G. David Felt

So far of all my coworkers in Boston that have had Covid have had to be hospitalized and were unvaccinated and that is 9 people that I know of and work with. The only other person is my son's girlfriend who is vaccinated and is at home. To me that is 100% unvaccinated hospitalized based on my knowing them to vaccinated not being hospitalized. Still a big difference. As far as health and fitness routine, that has been it with plenty of medical advice from the CDC to medical hospitals and universities that have stated vaccinated is a much safer course over unvaccinated. Yes, I make an assumption based on your location of STL and the rate of vaccinated to unvaccinated in comparison to other places that have a much higher vaccination rate. It is not hard to understand that politics have played a role in how one see's vaccination versus unvaccinated. This has also proven out in the comparison of college educated to high school educated only for who is vaccinated to unvaccinated. There seems to be a play on fears about this vaccination and you again avoided the expanded question by going back to only health and fitness. It is hard to not look at how one leans politically when you see our two major parties with one embracing science and medical advice and the other embracing radical conspiracy theories. Fine, I will consider you an Independent which is what I consider myself. I agree, let's not make this political. What is it about the Science, the mRNA technology that you feel not using it to boost your body's ability to fight this Virus?

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0%, as I said, not going to spend my time posting the proof that is out there when you can see it for yourself and are ignoring it. All I know that have gotten covid, 100% unvaccinated have had to be in the hospital, 0% vaccinated that have gotten it have had to go that I know so far. That proves to me that vaccinated is the way to go and you have still AVOIDED posting your reasonings and only state your youth. As such, one would have to infer the conservative leanings of lies that you are following rather than the science as you have not responded to that either of what you find wrong with the science that is sound in comparison to the lies and FUD of the unvaccinated.

Ya know you want that Dip NOW with crunchy Chips. Cool will have to try them, thanks for posting about them.

@ccap41 Not gonna search and post since you can do this on the numerous stories of healthy young to old people that felt they could fight the virus when they catch it that have ended up dead. Lets also put the CDC numbers in proper perspective as they are vastly under reported due to many Southern States, Florid and Texas leading the way that refuse to release the numbers to their own state citizens let alone allow the data of actual covid patients that are in the hospitals and vaccinated versus unvaccinated. The few hospitals that do report are due to them being part of a much larger organization that crosses state lines and as such they report all out of ease and yet it is a small percentage of people. As they say, one bad experience in anything is usually a small percentage of a larger number and those CDC numbers. Thank you for sharing I still believe as does the CDC as a vastly under reported number. As per your own link, you can see that we are in a very large increase of infected hospitalization. Per the data it does show that right now your age group is growing in infections. Still Scary to consider that so many of these could have been avoided by being vaccinated. In regard to you being open to discussion, I cannot read your mind as to why you feel playing the odds, gambling with your life is worth it over being vaccinated. Only you can tell us the bullet points of why you will not get vaccinated, the details of why you feel not getting the vaccine against Covid is better than taking the chance that somewhere you will get the virus and might fully recover with no long-term lasting effects.

Still thinking on this hours later, gonna have to make some and enjoy it with a movie this weekend.

Yes, you are right, vaccinated have gotten sick, but for the most part is able to recover and stay at home not taking up Hospital Beds. I know this as I got a call last night by my son who lives with his Girlfriend and her two kids. Karina helps out her senior parents and as such, while all are vaccinated, she has come down and tested positive for Covid. She is isolated in the bedroom and Alex is sleeping in the great room on an air mattress as she stays away from Alex and the Kids. He takes food to her, and she leaves the dishes outside of the bedroom door. He told us last night that he is sanitizing everything and being very careful. She feels like shit, but overall says it does remind her of the Flu, just more intense. As has been well documented by the healthcare industry, she should recover just fine, but will take a few months. There is the risk of Alex and the kids catching it too. The KEY POINT is that except when you have additional medical issues, VACCINATED are able to get over this in the comfort of their home. They do not put a stress on the Hospitals or medical personnel. I think if we all did not care, we would not be talking about the needs of the many over the one with getting Vaccinated. The amount of news stories of healthy people, people who felt they were strong, prime and would have no problem dealing with getting over Covid only to have it kill them tends to lean to the importance of using the mRNA Vaccination to prep your body to deal with it when one does get sick. Based on your statements, I feel there is more to this on your belief as to why you are not getting vaccinated that you could share with us. FYI, I just got off a work zoom meeting where I was talking with our federal team, and they were sharing with us that the GOV is not even talking with suppliers, support or even possible candidates for internal job roles if they are not vaccinated beforehand. As such, it will be harder as more companies take the same approach of requiring vaccination to work let alone be considered for jobs. You say your Healthy and should have no problem dealing with recovery when you catch Covid. Yet this also leaves a big unsaid space of what else your concerns are about vaccination. No Judgement from me and I ask that all other members DO NOT JUDGE. Let's keep this open as I am truly interested in the points you have as to why you are not willing to get vaccinated. I will start the bullet list off for you: Young and Healthy, see's oneself as strong and capable of dealing with Covid. ????????

