JUST SOME POSTS

  This is a continuation and supplement to the previous post. If you have not read that one, I highly recommend you do so as they connect and augment each other. After I published the previous post - after almost 2 hours of writing while reviewing notes and doing additional research - I realized that I had left out quite a bit of information that I had intended to include. This post is to remedy that. First, in the previous post I referenced being "fully-vaccinated" and said I would address it later. That was referring to another of the moving goalposts that the CDC/NIH has set-up concerning this illness. Fully vaccinated against Covid-19 was defined as a shot of either Moderna or Pfizer with a follow-up at a later date - typically 3 or 4 weeks after the first depending on which vaccine you had. It also referred to a single shot of the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccine. I do not think it has been officially changed at this writing, but the head of the CDC said last week t...

I had hoped not to do another Covid-19 post, but here I am - doing one! As I noted in a previous post, I have been amazed at the sheer panicked response to this virus. I guess since I do not watch any TV news, nor ever watched a press conference by anyone concerning the virus, maybe I have missed some of the worst hyperbole. Maybe since I actively work on my health and especially my immune system regularly I have not been as affected by it. I am not sure. Let me start out by saying I am not an anti-vax'er, at least by my standards. I do have and get the DPT and MMR vaccines. I have been vaccinated against polio and smallpox. I have also had the Covid-19 vaccine, and am what is still referred to today as "fully vaccinated" with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. (more in a moment on that). In the spirit of disclosure, I have never gotten a seasonal influenza shot, and at this time I cannot ever see myself getting one. Currently I am also not planning on getting a Covid-19 ...