Kids in low-vaccination states are much more likely to get Covid-19. That’s a no-brainer. The CDC, based on its latest compilation of data, reports that kids are 3.4 times as likely to visit an ER, and 3.7 times as likely to be hospitalized, in those states (read story here). Coinciding with t[...]
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September 3rd, 2021 - 12:55 pm § in Health, Schools & Colleges
CDC data: Kids at much higher risk in low-vax states
August 31st, 2021 - 3:41 pm § in Health
You can’t blame THIS on America’s crazy anti-maskers
“An unidentified customer at a British Columbia Dairy Queen urinated on the restaurant floor in front of employees after they asked him to wear a face mask. The incident happened Friday night around 9 p.m. at the fast-food chain’s Port Alberni location,” Huffington Post reported on Tue[...]
The anti-maskers’ “image of God” argument
A Catholic school in Michigan sued to overturn a state mask mandate, arguing that “God created us in His image, we are masking that image.” An Ohio GOP state legislator refused to wear a mask using a similar argument. Across the U.S., people claiming to be Christians tender arguments lik[...]
August 30th, 2021 - 10:53 pm § in Health, Law and Courts
Slippery vaccination mandates
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[...]
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[...]