I disagree with the message, but this is still fun:
Ever the jerk to be sure, but Merry Christmas nonetheless
stew!
The sleet and ice falling on us Saturday morning sure didn’t get us dreaming of a white Christmas, but it did that magical Michigan thing of helping us enjoy the great indoors all the more. With the fireplace roaring and the lights on our 11’ tree twinkling, the hygge was like a scented oil engulfing us with a sense of comfort and contentment. Such a setting requires a proper meal, and the kind of food that satisfies on days like this doesn’t come fast. I knew what we needed, and got started early at the farmers’ market. Not much left, and most of the vendors will be shutting down till the market reopens second weekend in January. But a few of the hardy farmers had their wonderful root vegetables laid out. Who can resist those pretty parsnips, hardy turnips, glorious plump carrots, and tightly packed sprouts? It was a bad year for rutabegas, so that’ll be missing this year. But later that afternoon, those hardy veggies would be joining some generous chunks of beef in my biggest iron pot to emerge with Sunday’s stew.
Now every stew is a unique exercise, as each season always presents its own variety, although the basics remain the same. I don’t know if it’s my accounting background (1), or just all those years of rheumatology trying to keep complex things organized, but I approach each new or revised recipe with a spreadsheet in which I lay out features of what I’ve got and probably tried already (see below). For our stew, that means 3 from the recipe box and 5 from the binder.
Spread out, commonalities become apparent: like stuff to never leave out. Couched in some recipes are little tricks that don’t translate to the spreadsheet, like my late Aunt Dorie’s admonition in her excellent recipe for “Perfect Brown Stew” (how do you argue with that? I’ve made it and it is) for a teaspoon of lemon juice to tenderize the meat and add a little zip. Notes for a little sweetener creep up all over, and I recall how nice that “Mahogany Beef Stew” turned out with that good dollop of hoisin sauce. And what about the horseradish kick from “Fine Cooking”? Also not getting into the spreadsheets are the “end of recipe” instructions on how to make a nice brown gravy to finish. Who likes runny stew? I had good luck using chickpea flour last run through my “beef & brussels sprouts stew”. What do you call runny stew? Soup!
So I will inscribe the new recipe in my lab book then get to chopping and browning. The stew will cook slow in the oven while we’re at the basketball game, sit to cool in the garage over night, then be at the ready for whatever meal we choose on Sunday. Maybe we’ll have it for breakfast, with a nice bold red. Well, eggs and bacon on muffins with Hatch’s green chili sauce washed down by Vampire Marys (2) beat that out, but dinner is coming.
Here’s what it looks like in the pot. Shame the internet can’t do aromas yet.
And here’s the recipe if you care to try. Hurry up while your farmers still have their parsnips, turnips, carrots, and sprouts! (I never put the sprouts in this one as there wasn’t enough room in the pot).
Remember, recipe cards don’t tell the whole story. This one misses that I forgot to put the potatoes in till late (they still cooked), I never used the wine I had set aside, I had to put some dry thyme in as I only had a couple sprigs left, and there really wasn’t 2 T of horseradish in that last jar in the house. Plus there are pauses that are key to making a good stew. For this one, there was the overnight in the garage (Michigan’s high capacity refrigerator), another warm up this afternoon for the thickening, then the several hours in a slow (1750) oven awaiting my sweetheart’s return from Winter Commencement ceremonies (any excuse to get into those doctoral robes). All that time for the marrying and mingling of flavors. But it’ll be ready for sure, and hygge will be served along with stew and wine.
And then, remember back in school when they told you to “show your work”. Here’s the stew spreadsheet I created to get to this recipe. Everything old is new again.
References
1. Ike RW. Make it add up, doc. Strategies Account Manag 2021;2(4) SIAM.000542.2021 https://crimsonpublishers.com/siam/pdf/SIAM.000542.pdf.
2. Ike B. Vampire Marys. WordPress. February 5, 2020. https://theviewfromharbal.com/2020/02/06/vampire-marys/
burn on
Here’s a look at our beautiful fireplace in all its glory, centerpiece of our living room and greatest source of the hygge we seek in these winter months.
