Category: health

On Your “Leet Google Skillz”

On By JohnIn education isn't, healthLeave a comment

If we all, together, would’ve just dealt with the necessary issues early on, then this would’ve been only a few months’ worth of inconvenience and we’d all be back to normal.

But, nope… here we are, about two-years on… and we’ve seen… **checks numbers** 816,609 deaths from some “made-up” virus (those were sarcasm-quotes).

Worsened further by the continuing and growing obliviousness of humanity. Mostly American, to be frank, who like to scream about “Muh rights!” but, let’s be honest, it’s not only here in the USA. There seems a steadfast refusal to acknowledge reality and that’s given the virus a strong enough foothold to continually mutate.

Yep, we’re surrounded by breathing Dunning-Kruger Graphs aplenty.

We Don’t Care

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First, put a mask on.

Jonathan Pie, provided his own take during his ‘live report’ early-on in this whole fiasco, and I’d have a difficult time arguing with the veracity of his position.

I should get this, or an appropriate rendition thereof, printed on business cards so I can present them to anyone who argues with the realities we’re faced with.

Also, while SCC sent out their own update a few weeks ago about their updated mask/vaccination policy, the current order from Olympia (the State’s source) is more recent.

While we were, I’m sure, looking forward to not wearing face masks when we all returned to school/work this fall as learners or educators — even though we may be fully vaccinated — those various organizational guidelines are overridden by the new orders.

Because it seems many people need to have a picture drawn for them, I’m all out of puppet and crayons, but here’s a picture I’ve found for everyone:

Vaccines? Bring it On…

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Feels like really (really) bad tendonitis in my elbows and wrists. Strangely (to me) it feels similar to the painfully-bad reaction that I once had to Cirpo back in mid-2008. The Ciprofloxin regimen cleared the infection, but the tendons in my knees were extraordinarily painful just a day or two after I began the course. Had trouble standing and walking.

We found a few weeks later that the FDA issued a warning on the matter.

Well, that would explain the tendonitis that began without any change in physical exertion or activity.

And now **mumble-mumble**-years later, I seem to have some nearly disabling pain in my freaking arms — no change in physical exertion or activity. Is it possible that the nearly-debilitating tendonitis in my arms began just a few days after I had received the second dose of the Moderna Covid vaccine?

Certainly a curiosity.

Also, please don’t take this as some justification to forego any vaccines for whatever fabricated claims you may have — the side effects of any vaccine are far more agreeable than the illness it’s vaccinating against. If some illness can be blocked or mitigated through a vaccine, then effing sign me up. I have happily taken, and will continue to queue up and bear a shoulder or other appropriate muscular group to absorb any vaccine to mitigate illnesses because science:

I’m sure I’m overdue for a few boosters of some of those: DTaP comes to mind — or maybe they call it TDaP now. I dunno ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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*This mutates quickly and there are many different kinds of influenza. Immunologists make very educated guesses/predictions about which of its several variants is going to be most prevalent. Typically, you’ll need an influenza vaccination every year. I haven’t had one in a few years and am clearly overdue.

**I’ve had three Smallpox vaccines over the years. Yes, they stopped administering them en masse back in the early 1970s. But my first smallpox vaccine was when I was a child in 1976 perhaps, probably because they were concerned that I was immunocompromised. The second in 1989 when I joined the Army, because every trainee received it (along with several other vaccines). I had no reaction. The third time because the Army said, “Oh, no reaction? You must not have got a good stick… hold still…” Oh, look… no reaction that time either… a modern mystery that is. This also underscores that vaccines seem to work quite effectively, especially for viruses that are not prone to mutating.

***Typhoid isn’t a virus, per se, but a bacteria, Salmonella typhi. I no longer travel to locations where Typhoid is recurrent, plus it only has about a two-year effectiveness.

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Edit: Interesting: Table 3, Arthralgia, Dose 2, Grade 3.