Hannah - the Daily just had a podcast in which they talked about testing negative, repeatedly, with home tests. Because of being vaxxed and boosted you may have covid but not have enough virus to test positive at home. Think about getting a PCR test at a clinic or hospital. The problem you face is that the antivirals work best when taken early - 5 days after infection. Meanwhile we take the home tests and keep getting negative results for days and days....
One of my favorite memories of summer as a kid is sleeping outside and watching the bats come out and dip and dive as silhouettes against the sky. That, and waking up in the dead of night and wondering if the helicopter I was hearing was full of nefarious marauders out performing cattle mutilations.
It's one of those Weird Tales-style things from the 70s. Cattle were being mutilated under mysterious circumstances and it was attributed to aliens. It wasn't just a Montana thing, but was happening all over the West.
I went and looked it up and ... that is just unbelievably creepy. No wonder it kept you up as a kid. None of those options for what was mutilating & killing the cattle -- aliens, an out-of-control government agency, firearm-resistant mutant wolves, I-don’t-know-what-else -- were exactly soothing.
I like bats. I didn't know this about them. It makes me remember that classification is a human endeavor and not one that exists in nature without us to impose it.
And we’re so bad at it! I mean, as a librarian, I adore our efforts to try to organize the universe, and I guess we get slightly better over time -- I mean, we’re less likely to put unicorns & sea monsters in today’s taxonomies. But maybe we just make other mistakes? I dunno, I just love how compelled we are to keep doing this, even though we mess up all the time.
Hannah - the Daily just had a podcast in which they talked about testing negative, repeatedly, with home tests. Because of being vaxxed and boosted you may have covid but not have enough virus to test positive at home. Think about getting a PCR test at a clinic or hospital. The problem you face is that the antivirals work best when taken early - 5 days after infection. Meanwhile we take the home tests and keep getting negative results for days and days....
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/28/podcasts/the-daily/most-of-us-have-had-covid.html
I was thinking about doing this Monday, and will definitely do so now. Thanks.
It's sounds like it is typical of the fully vaxxed to have a super-low viral load...and still be sick.
One of my favorite memories of summer as a kid is sleeping outside and watching the bats come out and dip and dive as silhouettes against the sky. That, and waking up in the dead of night and wondering if the helicopter I was hearing was full of nefarious marauders out performing cattle mutilations.
The first memory sounds glorious -- bats are such fun to watch -- the second, not so much. Were they branding the cattle?
It's one of those Weird Tales-style things from the 70s. Cattle were being mutilated under mysterious circumstances and it was attributed to aliens. It wasn't just a Montana thing, but was happening all over the West.
I went and looked it up and ... that is just unbelievably creepy. No wonder it kept you up as a kid. None of those options for what was mutilating & killing the cattle -- aliens, an out-of-control government agency, firearm-resistant mutant wolves, I-don’t-know-what-else -- were exactly soothing.
I like bats. I didn't know this about them. It makes me remember that classification is a human endeavor and not one that exists in nature without us to impose it.
And we’re so bad at it! I mean, as a librarian, I adore our efforts to try to organize the universe, and I guess we get slightly better over time -- I mean, we’re less likely to put unicorns & sea monsters in today’s taxonomies. But maybe we just make other mistakes? I dunno, I just love how compelled we are to keep doing this, even though we mess up all the time.