Coincidentally, when we went to Disneyland, I tied a Tile brand tracker into my daughter's outfit.
I do think it's possible and perhaps likely even for Apple's warning to falsely trip at a place like Disneyland. 50,000 people a day go there. If only 1 in 50 people have an AirTag, that's 1000 people, all walking around. The BLE broadcast packets can go 200 meters or so. It seems very likely that you'll happen to end up within 200m of at least 1 unique person with an AirTag, for most of the day.
Tracking beacons periodically transmit Bluetooth Low Energy broadcast packets with a unique serial number in them. All nearby phones receive those broadcast packets. The software on the phone reports back to Apple the serial numbers it's seen, and the GPS location. Apple can then tell the owner of the beacon where it is, as long as it's within range of any compatible phone. That's fundamentally how they work.
Apple's software has an algorithm in it that detects when the same serial number has been within reception range for an extended period of time across many different locations, and the serial number isn't registered to the owner of the phone. It pops up an alert warning you.
It's possible that vaccinated folk did indeed acquire some limited immunity for a period of time, and fewer people caught COVID than otherwise. The effectiveness of that limited artificial immunity is now falling off in time, and those people are catching COVID anyway, just later than they otherwise would have. Unvaccinated folk just got sick earlier and built up more robust immunity to the actual virus, rather than immunity to spike proteins shotgun blasted into their own cells.
Suing is just going to make lawyers rich. A million dollars isn't very much money for a business.
The bay area isn't completely lost. 90% of people are just walking on eggshells to avoid getting yelled at. At least 50% of people are aware of the absurdity of it all at this point, and are keeping their mouth shut hoping it's almost over. Lately a lot of people are identifying as "libertarian," presumably because they're starting to realize that their team f'ed up.
If the upper management isn't completely unhinged, then they're probably just afraid of aggravating the loud minority of extreme COVID fanatics that have been yelling at them for the past two years. While you're silently stewing and approaching your boiling point, they've probably been yelled at numerous times by people that think the dirty antivaxxers should be put into concentration camps. They're probably just thinking, "oh great, if we put stickers on folks badges then 90% of employees can move on with life without me getting yelled at." You aren't even on their radar.
If you haven't ever had a direct conversation, go talk to the CEO or head of HR and tell them you are miserable and tired of feeling discriminated against, and that you're approaching your limit. Be polite and try not to yell. If they are receptive, then give them a few days to try and fix it. If you know other people with similar gripes, encourage them to reach out at the same time. If you suspect such people exist but you don't know them, email the head of the COVID policy with a sob story about how depressed and isolated you feel because of how dangerous COVID is and you're so bummed you can't vaccinate, and that you would appreciate them forwarding your contact info along to other "at risk" people so that you can support each other.
That's the thing, though. Your response didn't explain anything. All you did was paste some seemingly incoherent ramblings. I indeed attempted to search for more information, found the bulk of your message on a sketchy website with a broken SSL certificate, read the whole page, and concluded that it's probably all nonsense. I thought it was especially strange that the website talked about its claims being fully sourced at the top, but didn't list any sources.
I would really appreciate hearing your explanation in your own words. Maybe then it would actually make sense? Or if you just want to believe I'm a hater that's too lazy to understand the genius of whatever it is you figured out, that's fine too. Either way, I wish you the best!
That all sounds like nonsense though? It looks like you just copy/pasted most of that from a sketchy website. If bankers are moving around vast amounts of gold in secret using my birth certificate as legal tender, good for them I guess. To me, that sounds like something you would tell a desperate sucker in order to scam them out of their savings. "Ah ha, you figured out the right obscure government form to fill out in triplicate, here's your millions of dollars of secret birthright gold! Please don't tell anyone though, thanks!"
Coincidentally, my lowest measured rate was 21bpm too. That's pretty impressive he could still exercise! That makes me think he could have been living with the total block for many months. I could walk normally, but the week before I got treated I would have blacked out just by jogging more than 30 seconds, and my kidneys were underperforming from the lack of normal flow. My decline was gradual over about 3 months, and I had a similar feeling of unexplained fatigue.
