Covid-19

After painstaking research and lots and lots of math, the results are in. — “Even with widely available vaccines and newly effective treatments, residents of counties that went heavily for Donald Trump in the last presidential election are more than twice as likely to die from COVID-19 than those that live in areas that went for President Biden.”— NPR, May 19, 2022 After painstaking…

A year of terrible things, but… — There is a 1960s song whose chorus proclaims: darkness, darkness. Those were turbulent times for certain, but today the darkness seems to hit closer to home on a daily basis. In my case, the racist killing of ten and wounding of three at a Buffalo grocery store (11 victims were…

She says being stuck in her room all week has given it a “total vibe” — Recently turned twelve-year-old Vivienne Rhodes of Hudson, New York contracted COVID from her dad after he attended a Kentucky Derby party last Saturday. “Yah,” Vivienne said via her TikTok account CandyCutieNY. “My dad thought he was hungover after the boring old-person Derby party but it turns out he has COVID…

reflections of a workaholic running out of time and energy each day — It has been weeks since I first got sick, and then later confirmed that I had finally caught Covid-19. At first I attributed my symptoms of runny nose, sneezing, sore throat, and joint pains to seasonal allergies just being particularly bad this year. But as all of those increasingly intensified…

At the end of the first day, I’m exhausted. And I’m not the one sick… Yet. — My daughter started having a runny nose last Friday. I chalked it up to allergies and took her to daycare. She had no other complaints, and my own allergies have been going strong. The car is covered in pollen every morning. She has also had no fever, though — being…

The seed of suffering in you may be strong. Don’t wait until you have no more suffering to be happy. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh Our daughter graduated from high school this year. We weren’t sure her class would get to have a graduation ceremony or prom, but thankfully they did…

But he isn’t even a real doctor. — Dr. Robert O. Young is famous for creating and popularizing the Alkaline Diet. Dr. Young also created a cure for cancer. And more recently, he also discovered the cure for COVID-19. His cure for cancer and COVID-19 both revolve around alkalizing the body, as all ailments can be traced back…