Musings I.

My first book of compiled blogs from the pandemic years – there would eventually be 5, all titled Musing through a pandemic – contained my writings on coronavirus, whom I’d personalized as “Mr. Corona” (1). Looking back, it’s not a bad historical record. I got to wear my microbiologist/virologist’s hat as well as my doctor’s white coat. Plus, I was having to live through the BS just like everybody else. In those early months, I was way too optimistic that our scientists’ efforts would beat this bug. Fortunately, SARS-COV-2 went the way of all rapidly mutating RNA viruses and shed the features that made it deadly.

I’m writing this post as I’m about to give a copy of that book to my friend Ana. She’s been involved in the COVID battle from the git go, but as an attorney. She turned her attention from malpracticing doctors to the malpracticing governments and institutions that were hurting people with the measures they instituted to “protect” them against COVID. It was her strong instance that kept me and my wife from getting the jab. I very briefly worked for a foundation she’d help set up to meet the medical needs of the unvaccinated. I bowed out when it started to feel like a job. But we’re till friends, and my wife and I visited her in her redneck paradise panhandle home en route to the Pinellas spit. I told her about my book and she asked for a copy. As I looked over that book for the first time in a year or so, I saw I had not done with it what I’d done with the rest. I include a lot of links in my posts. When you read them on line, they’re easily accessible. Not so in a paper book, although you retain that functionality in a Kindle version. What I will be doing here is listing the book’s table of contents, all titles hyperlinked. I’ll make the URL of this blogpost into a tinyURL and put that in the front of the book. Hence. anyone reading the book next to computer or tablet can access the post corresponding to the chapter, and all the links in it.

Ike R. Musing through a Pandemic. My year and a half with Mr. Corona. Volume I. about Mr. Corona. Amazon (Kindle) 2021. ISBN: 9798530730. https://www.amazon.com/Musing-through-Pandemic-Year-Corona-ebook/dp/B098LML34S?ref_=ast_author_dp