Tag: COVID

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 Sva??ák. I can see the colorful Astronomical Clock about thirty feet away, built by Master Mikuláš Kada?? in the early 1400s, with the ...