Thoughts Out Of Season

Dispelling Distortions of My City I am a native New Yorker and I'll admit we have our ways, but this huge explosion of Omicron is not indicative of any malfeasance by New Yorkers themselves. Many of the citizens have been vaccinated but, and what may surprise you we also follow the rules. We try to sperate as much distance as we can from another. And as for wearing masks we are have no problem with that. We don't feel we are being imposed on our rights being trampled or afraid some super-national government is looking to do us in. Every day I take the subway and to see and unmasked individual is a shear anomaly. The looks usually do not bring an outcry but an acknowledgement and most time the person will put a mask on.  Walk down any street and you will see the greatest majority of passerby wearing masks. No one screaming "Give me Liberty of Give me Death". We have no problems wearing masks when going into supermarkets We accept what's real in this world and we do...

  In case you haven't heard a new variant of Covid 19, known as Omicron is causing world wide concern that we are in for another devastating wave of infection across the globe. There are already travel restrictions popping up against travelers from Africa worldwide.  There in not much known at this time when it comes to virulence and its ability to sicken and cause death as such on the scale of Covid-19 and its Delta variant. What is so concerning to scientists is that there are multiple, as much as 30 mutations identified on the spike that attaches the virus to the cell and thus infect it. These mutations may become "invisible" to any vaccine rendering it ineffective.   The variant has not yet been identified in the United States officially but it would not be out of the question to assume it is already here, For now, same suggestions. Vaccine, booster shots, wear a mask in public. It will probably take several weeks to get a rudimentary handle what we are looking ...