Hey, what's going on guys, welcome to Facebook ads Friday week 43, 43 weeks almost in a row. I think I've missed one or two. But anyway, every single week on a Friday give or take, I will show you two proven products that are working right now. These are products currently being advertised, currently getting results. So if you're watching this video and you are still looking for a product to get started with, make sure you subscribe to the channel because every single Friday, I'm going to give you two great examples. That being said, there's not a lot more to say. So let's jump straight into product number one. So product number one is by a company called Naked Skin. Before we actually show you the ad creative, I want to show you how I pick these products and how I base my research and evidence and the reason why I call them proven products. So I'm just going to try and pull up the comments section. So well, first of all, let's take a look at the engagements. So 3.8,000 engagements and 1.8,000 comments, 400 shares. Well, you have to be somewhat careful of this is engagements don't really mean anything because you can build them up with engagement campaigns and you can pay like 0.0001 of a cent where the value comes and where you should be doing your research and where you should be looking is in the comments section and the amounts of shares because shares shows that it's valuable and people are interested in it, which is obviously key to being successful in social media. It also allows you to reach a significant audience size for free. So when somebody clicks share on this ad, the average Facebook user has, I think it's like 180 friends. So potentially that's 180 times 400, which is going to be in the thousands, which this company gets to reach for free. However, what you also need to look at is the newest comments. So we can see if we scroll down seven hours, 16 hours, 16 hours, 21 hours. That's 13 weeks. I'm not quite sure why that's come to the top. But one day, two days, two days, two days, six days, three weeks, three weeks. Let's open that up two days. So that's why that one's been bumped to the top three days, six days, three days, five days, three days, three days, four days, four days, four days, so on and so forth. If an ad has been running for this long and has comments, this many comments all within the last 24 hours, I think it's pretty safe to say this company is still potting a significant amount of money into this ad, and therefore it must be working. The other thing you want to look at is the most relevant comments. So these will be the ones which have the most engagement. So this will typically be people commenting about their experience with the business. So truly Brown just ordered one can't wait for it to arrive. So that's a great sign. If you can see that people are buying this product, then that's exactly what you're looking for. When you choose a product to test, you're hedging your bets on a product based on the evidence behind whether people are actually buying it or not. So if you can see that people are actually buying it, then that's really good obviously. So Jen, this one looks awesome and way more affordable. This is the handset I was talking about. I love it. Hun, we need to order these. They have a Bestie Special Pack currently on sale. So straight away that shows you the intent, that shows you the sorts of things that people are looking for. People want to buy more than one of these things so they can do it with their friends and whatever it may be. Lauren is tags a friend. This is the one I got. So again, there's another person who has bought this product. And when I say this product, what product am I referring to? So this is it. The Beauty niche is obviously a massive niche. It's one that spikes massively in popularity coming into Q4. I'll show you the cost of the products in a minute, which is probably towards the steep end when it comes to a gift for Christmas. But I suppose it depends how much you like or love that person. But basically it's some kind of device that you run across your skin and it helps to get rid of, as they say, age lines, acne scars and uneven skin. So we can see it's got some decent traction. They've got a really nice UGC style piece of content, which they're using as their creative. We can see people have ordered this. People are liking it. And we can see it's getting a significant amount of recent engagement. Let's jump onto their Shopify store and take a look at this. This is like a textbook debutify store from back in the day. So everything is pretty default. I mean, the debutify default colors is like a darker purple, so they haven't even changed that much. But it is in keeping with the kind of brand that they're trying to push and trying to create. It's all original imagery, which is great to see. This is something I spoke about in my previous video on Wednesday. If you haven't watched that, go and watch that after this one. In that video, I talk a lot about how you should differ or how you need, not how you should, how you need to differentiate yourself from everybody else in order to be successful. And original imagery was one of those things. So they have some scarcity. Sale ends in 30 minutes. You don't see that very often now because a lot of people say it doesn't work. However, you need to split test it for yourself in order to make that decision. But from my own experience, it does work. So I do use it in some cases. Just make sure you use and use it ethically and do it legit. Otherwise, it's going to kind of discredit your reputation. What they also have is this as well, which is brilliant. Buy now to receive between August 27th and August 31st. That is in three to seven days. So anybody who comes onto this, people are becoming savvy now with dropshippers. They don't want to wait two weeks. So you need to have a decent supplier that can ship your product in this timeframe. This is a massive, massive positive and will pay dividends. Even if you have to pay an extra 10, 20% on top of your product's cost, it'll be worth it because that will translate into a higher conversion value. They also have after pay, which is a common way to split payments in Australia. This is an Australian-based business. Everything speaks to the Australian, making them feel like they're buying from a local country or their national country. So $80 is this product reduced down from $180.  However, if we jump onto AliExpress, this is a welcome deal. So you can take that with a pinch of salt. Even at the very most, you're going to be paying $38 that we can see here. However, a lot of suppliers dip in and out of welcome deals. It's super easy to chop and change between suppliers to make sure you're always getting the best price. So even if it's only for a while, you get or you can chop and change and bounce between different suppliers in order to keep taking advantage of different welcome deals. $6.41 and they're selling it for $80. That is a massive, massive profit margin. And if I'm not mistaken, the product is identical. Yes, these guys have some different colors. All I want to draw your attention to is this section here. So Lev LED Clean EMS Hot. And if we have a look at this one to the power buttons in the same place, so Lev LED Clean EMS and Hot. So it's an identical product. And even if you do end up paying the higher price, but like I said, you should be able to chop and change between suppliers. You've got a $30 profit margin. If not, and you can take advantage of the cheaper price, you've got a $70 profit margin there, which is absolutely awesome. Hey, just real quick, just 20 seconds of your time before we get back to the video. I just want to make you aware of a free training that I've recorded and is available to everybody. This training will show you how to profit from Shopify dropshipping in 21 days. Now I know that is a bold claim, but we've had hundreds of people go through this very same training and achieve that very same goal. So this training, it will show you how to find your very first winning product. It will show you how to find quality supplies that will deliver your product in less than seven days. No Chinese suppliers that take two to three weeks to deliver poor quality and plastic products. I'll show you how to build a professional and high converting industry standard Shopify store at above 3%. And I will also show you how to target people who are interested and want to buy your product. And like I said, find your very first customers in three weeks. It's 100% free, won't cost you a single penny. All I ask is for your email address. And I ask you for that so I can also send you this. So this is also 100% free. Everybody who watches the training gets my personal handpicked selection. It's a PDF download of 194 profitable product ideas for 2023. So by watching this training, not only do you get the products you need to sell, but you also get the strategy that you need to sell them. If that sounds good to you, make sure you check out the top link in the video description below. Thanks. Let's jump on to the other end of the pricing scale then. This is a much smaller profit margin item, but it is in a market which converts very highly because it is the pet market.  And that is reflected in the level of engagement that this video has, which I'll show you in a second. So basically it's a kid's toy, which somebody has remarketed and rebranded as a dog's toy. Whether this is their dog that they film the content with, I'm not quite sure. It could be supply content. Either way, it's just one dog with a mixture of clips with these subtitles over the top and some cheesy music.  Let's take a look at the engagement sense. 18,000 engagements, three and a half thousand comments, three and a half thousand, 2.4 million views. That in itself shows that it's working. A post does not get this level of viewership and this level of engagement and comments, unless it is working. Let's take a look at the newest comments. So 28 minutes, 34 minutes, 34, two hours, four hours, 28 weeks, but that would be because there's a recent reply. Nine hours from Deb. Good luck. The piece that makes it flop around is only held with Velcro. So here's some consumer feedback, which is super, super important. And another great reason why you should always check the comments because more often than not, people will actually come back and leave an honest experience that they've had with the product. So my pup got in, got it out and had a trip to the vet after he destroyed it. So it sounds like there's a design issue where the mechanism inside is easy to get out, which to be honest is similar with a lot of dog toys I've had in the past for my dog obviously. If you did want to pursue this products, then what you have to probably do is work with your supplier and find a way to make it less of an issue. Whether that's two layers of Velcro, whether it's a different way of getting inside it, whether it's completely stitched up and sealed because there is no need to get inside it. It's definitely something that you need to consider because it's no good selling a product really successfully if you're going to get a lot of returns or worse yet potentially harm somebody's beloved dog. However, these guys look like it's not, maybe it's not an issue for these guys. I'm not sure by the looks of things they're marching on, they continue to run ads, but that's given the fact is getting a significant amount of comments all within the last hours, few hours, never mind the last 24 hours or last week. Something else to take away from these videos as well is that you can take the concept. So whilst this individual and exact product may not be the best one to pursue, it's a fact that cute floppy toys for dogs are working. So if you can find a different variation or a different supplier that sells one that is a bit more safer and is a higher quality product, then you still know that you're going to be onto a winner. That being said, let's jump on to their Shopify store. We can see it's a very busy looking store, super cheap products only £15. They're probably running this at break even maybe even a lost leader just to simply acquire the customer's contact details, which they're then capital and eyes on on remarketing methods, whether it's email marketing or some other form to get people back on to buy the other range of products that they sell. So what's really interesting is they have a page purely for the winter dog jacket. So maybe that's it. They're using it to get people on store to get the customer's information to buy this product, to then try and get them back on to buy the winter dog jacket. Let's have a look at the shop now. They have lots and lots of other products. Why they have that one at the top? I'm not quite sure. So we can see the selling it for £15 if we jump on to AliExpress and Fluffy Lobster dog toy. We can see there's a few different suppliers of this. Going back to what I mentioned about the welcome deal, we can see this one is less than a dollar. So there's probably $13, $40, $14 of room in there making it tight, but you can make it work. They could be charging a shipping cost on top of that. We can also see these guys are doing a welcome deal. So should these guys put their price up, you can shop and change, like I mentioned before, back and forth between two different suppliers if you wanted to go down the AliExpress route. And there is, of course, plenty and plenty of other suppliers for you to contact and get quotations from. And so with that being said, guys, that brings a wrap to Facebook Ads Friday this week. If you enjoyed this video, don't forget to subscribe to the channel so you can tune in every single week and get two great products for consideration for your business. If there's anything I can do to help, make sure you leave a comment, question or video suggestion down below. I read every single one. So we'll get back to you. And of course, do not forget to check out our free webinar training in the top link in the description below. Thanks for watching, guys. I'll see you in the next one. Cheers.


