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It always used to be ten, that being the length of the pole with which you wouldn’t want to touch the ugly girl in school.  But ever since the CDC started making announcements in February about what we need to do to protect ourselves from COVID-19, it’s been six feet we’re to be kept apart,Continue reading “six feet?”

Anthony Stephan Fauci, M.D., Head of the National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is a hero to many. Not me. But once upon a time he was. Just as I was entering Rheumatology (’82), Fauci had been publishing the results of his breakthrough treatment of the rare, sexy, and serious rheumatic disease polyarteritisContinue reading “head Doc”

Sorry if I seem to be getting lazy by just posting other’s articles. I’ve posted several times about Plaquenil and Mr. Corona. Me, if I were on the front lines, I’d be taking it just like President Trump is. But this study, conducted by our neighbors at Henry Ford in Detroit, didn’t focus on thatContinue reading “Plaquenil yay!”

I’ve written about this before. But this is getting ridiculous, bordering on false religion. Scott Morefield in Townhall today weighed in quite thoroughly and intelligently https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2020/07/03/the-most-powerful-argument-against-forced-universal-masking-that-you-wont-read-in-the-establishment-media-n2571794 Hall and Oats sang it well Happy Independence Day. Be I’ve found the link goes to an article in which half of a key paragraph is blocked out byContinue reading “masks, criminy”

As our neighbors the Oldanis and us stood six feet apart from each other in their front yard several sunny afternoons ago, we couldn’t help but gripe a little bit.  None of us is really like that, and we’re all managing to have a pretty good time these days despite COVID.  Beer helps, as itContinue reading “empties”

My life as a rheumatologist changed significantly just before the turn of the century. The FDA announced on November 2, 1998 that it had approved Enbrel (etanercept) for treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Because it and similar compounds that followed were made in a living system rather than a test tube, they were dubbed “biologics”. ThisContinue reading “Can I have some of that?”

So our much beloved and most able leader, President Donald J. Trump, has been taking Plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine) for prophylaxis against COVID-19 for the past week and a half, and even some on his own side of the fence have gone apoplectic (see Judy McLeod’s article from today’s Canadian Free Press, below). I applaud him. He’sContinue reading “Hail to the Plaquenil, Chief!”

It’s been 49 days since California’s Governor Newsome announced details of his bold executive order N-39-20 giving the Director of the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) the authority to waive professional licensing requirements for the healing arts boards under DCA during the COVID-19 State of Emergency, hoping to produce a flow of recruits to the newlyContinue reading “What kind of army is this?”