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SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Dispatches and Essentials, all in one place - Friends --- On the not so-genius-theory that this will be a long siege, it seemed smart to gather the key essentials --- vitamins, soaps and supplies -- I've identified and, in

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Do You Use A Pulse Oximeter? (And If You Do, Why Didn’t You Tell Me?) - BUTLER’S BUSINESS MODEL: Patreon is a click-to-donate site. Sign in. Choose your level of support --- ignore the suggestion of $15 a month, anything is just fine --- and

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: DUNKIRK - Dunkirk. That’s the metaphor I’ve been looking for: the heroic evacuation of Allied troops from a French beach in 1940. When the evacuation began, Winston Churchill had been Prime Minister

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: First, let’s keep ourselves healthy - The world as we know it ended at 9 PM on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. A virus killed it. Of course it had some help: When Donald Trump spoke, he made factual

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Giving The Finger To “Time To Meditate… Slow Down… Reflect” - I’ve pretty much had it with rich white people who describe this catastrophe as an opportunity for personal growth and rich white people who are launching websites for writers to

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Hand Soap! - If Donald Trump has his way, you’re going to die --- but not before he gives you another tax cut. The less bad news: Coronavirus will be a global pandemic. No

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Healing your head - MUSICAL INTERLUDE Yo-Yo Ma: Dvořák – Going Home” (from Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World") “In these days of anxiety, I wanted to

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Hi! I mean: Wow! High! (It’s April 20). Plus: why Vitamin D can help, and other reality-based Good News - CAPTION: Hospital workers who have been treating COVID patients for weeks stand in traffic in Denver to block cars of open-the-country protesters. Comment on Twitter: “Those people will show up

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: How to look your best on Facetime - WE COULD BE HEROES: BRETT CROZIER… AND HUGH THOMPSON, JR. by Charles P. Pierce, Esquire columnist. I encourage you to read him daily… and subscribe. If there is a “real

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Ignore the President. Act like a Governor. Take Charge. - CAPTION: New York firemen applaud hospital workers at shift change. "So let us not talk falsely now The hour is getting late" - Dylan, “All Along the Watchtower” Before we start...watch this: Heart pounding? Tears?

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Ignoring the President, maintaining your goals, honoring your purpose - March 30. All he had to do is keep his mouth shut and let us masterfully self-isolate for another week and then see how the infection curve looks, and because

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Living in Your Living Room (Good news, bad news) - GOOD NEWS: DON’T NEED YOUR STIMULUS MONEY? WANT TO HELP? PLEASE BOOKMARK THIS GiveDrectly.org identifies households that desperately need money. Why? “We believe people living in poverty deserve the dignity to

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Louise Bernikow: “In September, I will be 80 years old.” It means: In September, I will be here, alive.” - QUOTE OF THE DAY: MATTHEW 25:31-46 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Old: Acts 20:35 “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” Now: “It’s vastly more blessed to have.” - It’s Sunday. Let’s start with some glorious music: “QUARANTIFICAT,” performed by the Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, from the “Magnificat,” by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) View from My Window was launched on

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Only those who go too far know how far they can go, plus: writing condolence notes - CAPTION: The statue of Abraham Lincoln in front of the New York Historical Society When the United States was the most richest and most powerful nation, the middle was safe.

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Plague fatigue. Impatience. “Tone.” And then… a thumbs-up. - My parents were screamers, so it’s no surprise I do everything I can to avoid situations where someone is yelling. And I try never to be the one who’s raised

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Possibly the most important video of your life - "Patient Zero," in general usage, refers to the first case of a catastrophic trend. I give it a more personal meaning: the first person in my circle to be afflicted. Because,

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: President Jim Jones suggests you drink the Kool-Aid - Lucky you if you haven’t seen this: How did it happen? At yesterday’s White House press conference, William Bryan, the secretary for science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, spoke

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Staying Steadfast in Biblical Times - There's no dancing around it, and I can't believe I'm typing this: If the President has his way, many New Yorkers will be sick by mid-April and there won't be

SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: Strutting toward the apocalypse - Jackie Fletcher --- the woman in the photo --- felt strongly about the lockdown, so she went to an open-it-up protest at the State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois on Friday.