Category Archives: Mr. Corona

Oh, would that it were.  But he’s essentially unfireable and the man who might have done it left the oval office last January, and he couldn’t have directly fired any career civil servant, an act that would have had to be accomplished through intermediaries.  But the diminutive octogenarian from Brooklyn was once my hero, asContinue reading “Saint Anthony … fired?”

This is going to be some hard stuff about the COVID vaccines.  It grew from an exchange on a U of M Alumni Society forum.  So first I must tell you something about the Alumni Society.  Kathy and I became life members of the U of M Alumni Association last June.  I believe she andContinue reading “those vaccines again”

Let’s call ‘em 5-F.  That’s one more than 4-F, and we all know what that used to mean: you weren’t going to ‘Nam, but there was something wrong with the designee that rendered him pinch a’ shit unfit for military service, a low bar in those days given the war’s need for cannon fodder.  ButContinue reading “Fauci’s feeble-minded fear-filled followers.”

That much maligned cinchona bark extract derivative got a little boost recently. On January 14, a group out of Hackensack (New Jersey) Meridian Health Network published their findings on the effect of Plaquenil on keeping COVID-infected patients out of the hospital*. They looked at all the patients diagnosed with COVID in their ERs or clinicsContinue reading “how about that Plaquenil?”

I’ve been meaning for some time now to dive deep into the COVID vaccine literature and produce something intelligible for this blog. The process would help me understand as well. I’ve done a little, but have quite a ways to go before I. can say I understand the whole picture. But today, I answered aContinue reading “those vaccines I”

Lazy post. Gotta read this: https://townhall.com/columnists/scottmorefield/2020/12/21/new-study-shows-mask-mandates-had-zero-effect-in-florida-or-nationwide-but-the-l-n2581879

If somebody near you does that, should you be concerned?  Sure, sick people expel the virus that’s making them sick through body fluids forcibly propelled outward.  You can see a graphic demonstration of that phenomenon here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mnC43QRsuM I think most of us saw the brief video of one extreme response to something like this backContinue reading “Ah-choo!”

Our cleanliness is killing us. Prof.Carlin alluded to this a couple of posts ago https://wordpress.com/post/theviewfromharbal.com/881. I came across this twitter on the subject and had to share it, even if this is my 3rd post of the day Once it stops flashing, you can see what I’m talking about. Would be a heck of aContinue reading “dirty!”

The AMA ain’t what it used to be. Most docs, yours truly included, have had full and fulfilling careers without paying for an AMA card. Yet, what the organization says still carries some weight, so when they added their heft to the anti-Plaquenil for COVID movement when it first looked like there might be somethingContinue reading “AMA caves on Plaquenil”

As if the raw data from the pandemic weren’t bad enough, the numbers can be crunched to produce even more depressing stats.  One such measure comes from the concept of “excess deaths”.  Presumably in any country the number of people who die off each year should be about the same year-to-year.  Not so for ourContinue reading “Excess death”