Whenever either of us is home, it’s burning. Both of us have always loved a fireplace, and I think the only times we didn’t live in homes with such a resource we were in apartments pursuing our fortunes. But those fortunes have brought us here and we are so very happy with our surroundings. Not everyone in our neighborhood is as happy as we are. Realize we live in an enclave of libs, and concerns about global warming , including fireplaces, persist. As we approached our second wood buy of the season, I thought I’d check things out. Turns out a cord of wood, as it burns, releases 2.5 tons of CO2 (1). Oooh, scary! I feel warmer already! But for perspective, it’s been estimated that John Kerry’s private plane travels released 116 million tons in a year. (2) If you make a 30 mile commute each year in a car that gets 22 miles a gallon, you’re releasing 4.3 metric tons. If you want to take to the friendly skies to visit grandma, that 5000 mile round trip will cost ya 2.23 tons (3) Given that the whole USA accounted for 6,558 million metric tons of CO2 in 2019 (4). I’m not sure we need to worry about our tiny piddle in a very big pond. As an average household, we pump 49 tons in every year so our fireplace habit exceeds that a little. But as the whole CO2 global warming thing is basically a dead, discredited, BS issue, we on 1611 Harbal are going to fire it up and enjoy our hearth and hygge.
References
1. Winship LJ. To burn or not to burn: Is that even a question? Daily Hampshire Gazette. July 22, 2018. https://www.gazettenet.com/earth-matters-19027832
2. Dorman S. John Kerry family private jet emitted estimated 116 metric tons of carbon over past year. Fox News January 29, 2021. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/john-kerry-family-private-jet-emissions
3. Pappas S. The carbon footprint of daily activities. LveScience April21, 2011. https://www.livescience.com/13835-carbon-footprint-daily-activities.html
4. EPA. Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks. https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-sinks
from the UK
One of the joys of blogging is connecting with like minded folks. Some bloke from the U.K. caught one of my blogs on Omicron and offered up a bit of his work. He describes himself as a retired Chartered Building Surveyor with no medical background other than dealing with his own ailments. He blogs under the impressive name of Baldmichael Theresoluteprotector’sson. He’s composed a guide to all the “variants” that’s informative and hilarious. Did you know that “Omicron” is an acronym for “moronic”?. I’ve never tried to make a link like this. Let’s see if it works https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2021/12/02/various-variants-covid-19/.
Have fun
Go Blue!
We diehard Michigan fans are stuck waiting the weeks till New Year’s Eve and the Orange Bowl. This is uncharted territory for us, who haven’t tasted a Rose Bowl since 2004 (back when it mattered). Now we wait and see if Aidan Hutchinson can win an improbable Heisman and cower in anticipation of our SEC opponents. Fortunately, there’s Pete the Plumber with his heartening predictions. Yes, we are pissed off. https://fb.watch/9O2URs4tAM/
Merry Christmas
I’ve always enjoyed those newsletters some send for Christmas. This year, I decided to create my own.
2021
I’ve always enjoyed receiving these Christmas letters from those who bother to write them. So this year I’m trying my hand at it, seeing if I can bore you silly with recountings of some of the antics Kathy and I pursued over this past year. While it may seem we’re nuts for travel and sports (we are), home is what we love best, and from the hearth of Harbal we toast you this greeting.
So that’s Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. That’s Fritz, our stuffed. wolverine, in the foreground. He says “Go Blue”.
January
No bowl for the COVID-afflicted Wolverines, so the year started quietly. A planned trip to LaJolla fell victim to COVID, heralded by a call from the AirBnB saying we couldn’t come because of the lockdown. COVID would screw up a couple more California attempts, Spring Break, a trip to London to see Eric Clapton at Royal Albert Hall, and one to Edinburgh after Christmas ’21 to take in Hogmanay. But we still managed to have some fun.
February
No fans could get into Crisler, but Juwan’s boys gave us joy nonetheless, dominating play en route to winning the Big 10 championship and missing the final 4 by a bucket.
Dr. Schlissel cancelled spring break, so Kathy took her “well being” day and added a few more for a long weekend in Clearwater Beach. My brother John, his wife Karen and son Ian live in Clearwater. The highlight was our assault on the breweries of nearby Dunedin; what a fine way to pass a sunny Florida afternoon https://theviewfromharbal.com/2021/03/03/drink-down-dunedin/
March
Kathy takes joy from the non-revenue sports. Girl’s basketball makes sweet sixteen and woman’s gymnastics wins the national championship, their first ever. Kathy has players on both teams. A student of hers from 2 years ago was last performer at the gymnastics meet and her score nailed down the championship, as Kathy watched real time from the big screen on our dining room table – same one she teaches over – this time crying her eyes out.
