With respect to your comment about continuing Covid avoidance: my wife and I attend a regional theater in San Diego and were supposed to see a show last night. I had managed to catch my first cold in a decade or so, and it has been rough. It's not flu and it's not Covid - it's probably the same respiratory virus that is filling up the pediatric beds in the hospitals. We pushed our show back a couple of weeks, getting new tickets for a Saturday night, in the same seats we had originally. The theater has never been more than half full in the last year and a half since CA let them re-open, so there was no problem changing our date. While this is convenient for us, it bodes ill for the theater. Patrons of this theater tend to skew old (I'm pretty skewed myself) and they are still avoiding Covid. From what I've read it's a nationwide problem, including Broadway. But we got the new vaccine and will charge (carefully) ahead - once we get past this cold. (Now my wife has it.) So add RSV to your avoidance list. (I had to look at your self-portrait full size before I understood.)
Hi Jim, I'm glad you don't have Covid or the flu! Yes, RSV and other respiratory viruses are high right now, and flu as well (earlier than usual). Hope you get better soon!
People say things like, 'we just have to learn to live with it' but I really don't understand how living with it excludes doing things to also protect against it. We "live with" winter, but we don't run around in sundresses or shorts in the winter weather, we wear warmer clothes. That masks are seen by many as "giving into" some sort of weakness is baffling.
Much food for thought and many of your observations made me think more deeply. We just returned from doing the last 114 Kilometers of the El Comino de Compostella. A wonderful experience. We liked it so much, much more than we thought we would. Sally and I went with a friend. After the El Comino we travelled in Spain for another three weeks. We love Spain. Sally and I have avoided Covid. We wore masks on most of the Air flights. Not on the way home but in retrospect we should have. Our first experience in Spain was camping in Spain for two months in our mid twenties in 1970, part of a four and 1/2 month European trip after three years serving as an Officer in the US Army in Germany. (I believe in a strong Military but did not believe in the Vietnam War.) I have probably told you all this before.
I had an experience in our last days in Barcelona on this most recent trip that had quite an effect on me. I often give money to beggars on the street. I often talk a little with them. Just chit chat. Hi how are you doing today? I hope this offering helps you a bit. In Spain I used my rudimentary Spanish. One experience has stuck with me and has me wanting do more for the disabled. We were eating dinner in Placa del Real and I saw this man pushing along on a little board, maybe 18” x 18” with four little roller skate wheels at the corners of the board. He was mostly just a head and a scrawny little body. His hands were were both locked into little fists. I got up from my table and went out to talk to him. I then put a measly two Euro, two Dollars, in one of his scrawny little hands. He gave me a smile that would light up the world. Later I felt sad, wishing I could have done more. Maybe I could have bought him a motorized chair or something. I wish I had done more. It has inspired me to do more for the disabled, here. Anyway. Long winded story. I will be doing more for the disabled!
I brush but rarely floss anymore. I never ate my boogers but being a proud primate of the Homo sapiens variety have picked with enthusiasm. At 68 years most of my teeth are still mine with a few bridges and crowns for good measure. I have no idea why. I could spend most of the next month reading the offerings from this newsletter. If producing it is not being productive what is? Thank you.
Haha, I appreciate a good booger disclosure. I floss daily, but my teeth are so crowded (as is common with EDS) that without doing so things get built up quickly. No bridges and crowns yet, but I've got plenty of time to get there ;)
Thanks on the curation being productive. I think the issue for me is there's so much more I'd love to share/write/'produce' but physically cannot, and I am constantly bumping up against that gap.
On long covid - this detailed piece explains why everyone should take precautions. Ingesting one viron is enough to start a cascade of long-term health issues. The risk of Long COVID explained https://donford.substack.com/p/riskoflongcovid
Thanks Chris! Hope you continue to enjoy them. Yes, I'm a new transplant and it's my first time living in Ontario. Enjoying Ottawa thus far; people have been really kind!
With respect to your comment about continuing Covid avoidance: my wife and I attend a regional theater in San Diego and were supposed to see a show last night. I had managed to catch my first cold in a decade or so, and it has been rough. It's not flu and it's not Covid - it's probably the same respiratory virus that is filling up the pediatric beds in the hospitals. We pushed our show back a couple of weeks, getting new tickets for a Saturday night, in the same seats we had originally. The theater has never been more than half full in the last year and a half since CA let them re-open, so there was no problem changing our date. While this is convenient for us, it bodes ill for the theater. Patrons of this theater tend to skew old (I'm pretty skewed myself) and they are still avoiding Covid. From what I've read it's a nationwide problem, including Broadway. But we got the new vaccine and will charge (carefully) ahead - once we get past this cold. (Now my wife has it.) So add RSV to your avoidance list. (I had to look at your self-portrait full size before I understood.)
