146 sailing out of the fog

"All those things I didn't say, the wrecking ball's inside my brain." It is amazing how despite journaling here in public every day for the past few months, a lot of my inner world is not on display. I'm not sure if I should apologize, or if you should be thankful. 

Probably more of it is on display than I think, anyway.

Yesterday morning started with a climb into the fog.

Which I guess is about as good a segue into the news as I can create.

Dear leader's little carrot show did not go unnoticed, but it definitely went over a lot of people's heads.

It's enough to make you want to scream.
Here's a look at Google search volume this year.
"Ticket" is down 58%. "Theatre" apparently didn't make this list at all.

"Takeout" appears to be catching a second wind.

"Tie-dye" is still surging.

And ebikes and standing desks are going off.

Watching my social feeds, this is about accurate. I've seen some train travel and RV renting, too.

Everyone is heading for the hills.

This headline from our local paper jumped out at me.

Printing a lot of real estate ads, they rarely talk about tenant's rights, and certainly not about organized tenant action.

(Notice, this headline, while sorta being helpful for tenants, still smears us. That's right, looking out for yourself is "revenge." Imagine a headline which read "Gentrifying: how some local buyers got their houses cheap.")

Still, you know there's a weird situation happening when The Chronicle even prints that quote. Anecdotally, some friends just upgraded apartments from a one bedroom to a two bedroom. The rental market has been so tight in SF since the late 90s that this is remarkable. Literally, you don't move here. 

Well, ok, there was some flexibility in 2001-2, and 2008-10. Some. But really, I don't remember hearing about people upgrading at that time. (Buying, yes.)

Let me go look at statistics a minute.

By my (totally unqualified) math, 10k deaths at a .37% death rate adds up to  2.7 million infected, or about 5 times the number confirmed positive cases.  That's saying 6.5% of Californians have been infected, which is a little below the researcher's estimate.

Which is a fine segue to this next topic.

T-cells. So until now, most of the talk has been about antibodies and Ace2 receptors. But T-cells are a big part of our body's defense against viruses.

So all these "asymptomatic" people, it has been argued, actually aren't "asymptomatic" at all, they just didn't get it bad.

And the question is, why? Could another vaccine be helping?

Or wearing masks?

I actually disagree with this statement. From pretty early on it's been pretty clear that many people didn't know they were carrying the virus. 

Still, might be a good idea to wear that mask.

Because one key might just be the amount of virus you get in your first dose. More virus=more sick.

There were more screencraps, but I'm going to end it here.

By the afternoon, I managed to get out of the fog.

See Sutro Tower? That's home.

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