Except if you have gotten COVID (most of them multiple times), your body had built up antibodies to it the virus and getting the shot will gain you little more than a couple days of feeling like crap and a piece of paper.
Its a long established practice that you can "test out" for vaccines (that you have received but do not have records for) in a hospital setting by taking a titer test to prove you have the antibodies that the vaccine would create, why not allow that for COVID?

Aaron Z

How much of that overwhelming hospitals (at the beginning) was people who didn't need to be there, but were scared out of their wits because of what they had read/watched in the news, so they went to the ER to get tested as soon as they got the sniffles vs waiting until they needed to be hospitalized?
I have friends who work in our local hospital systems, they fired a lot of people after the shot mandates went out (due to our governor requiring vaccinations from healthcare workers who had been working COVID wards since it started) and IMO the next round of being swamped was self inflicted.

How about that as a younger, relatively healthy person (0-49, no significant comorbidities):
1. Your risk of dying of COVID extremely low (there were a total of 3071 people in that age group who died of COVID in NY, of those 2507 had significant comorbidities (per: https://coronavirus.health.ny.... )
2. The variants followed the normal virus pattern where they spread faster, but have consequences that are not as severe, thus with the later variants (ie: those that were prevalent by the time the shots were being made mandatory) the difference between the experience of getting later rounds of COVID with the shot vs without it was very small for those who were otherwise healthy
3. As a result of 2, the statistical likelihood of the shot (or the later boosters) making a noticeable difference in the likelihood of you dying, or needing to be hospitalized is so low that it falls into the margin of error.
4. The shot DID NOT KEEP YOU FROM GETTING COVID AND SPREADING IT TO THOSE AROUND YOU (in fact, it may have helped reduce your symptoms to where you didn't realize that you had it until you had spread it), various of the pharma execs have testified before congress that it would not keep you from getting it.

To follow up on point 1, using the NY mortality numbers from the link above and the 2020 NY population numbers from https://www.health.ny.gov/stat... here are the percentages of each age group in NY who was reported as having died of COVID:
0-9 0.002%
10-19 0.002%
20-29 0.010%
30-39 0.031%
40-49 0.082%
50-59 0.203%
60-69 0.478%
70-79 1.108%
80+ 3.173%

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All the misinformation about microchipping and infertility... shameful. All the misrepresentation about things like blood clots... where COVID hospitalization actually resulted in worse clots, more often... shameful.

Misinformation flew in all directions, do you not remember hits such as:
"winter of death for the unvaccinated" (nothingburger)
"cloth masks will stop you from getting it" (they will stop you from coughing on someone else and keep someone from coughing into your mouth/nose, but otherwise they are as effective as a screen door on a submarine)
"Seriously people—STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus [disease 2019]"
"If you’re vaccinated, you’re not going to be hospitalized, you’re not going to be in the IC unit, and you’re not going to die"
"its spread by surface transmission" (1 in 10k cases, very hard to do, no you don't have to quarantine your mail for a week to not get COVID)
“You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.”

Part of it may be making the other person anonymous vs a "known" person (ie: user 3443290 leans towards X party and we were sparring 3 weeks ago about Y policy where they were being completely unreasonable, so I will now return the favor).

Aaron Z

True, but generally speaking, more responsibility = more money.
Running a 30,000 person company is more responsibility than a 3000 person company.
As for qualifications, most of the time it seems that the qualifications are that the board members (or enough shareholders to sway the majority of the board members) like you.
Any other qualifications (aside from whatever is required by the regulatory agency) seem pretty nebulous.

IMO a better comparison would be to compare CEO pay to business income (ie: the CEO of a company bringing in $3B will likely be making more than the CEO of a company bringing in $30M).
Why? Because there are a lot more "pieces of the puzzle" to keep track of and arrange properly in a $3B company than in a $30M company to keep those 30k people employed vs keeping 3k people employed and a lot more repercussions if something goes wrong.

Aaron Z

Drivers gaming the system? I am SHOCKED, the absolute NERVE of drivers to try to get one over on "the system" and their fellow drivers...
Not really, its about what I would expect, everyone working for their own best interests and the system needing to be tweaked to prevent it being done to the detriment of the people ordering and the other drivers.

Aaron Z

Is that adjusting for company size? The various studies I have seen are somewhat nebulous on that part.
Additionally, how much worth of "additional compensation" (ie: stock options, performance bonuses, etc) are now documented and easily accessible vs say back in the 60s, 70s and 80s?
Comparing two CEOs:
CEO A runs a company with 3000 employees with $30M in receipts, a 3% overall profit margin and is paid 25x the median worker pay
CEO B runs a company with 30000 employees with $3B in receipts, a 3% overall profit margin and is paid 250x the median worker pay
CEO B is dealing with 100x the receipts, 10x the workers and makes 10x what CEO A makes.

That's a lot more responsibility so it would make sense that it would go with higher compensation.