Last weekend in March it was off to Santa Fe, which Kathy’s brother Bob would be vacating after 20 years. We met Bob’s lawyer friend Ana who’s moved from medical liability to “medical freedom”, aiding those finding themselves on the wrong end of COVID restrictions. So even with Bob gone, we’ll have friends when we go back.
April
It was a year for golden anniversaries, and April 17 marked 50 years since I broke into Hill Auditorium to see Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen for the first time. Since I have all their records, all it took was the suitable intoxicants and two triple cheese side order of fries from Krazy Jims to make a proper celebration. Too much fun https://theviewfromharbal.com/2021/04/17/two-triple-cheese/
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May
Once commencement was finished, it was time to push west. We would meet up with June Rodgers, my late friend Sam’s https://theviewfromharbal.com/2020/01/12/goodbye-sam/, https://theviewfromharbal.com/2020/01/14/see-sam/ widow, for a few days at Garden of the Gods Resort. I got to know Colorado Springs as a kid visiting my Uncle Bob, but am only starting to appreciate the place as an adult. The year before, we’d spent a couple days in Broadmoor’s Cloud Camp, high on Mt. Manitou. We’d looked down at Garden of the Gods and several campers were going there next. Glorious red rock, Pike’s Peak views, mountain air, great food and excursions into the city for a Skirted Heifer https://skirtedheifer.com/, a walk around Manitou Springs with drinks from all, and a dinner train through the Royal Gorge stoked that Rocky Mountain high.
Back 2 weeks with Memorial Day a week away, we took the train to Chicago to stay in the South Loop for jazz, food, and good times
June
Deb and Jeff from St. Louis weren’t with us in Chicago this time, but we’d been planning an escape to Lake Michigan for a while. We found Tony, a 747 pilot who rents out his luxury beach house when he’s away flying, giving us a beautiful week on the beach at South Haven. When Deb and Jeff went South, we continued north on a leisurely voyage home with friends and family through Macatawa, Muskegon, Grand Rapids, and Stanwood.
July
All Kathy was expecting was a little birthday party. I wasn’t able to keep the entire cat completely in the bag as I planned a much bigger event, so she knew it was going to be at our favorite spot, Dominick’s. The retirement party a year clearly exceeded expectations https://theviewfromharbal.com/2021/07/17/wasnt-that-a-party/.
Fewer than two weeks would pass before it was time for my big event, another “golden”, the 50 plus one reunion of Vicksburg High’s class of ‘70, preceded by a few days seeing some obscure Kalamazoo sites, like the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Parkwyn Village and “Kalamazoo’s Stonehenge” out by the ballpark. I’d helped with the planning, finding “lost” classmates, and in the process assembled a mighty database. I’d been running monthly Zooms since the reunion had been postponed a year ago. Old friends are the best friends, and it sure felt good to be among a whole bunch of them.
August
Another week and it was time for the Big California trip, finally happening. NoCal for family and friends, drive down the coast through Carmel and Santa Monica to La Jolla, with a week on Windnsea Beach.
September
September marked some welcome returns: students to campus and classes, and 110,000 of our closest friends to Michigan Stadium to watch our Wolverines start what was going to become a very special season. Harbaugh’s team was running the ball like a young Bo’s would.
I managed a quick day trip to the ‘burg to see friends and classmates Forrest and Sandy take their places at the winner’s table at the Tournament of Writers.
October
Executing this year’s road trip, we headed to Muskegon for a couple nights on the beach before boarding the ferry to Milwaukee, tarrying there a night, then onto Madison where the Badgers awaited, although I don’t think they expected what hit them. We hadn’t won there in 20 years, another way this season is different.
On a trip that had been in the works since February, it was back to California, this time to Novato, in Marin County, home of rich old hippies, to see what’s left of the Lost Planet Airmen. Enough to approach Too Much Fun. One of my good ol’ Barnes’ buddies Dave practices in nearby Petaluma, so we met up, even for the weekly “safety meeting” he holds with some of his misfit friends in the back room of the hardware store one of them owns. Made it to Pescadaro to be with the fam https://theviewfromharbal.com/2021/10/21/nocal/
November
We hadn’t been to Chicago for a while and with Penn State away, that second weekend looked good. We landed in a different neighborhood – Lakeview, between Lincoln Park and Uptown – plenty of eateries and watering holes, but nicely residential. We found a new jazz spot – Le Piano – and were both made to lay under the piano while being played to. When we walked up to the bar Saturday that the Alumni Association said hosted game viewing parties and found it closed, a nice young man in an Oklahoma sweatshirt directed us a mile down Clark to Duffy’s, which was wall-to-wall maize and blue, all several decades our juniors. After a half of standing, we headed back to our loft to enjoy the dominant second half. Two train rides the next morning and we were in Hyde Park for breakfast and services at the magnificent Rockefeller Chapel, thankful for yesterday’s victory and grateful for God’s blessings.
