The U.S. government could decree that every American get vaccinated, but so far it hasn’t, and there’s no indication it will. That’s a political decision, and one not likely to be made. Some governors are strongly encouraging residents to get vaccinated, while others are prioritizi[...]
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Gifts for your anti-vax friends
How about a coffee cup? Or, if you want to splurge, a t-shirt. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
He died for freedom
Not in Kabul. In Texas, a far deadlier place for Americans than Afghanistan ever was, or ever will be. According to Johns Hopkins University’s Covid Tracker data base (here), Covid-19 has infected over 3.5 million Texans, and killed 56,577 of them. That’s approaching, and likely will soo[...]
How to remove a bandaid
Let’s say you finally hoisted yourself off your butt and got a Covid shot, and don’t want your Republican friends to know, but that bandaid on your upper arm is a dead-giveaway. Or perhaps one of life’s other little disasters overtook you (or a whole bunch of them, see photo below;[...]
August 26th, 2021 - 10:58 am § in Health
Dancing with death and cracking down on anti-vax
Dancing with death wasn’t what Bruce Springsteen had in mind when, under pressure from friend and producer Jon Landau and in a fit of frustration, he sat in a hotel room and wrote “Dancing in the Dark” in a single night. It would become his most popular hit and one of the greatest [...]
August 26th, 2021 - 10:49 am § in Health
Covid-19 delta variant roars through Washington state
“The Covid outbreak is so bad in Washington state that hospitals are running out of intensive care beds,” CNBC reported on Wednesday, August 25, 2021 (read story here). This mirrors the situation in other states, where the surging Delta variant — which now accounts for nearly all U[...]
FDA vaccine approval makes no difference to GOP governor
Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order “banning any governmental entity in the state from requiring a COVID-19 vaccine, regardless of its approval status” almost immediately after the FDA “granted full approval” to Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine,” The Hil[...]
August 25th, 2021 - 6:52 pm § in Health
Arkansas doc accused of prescribing cow pills for Covid-19 to jail inmates
“An Arkansas jail has been found to be prescribing an animal parasite medicine to inmates to treat COVID-19,” The Hill reported on Wednesday, August 25, 2021 (read story here; for a local TV station’s report with more detail, go here). Rightwing social media promotion of the drug, [...]
August 24th, 2021 - 12:46 pm § in Health
AMA calls for vaccine mandates
The American Medical Association (AMA) is calling on the “public and private sectors” to require people to get vaccinated against COVID-19, arguing making vaccination mandatory is “key to getting control of the pandemic,” The Hill reported on Tuesday, August 24, 2021 (read st[...]
“Masks and coercions do not work!”
In his case, stupidity didn’t work, either. Nor did thoughts and prayers, 26 days in the ICU, and 5 days on a ventilator. What does work, not 100% of the time, but much better than anything else, is getting vaccinated and wearing a mask. I’ve been seeing a lot of stories like this recent[...]