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Post-COVID, Part 2
Read more: Post-COVID, Part 2In 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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The New Old
Read more: The New OldHere 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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COVID-19 In The Long Term
Read more: COVID-19 In The Long TermUp to now, I haven’t blogged or commented on the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, largely because anything I had to say would be to simply repeat the already well-known, tried-and-true rules that everyone is familiar with: wear a mask, stay at least six feet apart (nine or ten would be even better), wash your hands, don’t…
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Jonas Salk–A Book Review
Read more: Jonas Salk–A Book ReviewI just finished reading Jonas Salk, A Life, by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, published in 2015 by Oxford University Press. Here’s my take on the book and the main character. Jonas Salk was born on October 28, 1914 in a tenement in East Harlem, New York. His mother was a Russian immigrant, his father a natural-born American of…