Hi Jim, I'm glad you don't have Covid or the flu! Yes, RSV and other respiratory viruses are high right now, and flu as well (earlier than usual). Hope you get better soon!
People say things like, 'we just have to learn to live with it' but I really don't understand how living with it excludes doing things to also protect against it. We "live with" winter, but we don't run around in sundresses or shorts in the winter weather, we wear warmer clothes. That masks are seen by many as "giving into" some sort of weakness is baffling.
Wow. That’s all for this month! It is a ton. Thank You!!
Thanks John! Believe it or not, I had to cut a bunch of things out :) Thanks for reading.
Much food for thought and many of your observations made me think more deeply. We just returned from doing the last 114 Kilometers of the El Comino de Compostella. A wonderful experience. We liked it so much, much more than we thought we would. Sally and I went with a friend. After the El Comino we travelled in Spain for another three weeks. We love Spain. Sally and I have avoided Covid. We wore masks on most of the Air flights. Not on the way home but in retrospect we should have. Our first experience in Spain was camping in Spain for two months in our mid twenties in 1970, part of a four and 1/2 month European trip after three years serving as an Officer in the US Army in Germany. (I believe in a strong Military but did not believe in the Vietnam War.) I have probably told you all this before.
I had an experience in our last days in Barcelona on this most recent trip that had quite an effect on me. I often give money to beggars on the street. I often talk a little with them. Just chit chat. Hi how are you doing today? I hope this offering helps you a bit. In Spain I used my rudimentary Spanish. One experience has stuck with me and has me wanting do more for the disabled. We were eating dinner in Placa del Real and I saw this man pushing along on a little board, maybe 18” x 18” with four little roller skate wheels at the corners of the board. He was mostly just a head and a scrawny little body. His hands were were both locked into little fists. I got up from my table and went out to talk to him. I then put a measly two Euro, two Dollars, in one of his scrawny little hands. He gave me a smile that would light up the world. Later I felt sad, wishing I could have done more. Maybe I could have bought him a motorized chair or something. I wish I had done more. It has inspired me to do more for the disabled, here. Anyway. Long winded story. I will be doing more for the disabled!
This is a treasure trove of great information. I jus read Noahpinions piece on the New World Order. Brilliant. Keep up the good work!
His writing is always very interesting. Thanks John!
I brush but rarely floss anymore. I never ate my boogers but being a proud primate of the Homo sapiens variety have picked with enthusiasm. At 68 years most of my teeth are still mine with a few bridges and crowns for good measure. I have no idea why. I could spend most of the next month reading the offerings from this newsletter. If producing it is not being productive what is? Thank you.
Haha, I appreciate a good booger disclosure. I floss daily, but my teeth are so crowded (as is common with EDS) that without doing so things get built up quickly. No bridges and crowns yet, but I've got plenty of time to get there ;)
Thanks on the curation being productive. I think the issue for me is there's so much more I'd love to share/write/'produce' but physically cannot, and I am constantly bumping up against that gap.
Two good reads related to your links above:
On writing - you're going to subscribe to this eloquent writers blog. Yaka yaka https://justinehsmith.substack.com/p/yaka-yaka
On long covid - this detailed piece explains why everyone should take precautions. Ingesting one viron is enough to start a cascade of long-term health issues. The risk of Long COVID explained https://donford.substack.com/p/riskoflongcovid
Thanks Roger, I'll have a look.
This is the long Covid article I meant to send you. It covers preventative steps - I discovered that probiotics are a Covid prophylactic.
https://donford.substack.com/p/america-has-finally-decided-to-start
Thanks, i'll add it to the read list.
Not a very good one, but they do help with the dysbiosis that Covid causes either way, especially LGG (since it stabilizes mast cells).
I am enjoying the Newsletter. Thanks.
I'm glad to hear that! Thanks for reading.
Very cool that you reside in Ottawa. I reside in the vicinity thereof.
Just came across your newsletters, wonderful read.
Cheers
Thanks Chris! Hope you continue to enjoy them. Yes, I'm a new transplant and it's my first time living in Ontario. Enjoying Ottawa thus far; people have been really kind!