History teachers don’t always want to pass along to children they teach all the dark, evil, or sadistically cruel things humans have done to each other over the centuries. They pass the buck to college professors they hope will be braver, if the students ever take another history class. And…

The COVID-19 pandemic has radically changed all of our lives, but it may be harder to see until we compare our lives from March 2020 to September 2021: Romance In March 2020, I was still dating a 30-year-old bon vivant from Colombia I met at my favorite piano bar in the…

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) list a certain number of symptoms of COVID-19, but few people are aware of the ones that are less often reported, so they remain less reported. Their connection to COVID-19 is not widely known. Coronavirus needs a foothold The receptors that coronavirus latches onto are found throughout the…

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have recommended that in addition to keeping social distance, we should wear something to cover our nose and mouth. A lot of people misunderstand why that helps. Unless you are using an N95 medical mask, your surgical mask, bandana, or other cloth mask is…

There is a lot of misinformation going around, and I don’t want to contribute to that, so know that I have years of grounding in epidemiology and immunology through reading, editing, and writing medical research results for an advertising agency. …

Group psychology suggests that compromise always produces a path of least resistance and that compromise is the only way to cause a stable end to conflict. That means we will most often end up with Presidential candidates who engender the perceived fewest conflicts with the majority. …

“I regret to tell you that I will no longer pursue the Democratic nomination to become President of the United States. …

People have varying degrees of trust in polls. Some throw up their hands with their predictive accuracy. Not predictive But polls are not predictive. They are a snapshot of a few days in a particular week, in a particular month, in a particular year. Pollster effect They are shaped by…

Trump’s supporters look at Trump’s actions and listen to his words, and to them, it seems like he’s essentially a martyr being persecuted by a political party that wants to take away his power, and everything he’s doing is legitimately what every president has ever done. There is easily a…