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Did you not read my whole post? The description provided info about the rapid Walgreens test taken, again provided below. That said, the results do not say specifically the required "RT-PCR" so while it works for most destinations, Thailand is not one of them. Not all rapid tests are antigen. What tests do they use at airports? Rapid tests? Results in minutes or hours. Rapid Diagnostic Test (ID NOW): The Rapid Point-of-Care (POC) - NAAT (ID NOW) test also detects genetic material (mRNA) of the virus. The test is performed on-site, and results are available within 24 hours.

It was not an antigen test. i was flying to Canada and they do not accept antigen tests. I received the second test below. It uses Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests (NAATs). Sufficient for most destinations. Again, check the Thai requirements. From the Walgreens site: Diagnostic Lab Test (PCR): The RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel Test - (NAAT) is used to detect genetic material (mRNA) of the coronavirus and will be sent to a laboratory for testing. Most turnaround times in 72 hours or less (varies based on location)†. Rapid Diagnostic Test (ID NOW): The Rapid Point-of-Care (POC) - NAAT (ID NOW) test also detects genetic material (mRNA) of the virus. The test is performed on-site, and results are available within 24 hours. Rapid Antigen Test (BinaxNOW): Rapid Point-of-Care (POC) Test - Antigen (BinaxNOW) is an antigen test that detects the presence of a specific viral antigen. The test is performed on-site, and results are available within one hour. These tests measure current viral infection and help determine if an individual is actively infected with COVID-19 and can spread it to others. A follow-up diagnostic test may be required to confirm a positive result.

Walgreen's does a free rapid Covid test. They may be charging your insurance behind the scene for this. Just had one done in Florida. It took about 2 hours to get the results. Booking is done online. They have 3 days of tests "open" for booking. Appointments at each pharmacy are spaced 15 minutes apart, so they do disappear quite quickly. When a new day is "opened" for appointments, it is added at midnight. I waited up so I could get the time I wanted. United was pushing their own providers to get the test. Those were about $250. I prefer free. This was not used to fly to Thailand, so please verify that the results are sufficient for the Thai requirements.

Why purchase one of these? Save yourself 4000 Baht. Most smartphones have a built-in hotspot. If your phone is unlocked just plug in the sim card and activate the hotspot.

it's a regular fee. I refused their ATM card because of it, having been taken in the past.

You should really stay away from the keyboard when you've been drinking.

Don't sell in the US. Rent it out so it's there if you want to return. Don't buy in Thailand. Rent. This doesn't work, obviously, if you've already sold. And the "perfect" house/condo you would have bought in Thailand won't be quite so appealing in 10 or 15 years.

Where did that come from? Delta has an R-naught of over 5.

Obviously a troll post. Don't take the bait.

The scheduled completion date was March 31, 2020. When they showed up on April 1, it would have been oops, April fools... There was no construction going on in the location it was to be in at any time in 2020, even before Covid arrived. I think it was all a joke.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/09/08/vaccine-mandate-strong-supreme-court-precedent-510280 Henning Jacobson, a 50-year-old minister, put his faith in his own liberty. Back in his native Sweden, he had suffered a bad reaction to a vaccine as an infant, struggling for years with an angry rash. Now he was an American citizen, serving as pastor of the Swedish Lutheran Church in Cambridge, Massachusetts. That gave him the full protections of the U.S. Constitution. So when the Cambridge board of health decided that all adults must be vaccinated for smallpox, Jacobson sought refuge in the Constitution’s promise that no state shall “deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law.” The year was 1904, and when his politically charged legal challenge to the $5 fine for failing to get vaccinated made its way to the Supreme Court, the justices had a surprise for Rev. Jacobson. One man’s liberty, they declared in a 7-2 ruling handed down the following February, cannot deprive his neighbors of their own liberty — in this case by allowing the spread of disease. Jacobson, they ruled, must abide by the order of the Cambridge board of health or pay the penalty. ======================= not quiite as free as they think...

