Health and Sanity category archive
Vaccine Nation 0
Michael in Norfolk looks at recent actions by Virginia’s incoming Republican governor and is less than favorably impressed. A snippet:
Practicing License without Medicine 0
Rebecca Watson traces the trajectory of a quack-up.
Vaccine Nation 0
The Des Moines Regisster’s Rekha Basu takes a look at the recent Supreme Court decision nullifying OSHA’s regulation requiring employers to take reasonable steps to combat COVID-19. A nugget (emphasis in the original); follow the link for the rest.
Isn’t that what COVID itself is doing? . . . .
Vaccine Nation, Words Fail Me Dept. 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up (and you wouldn’t want to). Warning: Short commercial at the end, but you can skip it if you want to. But honest to Pete and Betsy both . . . .
We are a society of stupid.
School Daze 0
A teacher calls Sam to discuss what it’s like to be a teacher in these viral times.
Maskless Marauder Taylor Greene 0
We are a society of stupid.
Their Behavior Was Infectuous 0
A New Jersey doctor describes what happened when two persons visited an elderly relative in a nursing home. The two visitors were unvaccinated and seen not wearing masks. As a result, there was an outbreak of COVID among staff and residents in the home that resulted in sickness, quarantine, and at least one death. The doctor concludes (emphasis added):
Follow the link for the gory details.
Maskless Marauders 0
Maskless marauders who fly the fiendly skies.
There is no truth to the rumor I’m starting right here that they were planning to meet up with Ted Cruz.
Vaccine Nation 0
Warning: Short commercial at the end.
Vaccine Nation 0
With friends like these . . . .
“Somebody decided that testing positive for COVID is something they can hide,” Lauren said. “The only way we found out is that the person owned up after Nana got sick.”
Lauren says she doesn’t want to reveal her grandmother’s friend’s identity out of respect for their privacy. But she wants you to know what happened as you make decisions.
Though her grandma was vaccinated, as a blood cancer survivor, her immune system was weak. She caught COVID-19, was hospitalized, ventilated, and died on Dec. 21, right before Christmas.
We are a society of selfish.
Facebook Frolics, Vaccine Nation Dept. 0
Flocks of falsehoods furthered by fibbing frolickers.
And, once again, “social” media magnifies the malicious.
A History of Historical Hysteria 0
The Kansas City Star’s Melinda Henneberger reminds us that denying reality in times of crisis is not unprecedented. Here’s a tiny excerpt:
Not unlike Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, who went ahead and hosted his annual fall festival last year, or South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who in the middle of the delta spike called the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in her state a fun and “fantastic event,” the governor of Milan prioritized the prince’s birthday party. He did so, Manzoni said, “without troubling himself with the danger which would result from so great a concourse of people at such a time.”
The full article is well worth your while.