Why hello, my darlings We are back today to talk about another layer of heredity and that is Heredity that comes from an entire chromosome itself as you already know We can look at our chromosomes using a karyotype. That's what you're seeing on the screen here This is a human karyotype. This is familiar. You've seen the karyotypes before Karyotypes, let us look at our homologous chromosomes one chromosome from an egg parent one chromosome from a sperm parent It lets us count our chromosomes and convince ourselves that there are two copies of every homologous pair It also lets us look at the one chromosome that we all have to of I don't know I shouldn't say it like that 22 pairs of our chromosomes are Autosomes and we all have two copies of every autosome the last pair of chromosomes are sex chromosomes and For humans the possibilities are X chromosomes and Y chromosomes There are heritable traits that are related to the X and Y chromosomes and This is a place where The purpose of this lecture is to look at some of the inheritance patterns overall related to chromosomes But in particular to look at some of the inheritance patterns related to the sex chromosomes the X and the Y chromosome Before we tackle Any conversation about X and Y chromosomes I feel like we need to take a moment and have some definitions around biological sex and chromosome anatomy anatomical sex and Gender and so we're going to take we're going to do a little brief timeout and make sure that we have The language that we want to use and that we're going to use moving forward through this conversation about sex linked inheritance and all the way through the rest of the Semester all right, so I will be right back to talk about biological sex versus gender


What is up everybody, Jason here for jaspyscasebreaks.com. We just sold out 2023. Panini, National Treasures Collegiate Football, one box break, random number block, number 17. And again, guys, we're giving away two free spots. So if you bought in, you have a chance to win up to two free spots. So we're gonna randomize the names of the same dice for a little giveaway, the two free spots, plug them in, then the same dice for a randomize the names and the nine, 10 numbers, and we'll see what you guys match up with. Then we'll do a little box break, guys. So let's roll six and a five, 11 times, good luck. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. And 11th and final time, boom, look at that, Kenneth. The top two spots, playing the odds, there you go. After 11 times, you got the two free extra spots. Boom. Now use the same dice roll, 11, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11. Kenneth, done Kenneth. And 11 times zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11. 11 times, three down to one. All right, so Kenneth, you have three, four, nine, and eight, Michael with six. Joe, you got two, Kenneth with seven and zero, Mark with five, and Kenneth with uno. Of course, any of our redemptions automatically go to spot zero. And it looks like the Ravens might be moving on, total domination right now. Maybe Joe, just because he has seven spots. You never know, man. Some of these breaks might end up being a whole Mark's box with one spot, or maybe a Michael box, or maybe even a Joe box. You get the right serial number going to you. Seen a lot of things happen. But right now it may look like it for sure, and it probably won't shock us if it did turn into a Kenneth box, but. You never know what these random R&B serial number breaks. You never know. All right, I'm gonna close right now. I was gonna trade numbers. All right, you're all good, Joe. That's okay. I'm just saying, don't give up on yourself. Just gonna see one Joe name in there. Doesn't mean you can't get nothing yet. You know, it's funny, guys. Actually, I just remembered. I put my knife in my pocket when I was leaving work on Thursday. And when I got into the car, I realized my knife was in my pocket. I left it in the car, and of course I didn't bring it down. So I'm gonna have to borrow Joe's knife for today. I'm sure you won't mind. So let's place them up the way they would have been. One, two, three, four. Let's see which one we can do here, guys. If I roll a five or a six, we'll just redo it again. Five, no. One, go to the top box. It'd be impossible for me to break Joe's knife, honestly.  He likes to re-stop the blades like really fast. I usually wait until it's super, super dull. I'm more afraid I'm gonna cut myself. All right, here we go. 41 out of 49. Patty Mahomes. And the Glitter Spot One, Kenneth. Oh, I've cut myself a few times on camera. I got a rush to the emergency room. Bandaged myself up in the restroom. And then run back outside. Crowd cheering for me. Oh my God, he's back. All right, next one. We got Khalil Kansi. 18 out of 25. Spot eight. Going to Kenneth. We have a patch autographed. Uzreal. Ibanikonda. 84 out of 99. Spot four. Kenneth. No, I didn't drip my blood on the cards. I just cut myself. We have a Miles Murphy. 48 out of 99. So far it is a Kenbox. Spot eight. Maybe Joe went into the future and seen. Gonna be a Kenneth box. We got Xavier Hutchinson. 32. Not so fast, Joe says. That's going to you, Joe. Xavier Hutchinson, Relic. Then we have a very nice Jalen Carter. Two color patch and autographed. 13 out of 39. Kenneth with spot three. That's a nice one there. We have a redemption. Automatically going to spot zero. Going to Kenneth, but who is it? It is a dual autograph, Brian Breesie and Miles Murphy. So I think maybe some Clemson Tigers. That is true, Joe. You do live three hours into the future. That would make sense. All right, we'll spot zero automatically to Kenneth. And last one here is a Relic. AT Perry, four out of 75. Going to Kenneth. And yeah, I guess it was a Kenneth box. One card for Joe, at least, but everything else is yours, buddy. Hey, you played the odds, grabbed those spots. You won the two free spots, so there you go, man. Boom, appreciate it, guys. Again, I'll post another one of these up right now. Like I said, this is our first promo break that sells out. We got to sell at least seven. And like I said, after that, let's see if the 49ers and Packers players can get your guys's bounties. So appreciate you guys. Jasperyskatespakes.com.


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Okay but it's important though from what you're saying because and I hate to say it but you seem to be backing Nick's myth up.


