Covid-19 Propaganda

I can't stand by and watch the gullible fall for this B.S. floating around on Twitter, so I have to put this to rest once-and-for-all.

Reported on Marc 31, 2020, Mitch McConnell, according to Salon.com "blames delayed coronavirus response by President Trump on impeachment." Trump supporters are jumping on this bandwagon by connecting Senate Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi's work on the impeachment proceedings, claiming that Covid-19 arrived in the U.S. on January 21, 2020, according to ABC News, but the World Health Organization only issued a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern" on January 30, 2020. On February 28, Politico reported:

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — President Donald Trump on Friday night tried to cast the global outbreak of the coronavirus as a liberal conspiracy intended to undermine his first term, lumping it alongside impeachment and the Mueller investigation.

On March 9, 2020, the World Health Organization tweeted:

"Now that the #coronavirus has a foothold in so many countries, the threat of a pandemic has become very real. But it would be the first pandemic in history that could be controlled. The bottom line is: we are not at the mercy of this virus"-
@DrTedros

 #COVID19"

NPR reported that it was officially a pandemic on March 11, 2020. 

The New England Journal of Medicine documented the timeline of the first U.S. case in great detail. The patient arrived at a Snohomish County, Washington urgent care clinic on January 19, 2020 but he disclosed that he had been coughing for the previous 4 days, following his flight from Wuhan, China. All the people on that flight plus everyone including the attending health care providers were potentially exposed.

Mitch McConnell's claims about the impeachment being the culprit behind the slow response to the pandemic is not enough to cover up the fact that the Trump administration disbanded the U.S. Pandenic Response Team in 2018 and then according to Business Insider on February 25, 2020: "Trump spent the past 2 years slashing the government agencies responsible for handling the coronavirus outbreak"

Adapting to Springfield

After four years living in the Puget Sound area north of Seattle and moving back to Springfield, I had a whole new appreciation for the sparse population of the area, the clean air and light traffic. That was in October of 2016.

Now it's the end of April, 2019 and I find myself once again talking out loud (not yet yelling) to other drivers on Wabash, MacArthur and around town, as they linger too long at green lights, fail to use their turn signals, decide to turn left from a parking lots onto busy four-lane streets with no traffic lights, hesitate to merge into my lane in front of me until I'm forced to almost stop even though they have plenty of space, and so on. It seems my memories of near-death experiences and traffic jams on Interstate 5 along Puget Sound and through downtown Seattle are fading from memory.

My health

No eggs or bread of any kind for breakfast
anymore. It should have been like this
for my whole life.

I had my annual checkup last week and things seem to be going about average for me. My test results are permanently posted in the upper left corner of my blog page, but here's a link anyway.

Within the docs there are links to articles that explain what each particular test concerns.

• My A1C was 2 points over the top margin for normal.
• Vitamin D was low by 4.2 ng/mL
• Glucose was 5 mg/dL over the top margin for normal.
• HDL Cholesterol was 1 mg/dL below the bottom margin for normal
• LDL Cholesterol was 2 mg/dL above the top margin for normal
• RBC (red blood cell) count was low by 0.09 
• HGB (hemoglobin) count was low by 0.3 g/dL
• MCHC corpuscular hemoglobin concentration) was low by 0.4 g/dL

So this means I'm Anemic with Pre-Diabetes. I was told as a child that I had an iron deficiency. It was also revealed to me after I was forty years old that when I was a child a doctor told my mother that I might have Celiac disease. If it was the case it was never treated. Now I know why my stomach hurt and I was so sleepy during my first two hours of school each morning.

I was always falling asleep in class. It was just written off as being lazy and shiftless. My whole f*ing life spent in a fog of deficiency. It's no wonder I never achieved much. If your kids complain at school of being hungry and very tired despite having a large breakfast. They need medical attention.

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Follow-up on 01/27/2019: I started taking Iron supplements and noticed a change right away. My energy level is more stable now and does not crash right after eating a meal. I'm no longer feeling exhausted all the time and climbing the stairs doesn't leave me tired either.