Today the CDC released updated recommendations for what you can do When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated.
First, what does it mean to be fully vaccinated?
People are considered fully vaccinated:

• 2 weeks after their second dose in a 2-dose series, like the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, or
• 2 weeks after a single-dose vaccine, like ( Read more... )

Yesterday I said "I'm not worried" about side effects. Maybe I should have worried a little more? Maybe I should worry a little more about the next dose?
Yesterday I felt pretty good (modulo slamming my left middle finger in the ( Read more... )

If you live in Washington State, a new set of restrictions go into effect tonight at 11:55 pm (except for bars and restaurants, which have until 12:01 am Wednesday), running through December 14th). The best place to start is probably This post on Medium from the governor's office; then hit this PDF for the full list.
There are links ( Read more... )

(Note: this post was started Sunday the 3rd, and planned as Episode 11, but it got pre-empted Monday morning and again on Tuesday. It then got dropped on the floor while wrote Singing in the time of COVID-19.)
I have not been getting much done. I'd originally meant this to be a mix ( Read more... )

My originally planned Episode 11 has gotten postponed again. At this rate... Anyway. I saw a report earlier today about a mutant form of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that appears to be more contagious than the original. A few hours later I made a connection between that and another mutant coronavirus: the mutant form of Feline ( Read more... )

It isn't often that I see the name of someone I've met, and respect, in the lede of a New York Times article, but here you go:
Tim Bray, an engineer who had been a vice president of Amazon’s cloud computing arm, said the firings were “evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture.”
A prominent engineer and ( Read more... )

It's been a month since anyone but the three residents have been in the house -- Colleen's caregiver, V, was the last "outsider". I've done a couple of curb-side pickups, Colleen has had two MAC clinic appointments, and a few people have come to the door with deliveries. But we're as safe as anyone can be in this pandemic.
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Blank list copied from marahmarie: Quarantine Meme's spreading like...the plague. I apparently started working on this Wednesday and got distracted before I could post it.
1. Are you an essential worker?
I'm retired, so not even a worker.
2. How many drinks have you had since the quarantine started?
Maybe 0.5/day? Would be more, ( Read more... )

It has been just over a month since my COVID-19: Episode 1 post; my first use of the covid-19 tag was on March 1st. That was basically the point at which my main worries stopped being centered around climate change and started being centered around COVID-19.
( depressing )

Just one link today: Sigma Xi's COVID-19 Preparedness Kit. It's a huge collection of links -- over 200 of them if my quick-and-dirty count is anywhere near correct. I was tempted to just cut-and-paste, but that wouldn't be fair. (And would be rather tedious.) Go ahead, click the link.
Here's the introduction:
Sigma Xi ( Read more... )