Do you, by any chance, remember a case you accidentally got yourself involved in just four weeks, three days, and thirteen hours ago? What? In the course of which you saved a man's life. Well, if you're talking about that federal man, the fellow from the bureau... Wait a minute. Hal? Yeah. Hal Leonard. That's right. You're okay again. I sure am. Hal, Hardy, and back to normal. Well, thank goodness for that. But if you hadn't just happened to walk in from the back room of Becker's print shop that night, Johnny, I'd be pushing up the well-known daisies. Oh, I don't know about that, Hal. Well, I do, and I'll be eternally grateful, Johnny. Oh, forget it. But you didn't answer my question. Do you remember just what happened that night? Well, of course. The miracle is that you remember now. Yeah, I guess it is. Believe me, complete amnesia is nothing to laugh at. Yeah, but while up on the head that character gave you must have been a dilly, one more like it would have killed me, but then you walked in like the U.S. Marines. Would you forget it? Forget it, huh? Sure. I mean, after all, it was just a matter of luck my being there in the back room of that shop, and all because I had the mistaken idea that Becker was fencing some loot from a burglary job. Instead, you uncovered his real racket, the one I was investigating. Well, let's say I stumbled on it. So, what happens? I don't know. What happens? You, one Johnny Dollar, the real hero of that fracas, end up eligible for a nice long prison term. Well, that's just a matter of...what? Sure. Prison term. That's what I said. For what? Possession. Possession of what? Of evidence. Evidence? Yeah, I think now. Weren't you busy packing a lot of the stuff you'd found into the back of your car when you heard him slug me and came barging in on us? Holy smokehead, you're right. So, where is it now? Still in the back of my car.  Oh, I'll be waiting, Hal. I'll be there. Okay. CBS Radio Network brings you Mandel Kramer in the exciting adventures of the man with the action-packed expense account. America's fabulous freelance insurance investigator. Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Accounts submitted by a special investigator Johnny Dollar to the worldwide mutual insurance company, Home Office, Hartford, Connecticut. Followings and account of expenses incurred during my investigation of the takes a crook matter. I'd forgotten all about that evidence I'd picked up at Becker's shop. And, of course, the federal boys would want it. Would need it to prosecute their case. The reason I'd forgotten it was because I hadn't used my car for some four weeks. All my investigations had been out of town. Well, it would only take Hal a couple of hours to get up from Washington. I could simply meet his plane. Johnny Dollar. Les Walters, Johnny, over here at Worldwide Mutual. Oh, of course. How are you, Les? You want to take a run over here to see me? What about? Well, you ever hear of the Mare Madonna? The what? It's a painting, an oil painting, and a pretty famous one. Oh, sure. Sure, it was the P.A.'s Day Resistance in that exhibition over at the Manhard Galleries. Yeah, that's the one, painted by Marcel Moret and worth a couple of hundred thousand dollars. Hal, why anybody would ever pay two hundred thousand dollars for an impressionistic atrocity like that is something I will never understand. Well, the point is, friend, somebody did. We insured it to the Hilt, and now it's gone. Uh-oh. Yeah, can you get on it right away? Well, almost right away. Oh, what do you mean by that? Well, Les, I have to stick around for a while to meet one of Uncle Sam's boys coming up from Washington. Uh-huh.  Happy days in the clinic. You know something, Les? Yeah. But what I have in my possession, I could be locked up for life. You're like what, Johnny? Well, I don't think I'd better go into it. But as soon as he gets here and picks it up... Well, when will that be? Well, according to a timetable, I'll pull into the airport around 7.05 p.m. Well, now look, I'm working late on this thing, so...  Good idea. Why not? Okay, good. I'm on my way. Well, looks like a busy evening ahead. Instead of calling for a taxi, the usual procedure when I was on expense account, I decided to use my own car. But give me a chance to make certain that all important evidence in the federal case was still safely locked up in the trunk. Matter of fact, on the way down to my garage, I decided that it might be a better idea to take the stuff out, take it back up to my apartment where I could check it over. Now remember this. It was nearly 5 p.m. of a dark and plowdy day. My unlighted garage is at the back of the apartment building, but faces out toward the sidewalk in the street. There's one of those quick-lift doors on it. There wasn't much in the way of traffic or pedestrians. Here we are. First, we make sure the stuff is still in here. Let's pile these stacks together and carry them upstairs in one load. Bready, when I think of all the people who would like to go... Hey, wait a minute. Who slammed down the door out there? Not out there, mister. What? I'm right in here. Ah! Venture vicariously from programs like yours truly, Johnny Dollar. But you can have the real thing. Adventure in far less dangerous form by joining the Peace Corps. Helping the people of the new and underdeveloped nations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America is an immensely satisfying adventure. The Peace Corps needs qualified teachers, engineers in all fields, and farm experts. If you're interested in a fascinating life, write to Peace Corps, Washington, 25 D.C. Just when I came to, I'm not sure. But as I lay there on the floor of my garage, I wondered for a few minutes if my skull was still in one piece. It was that there was a very fancy lump on the back of it, and I was so dizzy I could hardly get to my feet. I managed to feel my way to the door, seemed to be pushed up and open, and in what little light came across from one of the street lamps saw just exactly what I expected. The trunk of my car was still open and very, very empty. I must have been hit pretty hard because I passed out again for a few minutes. Then I got up again and staggered around to the front door of my apartment house, though I could barely make out where I was going. I half remembered stuffing something into the pocket of my jacket, something I'd all the while had tightly clenched in my right hand, where I clumsily stumbled against a man who was pushing a doorbell under one of the mailboxes. Hey, take it easy, old man. Sorry, I, uh... Have yourself a little too much... Johnny! What? Johnny, what happened to you? Oh, here. Let me give you a hand. Hell, yeah. Here, now. Yeah, let it in. Yeah. Say, it looks like somebody really worked you over. Listen. You listen. Sketch you upstairs to your apartment, find out what this is all about. Yeah, I'm afraid so. Oh.  Oh, boy. Yeah, yeah, sure. You, uh... want another little snort of this? Mm-hmm. Oh, no, no, no. All I want is just... to lie here and sleep for about three weeks. That's all right. You do that while I run this thing down. Now, Johnny, you're sure you didn't get a look at him? No, no, when he yanked the door down behind my back, he, inside, the place was just darkest pitch. But you left the garage open. Yeah. And, wait a minute, somewhere in this pants pocket here. Yeah. I have the keys to the garage and the keys to my car in case you need it. Okay. You get some sleep. I'll be back in time to get you some breakfast, if not before. Oh, thanks, Al. You were a good man. You know something? I think I might have slept for three weeks, if it hadn't been for the telephone there beside my bed. You know something else? That darn instrument gets me up and going like nothing else in the world. Johnny Dollar. Johnny, where under the sun have you been? Less. Yeah, that's right, less wallers. I went around my office at the lap to seven o'clock, then I left word with a watchman that came on home. Well, I still didn't hear from you, but let's see, it's after 10.30. What happened to you, anyway? Oh, plenty less. I just couldn't make it. Well, I hope you can now. Sure, sure.  Now, he can tell you more than I can. See, he lives in apartment 7B at the Selfridge. The Selfridge? Yeah, you know, that fancy big new apartment building over on the other side of town. 7B. That's right, 7B. I'll phone him and tell him that you're coming. Yeah, yeah, less you do that. But instead of going over to the Selfridge, I ran up item one. Item one at this stage of the game? Anyhow, it's 90 cents for a taxi to a roomy house of a character who calls himself Little Willie. To put it bluntly, Little Willie is a stool pigeon, one of the few that even the police don't know about. And they know most of them. The reason I picked on him was because of his almost uncanny knowledge of art thieves and their activities. Oh, hiya, Johnny. Willie, I've got 50 bucks. I thought maybe you might find some use for. Only 100, Johnny? When I've been just sitting here waiting for you to pay me a visit? Oh, about what? That moray matana. What else? And he'd worth 100 if I can tell you where to look. All right, Willie, 100. You see, I know there was something up when I seen him sitting there a day after day. Who Willie? Sitting where? At that gallery. The gallery? But just looking wasn't enough, I guess. So that's when he took it. Took it home to copy it. Who Willie? And him being one of the best copyers ever lived. Why, Johnny, he could almost fall he artist himself. But listen. Yeah? You better get on him pretty fast. He never made a copy unless he had a customer. And to win the one he'll get for a copy of that matana, well, he ain't going to stay around. He'll get out of the country. Willie, who? 50, did you say, Johnny? And that painting worth a couple of hundred grand? OK, OK. OK. Old Charlie Starkey. Charlie Starkey? Out of the pen again, hmm? Yeah. Where'll I find him, Willie? He's been renting a room at 324 South Crocus. Good. But if he's already finished his copy and made a sale. Willie? Let me worry about that. Item two, the $150 I mailed in cash to little Willie on the way out of my apartment. I should have waited. Because item three is a $1.70 for a taxi over to another dingy little rooming house at 324 South Crocus. But I got there too late. Yep, old Charlie Starkey his mission accomplished had paid off his landlady a character by the name of Sally Butts and had taken a powder. Yeah, he's gone. Not more than a half hour ago. I see. Well, OK, Mrs. Butts. And I'll say this, Mr. He sure left in a big hurry. Oh, I don't doubt it. Left all his paint pots and stuff and all his extra clothes behind. Oh, all sorts of stuff. Oh, wait a minute. Yeah. Now what's the matter, Mr. Don't you believe me? Mrs. Butts. Well, look. Looky here. Here's the money that he paid me off with. See? OK, but the only thing I want to look at now is... Wait a minute. Come on. That money, let me see that. Just let me have that a minute. This money? Yeah, let me see it. What's the matter with this? You think maybe it's Mark or something? Mark, you bet it is. And Mrs. Butts, you don't know how well. Hey! Come along. I want to look at his room. Sure enough, carefully rolled up and parked in a closet where sooner or later it was bound to be discovered was the Mare Madonna. OK, part of my job was done. Item four, another $1.70 for a cab back to my apartment where I stashed the painting away. And then, now don't try to get ahead of me, ahead of this report, I mean, because it couldn't have been old Charlie Starkey who'd made the attack on me to get the stuff out of the back of my car. He wasn't the type. He wasn't strong enough to have laid me out that way. And the voice I'd heard certainly hadn't been his. But I suddenly remembered that when whoever it was slugged me the first time there in the dark garage, I'd made a grab for him and had torn away part of his clothing.  