All Purls. No Swine.
Where would you rather be? Yeah. I got the vaccination (Pfizer) a few months ago. I'll be 67 next month, and I don't mind admitting that, at all. In relative terms, I'm pretty healthy, with no chronic conditions other than age-related arthritis in some of my joints. Most of what else afflicts me is a… Continue reading All Other Things Being Equal–Covidwise, At Least…
Well, the local distilleries are doing a booming business. Stopped out at one of my favorites the other day, and picked up a bottle of their “peated bourbon” (as good as any Islay single-malt scotch, IMHO), and had a chat with my friend Ellen, the proprietor. They’re doing great. Selling out, in fact. I didn’t stop… Continue reading Covid-19 Update from Whiskey Rebellion Country
News story #1: New York City auctioned off extra ventilators due to cost of maintenance. Yes, they did. Hundreds of them. Ventilators acquired by “Mini Mike” Bloomberg in 2006, in response to a new far-eastern flu strain. As part of that response, and in anticipation of an epidemic, New York City stockpiled ventilators and facemasks.… Continue reading A Tale of Two News Stories
Journal of Public Health, written in 2015, and titled “The Open-Air Treatment of PANDEMIC INFLUENZA.” (No, I’m not shouting, the term is capitalized in the article title.) The authors seem competent, literate, rational and sane, and the details presented are many and compelling. Sources are painstakingly referenced and footnoted. It recapitulates the history, and efforts… Continue reading Remember When ‘Fresh Air’ Was A Good Thing? I Do.
So, folks: What are you doing to eat your way through the CoronApocalypse? Here at All's Right With the World, in the very armpit of Southwestern PA, we’re going big for soup, and have worked our way through beef vegetable, mushroom barley, and (most recently) chicken noodle. We’re too far from town for meal deliveries.… Continue reading Food and Drink In the “I Want To Be Alone” Age