One of the books in my personal library that I’ve actually read is Getting Risk Right: Understanding the Science of Elusive Health Risks, by Geoffrey C. Kabbat. It wasn’t the book on risk that I needed at the time, but … Continue reading
Category Archives: Covid-19
Still Afraid to Eat Out?
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We are still eating at home. We used to eat out a lot, and I miss it. But I’m starting to rethink things a bit. I figure that after the Omicron spike I expect to see from holiday travel, it … Continue reading
911 Concern Resolved!
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Have you ever called the office of your city council member to complain? Did you get results? I’m not especially fond my CM, but I have to give his staff a compliment. I called with a concern and I got … Continue reading
Are We Doing Covid Wrong?
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Did we get Covid wrong from the get-go? Did we get it right at the beginning, but now it’s wrong? What seems obvious to some is not so obvious to me. I don’t think we’ll know which approach to the … Continue reading
Coming to Grips With Covid
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Covid is endemic. It’s never going away. So now what. I’m triple-vaxxed, and mentally, I’m starting to lose a bit of my anxiety. Charlie and I showed our “vaccine passports” at a Starbucks this week so we could sit down … Continue reading
Why I’m Right
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Why am I so often right while you are so often wrong? That is the question, isn’t it. Kathryn Schulz did an excellent job of explaining why it’s so hard to be wrong in her book Being Wrong. I refer … Continue reading
Just Call Me Karen
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That’s right, I’m a Karen. Yesterday I called 911 to report a black man. We had walked downtown, then to Pioneer Square, then got on the streetcar to come up to First Hill. Our first stop had been at a … Continue reading
Things Are Not Normal
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Oh, yeah, we have news for you today. At our monthly Fireside Chat (retirement community name for CEO report to residents), we got the good news that our Social Security checks might go up as much as 6% in January. … Continue reading
Talking With Strangers
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My retirement residence is full of smart, accomplished people who are mostly Democrats. We have some Republicans, including some who voted for Trump and some who didn’t, but “viewpoint diversity” is not our strong suit. After the 2020 election, I … Continue reading
Pandemic Reflections #9
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The Road Trip I want to be done with these Pandemic Reflections, but here we are, late August 2021, and Covid is almost everywhere. We are in the midst of a road trip (we cancelled a flight to Kodiak and … Continue reading
If Only People Weren’t Dying
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If only people weren’t dying, we could do this Covid thing as theater. There are lots of little dramatic elements to build on. Without Covid, this one week of my life would have been mundane, unworthy of notice. But Covid … Continue reading
Less Bad News of the Day
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There’s an App For That Are you hoping to get outta Dodge for a while? Canada, maybe? Our super polite neighbors have created a few obstacles, but good neighbors that they are, they’ve also created an App to help you … Continue reading
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