I took a look. It was a small piece of paper, a receded bill issued to a Mr. Harvey Twiller, a name that didn't mean a thing. But it was a receipt for rental paid for an apartment. And where? At the Selfridge. Then things started adding up. Item 5, $2 for a cab across town to the Selfridge where the uniformed doorman had ideas that didn't quite fit into my plans. To 7B, Mr. Brittingham's apartment? No. Well, yes, of course, sir, because I know that he's expecting me. I know he is, but you see...  Now, look, take a look at my credentials. Yeah. Special investigator? That's right. Well, I suppose that doesn't make a little difference, sir. So where is he? But are you sure I hadn't better announced you first? Yes, I'm quite sure. Well? Very well, sir. He's in 5A. Okay. Let's open. Come on in. Well, Scotty. Scotty Bagney. You're surprised, darling?  Did it, Scotty? Well, it must have, mustn't it, boy? You'd be the one holding a gun instead of me. So you're out of the pen, too, hm? Quite a while now, darling, quite a while. I knew I should have recognized your voice there in my garage. Aw. When I saw you here at the door just now, I thought you had, that you'd seen through my alias. But now, since I do hold this gun on you, I suggest that you come in, close the door, and, uh, carefully remove your own gun and drop it on the floor. I suppose I haven't any choice, have I? None whatsoever. That's the good lad. Now, uh, kick it over here. Now, sit down, please. Why not? But tell me, Scotty. How I happened to know what you had in the trunk of your car? Mm-hmm. I heard about the job in Becker's print shop, so I've been telling you. And since I occasionally have need of that sort of thing that you had in your car trunk, I, uh, belted you and perloined it, as we say in the trade. I'm sorry, though, that you found me.  Well, you misunderstand me.  No, Scotty. Help. Ah, very well. Who are you, sir? Well, so you found him first, don't you think? Oh, I might have glad you did, too, Hel, but how come? There's prints on the door of your garage. Here's your gun. Thanks. I got an ID on the prints. You steered me to a couple of stoolies, and you bought them, and here I am. You found the stuff? No. No, will he, my friend? You see, I made a little purchase with it, uh, with, uh... Most of it, then, is? Purchase? Don't you get it, Hel? I'm afraid not. The painting? The Morey Madonna? Or rather, a copy of it? Copy. What are you talking about? One of the oldest gags in the world. You see, Bagney here somehow got next to another old crook by the name of Charlie Starkey. He said that the painting I have... Hold it, Scotty, and listen. Yeah, very well. Now go on, Johnny. He found out, of course, that Charlie had been sent up for stealing fine artworks, that he knew his stuff and was one of the best. Until he got caught? Yes, but, uh, go on. What Scotty didn't learn, though, was that old Charlie was not only an artist himself, but a copyist. As good as they come. A copyist? So here was the deal, and you can call me on it if I'm wrong, Scotty. Well, no, listen, please.  Go on, Johnny. Charlie, with his fancy manners and good clothes, was a pretty successful fence for good artwork. He always knew enough of the spoiled, filthy rich who'd buy even though they realized the stuff was stolen. And when he learned that old Charlie was a master at lifting such things, well, he just couldn't wait to team up with him and get a hold of the moray mandana. What he didn't know, though, was that Charlie was more of a nut than a crook. That he'd only steal the stuff long enough to take it home and copy it. A dollar, no kidding. And later, he'd sneak it back, or just let it be found somewhere. Of course, he'd pass on the copy for a price to a sucker like Scotty here. Oh, I don't believe it. Dala, look at the painting. It's there in the closet. You admit you have it. Well, now you've tagged me. You'd find it anyway, so go ahead. It's there in the closet. You mean the copy is? No, no, no. The original. It has to be. Don't you see, I already made a deal to sell it to a millionaire down in New York. Well, go on. Look at it. I don't need to, Scotty. The original is locked up in my apartment. It can't be. It can't be. And it is the original. So that is that. Okay, good work, Johnny. You've done your job, but now what about mine? Where is the evidence from that operation in the printing shop that I came to get from it? Oh, that'll show up, pal. And that's what I'm afraid of, in dribs and drabs all over the country. Oh, no, I mean right here. Well, thanks to our good friend Scotty. Thanks to me? I'm afraid I don't get it, Johnny. Well, I'm sure that I don't. I'm only surprised it hasn't already shown up. Wait a minute. Maybe some of it is right here now. Why don't you take a look through Scotty's pockets? He said that most of it went for the painting, not all. In that case... I'll be quiet, both of you. Over here with me, Hal, but keep that gun on him. Right. Scotty, don't move. Don't worry. Come in. It's open. Come in. Scotty, you crook. This money, this money you gave me for the painting. Look, look at it. There's your evidence, Hal. What's the matter with it? What's the matter? It's counterfeit. Counterfeit? That's what it is. Counterfeit? Look at it. All of it. Counterfeit. Just like the painting you sold him, Charlie. Who are you? You'd be surprised, my friend. Now, don't move, either of you. Thanks, Johnny. Except for whatever Scotty may have held out for himself. Except for whatever Scotty may have held out for himself. It's kind of a quadruple play, wouldn't you call it? Dollar, to Scotty, to Charlie, to you. Happy now? Real happy. It's kind of a complicated mess, I know. It's kind of a complicated mess, I know. But the painting is back to its owner. The counterfeit money is recovered. I'm in the clear with Uncle Sam. And all is well. Expense account total? Why not just pay me the commission on that lovely Madonna? Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. Here is our star to tell you about next week's story. Here is our star to tell you about next week's story. The sweet little old men. Real characters. Especially one of them. The killer. Join us, won't you? Yours truly, Johnny Dollar. The Johnny Dollar is written by Jack Johnstone. Produced and directed by Bruno Zerato Jr. Music supervision by Apple Huber. Johnny Dollar is played by Mandel Kramer. Music supervision by Apple Huber. Also featured in our cast, where Martin Blaine as Hal Leonard, Ralph Bell as Scotty Bagney, Jack Grimes as Les Walters, Leora Thatcher as Mrs. Botts, Bill Kramer as Little Willie, Guy Rept as The Doorman, and Louis van Rooten as Charlie Starkey. Be sure to join us next week, same time, same station, for another exciting story of yours truly, Johnny Dollar. This is Art Hanna speaking. Where songs are king, hear Richard Hayes sing weeknights on the CBS Radio Network. At the crossroads of the Empire State, this is WROW Music Albany. Hello, I'm Beathen Horne, one of your welcome wagon hostesses in the colony.


Thank you everyone for joining us. It is January 13th, 2022. It's been a while since we checked in with you, but given the level of COVID transmission and activity in the county, we wanted to check in with the community. We have a new face with us today, so we're going to do some brief introductions at the beginning. We're just going to do a round robin real quick. I think Dr. Newell will start us off. Dr. Newell, why don't you introduce yourself and then we'll go around the room. Be helpful if I were unmuted. Dr. Gail Newell, Health Officer for the County of Santa Cruz, and I'm very pleased that I now have officially two Deputy Health Officers. We'll start with Dr. David Gillarducci. Good afternoon everybody. Dr. David Gillarducci, I am the Deputy Health Officer and EMS Medical Director for Santa Cruz County. And hi, this is Dr. Cal Gordon. Hi everyone. Good afternoon. So I'm Deputy Health Officer and I'm also a pediatrician and the Children's Medical Services Consultant. And good afternoon. My name is Jen Herrera. I am one of the Assistant Directors for the Health Services Agency with the County of Santa Cruz and I am overseeing the county's COVID-19 response. And we're going to use a similar format as last time. We're going to go around the room and talk about a few different things and then we'll open it up for a Q&A after that to ask a question. Just go ahead and raise your hand and we will call on you in order. And with that, we're going to have Dr. Gillarducci lead us off. Okay, well thank you, Jason. So let's start off with just a quick data update and our website has just been refreshed and you'll notice if you go to SantaCruiseHealth.org that we've added over 700 cases in the last couple of days. Just further evidence of the kind of rapid spread that we're seeing throughout the county. I'll be focusing right now on preserving our healthcare system through this surge. So the highly transmissible Omicron variant is really assumed to be the dominant strain throughout the county. We don't have whole genome sequencing on every case, but as predominant as Omicron is, it's safe to say this is what's really causing this surge. This is going to continue to be a hard month, perhaps the hardest yet, but it will ensue. The best, the best projections that we have at the moment is that the surge will probably peak around the first week of February, if not a little bit sooner. And then we should see a rapid drop off in cases pretty quickly thereafter. But unfortunately, it means that we're still going to have a lot of cases even on the backside of this wave or the surge, and we'll still see continued pressure on our healthcare system. So we ask that individuals with asymptomatic, you don't have symptoms or you have mild cases of coronavirus or other non-serious illness. We ask that you avoid going to the emergency department and making unnecessary trips there.  