From today’s perspective it’s easier to say we felt something would be different about this year’s version of The Game. Naah, we were expecting to get creamed, like usual. But that’s not what happened! The best highlight video was put together by some kids https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ak9Uxtntfk&t=3s. The song playing in the background is the one they play ever 3rd quarter, to which the kids go nuts. It’s “Mr. Brightside” by the Killers, which features a gloriously decadent video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdGFtwCNBE, first released in 2003 and judged by UK radio stations Absolute Radio and XFM as “song of the decade”. It certainly has staying power with the young folks nearly 20 years on. Maybe it’s the reason they don’t play “Sweet Caroline” in the 3rd quarter any more. Hassan Haskins runs o.k. to it. Indianapolis brings us closer to to what could be very special. In Bo’s days ,the Big 10 championship was the pinnacle, and now we are there. Those 6 touchdowns finally convinced the annoying boring Hawkeyes they couldn’t beat us. Now comes the heady exercise of ratings and rankings as we ascend into the college football playoffs. I’ll be happy if Aidan Hutchinson gets the Heismann. Our TV viewing is locked into New Year’s eve and Orange Bowl, so our New Year’s date may be abrogated. My butt will be in the couch and not on LIVE’s dance floor.
December is quiet time in Ann Arbor. We have 20 events slated for the month, only half sports related. We even have a New Years Eve date, headed to LIVE on First to hear “Invasion”, a bunch of boomers who play (well) the songs of the British Invasion. Kathy might even get me out on the dance floor as we usher in 2022.
The grind goes on for Kathy, with one half-time term left as she satisfies her 20 years at the U, waiting the time she can return to her children’s books, sewing, gardening, and time as an adjunct research scientist in the Department of Aerospace Engineering. Bob happily has not answered the 8AM Monday clinic call for 3 years, amusing himself this year by cranking out 11 peer-reviewed publications (with 2 additional under review), 6 books (& a chapter), 7 YouTube uploads, and 112 posts to his blog (so far this year).
Merry Christmas to all and wishes for a Big Blue New Year
Christmas plug
Still shameless. I’ve just sent Jeff Bezos Musing through a Pandemic. On the Sidelines. Volume IV. Then play on. This grew out of a discovery that all the posts on sports I’d intended to include in Volume III. Indulgences didn’t make it in. I added the few more I’d written since June and presto, a 139 page book with 23 essays/stories touching on sports, which may be our greatest distraction from Mr. Corona. The cover will look familiar to those who have seen any of the previous 3 books
That’s the Kindle cover. And the Kindle version is till being processed, having trouble uploading my files.
So it’ll be about 3 days till it’s up on Amazon. Just search for “Robert Ike”, and use the quotes unless you want a lot of stuff on Eisenhower.
Available now! (12/9/21, 5 PM EST). Maybe not on Amazon just yet, but Jeff let me buy some paperbacks!
flu
“Not the Bee” circulated a government document containing excellent advice about what to do in a viral pandemic. The document is from the Division of Sanitation of the Department of the Navy. It concerns what to do in the face of the Spanish Flu, which in 1918 infected 500 million people or one-third of the world’s population, killing at least 50 million worldwide with about 675,000 occurring in the United States. Now that’s a pandemic.
Kathy and I have had a recent taste of influenza A. It’s taken a real toll on our students at U of M, with so many cases even the CDC poked its nose in (1). Our students are all masked and vaxxed, but clearly out and about. Remember, flu numbers were way down last year, probably because of the isolation. So if flu is coming your way, this 103 year old document isn’t bad advice. For coronavirus too.
Reference
- Delahoy MJ, Mortenson L, Bauman L, Marquez J, Bagdasarian N, Coyle J; Sumner K, Lewis NM, Lauring AS, Flannery B, Patel MM, Martin ET. Influenza A(H3N2) Outbreak on a University Campus — Michigan, October–November 2021. Morb Mort Weekly Rep (MMWR) December 3, 2021. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7049e1.htm?s_cid=mm7049e1_w
0-micron don’t worry, be happy
I’m usually not one to post extensive work from someone else. But this piece addresses concerns about the new variant (1). Bottom line, it isn’t even going to be very infectious. Prior vaccines aren’t going to help much. Boosters are nonsense and probably dangerous by instigation of antibody dependent enhancement (ADE) (2)
Here’s the post:
French Research and Real-World Data Counter Omicron Hysteria
So much talk about Omicron; so much fear-mongering; so much talk about science. Most is nonsense. The best research has received little attention. It comes from esteemed, senior French scientist: Dr. Jacques Fantini, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Aix-Marseille.
