In November remember – DO NOT flip a coin, throw a dart at the ballot, or close your eyes and pull any lever your hand rests on. And DO NOT vote for a President and then skip the rest of the state and local candidates and issues on your ballot: | |
1. You’re not JUST voting for President | |
2. You’re voting for Democracy and you’re voting against allowing the USA to become yet another authoritarian regime. | |
3. You’re voting for Federal leadership to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. | |
4. You’re voting for who replaces Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the Supreme Court. | |
5. You’re voting for the appointment of a qualified Secretary of Education and getting rid of the unqualified Betsy Devos. | |
6. You’re voting for federal judges. | |
7. You’re voting for the rule of law. | |
8. You’re voting for saving national parks. | |
9. You’re voting for letting kids out of cages and reunited with their families. | |
10. You’re voting for clean air, clean water and more sustainable energy resources. | |
11. You’re voting for scientists to be allowed to speak about climate change and for rebuilding the CDC. | |
12. You’re voting for what a President says and does on Twitter. | |
13. You’re voting for housing rights. | |
14. You’re voting for minorities to be treated with dignity by those who are supposed to protect and serve all people under the Constitution of the United States. | |
15. You’re voting for non-Christians to be able to adopt and to feel like full citizens. | |
16. You’re voting for Dreamers. | |
17. You’re voting so that there will be Social Security and Medicare when you retire. | |
18. You’re voting for veterans to get the care they deserve. | |
19. You’re voting for rural hospitals. | |
20. You’re voting so that everyone can have health insurance without regard to employment status or income. | |
21. You’re voting for the preservation of PBS. | |
22. You’re voting to have a President who doesn’t embarrass this country every time she or he attends an international meeting. | |
23. You’re voting for sensible gun laws. | |
No Democrat is perfect. They won’t pass your purity test. And yet every single one of them will be better than four more years of Trump!!! Please be reasonable and STAY FOCUSED! | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Always Surprises |
2018 | You’ve Got To Stand For Something |
Day 24: Hand Touching Hand | |
2017 | The Tide Will Turn |
2016 | Dreamers |
2015 | Three Roars |
2014 | Be R-E-L-E-V-A-N-T |
2013 | Lacking |
2012 | So Small A Thing |
2011 | Is Your Time Valuable? |
Posts Tagged ‘CDC’
Register And Vote
Posted in Education, Health, Politics, tagged #DefeatTrumpism, Betsy Devos, CDC, COVID-19, Dreamers, Education, Election 2020, Health, Medicare, PBS, Politics, Register, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SSA, Vote on August 20, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Expectation For The Near Future
Posted in Health, Politics, tagged Business Insider, CDC, China, Corona Virus, COVID-19, Easter, Flu, Health, MSNBC, Politics, Spain, United States on March 29, 2020| 2 Comments »
Below are two charts representing Corona Virus (COVID-19) fatalities in Italy and then the United States (below that). The line on the Italy graph represent where the United States is now (between 500-700 deaths). It also represents the projection of where we can expect to be in two weeks. | |
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When looking at these charts please recall the Italian government called a national shutdown which is now going into the third week. Notice the plateau at the far right of the Italy chart. This shows the number of citizens who died is not zero, but the rate of deaths is no longer increasing. We (the U.S.) have yet to impose a national shutdown. In fact, if we do not maintain (increase) the shutdown we are almost guaranteeing we maximize the number of deaths from the virus. | |
The two following graphs show the COVID-19 death rate by age and then a comparison with the “standard” flu. If you are young, you might be saying: “Well, it’s mostly old people dying.” Yes, it is significantly more deadly if you are older. BUT, before you say who cares, observe that COVID-19 is 10 to 20 times more lethal at every age group. | |
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Finally, a chart showing the rate of deaths for the U.S. versus all significant occurrences world wide. We are tracking almost parallel to Spain. The problem is Spain has less than 50 million population and the U.S. has over 330 million population. | |
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My suggestion is that you make NO plans to attend Easter services this year… | |
If we are VERY lucky, we will have herd immunity by the end of September. | |
We have a choice. We can self-isolate… Look after each other – family, friends and neighbors – while keeping a safe distance. We are all in this together. Stay well. | |
Chart sources are: CDC (U.S.), CDC (China), Business Insider and MSNBC. | |
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On This Day In: | |
2019 | Indian Myth |
Did He Even Have The Courage To Ask? | |
2018 | Nothing |
2017 | Approval First |
2016 | In Search Of Words |
Day 2 – Blending | |
2015 | At What Price? |
2014 | Intricate And Subtle Order |
2013 | Attention To Detail |
2012 | Aequanimitas! |
2011 | Consider This |
Day 18: My Body Mass Index (BMI)
Posted in Diets, Health, tagged 28/35, 345lbs, BMI, Body Mass Index (BMI), CDC, Center for Disease Control (CDC), Day 18: Juice Fasting, Diet, Health, Morbidly Obese on August 14, 2018| 3 Comments »
Please do NOT take anything I say in my posts about fasting as medical advice. I am NOT a physician or health specialist and have NO formal training in medicine, diet or nutrition. I do have lots of personal experience dieting (and failing) and losing weight (and finding it again). Please consult your doctor before you start a diet, work-out plan or any significant change in your physical lifestyle. A word to the wise should suffice… | |
The end of day eighteen and the start of day nineteen… | |
Morning weight: 345lbs. | |
I am now down “28/35”. As in, 28lbs down from my fasting start weight: 373lbs, and 35lbs down from my highest weight ever (two days before I started the fast): 380lbs. Today’s loss is a 2lb loss, down from 347lbs yesterday. I continue to feel an average loss of 2lbs per day are unusual and that I will start hitting plateaus any day now… | |
The BMI for a typical adult American male is 28.6. My BMI (Body Mass Index) estimate is: 49.5 (Morbidly Obese) | |
According to the CDC, which rates a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 as “normal” (Normal weight: <= 173lbs for me) and a BMI of 25 to 29.9 as “overweight” (Over-weight: <= 208lbs to me). Any male adult with a BMI of 30 or higher is considered obese (“Just” obese: <= 275lbs to me). To put this in perspective, I have lost 35lbs (to date on this fast) and need to lose 70lbs MORE just to get down to the top of the obese range. Since (in my experience) the greatest loss occurs at the start of the fast, it is extremely unlikely this fast (or any reasonable fast) will get me near that much weight loss. And, in fact, that was never my intent at the start of this. Please recall I was intending to fast for seven days to jump-start my diet / lifestyle change. This remains my ultimate objective: to get to a healthier weight level by changing my “relationship” with food AND decreasing my sedentary lifestyle (since I am retired and no longer an office worker). | |
And so I plod on – day by day. My medium term goal (today): 21 days (noon this Friday). If I can reach that date, evaluate how I feel and push on or break the fast. I would love to be able to say I’ve lost 50lbs fasting, but that would probably be another two weeks beyond Friday and I don’t want to think that far ahead. Today I juiced up another bunch of veggies and have enough to get me close to (if not through) the weekend. And so, day to day… | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Open Your Eyes (And Your Heart) |
2016 | Privilege Too… |
2015 | Otherwise Obscured |
2014 | Fundamentals |
2013 | Proof – ing |
2012 | Deluge, n. |
2011 | Hail, Caesar! |
Why Were You Sent? | |
Register And Vote
Posted in Education, General Comments, Health, Philosophy, Quotes, Science and Learning, tagged CDC, Comments, COVID-19, Doug Boyd, Full Shutdown, Health, K-12 Schools, Philosophy, Quotes, Soapbox, The Economy on September 28, 2020| 2 Comments »
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