We understand that, but we ask that you contact your primary care physician first, unless of course you're having a true medical emergency. Mild cases might include things like minor coughs or throat, runny nose or body aches. But if you do have high fever, if you have any difficulty breathing or significant symptoms, you really should go to the hospital right away, and they are there, they're waiting for you and they're available to take care of you. But again, please don't go to the emergency department just to get tested. We'll have more on testing in just a few minutes. So although cases are at an all-time high, we are seeing that severe illness and deaths are not increasing at the same rate. That's mostly likely due to the large number of people in our county that have received a COVID-19 vaccine series, and very importantly, those that have received boosters seem to do really quite well with this particular variant. So it's clear, even though we're on the one-year anniversary of our peak last year, this is a very different pandemic than what we saw last year. Nevertheless, our healthcare system is still being impacted because they are having staffing shortages due to increased COVID cases. They're staff that are out ill, and we must all continue to do our part to stop this spread until we're beyond this. Our current projections show that we're still a few weeks away from peak in hospitalizations, perhaps a little bit sooner than that, but we're not there yet. So the worst really may still be to come, and we're asking everybody to do their part to minimize this as much as possible. I'll now hand this over to Dr. Nul, who will be talking about masking. Thanks, Dr. Gilarducci, and as you mentioned, as was mentioned earlier, this variant really is behaving quite differently than the others we have seen over the past two years of the COVID pandemic. Because Omicron is so infectious, we're making some different recommendations and specific recommendations than we have in the past. These are all based in science. They're all evidence-based, and I have to start out. Top of the list is vaccination. So if you haven't already, please get your COVID vaccination. If you haven't gotten your booster, getting boosted is especially important during Omicron. We are seeing people getting quite ill that are fully vaccinated but not yet boosted, and our boosting statistics are not where they need to be. So please make sure that you get your booster dose in addition to your initial series. We're also making different recommendations around masking. So in general, cloth masks are no longer preferred. We really want you to seek out medical or surgical masks if you can. And these include N95s, KN95s, another one called KF94s. You can see more information on our website or the California Department of Public Health website. Or use a surgical mask widely available now with cloth on top or a surgical mask that you've altered with a hack. You can find those on YouTube. Or a cloth mask with three or more layers that include a filter. So very specific masking. It's as much about the materials as the fit, however, so make sure there's a snug fit across your nose right here. Cloth masks in particular are only effective if they've got a fit across the nose there. And then on the sides as well, you want to make sure you're not leaking air out this side. So a very important aspect of masking. And then in addition, remember that in general, outdoor activities are safer than indoors. So we want you to continue to gather with family and friends, but we want you to do it as safely as possible. So that means outdoor activities, outdoor celebrations. We fortunately live in a beautiful place that allows us to gather outdoors, including outdoor dining. Many kinds of celebrations and gatherings can happen outdoors. If you do need to gather indoors for any reason, please do your best to optimize ventilation and filtration. So open all the windows and doors, have people wear their jackets and wrap up so that you can have lots of airflow through the room. Think about filters that you can buy to clean the air in your room. And then testing is the last and important part and I'm going to let Dr. Gordon cover that in a moment. But I do want to touch on some updates on vaccination. Again, it's the number one tool to prevent serious illness, hospitalization and death with COVID-19. And everyone needs to keep their vaccinations up to date. If you've been vaccinated more than six months ago with your primary series, you need to get a booster, as I mentioned. Children ages 12 to 15 are now eligible to be boosted as well if it's been five months since completing their initial series. And a third dose is also now available for certain immunocompromised children ages 5 to 11 immediately following their initial series. Those who received a Johnson & Johnson vaccine should be boosted two months after their dose and preferably with either Pfizer or Moderna, although you can still get a Johnson & Johnson booster. Those who received Pfizer or Moderna for their primary series can be boosted as soon as five months with either vaccine. And it's never too late to get vaccinated. Visit SantaCrisHealth.org, coronavirus vaccine to find out where you can get vaccinated or boosted, or my turn on California doctors. And with that, I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Gordon to talk about the ever popular topic of testing. Thank you, Dr. Newell. So with the Omicron surge, we've seen a dramatic increase of testing demand and our county has been working on expanding testing in anticipation for the Omicron. We offer close to twice as much testing as we did a month ago and we're currently seeing about between three and four thousand tests performed each day in our county. Our Opticron, I'm sorry, our OptumServe site at Ramsey Park in Watsonville has added an additional lane, so we've doubled our capacity to about 500 tests per day. And the County of Office of Education has moved their South County testing through Inspire laboratories to the Watsonville fairgrounds. So they've actually increased the capacity there in addition to their cabriol testing site and then the Office of Education headquarters on Ensenal and Santa Cruz. We know that antigen tests are extremely hard to get at the moment. And so if you are experiencing symptoms and are not able to get a test, we strongly recommend that you stay home and assume that you have COVID-19 and that you go ahead and spend the full 10 days for isolation or quarantine during that time. In addition, the Santa Cruz County Public Health has received reports of unverified pop-up test sites that have produced delayed test results. So that we would advise caution that if you see a new pop-up test site in the county that's not listed on our SafeLive Santa Cruz County website that you exercise caution. We do have some previously verified test sites that are not included because they have closed. We understand also that some employers are requiring testing for employees to return, even though the employees have recovered and have followed and followed through with their isolation and quarantine guidelines. So we want to assure employers that it's safe to allow the employees to back to work without a test if they have completed the isolation and quarantine guidelines. And then finally, we have also heard that some employers are asking employees to continue working even if they have mild symptoms. We ask employers not to do this. This will impact our healthcare system. It'll promote potential additional spreading and we want to be able to keep our community safe and safe lives. So with that, I'd like to hand this over to Jen Herrera for some final comments. Thank you, Dr. Gordon. So given the movement of people in the faster spread of COVID-19, it's best to assume that you are interacting with people who are infectious. Or you yourself may be infectious and just may not know it. It's really difficult to contain this surge. And at this point, we're really just riding the wave. People who are doing everything right may become positive. So this is a time to also practice compassion with ourselves and with our community. And although it may seem inevitable that most people are going to become positive, individual behaviors do make a difference with flowing the spread. Things like masking, distancing, isolating if you test positive, and vaccinations being up to date with your vaccinations, which includes boosters. These things make a difference because it helps to flatten the curve. So flowing the spread preserves our healthcare system and that's going to help prevent death. Thank you. We're now going to go ahead and take some questions. If any of the press on the line have questions, go ahead and raise your hand and they're coming up already. I'm going to start with Tony, doing you as Tony. Go ahead and ask your question. Hi, everyone. Can you hear me? Yep. Awesome. Thank you for holding this press conference. Appreciate that. Dr. Newell, you said that the statistics for booster shots is not where they need to be. Do you have data on exactly where they are right now in terms of the people who have been vaccinated going back for their booster shot, and maybe they're coming to that. And if so, can you share that? And then also where do those need to be the percentage of that for us to see the sort of change around here in terms of our, the hospitalizations going down. I understand that they are not rising in the same numbers that are case counts, but for them to stabilize it a bit. Well, we don't have the exact answers to where we need to be. We're still shooting for the rough goal of 80% of us in the entire population being fully vaccinated. According to CDC's definition is still just the primary series, but we're beginning to talk about the term up to date for vaccination and that would include your booster in addition to your primary series and any additional doses if you're Indian compromised. Our population, as is the states is far below that. So our overall we're getting close to that 80% in our primary fully vaccinated or having received at least a first dose. But in the county overall, we're only we're less than half of us have gotten boosted. Now it's better in the older populations, but much lower in folks under 50. So we need to see some big improvement there if we're going to have an impact and studies have shown that Omicron variant in particular, we need that third dose we need that booster in order for the vaccines to be effective. You can find this data, which is updated regularly both on our website and the CDPH website. Tony, I have a specific number for you there's been about 90,000 boosters, plus or minus administered in the county. And as Dr. Noll said that's just under about half of the fully vaccinated population, 12 and older. And only a third of our total population. Yeah. Next question we go to Melissa Hartman Melissa go ahead and ask your question. Thank you and thank you all for hosting this day. I wanted to start by asking whether we have any idea what percentage of her testing operations now our home tests, because we've talked about how the dashboard really affects the populations and deaths are the metrics that are being focused on right now because of this difficult effect of the at home antigen tests and so I was wondering if you guys had heard anything about, you know, approximately, how much of testing is happening at home these days. Dr. Gordon or killer do you want to add to that? I think, first of all, the case rates that are reported on our website are those only for PCR tests. So with the antigen test, we actually underestimate the total amount of infection in our county that's been probably the case for the prior surges, but this is accentuated with the antigen test Melissa as you as you suggest. I, we don't know in part because most of the home tests people are not reporting those people. A lot of the home tests will allow for people to report through an app or other options. But we know that the school system handed out 40,000 antigen tests just these past two weeks. We know that other people are getting the test either online or in the different pharmacies. So at this point, we don't have any solid information and there's been a lot of discussion among the health officers that the case rates aren't going to be accurate from here on out because of the home tests and yet we think this is the appropriate way for the future that home tests are going to be our future and that people will have the ability to test when they are symptomatic or exposed, which is what we want. And they will probably be reaching out to their personal physician, but the county may not be able to have as good tabs on on what the actual incidence of infection is. Yeah, and I'll just briefly add that, although we may not know the amplitude or the height of the case curve. We have a pretty good sense of the trajectory so when we hit the peak, at least based on PCR test results that we get that'll probably be representative of what is happening with the home testing as well. I'd also like to briefly talk about hospital