Tag: Disease

• covid-19 will get us all

  One thing has become clear to me: finding protection from covid-19 from herd immunity isn’t going to happen, or won’t happen until much, much later in the pandemic when it becomes moot. That horse has left the barn, so to speak. The reasons are many. Here in the United States it was because enough of…

  Mark

  August 15, 2021

  Politics 2021, Sociology

  COVID-19, Disease, Pandemics

• Seize the day

  For those of you wondering about my dying mother, she is still alive and unfortunately she is not improving. I do my best to visit her once a week. I try to visit on Saturdays around lunchtime. This usually works best for my schedule. I arrive about forty-five minutes before lunch. By this time, her…

  Mark

  October 17, 2005

  Philosophy

  Compassion, Disease, Dying, Families, Loss

• Bird Flu Fever

  If Occam’s Razor ceases to exist a year from now, it will not be because I will have lost interest. It will be because I am dead. Dead of avian flu, the bird flu that is wreaking havoc in Southeast Asia, has already infected humans and now has migrated to Turkey. Until today, I was…

  Mark

  October 13, 2005

  Politics 2005

  Disease

• In the Nursing Home

  When my time comes to depart this earth, I want it to be unexpected and swift. I want to be doing something innocuous like reading the paper one moment then be instantly dead. Is that too much to ask? Perhaps in the afterlife I would regret my decision. Perhaps I would have wanted closure. Perhaps…

  Mark

  July 13, 2005

  Life 2005

  Disease, Dying, Loss, Love