Don’t fear the “mu”
The most-read story on the Washington Post website yesterday (Friday, Sept. 3) was about the “mu” (pronounced “myu,” like what a cat says when it can’t be bothered to fully meow) COVID-19 variant. UCHealth, the...
The coronavirus booster shot is, ethically speaking, meat.
I recently had a conversation with a vegan friend of mine. The conversation was drifting into the ethical and moral arguments for and against the consumption of meat. This sometimes happens with vegans. I’m not a vegan, nor a vegetarian...
Don’t wear a mask. This is about freedom.
Sure, I’ll wear a mask: when you put it on my too-warm, pneumonic body as you wheel me from the inpatient tower to the ICU for proning and intubation.
Coronavirus in the air: what we know; what can help
Just because it doesn’t look dirty doesn’t mean it’s clean. That’s always been true, of course. But the coronavirus pandemic is reinforcing this lesson in unspeakably tragic ways. A gleaming doorknob could well be coated with millions of...
Coronavirus is exponential math in human lungs
I have not rented space in a former Minuteman missile silo, nor have I stockpiled a cubic kilometer of toilet paper or a reservoir’s worth of PET water bottles. But Covid-19 is extremely serious, and it’s serious because of something Al Bartlett...