data. The census data is important to us in many ways, especially as we look to preserve our healthcare system capacity, but one half to two thirds of the COVID patients in our hospitals are incidental COVID. They're there for a different reason. So, for example, I know as an obstetrician and my wife is an obstetrician that there are many labor patients who come in and of course they must be admitted and treated. And they have COVID so they're counted among their the COVID patients, but they're not there. They may not even know they have COVID at the time they present. They may be completely asymptomatic, but they do require more care, more PPE, more special staffing, more resources in the hospital overall. So it's worthwhile to track those numbers, but it's also not necessarily indicative of the effects of COVID itself on our hospital systems. And our ICU numbers remain very low, I believe. Yes, this variant thank goodness is sparing many from the ventilator and ICU beds. Wallace Bain why don't you go ahead and ask your question. Yes, thank you, Jason. You may have just answered this question but I'm curious if there have been any reports of any non COVID related procedures or surgeries or anything medically oriented that have been delayed or rescheduled because of Omicron to this date. I think I can take that one. Yeah, Wallace. Yeah, we're hearing that on occasion, the hospitals are finding it necessary to delay elective surgeries. And just briefly what are elective surgeries these are usually ones that don't have to happen right away. But it's important to note that they're also, you know, important surgeries that people need. For example, orthopedic procedures a knee replacement or something like that. You know person is in pain. That's the reason they've been prescribed a, you know, a knee procedure. And, and for them to have to delay is really disruptive for them. You know, they plan on the surgery they maybe have family that's set up to help them with it and then suddenly gets delayed can be really disruptive but my understanding is that the hospitals are taking it on a case by case basis. They prioritize they look at their staffing. One big difference from this year than last year where last year we had to ask hospitals in fact require hospitals to hold all elective cases until the surge was over. Now that was mostly because these cases drew from staff that were urgently needed in the ICU as well as equipment that was urgently needed for ICU patients. We're not seeing that same pressure on the ICU this time so there's a little more flexibility we haven't felt that a prohibition on elective procedures was necessary. So to answer your question briefly it's largely based on a case by case basis and has to do with their staffing levels that day. They also opt to delay elective care and elective procedures because of the COVID surge. But we don't want anyone to delay important critical care for chronic diseases, cancer care, other kinds of treatment because they're afraid of COVID in the hospitals or health care systems so please talk with your own personal health care providers before you make those decisions. Okay, next we're going to go to Edgar Alvarez, Edgar go ahead. Do you hear me? Hello? There you go. I can't hear you. Thank you. Okay, well, more than a question I would like to have comments from the officials about the staffing you know we're hearing all of the state you know people like nurses protesting and everything going on because of the staffing National Guard now helping testing sites. What's going on like the, what do you think is going to happen during the next weeks in the staffing situation do you think hospitals and health systems are going to need like emergency staffing from somewhere or you think you're they're going to make it. Perhaps I'll start and my colleagues I'm sure we'll have something to add but you know as we've said before, our health care system has been under strain for two years now you know the health care systems, typically in every county are sort of right sized for kind of normal operations there's not a lot of excess or fat, if you will, and, and this has been a tremendous strain on health care providers we're hearing reports that, you know, we've lost nurses and doctors to early retirement they've gone on to other professions because it's just too much for them. You got to remember to this Omicron is coming just on the tail end of Delta surge that was pretty tough on people as well. And so, on top of that of course, people that work in the hospitals and health care sector themselves are coming down with with illness and then therefore have to stay away from work so lots of pressure there. As you say the National Guard has come in to help with some of the testing, we're seeing some more support from the state, and in terms of staffing support we're looking at, you know, possibly posting paramedics and EMTs and the emergency department bringing some other non medical volunteers to kind of stretch this out. But I think the important thing going forward is that we have to recognize that we're going to need to rebuild our health care system we're going to need to rejuvenate the brave women and men that work in the health care system to keep it going forward in the future to come. If I could just comment briefly about the National Guard and the testing sites. So we have three state testing sites one is up in Felton. One is at the Depot freight building on Center Street and Santa Cruz. The third one is in Watsonville on Main Street at Bramsey Park Community Center. And we actually have now National Guard at all three sites, and they have actually integrated in a very effective fashion, we went and expanded our capacity at the number of the sites. And we were having tremendous problems actually finding staff to be able to perform the tests and so we are having a lot of fatigue and difficulty with with our staff and turnover. And so, having the National Guard has been a really important boost. And from every indication our community members have are very receptive. It's been very seamless and so we appreciate the additional manpower that and women power that has been brought brought to those sites. Thank you we're going to Tony Melissa we're going to go right back to you but first I want to go to Adriana she's had her hand. Adriana, go ahead and ask your question. Good afternoon, can you hear me okay. Yes. Thank you for having this session is very important for our community my question is, have there been any reports of an outbreak at Santa Cruz County Court, knowing that other counties have reported similar outbreaks at county courts, thank you. Do you know anything. We have many outbreaks throughout the county. And we're working hard with employers and entities, but we're focusing on high risk congregate living settings for the most part so our skilled nursing facilities are shelters, the jails juvenile hall, and the schools of course. I have not heard about an outbreak and our court system but honestly I would not be surprised we have a lengthy list of outbreaks with them we're working. So if I could add, I attend. We have a communicable disease unit that meets on a daily basis to go over the cases and I attended a number of those sessions. I have not heard of any outbreaks at the at the court, not that it couldn't happen but but start on my radar either. Thank you. Thank you and then let me just hit the chat and some texts that I'm getting the Stephen Baxter would has asked if we could say a little bit more about why and 95 and surgical masks are preferred now. I think the more prone variant behaves differently than the previous variants of this COVID virus. It seems to be more airborne than the previous variants and so there's when you sneeze or cough or cough loudly or laugh, or even just breathe. There are still respiratory droplets that's how COVID is spread, and they're in different sizes, and this variant tends to live more in the droplets that float in the air for longer and less likely to fall down onto surfaces so we're less focused with this variant on surfaces, although it's still a good idea to wash your feet right down surfaces, especially during flu season. But this variant seems to stay floating in the air longer, even between people in rooms and in that aren't in the same room at the same time but it seems to be able to float for some period of time in the air. So it requires a different kind of fit and filtration in our masking and maybe one of the deputies wants to add something to that. You said it but I think it's what's really interesting is the biology of this variant and how it does seem to kind of favor the upper airway the nose throat the upper parts of your respiratory tract. So this variant seemed to be preferable for kind of deeper down, like into your lungs that is probably one of the explanations why the severity of illness seems to be a little bit less with Omicron. But it also explains why it is sort of, I guess the best way to say it's sort of stickier if you will. You know, where, if there were one or two kind of Delta particles floating out there they may not cause an infection but with Omicron it's more likely so the better the mask the better the protection. I think a recent study that's been on the news that is if you have two people in a room together with with cloth mask. It takes about 37 minutes to potentially infect another individual. The surgical mask if it could be up to an hour. But if you're worried in 95. It can be up to 25 hours to infect the other individuals so there is a significant difference. These, there's a better filtration process that keeps the virus out. And there are some sort of anti viral kind of components to some of these masks so they just are much, much more effective. And then before we go back to Tony I have another question on text and that is do we have any data on the number of people hospitalized who are vaccinated versus unvaccinated and I think this might get to a point we're making earlier about people who are admitted to the hospital with COVID versus people who are admitted for COVID. Somebody want to grab that. The most helpful data in this regard, locally, the numbers are too small to make any meaningful comparison, but the state on the California Department of Public Health website does a comparison that they update daily or almost daily of vaccinated versus unvaccinated rates of infection hospitalization and death. And it's been consistently around 15 times more likely to be hospitalized if you're unvaccinated, and up to 25 times as likely to die if you're unvaccinated. And Dr. Gillard did she just posted a link in the chat if anyone is interested now let's go back to Tony unions Tony go ahead. Thank you. I'm looking at the hospitalization data at the state website for Santa Cruz County and it looks like there has been a rise in hospitalizations over the last week or so I'm sure, if not further back to 34 people being in local hospitals with COVID, but there's only three people that I see use. I'm wondering, when you look at those two data points, how you interpret that and if that changes the way that you look at the infections here in Santa Cruz County, and then also just to throw this on here. Do you expect any other business or gathering restrictions in the same way that we saw in 2020 or 2021 to return anytime soon. Thank you. I'm going to answer the second question first because it's really easy and the answer is no. The business restrictions. You can take number one. Okay, I'll take number one. Wish my word quite as easy but yeah yeah you're right you're seeing hospitalizations go up and you got to