Sadly, we have seen way too many news stories of young and old that were very active, fit and in what their families have stated prime of their life killed by this virus and how on their deathbeds they wished they had been vaccinated. As you have stated many times, I hope @ccap41 DOES NOT get Covid and have to deal with the affects as hearing a person say they cannot breathe and are suffocating is the worst thing ever to experience. I have a coworker who she was very much against the vaccine till her husband, son and eventually she ended up in the hospital last year. They did recover lucky for them and have since been vaccinated and boosted and yet she is now a strong supporter of having everyone get vaccinated. Daily she still deals 6 months later with fatigue, shortness of breath going up her stairs at her house and many other side effects of the Virus. Covid will expose all weaknesses in ones DNA if they are unvaccinated. I hope for the good of Humanity, we can get the rest of humanity vaccinated this year. I fear we will still see millions more die unnecessary due to the lies and deceit spoken by those against this vaccine and technology.

Not alone that is some addictive stuff, especially with a Costco Size bag of Ruffles Potato Chips and Home-Made French Onion Dip while watching a movie! ?

Another sad loss of life due to ignorance about the virus and vaccination. Singer Dies After Deliberately Catching COVID-19 So She Could Obtain A Recently-Recovered Pass (msn.com)

As one who has family that does work in the health care industry. It is a choice for everyone to get vaccinated or not. Yet the stress and added workload put on these healthcare workers is burning many out. As such, I had a sister in-law who has lost a number of patients that needed alternative surgery but was canceled due to hospitals being at 100% capacity with Covid patients of which the majority, 93% in Washington state are unvaccinated. As such, she has decided to help as much as she can those vaccinated patients before the unvaccinated which I am hearing is becoming more common. Sadly, this choice has been a clear point made since the 1960's when Star Trek, Spock talked about the good of the many over the good of the one. Yes later in the series, the crew went after the one to rescue them as that one was very much needed for the many. Yet in life we all should be thinking about the many, Humanity survival as we will have our own sucess if humanity wins as a group versus an individual. It would be great for everyone to look at the good of their local society and help out, sadly those that can only look at themselves I feel need to look inside to assess why their personal choice is more important than the wellbeing of society. This is my own humble opinion, but for society to move forward, we need to let the unvaccinated have their say. Then clearly point out the science one last time and if they still want to believe lies, misdirection, narcissist, then I see no reason why they should go ahead of others that are doing everything they can to survive and not be a burden on society.

Very cool to see as a final farewell to the Escalade ICE Another good review to see

Next week is supposed to be the peak of Omnicron infections and we will hit our peak of deaths by mid-March. Omicron is not that mild: 50,000 to 300,000 more US deaths projected by March: COVID-19 updates (msn.com) US faces wave of omicron deaths in coming weeks, models say | AP News This does make one wonder when those that think this is all made up will realize their life very well may rely on vaccination to survive. Interesting to see the countries that have chosen to fine daily the unvaccinated or they can leave the country. Wonder where they would go? List of Countries With Covid Lockdowns, Fines, Bans for the Unvaccinated - Bloomberg Sucks to be in Greece if your Unvaccinated, $100 Euros a day if you remain unvaccinated. This Country Is Fining Some Unvaccinated Residents Over $100 A Month (ibtimes.com) COVID in Europe: Greece begins fining those over 60 who are unvaccinated | Euronews Talk about taking away the ability to move around. French lawmakers ban unvaccinated from public venues with new virus law | Euronews Unvaccinated over-60s face monthly fine in Greece; UK reports another 84,429 cases and 85 deaths – as it happened | World news | The Guardian Crazy the daily fine for unvaccinated in Australia, this pretty much could put an Anti-Vaxxer in poverty for life to the government. From prison threat to health tax: How countries are treating unvaccinated citizens - World News - Mirror Online

This is a good example of Keystoning prices for the 90's early 2000's, now I have seen keystoning of 100 to 150% on retail pricing even if it is a repair shop. Pricing of the parts is out of hand as is the labor charges now.

Very cool as the Dodge video from 2021 EV show has brought us what some see as the next AWD Charger BEV. I am liking the modern retro look on this Charger. Seems Mopar is pushing their level 2 charger now. New Mopar At-Home Plug-In Wall Chargers Will Give You Full Charge in Less Than Two Hours - autoevolution

Let's not forget that Tesla pulled their LiDAR and Radar as they feel they can do full remote door-to-door with cameras only. They have already made a mistake by making the system cheaper in components while increasing the cost. Many coworkers who do have Tesla have bitched about the price increase, the technology weakening of the safety ability and that there is no longer the ability to get certain features in a lower cost package, if you want self-parking or the safety sensor reading while driving or backing up, you have to buy the full self-driving package. Overall, I would trust GM package of camera, Radar and LiDAR over Tesla any day.