You are about to learn what senior people in the public health establishment need to use, especially Fauci who claims he speaks for and represents “science.” If he knows the French research, he is not sharing it with the public, nor is the mainstream media.
The key scientific achievement by Fantini is the calculation of one key parameter he calls the index of transmissibility (T) of a COVID variant. The key work was published in June 2021 with the title “Structural dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants: A health monitoring strategy for anticipating Covid-19 outbreaks.” This research is very sophisticated, detailed and challenging. Genomic sequence data are used in the analyses of variants.
The molecular details of variants are analyzed to calculate T values for COVID variants. Originally, T values for known variants or strains of the COVID virus were determined. The T value for the Delta variant done in early 2021 accurately predicted the surge of Delta throughout the world, making it the dominant variant in many countries, including the US.
The T value accurately describes to what extent a variant is or is not very transmissible. The higher the value of T, the greater is the ease at which a variant is spread from one person to another. The higher the value, the more contagious is the variant. Fantini said how T values could serve a critical need: “T-index can be used as a health monitoring strategy to anticipate future Covid-19 outbreaks.” At this moment, the question is “Is the T value for Omicron of concern?”
So, now look at the following table that gives T values for the original five variants published by Fantini, plus what he has just released for the new Omicron variant.
| Variant | T-index |
| Initial Wuhan | 2.16 |
| UK – Alpha | 3.59 |
| Brazil – Gamma | 3.65 |
| South Africa – Beta | 3.82 |
| Delta | 10.67 |
| Omicron | 3.90 |
Delta stands out for having an extremely high T value compared to previous variants.
No surprise that it quickly became the dominant variant globally.
And equally impressive is the relatively low T value for Omicron, just 37% of the Delta value. Omicron should not be of high concern by people and nations. It is in line with most pre-Delta variants. It is not exceptional. There is no scientific basis for all the hysteria about Omicron. As shown below, most people assessed with Omicron were vaccinated and got breakthrough infections showing vaccines offer little protection.
Additional observations
Note that the higher the T value it is also likely the less effective are current vaccines for defending against the variant and protecting people from it (as real-world data given below show). However, the higher T value does not imply greater lethality. As is known by virologists, variants are smart enough to not kill their victims, which would also kill them and prevent them from spreading. Thus, high T value variants spread easily, can cause health impacts but do not necessarily kill people at a high rate.
Fantini said this: “For Omicron, the mutations go in all directions, without any particular logic, some annihilating each other. The mutational profiles …suggest that neutralizing antibodies [from vaccine immunity] will have very low activity on this variant. …This analysis of the Omicron variant suggests that this variant will not supplant Delta.” In other words, with far less spreading potential, Omicron is not likely to replace the much higher transmissible Delta prevalent globally. Even though reports keep coming in from different nations that Omicron has been found.
More positive insights had to do with the more than 30 mutations and exactly where they were located in the molecule. “The affinity of the Omicron … for ACE-2 [cellular material that causes infection] is decreased compared to all other variants analyzed to date, probably as a consequence of this accumulation of mutations.” Fantini is saying that Omicron is not only not as highly transmissible as Delta, it is also not as infectious.
Worth remembering is that all the current COVID vaccines were designed to address the earliest COVID virus molecule. Thus, they do not protect very well against later variants that have considerable mutations. Is protection zero? No. Current vaccines offer limited defense against variants because they only aim at a small fraction of the virus molecule components.
Vaccine problems
In a more recent article, Fantini and an associate said: there is a “progressive loss of immunity induced by the two doses of vaccines directed against the spike protein” because current vaccines are not designed to defend against recent variants, including Delta and Omicron. Moreover, “the third vaccine [booster] dose can have serious long-term side effects due to the “ADE” phenomenon (Antibody-dependent enhancement: facilitation of infection by antibodies). The benefit/risk ratio would be unfavorable.” In other words, like other researchers, they see the negative impact of current COVID vaccines that reduce protection offered by a person’s immune system. What is being said is that antibodies not only offer little protection but, instead, facilitate viral infection and promote release of new mutations or variants.