remember of course that's a lagging indicator from cases so it takes you know a little time for people to end up in the hospital. We know a mix of those are incidental COVID. But still, we're seeing this decoupling between cases and hospitalizations. The decoupling is probably the most evident when it comes to ICU, whereas last year we were talking about crisis standards of care which is, you've heard some states have to do this with Delta recently. But this is where physicians have to get together and decide okay this person's going to get a ventilator, and this person's not. And so fortunately what's very different so far with Omicron is we haven't been forced to make those kinds of decisions or even contemplate it. And so the ICU capacity still seems to be pretty good. We hope that it will continue to be so. And, but there's still a lot of pressure on hospitalizations itself. Even though fewer people get hospitalized from Omicron, the sheer numbers of Omicron cases, again underrepresented because of home testing as we talked about before, the sheer number is going to continue to put a lot of pressure on hospital capacity. Thank you. I'd like to go back to question to and make one caveat and a reminder again that outdoor activities are more dangerous than indoor activities and gatherings, or safer sorry the outdoors are safer than the indoors sorry. I do want to specifically state that throughout the state we're seeing rising numbers of cases among indoor sports athletes and spectators and indoor basketball in particular is a place that we're seeing many, many cases arise. My face covering order, my masking order here locally in Santa Cruz does indicate that everyone spectators, referees, everyone involved in indoor sports must be masked unless the referee or coach would determine that that would be dangerous for a player. Everyone else must remain masked so just a good reminder about that one specific activity. Thank you. Melissa Hartman why don't you go ahead and ask your question. Thank you. So we had talked about staffing in our healthcare system but I was wondering about schools and whether or not any of you had heard about having you know any staffing situations where I know that districts and other places are begging even parents to become subs. And not the people that aren't usually instructing to become subs and so I was wondering if it had gotten that dire here to the point where we could see a translation to or transition I'm sorry to remote learning as has happened in some other places. I can feel that both Dr. Newell and I participate on a school hub that works with the county office of education and in the schools. I was actually on a call with the power of valley. It's a unified school district superintendent and our county office of education superintendent and in general, we're doing well. We're very fortunate that we have a robust testing capability so that the staff can be tested and they have been able to do actually do antigen testing so that they can be tested quickly to see whether they need to isolate or quarantine. And, and they're potentially return more quickly to so there is. We have that luxury and at this point. It's not to say that this is couldn't happen, but we've been fortunate to date, we've only come back from, you know, into school, two weeks or for power valley unified school district just one week so we were just sort of early in this and things can change. Definitely there are teachers that are calling in because they're symptomatic or have symptoms or have tested positive. So we're watching this very carefully and we're doing our very best to be able to keep that people and school and I think that is the intent for our schools in our county. And I can offer more of a personal perspective, because my wife teaches middle school in the county and she's pointed out that there have been shortage of substitute teachers for quite a while but it's really gotten worse with with this pandemic, you know, the other students are, they tend to be retired people who, you know, are are resistant or maybe reluctant to come into work because you know they're at higher risk they're older folks. And so there's a real shortage of subs and so in her particular school, I think they can tolerate a total of five teachers calling in sick, and then they're going to be having trouble keeping a classroom open. That's the number three mark a couple of times and they're sort of writing on the edge right now. Thank you. Our next question comes from Wallace Bay and Wallace go ahead. Thank you. In terms of the masking guidelines. I'm wondering, does the county have any guidelines to help people find these in 95 masks whether it's online or local retailers. I recommend the KF 94 which is cropping up in a lot of places as a suitable substitute for the in 95. Are there any programs maybe to help low income people get their hands on these masks and do you have any reports on shortages or or delays in in getting them. Somebody want to grab that one. Yeah, I'll, I'll try yeah I, there are n 95s, can 95s and KF 94s. And those of course become more in demand these are basically higher quality masks that the key component is not only the filtering material but really they kind of seal around the face that you know prevents some of the gaps. They might have a great layer or layers of material over your mouth but if you have leaks around the edges the air is just going to follow the path of least resistance and not do you any good. So any of these masks do provide more protection because they, they fit more tightly around your mouth and nose. To reply. It's not as critical as it was early on in the early parts of 2000 when we were just completely out and preserve them for the health care system. I was, I'm able to buy some 1095s on on Amazon, although I have noted the price is almost doubled in the past couple of months. Right now our stockpile here in the county is reserved for the health care system. We don't have a lot of extra, but you know I think we'll probably have some conversations back amongst ourselves about how we any ways that we can support the community. If I could add the status applying to school systems in 95s, both for staff as well as students. The schools have received their shipments unfortunately, they're all adult size, so they fit the staff and they fit the people in high school and so we're there, we're working on or the school systems are working on getting smaller size in 95s for for the younger students at this time. I think I'll just add as well, you know that this is a need that has been bubbling up to us of where to find these higher grade math as Dr. Gordon mentioned, the state is starting to supply mass to certain industries to help fight those inequities. So locally, we are keeping eye out for resources, we're working really closely with our emergency operations center to find resources and support the community. So again, echoing what Dr. Gilles Ducci mentioned from a public health standpoint we are reserving our stock for the health care system at this time. Thank you, Melissa Hartman go ahead and ask your question. Thank you. And this one's for Dr. Gillard Ducci because you and I had talked about how the county was applying for a grant to try to support resumed wastewater testing. I know that's something that epidemiologists are starting to focus on since the dashboards are kind of skewed at this point. And I wanted to know if you or anyone from the county team had heard anything on this effort in trying to secure the grant, whether we could make this happen again. Yeah, thanks Melissa I know that's an area I've been interested in for a while and I think Jen can give us an update on that as well. But I will point out that we are making progress. And I'll point out some really interesting data coming out of Santa Clara County that I just saw in the news, showing that they're saying showing a rapid drop off in their, in their wastewater viral load. So, you know how we talked about hospitalizations being kind of a lagging indicator. The wastewater surveillance is kind of a leading indicator of what's going on they sort of happened before the cases, the case counts themselves. So, especially as we go to home testing it's going to become probably a more important modality, but I'll let Jen finish. Thanks, Dr go DG. But we did get a machine to be able to conduct wastewater surveillance testing through our water quality lab. As part of our environmental health division. So we just received notice about this machine and we look forward to working closely with environmental health to, you know, see what a surveillance system could look like for a county. Thank you. Are there any more questions. From our, our media guests. I see Melissa go ahead. Thank you. I was going to ask we it was kind of touched upon about this message about how everyone is subject to catch COVID at some point and I know that I think it was Dr Fauci that had said something yesterday or the day before about you know just statistically it's likely that we could get it but that is such a difficult message for these communities that have been in the pandemic for two years now. And I wanted to see, or here I guess your guys is take on this message like do we just accept that this virus is all around us it's going to enter our homes is there something other than I guess keeping up good practices would help but you know what do we do with this thing so prevalent. That's such an important point and now we don't want chicken pox parties. We don't want it may be inevitable that we will all get this sometime but we don't all have to get it right now. If we all got it right now the health care systems would be so overwhelmed that many lives would be lost and many lives would be saved and so we do need to keep up with those individual behaviors that will flatten the curve slow the spread the same messages we've been talking about for two years or now more important than ever. So if we can spread out when we get this disease and, and hopefully until we have more therapeutics these wonderful antivirals that have been approved. We want them to be much more abundant before people get this and think of it as inevitable. If I could add my feelings are that at some point we're going to move from pandemic to endemic where this will be just part of the cycle probably more of winter type of disease. As Dr. Newell said, we don't have those a robust supply of some of these antivirals. Some of these like Pax Lovett allow us to have 88% protection for getting hospitalized that type of thing. So I think with the vaccination the booster in that sets up a certain level of protection in with these antivirals in the in the wing. We will be moving at some point from a pandemic to an endemic situation where COVID will be there but it's not going to have the same level of threat to to people as it has currently. I'd like to make one more important point and that is that there have been rumors that Watsonville Community Hospital has closed or is closing and those are not true. So when we refer to the hospitals and the emergency rooms we're referring both to Dominican and Watsonville. Watsonville Community Hospital has their doors open. They are ready to provide excellent quality care. They're fully staffed in their emergency department and their ICU and labor and delivery and they are ready and waiting for the community's business. So, please remember, don't go to the hospital at all if you don't need to, but if you do need hospital attention, we have two excellent acute care hospitals. Thank you very much and thank you everyone for joining us today. Stay safe out there.


