Even Sophie the dog wears a mask against Coronavirus.
– If giver doesn’t wear mask and receiver does – 70% chance of transmission
– If giver wears mask and receiver doesn’t – 5% chance of transmission
– If giver wears mask and receiver wears mask – 1.5% chance of transmission
That’s doggie good statistics to avoid the Coronavirus plague.
People can learn just like dogs. 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
So I go for some blood work today.
Lady pokes my arm, and nothing comes out.
She moves the point of the needle around and around– still no blood.
She says: “Hey, it’s your fault!”
I say:
You’re right, no one told me that I was supposed to bring blood with me today.
She looks up and says, “Okay let’s try the other arm!”
Then she spanks the arm…and I blurt out laughing, “hey do that again!”
Then poke, poke, and the blood easily fills a half dozen tubes.
She’s said, “You see that worked!”
I said:
I only brought blood in my right arm today!
If I could read her mind: “Ok, get the F*** out of the office.”
But she was nice and actually says, “You can get your results in about 3 days.” 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
It’s a pretty well-known Jewish tradition that Chicken Soup is almost like an cure all.
Our moms for centuries have preached chicken soup whenever you didn’t feel well or felt like you may be coming down with something.
Hmm…I wonder if it even works on Coronavirus. Heck, I’d try it for sure. LOL
From an alternative medicine perspective, like it says on the package:
It’s penicillin in a pot.
Anyway, I thought this package kit of matzo ball soup was pretty cute.
With the old lady that looks like she’s about to fall in the soup saying:
Good. Not as good as mine. But good.
Hey, I guess there is no package matzo ball soup that is going to be as good as homemade.
Especially as I was taught that the magic ingredient is not chicken, but love! 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
There is an old adage that:
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
Both bacteria and viruses are enemies of people in that they often make us sick.
If they can make us sick, why can’t they be used to fight and make each other sick (i.e. destroy each other).
Thus, bacteria can be our friend, if we use them to destroy viruses, like Coronavirus.
Why can’t we create a “virus-eating bacteria” (and vice versa “bacteria-eating virus”) to destroy these little monsters that are infecting and killing us?
Let our enemies kill each other! 😉
(Credit Graphic: Andy Blumenthal)
So one huge downside to this Coronavirus shutdown is that you can barely get any help for other medical conditions or elective surgeries.
I just heard this morning from a relative about family members that can’t get shots they need for pain control or surgeries for breathing problems.
Everything now is COVID-19.
That’s the priority (maybe all of the top ten priorities)!
But does it really make sense to completely triage COVID-19 above Cancer, Heart Disease, Respiratory Disease, Strokes, Alzheimers, Diabetes, Kidney Disease, Liver Disease, Parkinson’s, and more.
Coronavirus patients are who the hospital and ICU beds are for now.
And the respirators.
The testing.
The new research dollars.
Perhaps, the global medical community has gone a little Coronavirus crazy, extreme, radical, overboard in their singular focus, panic, and chaos over just one virus to the exclusion of everything else!
Apparently, our totally “overwhelmed” medical system can’t “walk and chew gum at the same time.”
Certainly, we have a lot to be grateful for to the dedicated and selfless doctors and nurses in the medical community for everything they are doing to help people with Coronavirus under very trying circumstances.
The problem is that in the meantime, people that have new or other chronic conditions are being left out and sometimes to rot.
Unless of course you are a big fan of telemedicine, which may be good to get something routine looked after, but something major, and I think you’re in big trouble.
After this Coronavirus (assuming there is an after), there is going to be a lot of pent up demand for medical care.
I think a lot of people are suffering now with conditions that they were waiting to take care of until they were absolutely necessary, but unfortunately when it became necessary, then the care was not there.
Makes you wonder whether and when you should do or put off medical procedures in the future: just because the care is there “today,” doesn’t mean it will be there tomorrow. 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Wow, this was incredible for my kids to find in the store…
Magic Skin Cream
My dad of blessed memory, when he was alive created a cream called, “Magic Cream.”
And it really was magic–he would put it on regularly to heal virtually any routine skin ailment.
It used all natural ingredients and he carefully protected the secret formula.
To now see the magic cream in a major retail store left me really surprised.
I wish that he had been able to bring his magic cream to market and that it would have been a huge success.
IMHO, my dad deserved this achievement–he was brilliant and hardworking and most importantly, a super good person with tremendous faith in G-d and real integrity.
I miss him dearly. 😉
(Credit Photo: My daughter Rebecca)
Saw this at a doctors office in one of the patient rooms.
At first I wasn’t even sure what it was.
Looks like a stomach.
What are those globs?
Oy, they represent malignant tumors (from what I understood reading the fine print).
Really makes it hit home when you see it in front of you on display like that.
So much suffering from illnesses like cancer.
G-d should have mercy.
We really need to find “the cure!”
Imagine what a day that will be. 😉
So I was talking to someone about their challenges in life.
And they said something that really hit a chord:
You never know what your expiration date is!
What an interesting way to say you never know when your time is up.
They used the phrase “expiration date” like we so commonly see on food and medicine products.
You know when you read the label and it tells you to discard after a certain date.
So people are like all these other goods that have a date stamped on them.
We have a date stamped on us (maybe it’s on our forehead or some other less conspicuous place), and we just can’t see it.
Yet, we need to live every day as if that expiration date is coming due.
Because like that stale food in your fridge or the old medicine in your cabinets, everything and everybody has a shelf life.
So you better live every day good and meaningfully before your expiration date comes due. 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
No, they’re not noodles.
They are pencils in the museum.
And they are certainly limp, if not completely dead.
Who in the world would use a clown pencil like this?
This is some serious dysfunction.
If I could, I would certainly prescribe some much needed Viagra for these. LOL
They are that sad! 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
This sign had a pretty good point:
“Shopping is cheaper than a psychiatrist.”
Plus it’s more fun and you get to take the junk home that you buy.
For many, shopping truly is a form of mental/stress relief–almost like medicine.
Unfortunately, if you think about it, things don’t really make a person happy…rather people do and doing good does.
But industry wants you to think a lot more superficially and materialistically than that.
Hence the notion that if you take your daily dose of shopping, maybe you can skip the shrink! 😉
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
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