February 10, 2022 Source: CDC 2/10/2022 My neighbors love to walk. From my desk in front of the window, I see a parade of them: solos, couples, pairs of women, and lots of folks with dogs. Yesterday while taking my own stretch break, I spotted four people and their pups out enjoying the sun on… Continue reading A not-endemic diary: Unmasking the facts
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A pandemic diary: Bunker hill revisited
December 22, 2021 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/07Albanisch_makedonische_Grenze02.jpg It's roomier than it looks. (Photo from Wikimedia Commons) I'm glad my wife and I never stopped taking pandemic precautions. We spend very little time in public spaces, wear masks everywhere except the house, go through barrels of hand sanitizer, and got boosted as soon as we had the chance. Some… Continue reading A pandemic diary: Bunker hill revisited
A pandemic diary: Old man opens a can of whoop ass
December 16, 2021 This is a hill. I'm not over it yet.* Along with the news about omicron and the prospect of a new surge in cases, we've learned another sad fact about the pandemic. As reported by the New York Times, of the 800,000 Americans who've left us because of Covid, 75 percent -… Continue reading A pandemic diary: Old man opens a can of whoop ass
A pandemic diary: A break in the weather
November 22, 2021 It's 52 degrees and mostly cloudy. There's a two percent chance of rain through the next hour, with a high of 56 this afternoon and a low of 33 tonight. The Thanksgiving outlook is, "Intervals of clouds and sunshine. High 63F. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph." Sounds like a good… Continue reading A pandemic diary: A break in the weather
A pandemic diary: Blues and the cold, hard truth
November 12, 2021 Photo by Ladyfern Photos on Pexels.com Fall has arrived in Georgia in earnest, slowly overtaking the sugar maple and ginkgo trees we planted last year in our yard. Though we feared they might not survive, thanks to the summer rain they're growing fast, showing us a palette of red, orange, yellow, and… Continue reading A pandemic diary: Blues and the cold, hard truth
A pandemic diary: The kids will be all right
Photo by CDC on Pexels.com The word that young children will soon get Covid shots reminds me of when I received my second and final round of polio vaccine. I had the Salk type, the first one approved for the US, when I was too little to remember it. I suspect I didn't care much… Continue reading A pandemic diary: The kids will be all right