Tom here from Orange Systems and we're going to talk about performance, specifically TrueNAS Core versus TrueNAS Scale. I will leave a link to the video I did where I did the in-place upgrade on my TrueNAS Mini device and upgraded it from Core to Scale. Now prior to that upgrade, and not mentioned really in the video, was I did a series of benchmarks. Then I did the in-place upgrade. Then I ran the same series of benchmarks again with the same virtual machine. I did this using XCPNG and I wanted to use it as a storage target for my virtual machines. I did this both on NFS and iSCSI. And one good thing I can say for sure is when you do the in-place upgrade, all the settings transferred perfectly fine. So all I had to do was power down XCPNG or tell it not to connect really to that particular storage, did the in-place upgrade, told to reconnect to the storage. It doesn't know that the underlying operating system was switched from TrueNAS Core to TrueNAS Scale. So the upgrade and everything went really smooth, but the testing was a little bit less than smooth. And what I mean by that is the results, which we're going to be diving into here shortly. But before we do that, if you'd like to learn more about me and my company, head over to LawrenceSystems.com, if you'd like to hire for a project, which includes storage consulting, there's a hires button right at the top. If you want to support this channel in other ways, there's affiliate links down below to get you deals and discounts on products and services we talk about on this channel. All right, now let's talk about the results. But first, I do want to mention a couple of things I did learn. One, you can easily roll back, which so when I show the system, I actually roll back to TrueNAS Core. That had no problems at all working. So if those of you that did do the testing are going, now do I have to roll back to get that performance back? You can if you want, because we're completely aware that this is a beta product and beta products get better because we test them. But I will admit it was nice going into the boot menu and I'll show you how you do that and roll back. And that's done here right in the dashboard. We're going to go to system, we're going to boot. And this is where you can switch between different versions. Well, kind of. This is the problem I ran into. So these are where I installed it because I actually did this twice to make sure nothing went wrong and did the whole upgrade path and ran all the tests twice. I wanted to see if the problem was something I had done, but the results were the same both times. We'll get to them shortly or use the time index to jump to them. But this right here is currently set to boot to TrueNAS U 5.1. So that's what it's on now. And what it was on and it's a very, very similar. And let me show you in TrueNAS scale, it's under system settings, then boot. And you can just choose which one you want to be active. So if we were to activate this one, it would activate the initial install. And this one's on here. This was a fresh install, not an in place upgrade. I'm not sure if I'm going to try actually just reloading it again and doing it as a fresh install, but I didn't see any reason to do so to see if that would cause any of the performance problems. But back over to here on the TrueNAS core system, once you roll it back, it doesn't want to roll forward. Matter of fact, you're going to get this error. So if we try this right here, and we go to activate it, we'll actually try and activate the other one. It will give me TrueNAS scale cannot be activated. TrueNAS tells me to run the update process again. So it gives you what you need to do and pretty easy to do. You can just go in and literally run that process again, which is pretty straightforward and it'll migrate all the settings. So one other thing I wanted to point out in here was I was debating if it was a network issue. And one thing I tried, but it didn't really seem to make that much of a difference at all was going into the networking and on my TrueNAS core system, and it imported these perfectly fine was the extra VLAN on there. I thought maybe there's a problem with the way the VLAN set up. So I deleted the VLAN, but we're talking like maybe a 2% difference, but I'm not really sure that was consistently repeatable. And I'll show you what I mean by that when we get to the results. And here are those results. Now one thing I mentioned was I didn't think there was a big difference between when I had deleted the VLAN or not. The difference is hard to figure out because of the results confidence. There was actually a little bit less result confidence when you looked at it in TrueNAS scale. Result confidence refers to the way Veronica runs the test. And if it finds numbers that seem like anomaly, so it runs the test a series of times. And if the numbers are too far out, it runs them a few more times. And if they still have too many numbers outside of there, they give you this little variance, which is referred to as the result confidence. Sometimes the result confidence on scale was a little bit wider than it was on core, not substantially, but nonetheless hard for me to make any determination of whether or not this was a complete, you know, change just by moving a VLAN over deleting it. That's it, I don't know. I couldn't really say if it was a networking problem or not, but it was consistent. Now I did do regular testing just to make sure that this has a 10 gig network card in it. It's got the Intel onboard card. And it gets 10 gig consistently across the network. So that part didn't seem to be a problem when I did transfers using things like IPERF. But when I'm actually doing the data, and here's another example of that, sometimes the result confidence on scale was a lot wider. Now I have a feeling a lot of this has to do with performance tuning. And it's going to be one of those things that as the system matures from beta to release candidate, this is where they focus once you're developing a product, you'll find there's a move that the developers do to first, we got to get all the features in here and get all the programming done, then they start moving to all right, we've made it feature complete, we've made it interface stable, like this is the way it's going to look. Now we can focus on tuning in and narrowing things down. I believe that's probably the part of the phase that they're at right now. And well, testing like this kind of shows me that there's a little bit ways to go, because on the same exact hardware, I should get similar results. And these aren't quite similar, these are pretty bit out there. But then again, this is all porting everything over into the Linux world, as opposed to the long tried and true tested free BSD, true NAS core world, which has been around for a long time and has had years and years of tuning and related tuning to all the things that are working properly in free BSD on there. There's a lot to be said for that longevity that you have once you become very familiar with the product, you know exactly what parameters to line up where to get the best performance out of there. This is many iterations when you talk about being on 12 U five dot one, that's quite a few iterations in a lot of hours of teamwork over at a high systems building it to be the performance system that it is and doing it at scale. So now that they're moving to scale, it's going to take some time for them to get that same tuning lined up and things like that. Well, time, but they still have all the experience from there. They just got to figure out what things need to be tuned to get it there. So this is not necessarily a dig at scale. This is something I want to make people aware of that are interested in switching to scale. So I still encourage the testing. I'm still excited and learning all the different functions they have related to how they handle containerization in scale, which is based on Docker, but I've not used it enough to become proficient at it. And I do know there's some quirkiness going on with the permissions. People ask me to do a video and I won't be doing any scale videos on that probably at least until it hits release candidate because then hopefully they've sorted out some of the well quirkiness that you kind of deal with. And for now, my specifically my trueness mini system I'm going to put back on core, but I have other systems here that we're going to continue testing with scale. And yes, I will eventually get around to once again, as it becomes more complete doing the clustering thing, which is a big thing. So the naming of scale is also because it plans to scale out. And one of the underlying technologies are going to be doing for that is going to be using Gluster. So yeah, look up Gluster if you want to know exactly how that works. It's going to be a while before I get to videos on that that maybe until it becomes fully released, because well, that's a pretty new feature. And it's going to have a lot of release cycles to go through it to become a mature product and something that you actually want to build out there. But nonetheless, there's lots of testing to be done. There's lots of fun to be had. And if you're an enthusiast like me, this is pretty exciting. And hey, it's just kind of a fun is more fun than video games in my opinion. This is why I spent so much time doing it. But I'll leave three links to the results file leave links to the forum post I did over at IX systems just bringing this topic up. No one replied to it as of the making of this video, but hey, I like to leave links all this so all you can do some further reading on it. All right, thanks. And thank you for making it to the end of this video. If you enjoyed this content, please give it a thumbs up. If you'd like to see more content from this channel, hit the subscribe button and the bell icon. To hire a sure project, head over to LawrenceSystems.com and click on the hires button right at the top. To help this channel out in other ways, there's a join button here for YouTube and a Patreon page where your support is greatly appreciated. For deals, discounts and offers, check out our affiliate links and descriptions of all of our videos, including a link to our shirt store where we have a wide variety of shirts and new designs come out well randomly. So check back frequently. 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It's helpful to keep in mind that the derivative is the slope of the tangent line. So, for example, we might have the graphs of y equals f of x and y equals g of x, and attempt to find the limit as x approaches 3 of the quotient. So, let's check our admission papers. The limit as x goes to 3 of f of x, we see that as x goes to 3, we see that the y values on y equals f of x go to 0, and so that means the limit will be 0, and as x goes to 3, the y values on y equals g of x also go to 0, and so the limit as x approaches 3 of g of x will be 0, and so L'Hopital's is relevant. And so the limit of the quotient of the functions is the limit of the quotient of the derivatives provided that everything exists. Now, remember the derivative is the slope of the line tangent to the graph, and so we take a look at our tangent lines. And so from the line tangent to the graph of y equals f of x at x equals 3, in other words, f' of 3, we see the slope is equal to 2, so f' of 3 is equal to 2. Similarly, we see that the graph of y equals g of x has a tangent line at x equals 3, and the slope of that tangent line is negative 1, and so g' of 3 is negative 1. And so our limit of the numerator is 2, our limit of the denominator is negative 1, and so the limit of the quotient is negative 2. And we can compose our functions. So let's say we have the graph of y equals f of x, and let's find the limit as x goes to 0 of this horrible mess. Now, since this is a graph of y equals f of x, we can read some information off the graph directly. So we're interested in what happens at x equals 0, and so we find f of 0 and f' of 0, negative 1 and 0. And this allows us to find the limit of the numerator and the limit of the denominator. And since both limits are 0, we can gain admission to the L'Hospital. So the limit of the quotient of the functions is equal to the limit of the quotient of the derivatives provided that everything exists, and so we'll find our derivatives of numerator and denominator, and we've already determined the value of f of 0 and f' of 0, so we'll substitute those in. Our numerator goes to 1, our denominator also goes to 1, and so the limit of the quotient is equal to 1 over 1 or 1. In some applications, we might only care about the sign of the limit, and so we see that as x approaches negative 2, f of x and g of x both go to 0, so we visit the L'Hospital, and the limit of the quotient of the functions is the limit of the quotient of the derivatives provided they all exist, and we see that the limit as x approaches negative 2 of f' of x and g, and that means we actually needed an extended L'Hospital stay. So let's differentiate again. Now we need to know something about the second derivative. So remember the second derivative algebraically corresponds to the geometric feature of the concavity of the graph. Now since y equals f of x is concave up, then our second derivative is going to be positive at x equals negative 2, and since the graph of y equals g of x is concave down, our second derivative will be negative at x equals negative 2, and so this quotient of the second derivatives will also be negative.