Covid-Sniffing Dogs

COVID Dogs

In the NBA, the Miami Heat will use coronavirus-sniffing dogs to screen fans ahead of their games. They have ~1,500 season ticket holders who came in for the first time yesterday. They are the first NBA team to try this approach, but its been used at airports in Chile, Finland and the United Arab Emirates.

Apparently trained dogs can sniff out COVID-19 with 94% accuracy.

Here’s how it works (per AP): Fans arriving for the game are brought to a screening area and the detection dogs will walk past. If the dog keeps going, the fan is cleared; if the dog sits, that fan is denied entry,"

At My House

I’m a big fan of the Sundance Film Festival and its happening virtually this year. This weekend I’ll be watching a bunch of super indie films.

Also, my hair was again getting out of control so I did another covid-cut:

The GameStop Madness

In case you haven’t been following what’s happening, here’s a good explanation:

Jimmy Kelly @_jimmykelly

Thank you to whoever explained this - @reddit is incredible 😩🤙🏻

In case you didn’t want to read all that and want to see something great, this video takes the cake of how to explain what’s happening:

Avalon Penrose @avalonpenrose

a normal person explains what’s happening on the stock market:

The whole situation is bonkers - especially how popular regular trading has become:

Motherboard @motherboard

More than half of all Robinhood users own at least some GameStop stock. They are now unable to freely trade it; the app is only allowing users to close out their positions.

vice.comRobinhood Stops Users From Trading GameStop Stocks, Other Reddit YOLO PicksWith the market in chaos, even Robinhood has now turned on retail investors pumping dark-horse stocks.

What escalated the whole thing is that Robinhood, a stock trading app, on a request from a hedge fund (Citadel), froze the accounts of retail sellers (i.e. you and me) so they couldn’t buy or sell stocks anymore and the shorts could work. Now, people are freaking out — including AOC and Ted Cruz, who finally have something they agree on:

logan bartlett @loganbartlett

Not as funny when you realize a lot of these hedge fund managers have secret families to feed.

jeff @jeffistyping

who called them retail investors and not trader joes

Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff

I hope the events of recent days don’t affect my enjoyment of the Game Stop AMC Robinhood Super Bowl Halftime Show

Other Stuff

Avtar Gill @AvtarGill53

Me and the boys after endorsing each other’s skills on LinkedIn...

Dessa @dessadarling

And now I am dead.

Corona

The virus is definitely not as rampant as it was and is cooling down in most areas of the country. We’re averaging around 165,000 new cases per day, which is about where we were in mid-December.

Vaccines are still rolling out nd 5-7% of population has a shot now:

Travis Akers @travisakers

Oregon health workers who got stuck in a snowstorm on their way back from a COVID-19 vaccination event went car to car injecting stranded drivers before several of the doses expired.

apnews.comHealth workers stuck in snow give other drivers vaccineGRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Oregon health workers who got stuck in a snowstorm on their way back from a COVID-19 vaccination event went car to car injecting stranded drivers before several of the...

The pace is increasing too with about 1.2 million shots happening a day:

So the wheels are in motion. Stay strong everyone.

Only 64 more days to go