-home. Notice the huge peak of new cases start in mid-August/early September.
Think twice about blaming the surge of cases on other things. It's not the cooler weather - we had unbelievablely warm weather in September snd October this year, most states reopened well before that surge, we were eating dinner outdoors comfortably until the last week of October in western Pennsylvania.
Again, your grandson was either lucky or had a false negative test result.

That would be my guess but he stayed home (quarantined) with his parents. Our daughter kept bringing them whatever they needed and leaving it in their driveway/garage. Like you, here in NE Ohio (Cleveland Burbs) we enjoyed the nice weather. Told my wife it's maybe time to visit friends in Florida. Just hanging out watching the passing parade.

Ron

 

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/co...nes-only-its-actually-for-the-boss-metal-zone

“Here in Italy people started to share this figure claiming that this is the diagram of the 5G chip that has been inserted in the COVID vaccine,” he tweeted. “In reality it is the electric circuit of a guitar pedal.”

Guitar pedals are based on 5G alien technology?

 

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/co...nes-only-its-actually-for-the-boss-metal-zone

“Here in Italy people started to share this figure claiming that this is the diagram of the 5G chip that has been inserted in the COVID vaccine,” he tweeted. “In reality it is the electric circuit of a guitar pedal.”

Guitar pedals are based on 5G alien technology?

Exactly what one would expect: a tracker obfuscated as a guitar pedal.

Where do you think the foot switch ends up? In your foot, of course!

 

“Here in Italy people started to share this figure claiming..."

Oh, what a relief! I was thinking the US had a monopoly on stupidity.

It does make me wonder if narrow peninsulas in the southeastern part of a country correlate to this level of stupidity.

 

Exactly what one would expect: a tracker obfuscated as a guitar peddle.

Where do you think the foot switch ends up? In your foot, of course!

It's commonly called a "stomp box". I'll happily stomp on wherever these idiots want to place it on their bodies.

 

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/new-lockdown-england-boris-johnson-announcement-b682744.html
National lockdown imposed across England

People will be required to stay at home except in specific circumstances, including for food shopping, caregiving, medical care, exercise, and fleeing violence.

 

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/new-lockdown-england-boris-johnson-announcement-b682744.html
National lockdown imposed across England

People will be required to stay at home except in specific circumstances, including for food shopping, caregiving, medical care, exercise, and fleeing violence.

I took the family to Busch Gardens this weekend. I'm done with this plague.

 

I took the family to Busch Gardens this weekend. I'm done with this plague.

Last month I enjoyed a vacation with family on Captiva Island. Delightful!

I take plenty of vitamin D and that alone makes it pretty much a non-issue. I wore a mask on the plane and otherwise don't worry much about it.

 

Last month I enjoyed a vacation with family on Captiva Island. Delightful!

I take plenty of vitamin D and that alone makes it pretty much a non-issue. I wore a mask on the plane and otherwise don't worry much about it.

I’m so glad you guy’s EE degree qualifies you to make medical decisions that are contraindicated by those with an actual relevant degree. You need to stop criticizing noobs designs. Obviously, they know as much as you in order to create commercially successful and safe designs.

 

I’m so glad you guy’s EE degree qualifies you to make medical decisions that are contraindicated by those with an actual relevant degree. You need to stop criticizing noobs designs. Obviously, they know as much as you in order to create commercially successful and safe designs.

And yet they will both, somehow, get to the front of the line when they need their hospital bed.

 

I’m so glad you guy’s EE degree qualifies you to make medical decisions that are contraindicated by those with an actual relevant degree. You need to stop criticizing noobs designs. Obviously, they know as much as you in order to create commercially successful and safe designs.