This is consistent with considerable data showing correlations between higher vaccination rates and higher death rates at the nation level.
This too was noted: “The immune response to SARS-CoV-2, whether natural or vaccine-induced, produces antibodies directed against the spike protein. In the case of mRNA vaccines, the only molecular target is the spike protein. In the case of natural infection with the virus, the immune response [natural immunity] is directed against several viral proteins, including the spike protein. In all cases, the spike protein is therefore crucial. However, SARS-CoV-2 is an RNA virus that mutates a lot, and many mutations affect the spike protein, which disturbs its recognition by antibodies.” The bottom line is that vaccine immunity is inferior to natural immunity, because the former was designed for the earliest strain and only targets a small fraction of the complex COVID molecule.
Real world data show no severe illness and no protection from vaccines
The forecast by Fantini about Omicron is consistent with information flowing in. Specifically, vaccines will have little impact on Omicron transmission or infectivity.
For example, Reuters reported: “Four people in southern Germany have tested positive for the Omicron COVID-19 variant even though they were fully vaccinated against the coronavirus said officials.” Moreover, “All four showed moderate symptoms.”
Previously it was highlighted, according to the Botswana government, the Omicron variant was first detected in four people who were fully vaccinated. And information from South Africa is that Omicron caused mild symptoms and no patients needed hospitalization, and that the European Union’s public health body said that they’ve found 44 cases containing the omicron variant in 10 of their member countries, all of which had mild or asymptomatic illness.”
Also reported was that “Two quarantined travelers in Hong Kong who have tested positive for the variant were vaccinated with the Pfizer jab. All three initial confirmed and suspected cases reported from Israel occurred among fully vaccinated individuals. And an Israeli doctor revealed that he had been infected with Omicron despite being triple vaccinated also wearing a mask.
In Australia, “New South Wales state authorities reported that two travelers from South Africa to Sydney had become Australia’s first omicron cases. Both were fully vaccinated, showed no symptoms.” A person in San Francisco was reported to have traveled from South Africa, had mild symptoms and had been vaccinated.
Interestingly, officials said they had contacted everyone who had close contact with the person and they had all tested negative.
Meanwhile, everything that Fauci has said is completely inconsistent with actual data as well as what Fantini has forecast. Everything he has said seems clearly aimed at instilling fear about Omicron so that invasive, authoritarian government actions and continued push for vaccines could be justified.
Conclusions
A review of studies found unequivocally that COVID vaccines do not stop viral transmission, with no difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated people. So, all real-world evidence is that Omicron cannot be effectively addressed by COVID vaccines. Together with Fantini’s work the proper conclusion is that Omicron will not be very transmissible nor be more infective than Delta.
Because mutations will continue to produce variants, it is critically important to use the work of Fantini. To accurately assess whether or not a new variant should evoke the fears and government responses that have sprung up so quickly for Omicron.
By Dr. Joel S. Hischhorn
And of course, we can always stand to hear the comments of Bobby McFerrin (3).
Dr. Joel S. Hirschhorn, author of Pandemic Blunder and many articles and podcasts on the pandemic, worked on health issues for decades, and his Pandemic Blunder Newsletter is on Substack. As a full professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he directed a medical research program between the colleges of engineering and medicine. As a senior official at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the National Governors Association, he directed major studies on health-related subjects; he testified at over 50 US Senate and House hearings and authored hundreds of articles and op-ed articles in major newspapers. He has served as an executive volunteer at a major hospital for more than 10 years. He is a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, and America’s Frontline Doctors.
Comments
References
- Hischorn JS. French Research and Real-World Data Counter Omicron Hysteria. The Blue State Conservative. December 3, 2021. https://thebluestateconservative.com/2021/12/03/french-research-and-real-world-data-counter-omicron-hysteria/
- Ike B. ADE. Word Press. November 23, 2021. https://theviewfromharbal.com/2021/11/26/ade/1.
- Ike B. Thanks, Bobby. Word Press. March 15, 2020. https://theviewfromharbal.com/2020/03/15/thanks-bobby/
12 days
For those of you who are not regular readers of Lucianne.com, behold:
Let’s all have a Merry Christmas in spite of it all, and remember (and observe) the real 12 days ( 1).
Reference
- Ike B. Dandy Dozen. Word Press December 25, 2020. https://theviewfromharbal.com/2020/12/25/dandy-dozen/
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