Posts Tagged "vaccinations"
ARE YOU BETTER OFF NOW THAN YOU WERE NINETEEN MONTHS AGO?
January, 2020: The first COVID-19 case is identified in the United States. 11 March, 2020: WHO declares COVID-19 to be a global pandemic. Lockdowns, social distancing, travel restrictions, school closings, job losses, shortages follow. 14 December 2020: COVID jabs begin: “I feel like healing is coming.” says nurse Sandra Lindsey as she is one of the first to get the COVID jab. As the vaccines progress, a women cries tears of joy. “I will now be able to get back to my life.” April 2021: Data from a trial of the Pfizer vaccine in Israel demonstrate effectiveness. These were the heady days of the vaccine story. Note how the unvaccinated...
Read MoreDear President -Elect Trump
For those of you following this now occasional blog, note that the emphasis is changing from the small picture (my son) to the big picture, those institutional memes that prevent him and others from being treated for their diagnosable illnesses. For those wanting to know more about this I refer you to two books, both entitled “Beyond Mental Illness.” One, by academics, discusses the path of the typical “mental” patient from denial to regression to hospitalization and finally to acceptance that they have truly have a “mental illness.” The other, by me, advocates a path that is currently not taken or supported by most mental health care...
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