Aaron Z

Incorrect, US 240V power is single phase that has been split (making split phase), not 3 phase.

Houses and other small customers are powered by a transformer fed from one leg of a 3 phase system, the transformer is is center tapped so it has 2 120V outputs which are 180 degrees out of phase with each other (so one is at +120V and the other is at -120V when compared to ground), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for details
Actual three phase power has each phase 120 degrees apart from each other (which is why you get 208V between phases, but both are 120V to ground, the "peaks" don't line up at the voltage peaks like 240V split phase does) see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... for details

That gives you three "peaks" per cycle (when each phase hits max voltage) vs once per cycle with single phase or split phase (split phase has both "peaks" hit at the same time), so a motor (for example) gets smoother power and is more efficient on 3 phase than on single phase.

I hate to use Quora, but there are some good diagrams comparing the two on this question: https://www.quora.com/Does-Eur... and I cant find both together elsewhere in a quick search.

Aaron Z

Fixed your comment with what is most likely to happen with the money with these tolls.

Aaron Z

Lets look at the math here.
A 1200SF home in Upstate NY will need 60,000-66,000BTU to heat it (depending on the region, if the insulation is good AND installed properly) per the calculator at: https://learnmetrics.com/heati...
We will use 60k BTU as we are assuming that it was well insulated and they did a good job (ie: the builder didn't cut any corners on insulation, they used good windows, etc).
The generator calculator at: https://www.generatorjoe.net/h... says that a 60k BTU AC/Heatpump will need 5kW to run, or 25 amps at 240VAC single phase.
Figuring for a worse case outage in the Jan/Feb week long cold snap (single digits and wind), we will assume that the heat pump has to run 60% of the time to keep the house at a comfortable temperature (probably a little low on runtime, its not uncommon to have a furnace run almost nonstop for those cold snaps).

That would be 5kW*(24Hours*60%)=72kWH, PLUS you need to figure in enough charge to get to a charging station that has power and the amount of power used by the car to keep the battery pack warm.

So, you could probably heat a 1200SF house in Upstate NY off of an electric car if you can find someplace that has power to charge it at least once a day.

However, many houses in Upstate NY are larger than 1200SF, using Monroe County (where Rochester is), per https://www.redfin.com/county/... the median home sale price was $200k and the median price was $137/SF, that works out to 1459SF, the state average is over 1700SF per: https://www.bobvila.com/slides...
Using the same sources as the 1200SF house, a 1500SF house would need a 75,000BTU heat pump (6.5kW, 93.6kWH/day) and a 1700SF house would need a 85,000BTU heat pump (7.5KW, 108kHW/day).

That also does not include the efficiency loss you get from trying to run an air source heat pump in temperatures that low.

So, could you not heat a "average" Upstate NY house in the middle of the winter with electric heat from a Tesla car battery (IIRC they have the biggest battery of any of the "readily available" EVs at 75-104kWH) unless you could charge it more than once a day.

If that much power is out, there is a good chance that it will be at least a day before the roads are passable from downed power lines and trees.

Aaron Z

Additionally, there are a LOT of trailer parks in Upstate NY, MOST people in them are relatively low income and many of them are in rural areas.
Guess what, MOST (90%?) use propane, natural gas or oil for heat and propane or natural gas for cooking because many (most?) trailers aren't setup with a big enough electrical panel for electric heat and (even if if they did), most park electric distribution systems aren't setup to handle the electrical load of everyone running electric heat.
Part RR, lines 44-45 of this bill specifically exempts "a manufactured home as defined in subdivision seven of section six hundred one of the executive law"
So the part about reducing "indoor particulate emissions" by banning anything but electric cooking or heating appliances apparently is not something that NY considers to be of concern for low income rural people.

Aaron Z

Same here, it would be nice if FB allowed you to at least opt out out of "non-g-rated" ads in Marketplace...
I don't want or need to see ads for dating sites, mens underwear, lingerie or "[nationality/] women in your area" while I am looking for stuff on Marketplace in the app...

Aaron Z

Or if you have a car with stop/start and get stuck in traffic...

Aaron Z

Isn't that more or less like Zigee's dock is supposed to do? http://www.zigeedock.com/

Aaron Z

The Wikipedia article you linked to shows that the root cause of those domes ending up underwater was not sea level rising, but the dome sinking due to erosion around the foundation that was not taken care of:

From the citations:

Aaron Z

It is also comparable to many of the narrow vineyard/orchard tractors (which it looks like a market that they may targeting).
Those are generally mowing, tilling, spraying, etc inside rows of vines or trees that are planted at 8-12 feet on center so the small size is a benefit.
When it comes time to spray fruit trees you may only be able to spray at night (needs to be dry and calm) and being able to have one person at the spray shed refilling sprayer tanks while keeping an eye on up to 8 tractors would be huge for some farms even without the benefits/downsides of it being electric.

Aaron Z