Part of the problem with the medical decisions is much like electrical engineering many of those with medical school behind them can't agree. This was apparent when this thread began and why I said to just get several doctors opinions and run with the one you like. This includes opinions from doctors who specialize in infectious disease. Something else to note is how the numbers are taken. During 1968 - 1969 season we had the pandemic Hong Kong Flue. I remember it pretty well. During that pandemic every death certificate was not hot stamped Hong Kong Flu but anymore regardless of prior diagnosis every certificate of death is hot stamped COVID and again I see doctors with different opinions and thinking to where it becomes hard to know what to believe. So while I agree an EE should not be making medical decisions or offering medical advice I would really like to know which doctor's opinion or thinking is actually correct?

Ron

 

I took the family to Busch Gardens this weekend. I'm done with this plague.

Some people, including medical professionals, have lost their minds over this. In the UK and US they're talking about only having half doses or extending the second dose for months with other half measures to increase the numbers of vaccinated. If you wanted to create a vaccine-resistance virus, that's exactly the way to do it, in a population with partial vaccine immunity with a highly contagious agent mutating for survival.

https://www.statnews.com/2021/01/04...accines-upping-the-stakes-for-the-rest-of-us/

In an extraordinary time, British health authorities are taking extraordinary measures to beat back Covid-19. But some experts say that, in doing so, they are also taking a serious gamble.

In recent days, the British have said they will stretch out the interval between the administration of the two doses required for Covid-19 vaccines already in use — potentially to as long as three months, instead of the recommended three or four weeks. And they have said they will permit the first dose and second dose for any one person to be from different vaccine manufacturers, if the matching vaccine is not available.

Paul Bieniasz of Rockefeller University is one of those who is watching the evolving situation in Britain with dread. A retrovirologist who turned from HIV research to work on SARS-2, Bieniasz is studying how the virus acquires mutations that allow it to evade the protective antibodies people develop when they have contracted Covid-19, or when they have been vaccinated against it.

Bieniasz believes Britain is replicating in people the experiments he’s been doing in his lab — and could be fostering vaccine-resistant forms of the virus.

 

Part of the problem with the medical decisions is much like electrical engineering many of those with medical school behind them can't agree. This was apparent when this thread began and why I said to just get several doctors opinions and run with the one you like. This includes opinions from doctors who specialize in infectious disease. Something else to note is how the numbers are taken. During 1968 - 1969 season we had the pandemic Hong Kong Flue. I remember it pretty well. During that pandemic every death certificate was not hot stamped Hong Kong Flu but anymore regardless of prior diagnosis every certificate of death is hot stamped COVID and again I see doctors with different opinions and thinking to where it becomes hard to know what to believe. So while I agree an EE should not be making medical decisions or offering medical advice I would really like to know which doctor's opinion or thinking is actually correct?

Ron

in engineering, trade-offs are often made. Using rules of thumb when specifying resistor power ratings... resistive versus constant current led drivers,...etc... But the cost of those decisions may just be a $0.05 part.

Medical decisions are much more costly. Our lives and those of friends, families and community. They can’t be judged in the same manner. But we try. And that’s sad.

 

But the cost of those decisions may just be a $0.05 part.

Or, possibly, just a little bit more...

 

And yet they will both, somehow, get to the front of the line when they need their hospital bed.

Well, yeah! I live in the US, where we still -- for the time being -- allow private medicine.

 

Some people, including medical professionals, have lost their minds over this.

Busch Gardens?

 

I’m so glad you guy’s EE degree qualifies you to make medical decisions that are contraindicated by those with an actual relevant degree.

Nope and nope. FWIW, I have a degree in biochemical engineering. (And a business degree, which is less relevant.) The evidence supporting vitamin D is infinitely better than that supporting mask wearing. The media won’t cover it but it’s part of the standard treatment protocol. It works better if you aren’t already sick, since it takes time to build in your system.

 

Busch Gardens?

Stopping the plague at any cost.

 

Nope and nope. FWIW, I have a degree in biochemical engineering. (And a business degree, which is less relevant.) The evidence supporting vitamin D is infinitely better than that supporting mask wearing. The media won’t cover it but it’s part of the standard treatment protocol. It works better if you aren’t already sick, since it takes time to build in your system.

 

There is much more money to make selling government-promoted/mandated vaccines than vitamin-D.