What is the United States military good at? Well, besides blowing things up and breaking things, they are also good at statistics. Sort of like baseball, everything is counted and re-counted and analyzed. Statistics rule! In the military they log accidents and disease in what is called the Defense Medical Surveillance System. They have been […]
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I Got Glutened!!!
It was a dark and stormy night…. No, actually it was a nice dinner out with family! It happened over the Christmas/New Year’s holiday this last year. We had eaten at a particular Italian restaurant that we had eaten at numerous times before without issue. My husband and I loved the gluten-free bread, which was […]
What happened to civility?
Truthfully, were you ever scared at any point in this pandemic? I was. For about 1 hour. OK, maybe a couple of hours. The event that scared me was when it was reported in early 2020 that a health care worker in New York contracted the virus and died shortly after. I can only assume that […]
What is a pandemic? Follow The Patents And You Will Understand.
Pandemics and plagues have been around for thousands of years. A plague in the Greek city of Athens occurred in 430 B.C. and killed 75,000-100,000 people. No one really knows what the disease was but it caused panic in the population. The historian Thucydides observed people’s behavior and noticed that people who survived the disease […]
Break Glass In Case Of Emergency
Yes, it happened. I came down with some kind of “flu-virus” one week ago. Actually I am almost sure it was Covid-19. But I get ahead of myself. I had fever, cough, aches and pains, and a headache. It felt just like the influenza virus I had a few years ago (which my brother will […]
What’s With the Delta Variant (Did SARS COV-2 Virus Mutate?)
Are you hearing news reports about the “delta variant”? I have been wondering if the “delta variant” is even real. Some say SARS Cov2 was destined to mutate because that is what virus’s do over time. Should we be frightened of the “delta variant”? Some say it is less deadly but more contagious. Virologists generally […]