For those of you who are tired of the government pushing their way into controlling your life and your decisions, it is nice to take a break and go diving. This sort of activity has many benefits including: you cannot catch COVID underwater; the partisan fighting for control of the country cannot take place…
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Vaccine or no vaccine?
I am a believer in vaccines. I have taken the Covid shots and booster because at least doing something is better than having nothing. But I am not happy about it. When I was a child, polio was still spreading. I was protected by the polio vaccine. I also received many other life-saving vaccines such…
How to Differentiate Symptoms of COVID-19 from the Regular Flu
To help you navigate these complex times while staying sane and taking care of your health, here’s how to differentiate the symptoms of COVID-19 from the regular winter flu.
Determining regular winter Flu versus Covid?
Most people are going to assume the worst, that it’s COVID, because people are still scared. The CDC estimates that the annual range for the number of US influenza illnesses between 9-41 million people, hospitalizations of 140,000-710,000, and deaths at 12,000-52,000. For comparison, during the last 7 days, the CDC reports 602,000 new cases of…
Social distancing, vaccines, maybe it’s time to take some responsibility for your own health
We continue to be fed information from different government sources regarding Covid. Most recently, we have heard that due to the new variants, now we should use two masks. In California, the Governor is loosening controls, while the virus continues to spike. Perhaps this was a result of his recall drive, or maybe there is…
Politicians are just election-winning machines
There once was a time in America when people decided to run for office in order to help improve the country. However, politics has become a joke. Most politicians make their decisions based upon what will keep them in office. Power has many of side-benefits: -It can enrich these politicians or their families when foreign…