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The Perfect Disease Surveillance System
Posted on August 23, 2016 4 Comments
How is it that we get to know about diseases like Zika or Ebola? Is it just dumb luck that we encounter patients and then go from there? In a way, yes. These diseases, especially novel ones, have a way of just popping onto the radar without warning. Then we respond vigorously because we weren’t […]
You’re Gonna Need a Bigger Bait
Posted on August 17, 2016 3 Comments
I’m learning to discern between constructive comments and comments that are engineered to get a reaction out of me. It’s part of the maturation process, from what I’ve been told. Now, I don’t ignore all comments. Sometimes I’m bored and respond. But I’m getting better at it. For example: “The President of the US. Bush […]
To Hillary Clinton, I’m Part of the Team
Posted on July 29, 2016 4 Comments
In a vacuum, if both presidential candidates had said/done/tweeted nothing up to this point, I would probably be leaning toward The Orange One. That’s because I am very tired of politicians. Yes, I acknowledge that politicians are necessary in government because not just anyone can do the job. You need someone who knows how to […]
That’s Weird. Radical Islam Is Not an Existential Threat, According to WHO and the World Bank
Posted on July 25, 2016 1 Comment
There’s this thing that you do when you work in public health. You try to look at the top causes of death and disability so you can better understand what you need to do in order to save lives “millions at a time” or some such. To do this, you need to be mindful of […]
To Donald Trump, I’m A Criminal
Posted on July 22, 2016 3 Comments
I tried to be objective and read Donal Trump’s nomination acceptance speech instead of listening to him on television. You can sometimes see something on television and misinterpret it for something worse than it seems. So I went over to Politico.com and read their transcript of the speech. All I got from it is that […]
Girasoles
Posted on July 16, 2016
After having no luck in finding a sunflower patch near my house, I drove down to the Virginia-Maryland line (aka the Potomac River) and found one in a park. The owners set it up for people to go to, but they also did it so that birds would be attracted to the area… So the […]
Goodnight, Kitten
Posted on July 15, 2016 1 Comment
I didn’t have a lot of pets growing up. What pets I had were a combination of dogs we inherited or just randomly adopted (or they adopted us), and a cat or two that liked to be around us. Mom had some parakeets once, but then she lost it when they died. There is also […]
Of numbers and proportions
Posted on July 11, 2016 4 Comments
Last week, after the events in Dallas, Texas, where 5 police officers were shot dead, the Chief of Police in El Paso, Texas, decided to make a statement. Unfortunately, he decided to label the “Black Lives Matter” (BLM) movement as a hate group. This is unfortunate because we’re at a point in history where there […]
Public Health is in a bit of a pickle over the nasal flu vaccine
Posted on June 29, 2016 4 Comments
No more FluMist vaccine for flu this coming flu season. What are the implications? Many.
The fight against inanimate objects
Posted on June 27, 2016 6 Comments
The US Representative (Scott Perry) for my district had a “town hall” over Facebook the other night. He was sitting in his Washington office and took questions from people watching the live feed. On the one hand, I’d like to give him credit for taking questions from his critics (like myself). On the other, he […]
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