Interesting review from one of the first owners to take delivery of their R1t and I have to say I am really liking the interior. More of his videos can be seen here: TEDActuallyTalks - YouTube Have to say these owner reviews are better than the media reviews, I think. Like the way he built his truck in color and features.

Seems the latest testing shows that Tesla move to the AMD Ryzen processors consume more power reducing battery range. AMD Ryzen Affects The Range Of New Tesla Cars (insideevs.com)

Interesting news release, 2021 was a year where Diesel autos lost out to the larger selling BEVs in Europe. Seems the flip is on to cleaner emission autos for personal use. Battery electric car sales finally overtook the diesel institution in Europe (greencarreports.com) Pretty cool read on the all-new Volvo Electric Semi truck that has confirmed it delivers on range and performance for the Class 8 truck industry. Like the looks of this truck. Charged EVs | Volvo’s FH Electric heavy-duty truck proves range and energy efficiency in independent testing - Charged EVs

According to GM's self driving division I see they have been testing the Snapdragon Ride platform in the bolt driver free taxies in San Francisco. Will be interesting for sure and I have to believe their will be a driver override. That just makes common sense.

That noise is a deal breaker for me, Lucid pass as I would not want that noise on the inside. My escalade is more quiet than that 6 figure luxury auto.

Lucky quality has gone up and with it ATP that GM is profitable and pushing the future of Auto tech. Very excited by the Snapdragon Ride Platform. Let the lemmings have the Toyota crap, happy to be at an American Auto company.