I asked for a reputable source, not anecdotal rants.

I said a reputable source....

But, antibodies are not the whole story. Think back to your biology 304. Antibodies are generated so your body can fight an infection. When the infection is over, the antibodies diminish. Your body, however, via T-Cells and B-Cells, remembers how to make the antibodies when you get reinfected. So you may get infected again, but your body already knows how to fight it, and the subsequent illness will be greatly diminished.

You got a link from a reputable source for that? It should be almost impossible for anyone to get a fourth jab. Very few can now get the third.

https://news.berkeley.edu/story_jump/largest-study-of-its-kind-finds-face-masks-reduce-covid-19/ Wearing face masks, particularly surgical masks, is truly effective in reducing the spread of COVID-19 in community settings, finds a new study led by researchers from Yale University, Stanford Medical School, the University of California, Berkeley, and the nonprofit Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA). The study, which was carried out among more than 340,000 adults living in 600 rural communities in Bangladesh, is the first randomized trial to examine the effectiveness of face masks at reducing COVID-19 in a real-world setting, where mask use may be imperfect and inconsistent. The results show that increased mask-wearing –– the result of a community-level mask distribution and in-person promotion campaign –– led to a significant reduction in the percentage of people with COVID-19, based on symptom reporting and SARS-CoV-2 antibody testing. The team tested both cloth and surgical masks and found especially strong evidence that surgical masks are effective in preventing COVID-19. In the study, surgical masks prevented one in three symptomatic infections among community members 60 years and older.

Per IMDB, S05E08 was(or will be) first broadcast Sept 5, 2021. How nice that you have a torrent-time-machine and got it long ago.

Really? Let's look at the origins of the variants. Beta - South Africa, May 2020, little local vaccinations Gamma - Brazil, Nov 2020, little local vaccinations Delta - India, Oct 2020, little local vaccinations Now if you can come up with vaccinated populations that have originated variants you *might* have an argument. It seems to me you may have blinders on and are focusing on some well vaccinated polulations with a very small number of breakthrough infections. In reality, the next variants will come from less developed places where vaccinations are not prevalent.

Yes, time for reality. If everyone was vaccinated, there would be no more variants. The unvaccinated are the source for the variants.

I use LiveNewsNow app on android to watch Fox News. Fox news is highly entertaining, mainly in the fact that it amuses me that there is a percentage of the population that is so stupid they believe the <deleted> broadcast there. I watch maybe 10 minutes of Faux News weekly, just for the laughs.

The statistics in the article linked in the opening post are all before the delta variant wave. Face it, those who are waiting for herd immunity are going to be waiting a long time. With all the variants in the pipe, herd immunity will likely never happen...

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/02/health/us-coronavirus-thursday/index.html More than 80% of Americans 16 and older have some level of immunity against the coronavirus, mostly through vaccination, a survey of blood donations indicates. The team, led by the CDC's Dr. Jefferson Jones, set out to determine how close the US might be to some kind of herd immunity -- although they do not claim to have any kind of handle on that yet. They worked with 17 blood collection organizations working in all 50 states plus Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico to test blood covering 74% of the population. In the end, they tested about 1.4 million samples. In July 2020, before any vaccine was available, 3.5% of samples carried antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19. That rose to 11.5% by December, they reported in the medical journal JAMA. By May, 83.3% of samples had antibodies to the virus, most of them from vaccination.

No, sorry, wrong. A non-scientist has an opinion and only looks for evidence that supports his or her opinion. A scientist has a hypothesis, and looks for evidence that supports or disproves said hypothesis. If a scientist finds something that doesn't support his hypothesis, he will adjust the hypothesis to match the latest data. A non-scientist will never, or at least very rarely, change his opinion.

Frankly, I think you all should wear a mask 24 hours a day. Anything is better than looking at your faces...

More Darwin Award, Covid Edition winners. Keep up the good work. Oops, you can't. You're dead.