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drt

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  1. When I was in grad school the lab was always deserted. Does not compute.
  2. Not yet peer reviewed, so might as well be something you or I wrote on the internet. And I'm shocked that "Ascientist known for his contrarian takes to dire COVID-19 predictions" might conclude that come to the conclusion that based on antibody testing the fatality rate isn't as high as initial estimates.
  3. Wtf is wrong with this section of St Augustine right around the tree in our front yard? Been this way since moving in a few months ago, watered and fertilized to no avail. I thought someone just scalped it when we moved in but now I’m not so sure.
  4. Public heath regulations and enforcement shouldn’t be on local businesses. How anyone thinks this is out of the scope of government is beyond me. This is precisely why Pinthouse closed for a while, they didn’t want the responsibility of making and enforcing public policy regulations for the safety of their patrons and employees.
  5. Serious question, why do you believe this coronavirus is different than others? Only evidence that points the way you're positioning is not robust and hasn't been replicated.
  6. 85 + walkons, so no Realistically though, colleges, schools and daycares are breeding grounds for communal diseases. This was always going to make the rounds at some point. Edit: I see you might have been 13 positive plus 10 quarantine...so yeah I'm not so good at math/reading
  7. I'd pump the brakes on those 2 points, the evidence so far is not very robust. And if it makes you feel better, the US is definitely going to take the lion's share of the initial doses of any vaccine. So things will be back to normal for us far sooner than the rest of the world. Even if that isn't for another year+
  8. Remedy's website lists both of these antibody tests as the ones that they're using. https://www.360dx.com/immunoassays/study-finds-abbott-coronavirus-serology-test-more-accurate-euroimmun-test#.XuuFZmhKiUk If you actually go to the pdf of the study in question (https://academic.oup.com/clinchem/advance-article/doi/10.1093/clinchem/hvaa120/5836557) their conclusion is that neither are very good in the first 14 days following symptom onset. Looks like the Abbot test is slightly better. Makes me wonder which one I received, and how all this relates if we never had symptoms or had very mild symptoms.
  9. It's extremely common for treatment of HAPE, so seems like this would make sense. Kinda gotta wonder why docs in places like Colorado that are used to treating high altitude pulmonary injuries didn't suggest this earlier.
  10. Nice. We are blood in Austin is not. https://weareblood.org/convalescent-plasma/
  11. We get the government we deserve. Do us all a civic service already, I mean honestly how many times in your life are there when you can really affect so many people in a positive way, all while experiencing the joy of schadenfreude?
  12. You owe it to the world to start the pebble rolling that will lead to the landslide of hilarity. Please keep us up to date.
  13. I think one of the surly docs said the aim is 90-95% for most hospitals
  14. Maybe I missed it, but anyone have a company/guy they'd recommend to design an outdoor kitchen/patio in Austin? Possibly install as well
  15. Anyone got rec's in Austin for a landscape/outdoor kitchen design and possibly install? Grill sitting on the covered porch is taking up too much room.
  16. Interesting. On my trips to the grocery store here in Austin anecdotally it's the olds that aren't wearing masks, not the youths. Talked to more than one cashier about it
  17. Same boat completely. I think @ChiTownDoc or someone else mentioned the antibody test where they take a full vial of blood is generally more accurate, and the Remedy test for me was just a finger prick. I'm considering donating blood again as the central texas bloodbank sent out that they need A+ and that's my blood type. I just checked their website and they do not test for antibodies on donation, unfortunately.
  18. Call em or hit up their website contact page for help. Their customer service has been awesome every time I've used them.
  19. Thanks for the input, I just ordered a Vivoactive 3 as it is so ridiculously cheap right now and seems to check all the boxes. I'll give it a few runs later this week to see how I like it.
  20. They're cops. Not an occupying army. How hard is that to draw the line between?
  21. Correct me if I'm wrong Lou, but you can't riot from your own front porch.
  22. I mean, cops behavior over the last week during protests has been pretty suspect in their use of force all across the country. Calling every protest across the USA a riot is disingenuous and not accurate.
  23. Thanks for the responses. I don't use headphones on runs, so that's not really a concern for me. I'm hoping to find something where I can leave the phone at home, although with young kids I'm not sure how great of an idea that actually is. Most of my workouts are an hour or less and during naps so I'm thinking it won't be a big deal. The battery life on the Apple definitely makes me think twice. I do want to track sleep & 24x7 HR. The reasoning on the altimeter is just overall accuracy of the training load. I'm running a ton of different trail loop variations so it seems like a decent idea to track. I'd agree that distance is waaaay more important, and it's just hills in Austin rather than mountains in CO so maybe I'm putting too much importance on that feature.
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