That's an interesting take on the leadless pacemaker. For lack of the atrial lead, it's just going to beat the ventricles unsynchronized. In terms of blood flow it seems like it should be perfectly fine since your husband is a beast. I would wonder about the long term effects on the heart muscles, though. Presumably, his atriums are beating at 2 or 3x the rate of his ventricles at the moment. With the leadless pacemaker, it seems like that wouldn't change much. With the chambers all poorly unsynchronized, the heart works less efficiently as a pump and so has to work harder than otherwise, and as a result can (only potentially) lead to enlargement over time to compensate.
Both with a leadless pacemaker, and a standard two lead one, only the right (for a typical setup) ventricle is getting "captured". The left ventricle beats maybe 100ms later once the bioelectrical signal propagates through the muscle tissue. That bias leads to your ventricles doing an unbalanced amount of work, and can lead to just one chamber enlarging over time. This is stuff that most patients don't need to even know about because someone in their 70s has no practical risk of being impacted by it. Someone that plans on living for a really long time yet, though, should make sure their cardiologist is checking for that sort of thing with an echocardiogram every once in a while. Once again, the good news is that they can always install a fancier pacemaker.
Not trying to imply your husband's cardiologist doesn't know what they're doing or the leadless pacemaker isn't the best solution, I'm just sharing what I learned along the way that I thought was interesting or relevant.
The good news, by the way, is that even if those nerves are shot forever, modern pacemakers are really good at replacing them. It's almost flawless. It took my cardiologist a couple weeks to dial mine in because it was a little wonky at first, but it wasn't a big deal; there's dozens of parameters that can be fine tuned. (and it helped that I am an engineer and built my own ECG, because the first week my heart beat was instantaneously alternating between 50 and 100bpm. Sending the dr. a trace of that got me an appointment with him 8AM the next morning!)
Really the only observable downside is that, unlike your nerves, the pacemaker has a programmed upper pulse rate limit. The factory default is something like 155bpm, which works fine for elderly people, but for younger fit people that's pretty low. The cardiologist can crank it up to maybe 190bpm, but they won't want to because it's close to the limit of what the pacemaker can actually do to reliably sequence the heart muscles correctly. This is actually a big deal for usability because, in the case of a straight forward AV block, the sinus node is still working properly and generating your natural atrial pulse rate. The pacemaker is just doing its best to detect the atrial beats and propagating the signal down to the ventricles in place of the damaged nerves. If your natural pulse rate goes up above that programmed limit, the pacemaker can't do anything to slow down the sinus node, and so instead it simply has to start skipping every other ventricle beat. When working out, this means that you could be right below the limit and your heart is beating fine, and then a moment later your heart rate increases slightly above the limit and your ventricles suddenly start beating at half the rate. Doing cardio for 15 minutes and then having your effective heart rate instantaneously drop from 155bpm to 78bpm does not feel pleasant; I'm pretty sure that's the "sudden feeling of impending doom" symptom that gets rattled off in prescription drug commercials. It happened to me several times while exercising and I had to immediately sit or lay down for several minutes and let my body work it out.
After a few months I was able to convince my cardiologist to crank up my limit to 180bpm, but then a week later my nerves luckily started working enough on their own again that it didn't really matter, since a standard pacemaker can't (and shouldn't) prevent the nerves from working naturally. That lead to another interesting quirk, where now any time my heart rate briefly shoots up above 190bpm or do, I get a call from my dr's office a week later (and my insurance probably billed $500) because the pacemaker logged it as a potential tachycardia event and reported it through its automatic telemetry system. I've had three awkward phone calls now where a nurse asked me if I remembered whether I was exercising last week at 11pm or whatever, and I said something like, "well no, that wouldn't make sense because my wife and I were on vacation... Oh, yeah it's probably just a false positive, let's not worry about it."
Don't PCH tests read positive for months after an infection?