let's go next to steph from wisconsin steph you were on the air hey david uh thanks for calling on me my pleasure i have a question um what are your thoughts on the new travel restrictions in terms of people now needing a test NUMBER_TOKEN hours in advance well as before i believe it was NUMBER_TOKEN hours yeah i just i heard about this because a friend of mine sent me a message while we were filming the show about it um he travels regularly and and you know i i do too and i've had uh i guess it's three trips since the start of the pandemic for which i've needed return tests to come back to the united states i think it's very very problematic from a logistical standpoint now i don't know whether it will prevent disease from spreading it may or it may not i really don't know from a logistical standpoint it's actually very difficult right now to get well first of all if you're looking at a pcr test which is the most accurate i don't know of any place where you can get it guaranteed within NUMBER_TOKEN hours maybe there's some places but especially in other parts of the world it's very very tough which means that you're going to be overwhelmingly relying on antigen tests now the anti-antigen test i don't know if you heard my story from when i was in spain in august but on the way back my girlfriend had two false positive antigen tests we ultimately went and got a pcr but you know it took six hours to find it and then another NUMBER_TOKEN to get the result if we had been with within NUMBER_TOKEN hours of the flight we would have simply been stuck in spain because of the less reliable antigen tests so i i just logistically i don't know how this is going to be managed and when i read that i was thinking it looks like i'm traveling domestically for the foreseeable future okay yep that that was exactly what i was wondering in terms of the rapid tests over the more reliable ones so that answered it exactly thank you yeah and you know in some airports like i remember when i was flying through frankfurt you could get antigen tests and there would be different prices for different time uh like time windows but it was all the same test so if it's like if you had NUMBER_TOKEN hours then it was like NUMBER_TOKEN bucks and if you needed it within six hours for a flight it was NUMBER_TOKEN and if you needed it within one hour you could pay like NUMBER_TOKEN dollars but it was all the same test and of course the risk would be if you get a false positive you're kind of screwed either way you know yeah yeah exactly all right steph thank you for the call very good question all right there goes stuff very good one of our sponsors is called privacy privacy is a totally free service that i've been using for years privacy lets me create virtual payment cards with one click and when i use the virtual card the money is taken out of my bank account you can create multiple cards delete them freeze them set a spending limit on them let's say i'm signing up for a free trial and it requires a credit card privacy will autofill a virtual card number and then after signing up i can delete that virtual card so i know i'm
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