Tag: COVID

Just type ‘Covid’ in the search bar and see what shows up for this year, in particular August and September. There are several writers commenting on the return of the pandemic. These include artists, actors, models, writers and self-identified cat-ladies. Their claim is of course a...

Just type ‘Covid’ in the search bar and see what shows up for this year, in particular August and September. There are several writers commenting on the return of the pandemic. These include artists, actors, models, writers and self-identified cat-ladies. Their claim is of course a...

On Sunday the Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi began using a new Covid-19 “scanning” system to check people arriving by road from neighbouring Dubai. The system is a local invention and if it lives up to the claims made by its supporters it could revolutionise testing methods. Know...

After basically two years stuck at home — one brief interlude last summer aside — I recently spent two months almost entirely on the road. London for a month. New York City for a week. Vancouver for a week. And finally Copenhagen for a week. It was great. And also fas...

After 13 weeks of Covid-19 lockdown (and the recent move to phase two of the Scottish Government’s four phase exit plan ) it’s starting to look like Edinburgh’s opening up and finding its post pandemic groove. Sunny afternoons have seen people flock to Princes Street and Calton Hil...

It’s a cold, sunny day in mid-January, and I’m sitting on a frosty barstool outside, sipping the hot mulled wine the Czechs call Svařák. I can see the colorful Astronomical Clock about thirty feet away, built by Master Mikuláš Kadaň in the early 1400s, with the ...

Originally, my wife wanted to give birth in her home country of Japan where she was more familiar with the health care, and her mother could be nearby afterwards to help during the initial postpartum period. Being fortunate enough to live in Taipei where there has never really been a major outbreak ...

Yesterday, Lee and I were walking home to our apartment in Kerem Hateimanim. On the way, we came across a barricade with a man holding an infrared thermometer and wearing surgical mask around his neck. As he saw us approach, the guard quickly adjusted his mask to cover his nose and mouth. As we atte...

Headline news from June 19th, 2023. Robbie (of Take That pop group fame) went on to tell the crowd that his need to stop after singing just three tracks was not due to his BLEEPING age! I felt immediate compassion and empathised with Robbie as I have Long Covid and reluctantly belong to a co...

Today’s Supreme Court decision about Biden’s COVID vaccine policy prompted former Republican David Jolly to comment today on MSNBC that Americans now formally have no governmental support in fighting COVID at the workplace — it’s everyone for themselves. Regarding COVID, I...

Disclaimer: All the necessary citations, websites, and pages have been mentioned and hyperlinked, please visit them just by clicking on them. Starting with a movie reference, ‘Boy’ was released in 2010, by Taika Waititi, who won an Oscar for best-adapted Screenplay...

We should never forget: people in power are able to maintain the status quo when they keep white people and communities separated from multi racial movements for justice. They count on us to remain silent, or even in active opposition, to movements that are actually in our mutual interest like healt...

The NYT resurfaced that piece this week after the Nobel committee announced that Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, two scientists who cracked the secret of how to use mRNA (messenger RNA) to send genetic instructions into cells, had won the Nobel Prize for their work. They’re a great st...

Whenever I watch horror ghost movies, I always think the characters may have schizophrenia. If Covid-19 had occurred a generation or two earlier, I might have thought that the schizophrenia character‘s mother caught Covid during pregnancy. This idea struck me when a commenter on my&nbs...

Four years ago to the day, I was in a hotel room in New York City, getting dressed for a magical night at a tiny crowded theater. I wasn’t thinking of the growing rumbles of a pandemic on the horizon as I worked my way through the short supply of options in my suitcase. I tugged awkwardly at m...