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  • Post-COVID, Part 2

    In my previous posting on this website, I discussed what we all need to do to help keep COVID in its place.  Masking, fist bumps, not shaking hands, vaccination, and so forth.  We have to treat COVID like we treat colds, influenza and other highly communicable diseases because it spreads so easily through the air,…

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  • Post-COVID

    Are we post-COVID yet?  Are we really post-COVID? Not really.  We may be past the major epidemic of COVID-19, but COVID is still with us.  I’ve known personally or heard of several people in the past several months (late 2023 and into 2024) who have contracted COVID.  The virus still circulates in the US, and…

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  • The New Old

    Here we are, settling now into our new reality after the COVID pandemic.  The virus is ensconced well among us, still spreading and causing illness all over the United States and the rest of the world.  We have good vaccines that fight the virus, and the last figure I read said 96% of the population…

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  • Starting Up Again

    Well, here we are again.  I’m back to blogging, this time on my website, rather than my older blog.  I’ve been away for a couple of years trying to get my science fiction books published, and the first book, titled Explorer, should be out later in 2023 or early 2024.  (See the Explorer page on…

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  • COVID And The Economy

    In an earlier post on this blog site I commented on COVID and herd immunity (scroll down to see it). What would happen, I asked, if we just let the pandemic of coronavirus play itself out naturally? Herd immunity would eventually take effect and the pandemic would die down. But many, many more people would…

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