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I had a COVID test last week Thursday!  The real deal where they stick a test tube brush up your nose halfway to your brain and give it a good scrape.   I got hit so hard by some bug in the middle of the night Tuesday, I told enough to the triage nurse the nextContinue reading “Clean!”

I’m taking the lazy way out today, letting some other writer tell you something I think you’d like to know. I’m still not good for much after some bug hit me so hard Monday night to tally up enough points to earn a COVID test, the up the nose with a test tube brush kind.Continue reading “lockdowns?”

With this pandemic you never know what the next piece of news will be, or what part of the world it will come from. Every once in a while it’s good news, and todays item is very much that. And we shouldn’t be surprised it originates from that little sliver of the Levant on theContinue reading “no fat for you, Mr. Corona!”

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”