Tag Archives: COVID

Why did the madness take over people’s minds?

For all these years, since 2016, there is that agonizing question: why did people we thought were intelligent and rational vote for Trump? My current answer — which I admit emerges from a sort of intellectual stupor coming from the … Continue reading

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I. Have. A…Cold.

I’m telling you this not for sympathy but to share with you the wonder I had when I realized it. Remember colds? I haven’t had one for so long, I didn’t know what was happening. Allergies? No, unless I suddenly … Continue reading

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Important: upgrade to advice about COVID and Paxlovid

I was telling my brother in law, Dr. Rob (Ret’d), about what I’d learned re getting an Rx for Paxlovid and he stopped me. “I wouldn’t give a prescription over the phone for a patient. I don’t think that’s a … Continue reading

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