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Tag: pandemic

  • Don’t Build a Bunker

    Tim and I spent yesterday just chilling between work and the holiday onslaught. We ate microwaved leftovers and binge watched the Netflix movie adaptation of Leave the World Behind. I had listened to the audio book during the Covid lockdown. It’s a fictional “what if” about a family trapped in an Airbnb when the US…

  • Short Cuts

    The weather recently couldn’t be more lovely, but I think my map app as been plotting against me. First, it was Ivy’s dance class last week. Her final performance was scheduled in another town 30-40 minutes away. With swim class ending at 10 a.m. and a full dress rehearsal starting at noon, I opted for…

  • The Covid 15

    My phone just kicked up an old photo from two years ago when I got a haircut right before the lockdown. It seems like forever ago. The lockdown altered my lifestyle pretty significantly. There was online schooling for Eliana and my college classes switched to all online. I quit breast-feeding, but kept eating. The community…

  • The House of Omicron

    Just because we are “done” with this pandemic doesn’t mean it’s done with us.

  • Part 2: the Other Shoe Drops

    The party that just won’t quit.​

  • Tag, You’re It

    When it’s your time…

  • Thanksgiving in January

    Today ends a fairly eventful week. Monday, Eliana was home from school as part of her classroom quarantine and general disruption of every human plan. Tuesday, Tim texted me to asked if we wanted a whole turkey. It was one of the unclaimed frozen birds his work had purchased to give out to the employees…

  • Time Travelers

    We are all time traveling right now at one minute per minute forward through time.

  • A Plea

    We have come too far to fail now.

  • Looking for Approval?

    Here is the list of FDA approved and disapproved Covid-19 treatments and prevention Approved Dexamethasone Tocilizumab Remdesivir Baricitinib Anticoagulation drugs Convalescent plasma Prevention vitamin D (for prevention) vitamin C (for treatment) https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/treatments-for-covid-19#:~:text=In%20October%202020%2C%20the,speed%20up%20recovery%20time. Vaccines Look here to see which vaccines are approved in the USA. https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19/covid-19-vaccines Masks The FDA recommended masks for personal and community protection.…