Drew Dowdell

Sure, we all take risks, but you still wear your seatbelt don’t you? i don’t agree with the squeamishness surrounding the mRNA vaccines, but whatever, there’s the J&J vaccine too that doesn’t use the mRNA tech.

Because a childrens hospital filled with pediatric ICU Covid patients shows that the young can still have pretty severe Covid issues even if they ultimately survive. and I already made my point about the difference between surviving and recovering.

Neither of those are pediatric? Long Covid is a real thing. Yes you may survive a Covid infection but that doesn’t mean you won’t have long term complications from it. Surviving Covid and recovering from Covid are two different statistics. My friends in Colorado who used to go hiking in the mountains and got Covid very early on still gets winded on a flight of steps. Is a life of gasping for breath, or having random neurological problems something you can live with?

Congrats on the fleet Cory, always nice to see you pop in

Sorry I missed posting this yesterday. Happy birthday ?????

Companies can work on two things at once especially when they get IPOs as large as Rivian has. Rivian is intentionally throttling production out of Normal because they learned from Teslas failures when starting up production. Rivian also has a big fat 500,000 vehicle contract to build vans for Amazon they need to start getting working on.

Cop fleet is not cheap like rental fleet is. And most governments aside from the Feds and States don’t have the buying power to get any significant discount. So the municipality I work for pays roughly $50k for a cop version of an Explorer ST before it goes to the outfitters. Those old numbers you’re looking at were also when those vehicles were a lot less expensive. Lincoln struggled to get sales back then because their vehicles were so low effort. The Aviator today is much more bespoke for Lincoln than the old one which was just a hood and tailgate swap.

PCR test came back this morning. I’m negative for Covid

The Aviator can be optioned well into the 90s. I’m not terribly worried about year over year sales since Covid started, there’s far too many outside factors to make any one manufacturer have a valid data point. That said, 20k luxury Explorers selling at prices over the previous generation Navigator is a win for a damaged brand like Lincoln.

I think the low end Explorer EV will overlap the high end Mach-E. $75k Explorers are called Aviators and they’re selling well.

There are a lot of great planes out there, but few as versatile and capable as the B52. They refit a bunch of them to be drone carriers now. They can circle 800 miles from you and still take you out.

Pediatric ICU cases disagree. Our Childrens hospital here is full. Did an online urgent care today since my Covid tests continue to come back negative and I’m having zero respiratory issues. Doc thinks it’s strep. Started the antibiotics tonight

Well now you jinxed it. We're supposed to get a big snow storm next week

well... yes and no. I am no virologist but I expect this wave to be the last major wave for a while. We're all achieving herd immunity one way or another; either with vaccination or with the unvaccinated catching Omicron. Having it burn through so many people at once reduces the possibility of mass infection in the next wave. As such, even if the next variant is as contagious as Omicron, it won't get spread around since so many will already be immune from either that recent infection or the vaccine. Omicron really could be one of the last gasps of Covid-19.

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The only way you have natural immunity is if you've had it and recovered or were asymptomatic. Outside of that, you're relying more on herd immunity. But you might just luck out because this current wave is going through so many so quickly, if you can avoid getting it in the next 3 - 6 weeks (the waves are regional) you might just skirt by home free.

The Nautilus and Edge sell reasonably well. They were supposed to move to the Explorer platform. I wonder if that plan has been shelved. They would have been moved to the Chicago assembly plant.

Yes, SAE should have stepped in a lot earlier, however there would still likely need to be at minimum two different plugs Depending on if it's an AC or DC charge. The best one, IMHO, is the CHAmoDo/CCS charger. It allows AC charge or DC Fast charging up to 350w (and possibly higher). The different shape of the plugs doesn't really matter for different continents. I don't really care what mainland China does.

You should see the place where I work. It has road plans, housing developments, and building plans going back to the 1920s. One of my projects that I started last year and will go on for a 3-4 more years is to get all of that stuff digitized.

There are two new vaccines working through the FDA that could be palatable to you if the mRNA version makes you squeamish. One is from Novavax and uses the traditional method of vaccination in that they were able to take a bunch of dead spike proteins from the actual virus and use that to cause your body to make antibodies. It's essentially the same style as the flu vaccine. It has lower effectiveness than the mRNA vaccines and it would probably require regular boosters until we're out of this. The other was developed by Walter Reed hospital and is supposed to be a universal Corona virus vaccine because it will work on any current or future Covid variants as well as being effective against the corona virus versions that just cause the common cold. I do not know the technology behind this one. But I'm on day two now even though I'm triple vaxxed. My only symptoms are fever (bad) and now a swollen and slightly sore throat. If this is Covid, I'm sure it would be much worse.

Those charge ports are China/Asia Market only. Tesla uses its Supercharger port in the U.S.

Today is my first day of symptoms, so it's too early to show up in a Rapid test. I did get PCRed today too, but won't have those results for a few days. If I don't have a PCR result by tomorrow late afternoon, I'll do another rapid. It could be the flu I suppose. I've been vaccinated for both, but the Flu vaccine isn't very effective against this year's variant.

1.5 liter Turbo. If it was the 2.0T you'd know because she'd have burned a few sets of front tires off by now. Horsepower is 163 at 5700 rpm and 184 lb-ft of torque at 2500, about the same as the old 2.4 but the torque comes on lower.

Most hospitals have shifted to ER care only. They aren't doing surgeries for those who can wait. And in fact even heart attack patients have no place to go because the hospitals are overwhelmed with covid. That said, it is more likely that there is underreporting than over reporting. Many people are doing at home tests and those frequently don't show up in the reported numbers unless that person goes and gets PCR test. And sadly, one year after my first vaccine, it seems as though I finally got it. I'm pushing a 101.9 fever that started today. Thankfully no respiratory issues at all so far, just drastically uncomfortable. I was masked everywhere in public and got my booster right after Thanksgiving. The Omicron variant is as contagious as measles. Thankfully, once I pull through I'll be super immune for a while. One additional thing. They are able to measure how widespread the infection rate is by monitoring sewage. A few large cities on the east coast are already seeing a dramatic drop in the sewage infection data and Europe is about 2 weeks ahead on that. This just could be the last big wave we have for a while because it is burning through so many people so fast, including the vaccinated.

No, you’ll spend the $1500 to get a charger installed at home because of the convenience of it and you’ll plug it in each night.