Yet again, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) is letting the state of American health down.
Yes, I know, we Americans are fed up with the coronavirus epidemic. But, the vast infectivity (albeit at must less virulent levels) of the omicron.BA5 variants have left many of us vulnerable to COVID-19.
Continue reading Looming School Disaster?
We used to have big laughs around our conference room. Mostly about the devices we were developing. How we had to dumb down our ideas some- because we were a decade or two beyond where the world was- and our clients wouldn’t be able to market those concepts if they were too far away from the general horizon.
Continue reading Nothing new under the sun
To open or not to open. That really is the question.
Because if we don’t open our schools, we will never find a way to get most of our employees able to return to work. They will have to stay home to monitor their kids and provide secondary instruction (or is that primary?) for when their kids don’t quite get the subject matter of the day. Not to mention that many of our kids lack the resources for schooling at home. (No computer, no internet.) Maybe even more kids manifest food deficits (normally receiving free lunch and free breakfast at school)- and hungry kids just don’t learn well.
This is the fourth of five updates on the pandemic. Monday will be the last in this miniseries. (I've posted about 30 articles on the virus and the pandemic.)
Continue reading The rush for a vaccine
I don’t generally celebrate (American) Thanksgiving. My Thanksgiving is more in line of how and when the Pilgrims created the holiday. That was a version of Sukot, the harvest festival. More akin to Canadian Thanksgiving, which coincides with my holiday. (Think about it. What harvest would you reap in late November?)
Continue reading Thanks! Really. (Part 1)
Ever since I was a little tyke, I have been eating a whole apple, pretty much every day. Yes, WHOLE apple- from stem to stern, core (and pits included). Yes, my parents did not approve. (Oh, this was only one of many items that I provided them for their disapproval.)
Continue reading An Apple a Day