Years of collaboration between GM and Qualcomm has brought many robust industry leading features to GM's autos globally. Now GM and Qualcomm have moved forward again in showing their collaboration of the first dedicated Snapdragon system-on-chips with robust data processing for the next generation of Ultra Cruise advanced driver assistance system. GM will be the first auto company to use the Qualcomm Technologies Snapdragon Ride Platform for advanced driver assistance technology. This features an industry-leading 5-nanometer Snapdragon SA8540P SoC and SA9000P artificial intelligence accelerator. This is not the first time that engineering from the U.S., Israel, Canada and Ireland have worked on a global version of Ultra Cruise. In the upcoming 2023 Cadillac LYRIQ we get the first generation of Ultra Cruise with Snapdragon. A very solid Level 3 hands free driving on the highway. Yet GM is pushing itself to become an Auto industry leader of technology and with its Collaboration with Qualcomm and the in-house engineering resources the next generation of Ultra Cruise will be on the all-New Snapdragon Ride Platform which is about the size of two laptops stacked together and will debut on the 2023 Cadillac CELESTIQ. The Ultra Cruise computer is a high performance sensor interface with memory bandwidth running the Ultra Cruise software stack that will be the key in helping Ultra Cruise achieve an unmatched combination of capability, reliability, predictability and robust door-to-door hands-free driving in 95 percent of all driving scenarios. Ken Morris, GM vice president of Electric, Autonomous and Fuel Cell Vehicle Programs has stated: “Despite its relatively small size, Ultra Cruise’s compute will have the processing capability of several hundred personal computers,” “It will take qualities that have distinguished GM’s advanced driver assist systems since 2017 to the next level with door-to-door hands-free driving.” Ultra Cruise compute platform The newest Ultra Cruise software has been integrated into an optimal hardware design that starts with the Snapdragon Ride Platform and goes on to use a combination of overlaying cameras, radar and LiDAR. This low-level, sensor fusion, which provides excellent detection and classification of data, and the Ultra Cruise's software stack are a proprietary package not available to the automotive aftermarket and surpasses any hands-free system offered by any other auto company here in the US, Europe or Asia. The Ultra Cruise Computer system is comprised of two Snapdragon SA8540P SoCs and one SA9000P AI accelerators to deliver key low-latency control functions on 16-core CPUs and high-performance AI compute of more than 300 Tera Operations Per Second for Camera, radar and lidar processing. The Snapdragon SoCs are designed with 5 nm process technology, enabling superior performance and power efficiency. The Snapdragon SA8540P SoCs will provide the necessary bandwidth for Ultra Cruise's sensing, perception, planning, localization, mapping and driver monitoring. GM and Qualcomm are very proud of their global multi-Cultural collaboration in the first uses of the Snapdragon SoCs platform for automated driving. To quote the press release: “Ultra Cruise powered by Snapdragon Ride on Cadillac vehicles will be an experiential and technological leap forward for the industry.” Less people look to the past of new technology problems, the Ultra Cruise compute on the Snapdragon Ride SoCs have been designed to meet automotive system safety standards with multiple individual redundancies built in. The compute platform includes an Infineon Aurix TC397 processor for system safety integrity. The Aurix TC397 is categorized ASIL-D the highest Automotive Safety Integrity Level. To minimized complexity, the Ultra Cruise Snapdragon Ride Platform has been designed with air-cooled instead of liquid-cooled system to avoid heavy and inefficient thermal cooling lines throughout the auto. This has been made possible by the Snapdragon Ride's high-performance, high-efficiency design. Less people feel this will be a limiting system of updates, GM choose to incorporate the Ultra Cruise's computer with the ability to evolve over time by leveraging the Snapdragon Ride's SoCs performance and high-speed interfaces for future expansion, including over-the-air updates that can include new feature/functions enabled through the Ultifi software platform and GM's Vehicle Intelligence Platform electrical architecture working with the Ultium platform to bring you the industry best auto's. Qualcomm had the following additional technical information in their press release to expand on what GM has released about the Snapdragon Ride Platform. QUOTE: The Snapdragon Digital Chassis is comprised of a set of open and scalable cloud-connected platforms that utilize a unified architecture to support enhanced safety and immersive digital experiences that are updateable throughout the lifetime of next-generation vehicles. Automakers have the option to adopt any or all of these platforms across their line-up to offer highly customizable experiences with features that are continually upgradable via the cloud. Snapdragon Ride™ Platform – an open and programmable platform that addresses the full-spectrum of driver assistance and automated driving (AD) needs from New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) to L2+/L3; offering a scalable portfolio of system-on-chip (SoC) processors and accelerators for vision, central compute and high-performance AD needs; a turnkey Arriver™ based vision stack, a full set of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS)/AD features and a flexible architecture that allows automakers and Tier-1 suppliers to bring their own Drive Policy, parking or driver monitoring stack, advanced navigation that can be integrated with Arriver Drive Policy elements. The platform also includes a full support for features, functional safety/SOTIF and system architecture competencies. Snapdragon® Cockpit Platform – provides automakers an opportunity to transform the in-car experience to create new services through highly customizable always-connected SoC and virtualized software solutions that create a multi-display, multi-camera, premium audio, video and multimedia experience with mixed criticality environments that support consumer and safety ecosystems concurrently and safely Snapdragon® Auto Connectivity Platform – allows automakers to meet the increasing demands of safer and more immersive driving experiences powered by LTE, 5G connected services, cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and precise positioning, all of which are designed to securely connect vehicles to the cloud, each other and the surrounding environment Snapdragon® Car-to-Cloud Services - provides automakers the ability to offer flexibility of features, performance upgrades and introduction of new functionality through pre-integrated software and services platforms designed for new monetization models “Qualcomm Technologies understands automakers’ needs for uniqueness and differentiation as well as the tremendous opportunity to redefine the automotive and transportation business model. Through the Snapdragon Digital Chassis, we offer an array of open platforms to rapidly enable connected and intelligent experiences with enhanced safety features,” said Nakul Duggal, senior vice president and GM, automotive, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. “The Snapdragon Digital Chassis allows platforms to stay continually up-to-date with new capabilities after vehicle purchase, while allowing the automaker to create new features and services for enhanced customer engagement and services-based business models. We look forward to working with the automotive industry as well as our many partners to provide truly transformative innovations that are scalable, extensible and software-defined.” Interesting bit is that as you read through all the press releases about this new tech, while GM is the first to have it and will be out in the global market first, Volvo, BMW, Hyundai, Mahindra & Mahindra, WM Motors of China, SAIC Motors and JiDU automotive have all signed on to use the Snapdragon Ride Platform in their upcoming EVs with the first use in BEVs due out in 2024 models. GM is the launch customer and will be first out in 2022 in 2023 models. GM believes the Snapdragon Ride Platform will bring a full suite of Automotive Solutions to GM's Next-Generation Digital Cockpit and Telematics Systems as well as Advanced driver Assistance Systems. GM Brings Powerful New Compute Architecture to Ultra Cruise to Help Enable Door-to-Door Hands-Free Driving Automotive Redefined: Technology Showcase 2021 | Virtual Event | Qualcomm General Motors and Qualcomm Extend Long-Standing Relationship to Transform Next Generation Vehicles | Qualcomm Qualcomm Builds Momentum Around Snapdragon Digital Chassis to Define the Future of Automotive | Qualcomm Autonomous Driving | Snapdragon Ride ADAS Tech for Smart Cars | Qualcomm Cadillac rolls into Snapdragon Tech Summit 2021 [video] (qualcomm.com) View full article