Category: Writing

Santa Clara County deaths had a spike of 5 in one day on May 6, and has since fallen to wavering between 1 and 0 most days since then. There were 144 people hospitalized in the county on May 1 and we have fallen more or less continuously to the current number of 52. The… Continue reading May Month-end Summary

Today a friend of mine sent me a link to an op-ed piece in the New York Time. Here’s the link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/20/opinion/coronavirus-vaccine-polio.html And here’s my response to my friend: I’m not sure, however, that the polio virus is a good parallel.  There are, after all, vaccines in clinical trials right now.  Maybe they won’t pass the… Continue reading When Will We Get a Vaccine?

One of the complaints I have about the way Covid-19 health statistics are reported on the news is that they always report the totals. It makes for mighty big numbers and sounds scary. (I’m not saying Covid isn’t scary.) For example, on the day I write this, there are over 1.5 million cases in the… Continue reading One Problem with Covid Statistics

The Covid lockdown has caused a blossoming of chalk art in the streets. It’s a pleasure to see. Here’s one I saw the other day.

This past weekend we took a walk through the former Cubberley High School which is now a recreational location run by the Parks Department. Except, now, of course, its closed. I keep thinking I should right a new blog post, but the fact is my days are pretty routine. Then I got the idea, during… Continue reading Weekend Walk – Photo Journal

I saw this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV8wWhjTKRU which says, in small part, that ACE Inhibitors may help lesson Covid-19 lung damage. So I did some further research this morning and found this article from the New England Journal of Medicine:  https://www.jwatch.org/na51345/2020/04/09/ace-inhibitors-and-arbs-during-covid-19-pandemi  which takes a more balanced stand that ACE inhibiters may make Covid-19 worse or maybe better. Nevertheless… Continue reading “ACE Inhibiters during the Covid-19 Pandemic”

Since Mid-March I have had a slight dry cough. I took the CDC self evaluation which said “call your doctor if you feel worse”. I realized then, and still think, that the cough could be due to a mild case of Covid-19. I originally thought it might be start of more severe symptoms, so far… Continue reading Talking to the Doctor

In an effort to cheer people up (especially kids) someone has come up with the idea of putting teddy bears in the window. We’ve done the same:

I thought I was going to add to this blog every day, but so far I’ve been busy–busier than usual for several reasons. I just finished reading a blog post from a friend of mine who lives in Montana: https://blog.smittie.com/quarantine-for-covid-19/ His experience is way different than mine here in Silicon Valley. Here, we are somewhat… Continue reading Catching [up]

We’ve been in lockdown now for one week. Every one in my family is well. Nothing dramatic has changed. Our days are pretty typical. We go out to get the newspaper after breakfast. It is about a mile round trip and serves as part of our exercise. Later we take a bike ride, weather permitting.… Continue reading A Day in the Life