March 03.2020 IF YOU ARE SICK, YOU HAVE COVID-19 UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE Containment seems to have failed entirely. That is not good. With serious testing just beginning this week, reported cases will likely multiply exponentially. Our health care system could well take a big hit. We need to help them right now. Again. As citizens... Continue Reading →
March 01,2020 It seems likely hundreds of COVID-19 individuals are in our country. Indeed, it may be spreading somewhat ‘freely’ in certain areas. We don’t know because we basically are not testing yet. And finding one case of community acquired COVID-19 is like seeing one mouse in your home; there’s likely many, many more. 35,000... Continue Reading →
February 29, 2020 Goal: As citizens, our responsibility is to keep away from COVID-19 until an effective vaccine is developed and distributed; about 12 - 24 months from now. This virus could easily overwhelm any regional health system and that is were the real chaos will occur. Let us not do that. So……. 1. ... Continue Reading →
February 2020 I grew up between Woods Hole and East Falmouth. For many years, after my parents split, we were poor. We bought gas with change from the ashtray, thrift shop cloths were handed down, the dump provided furniture, and the food we had was precious. I was also a green card holder - an... Continue Reading →
Rick Rescorla February 28, 2020 One key tenant of emergency preparedness; in a crisis, your action in the first minute defines the outcome of the first hour. Actions in the first hour define the outcome of the first day; the first day defines the first week and so on. Mistakes made compound over time and... Continue Reading →
February 28, 2020 Watching the response to COVID-19 has been disappointing. Having worked as the hospital emergency preparedness coordinator during the H1N1 pandemic and on a cruise ship during a flu outbreak, this response is not going great. Honest, concise information presented calmly and consistently is by far the best and cheapest weapon against pandemics.... Continue Reading →
July 2019 We continue to experiment on groups of children, without their consent, without the consent of their parents, and in full view of the public. Incarcerated, the border war children will not get an impartial ethics committee or an oversight board to demand humane medical treatment. The architects of this experiment have sequestered the... Continue Reading →
May 2018 • She’s hiding in a closet in her school Chased there by a monstrous shooting ghoul How have us brave Boomers so miserably failed To prevent our children being so brutally assailed • Oh and the insult is so much worse, Her lead levels are life time curse Again and again, our horror... Continue Reading →
March 01, 2019 “Emergency!” The 1970’s screen version of firefighter paramedics, excited both my stubbornly male nature and the empath inside. But the screen was blind to the details of smell and taste and my childhood table lacked nurses or paramedics to fill out that pallet. I sat with scientist-farmers and doctors with PhD’s instead... Continue Reading →
January 14, 2019 “Emergency!” The 1970’s screen version of firefighter paramedics, excited both my stubbornly male nature and the empath inside. But the screen was blind to the details of smell and taste and my childhood table lacked nurses or paramedics to fill out that pallet. I sat with scientist-farmers and doctors with PhD’s instead... Continue Reading →
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