Well, here I am with another depressing article. However, it's news you can use if you or someone you love has had Covid. The article is in Nature and details a records study conducted on Veterans Affairs patients. They found this:
Even a mild case of COVID-19 can increase a person’s risk of cardiovascular problems for at least a year after diagnosis, a new study shows. Researchers found that rates of many conditions, such as heart failure and stroke, were substantially higher in people who had recovered from COVID-19 than in similar people who hadn’t had the disease.
What’s more, the risk was elevated even for those who were under 65 years of age and lacked risk factors, such as obesity or diabetes.
This does not make me happy.
The day before yesterday, we filled holes in two window casings. Something used to be installed there, later replaced by cellular shades. Instead of doing a nice job of filling and sanding, the installers just goobered some spackle on the wood, and moved on. We sanded those down, and filled two holes they'd done nothing with. The people who make the pink spackle that dries white, also make wood filler that does the same thing. It works well, requires minimal sanding. Yesterday was painting. We're done now. They were driving Jim crazy, so that's off his to do list.
Are these not beautiful bread crumbs? We've been making yeast dinner rolls, and I have to say they grind up much more nicely than the no-knead bread. That's my new mini-food processor.
The turkeys are out, roaming the neighborhood. This one was up the street, he's a big bird.
Here is an old picture of a beautifully restored house in the Tucson barrio. Jim and I have spent some time looking for three photos to go on the giant recently painted wall. We decided that one enormous piece of art would look stupid, so we're trying three framed canvas prints from Costco. I ordered one to see if we like them. This is one of the pictures we decided against because it's too beige, but it's still pretty.
So, other than wondering why Fox "news" tries to pass off a white supremacist mass murderer as a confused "teenager" driven crazy by too many violent video games, and why it is that the minute I heard they took the shooter alive, I knew he was white, and why Elise Stefanik continues to promulgate the great replacement lie, I have not too much to say at present. Vote blue, it's all you can do.
Update to post 9/6/2022: I've been doing some Covid history spelunking, deciding whether or not to challenge someone who just told me that flu kills more people than Covid. Anyway, I discovered that May 16, 2022 was the day the official death count hit one million. It took about 2.5 years to get there, but it did.
Amen. That's my answer, too.
ReplyDeletevoting blue is essential but...democrats are weenies! Get off your asses democrats the rules have changed!!
ReplyDeleteI knew he was White before I saw him too, just due to taken alive without a scratch on him after what he did! There are Politicians and Media on Faux that should be indicted for what they are promoting and encouraging. They should bring back penalty of Death for treason and traitors, all the way to the Top of the food chain of these Lunatic Fringe Domestic Terrorists. It would send a strong message to start with IQ45 and work their way down IMO, they are no longer a Political Party, they are the most Dangerous Domestic Terrorist Organization in our Country and the biggest Threat to it. As for Post-Rona complications, I got a slew of 'em I'm battling, let us Hope Cardiovascular Disease isn't a hidden one...Jeeeeesus!
ReplyDeleteMy brother had covid Xmas before last and has been following studies on long Covid... apparently this virus attacks cells which have a normal regeneration rate of 8 months..which we would not notice, as it is a rolling process until interrupted. Which explains why it takes 8 months to get back up to speed as it were and back to normal
ReplyDeleteIronically, there was a time when Stefanik's family (who came from Europe during the immigrant wave of the early 1900s, as I understand it) would have been considered the "replacers." You'd think that would give her pause.
ReplyDeleteOf course all the right-wing crazies will say it's not Covid that causes cardio problems, but the vaccines!
There's a peacock that lives several streets over but is hardly confined to it's yard as it struts around the neighborhood fairly often.
ReplyDeleteRepublicans NEVER own their shit. So of course it has to be those too realistic video games as if the violent Rambo, Terminator, John Wick, Die Hard, etc, etc, etc movies of non-stop killing and explosions are just light entertainment. And that fucking Elise Stefanik, what a horrible person, thinks it's just fine to let brown babies we're holding in detention starve.
Covid remains a scary disease and will probably be with us for a longer time yet. Seems that the best thing to do is get the various vaccines and maintain common sense around others.
ReplyDeleteI am short on words, except vote blue.
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