Opuscula Immunization: Caught between Hammer & anvil1

IT IS A QUANDARY, caught between the hammer and the anvil (rock and hard spot).

Who gets vaccinations against the Chinese virus (and its mutations)?

Seniors or working people.

Hard choice.

 

The case for protecting seniors before working age people is the seniors’ general inability to recover from the virus.

Senior, more than working age people are more likely to be less resilient and to have more “underlying” health conditions.

On the other hand, retired seniors can sequester in their homes. If they must go out — and most “must” go out — for food and necessities, to doctors’ offices, to government offices (e.g., post offices, Social Security), the trips usually are specific and brief.

This assumes the seniors have an income from pre-paid sources (e.g., Social Security, retirement plans, securities).

Many merchants have “early hours” for seniors, but the merchants’ doors are open for anyone who wants to enter. Besides, not all seniors are early risers. Again, a quandary.

The case for working-age people has two prongs.

One, these people must have an income.

They have bills to pay, families to (help) support.

The work they do is sometimes more, sometimes less, necessary.

The workers interact with seniors from time to time.

Another plus for “sticking it to seniors” is that many seniors do volunteer work with younger folk.

Mentoring, tutoring, generally volunteering at schools, libraries, and similar venues. (As much as their help is needed in medical environments, the danger may be too great even for those who have been “stuck.”)

Even if seniors are prioritized, younger people — including teenagers and, possibly, pre-teens — with “underlying conditions” are supposed to be inoculated early.

Step up

When I was a young enlistee (c 1960), I was introduced to “shot lines.”

Borrowing from Henry Ford’s production line experience, the recruits walked from medic (corpsman) to medic, each medic inoculating the recruit with one of the many medicines needed to assure the recruit’s health.

Later, the medics put down the needles and syringes and picked up “guns” to inject more people faster.

In order to immunize more people faster, rather than have people come in and be seated, let those who can walk, walk to a medic, receive the immunization, and then go to an observation area for 15 to 30 minutes (to assure there are no adverse reactions). Geezers, such as this scrivener, can “roll up” with a walker, rollator², or mobility scooter.

Mobility options: no-wheel walker, 2-wheel walker, rollator, mobility scooter

At least those people on rollators or mobility scooters have their own seats. 😁

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Sources

1. Hammer and anvil image by Alina Oleynik
    (https://tinyurl.com/y9uxw3vf)

2. Rollator: walker with four wheels. (See image, above)

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Opuscula Interim POTUS Doing exactly What Trump said

INTERIM PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN’s plans to combat the Chinese or Wuhan SARS Covid-19 virus seem to be an echo of President Trump’s announced, and now in action, plan.

Expect the igNoble Committee to give Biden and future president Kamala Harris-Emhoff the Nobel Peace Prize for doing what Trump started.

The Committee gave a Prize to Obama after a few months in office as a means of supporting the man, albeit he did nothing to deserve the prize. It refused to give President Trump the prize, even though under his administration “normalization” agreements were made between Israel and several Muslim countries — and more signing on — and arranged a peace agreement between two warring European nations (Serbia and Croatia).

 

UNLIKE THE DEMOCRATS who loudly proclaimed that “Trump is not MY president,” whether or not Biden-Emhoff won fairly — this scrivener has serious doubts — Biden “won” the election and Emhoff soon will move into the Oval Office. He, and later she, will be my president; I’m an American citizen (who voted), but I am — unlike the “progressive” Democrats — acknowledging that, by hook or by crook, the Democrats won the White House and I will not treat these people as the “progressives” treated Trump from before the primaries to his final days as president.

I will not lower myself to the name-calling and abuse the “progressives” heaped on Trump.

Not MY President Cartoon by Yaakov Kirschen

Let’s compare

Trump, who was not even considered by the Nobel Committee, managed “normalization” agreements between several Muslim nations and Israel.

Trump, who was not even considered by the Nobel Committee, managed to arrange a peace agreement between two European countries.

Trump, who was not even considered by the Nobel Committee, started troop draw-downs from conflict zones.

Trump, who was not even considered by the Nobel Committee, increased sanctions on Iran, a nation that threatens America, Israel, and many Muslim nations.

Trump, who was not even considered by the Nobel Committee, reduced funding to UNRWA which is infamous for its corruption, nepotism, and support of terror.

ON THE OTHER HAND

Obama brought the Muslims’ the destabilizing “Arab Spring”

Obama failed to slow Iran’s race to develop a nuclear weapon and delivery system.

Obama on his last day in office gifted millions to the PLO/PFLA to continue its attacks on Israeli civilians.

Obama’s Secretary of State (Hillary Clinton) allowed a planned “spontaneous” attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that resulted in the deaths of four Americans. (This despite consulate personnel asking State to send more protection.)

Obama did nothing to reduce the number of Americans in danger in foreign lands.

BUT Obama received the Nobel shortly after moving into the White House.

It is worth noting that the incoming, albeit probably interim, president was Obama’s VP, a trusted confidant and counselor.

Recap

Trump arranged normalization and peace agreement. Obama encouraged PLO/PFLP intransigence.

Trump eliminated funding to a terror-supporting, badly managed UNRWA. Obama supported it.

Trump drew down troops in Afghanistan. Obama did nothing.

Trump forced NATO to pick up more of the tab. Obama kept paying the moochers.

Seems to this scrivener the Nobel Committee ought to hang its collective head in shame.

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Opuscula WARP SPEED: Getting vaccine Delivered quickly

Warp Speed

YOU MIGHT NOT BE A “TRUMPER,” but as president he usually kept his promises.

He promised “warp speed” for the development, testing, and distribution of a vaccine against the Chinese virus.

He delivered.

Could Biden or Harris-Emhoff done better? They DID claim they could have delivered a vaccine in record time, but neither was POTUS so it was all “just talk.”

 

TRUMP’S PLAN WAS for the military to deliver the vaccine. While Army General Gustave Perna, chief operating officer for the Defense Department's Operation Warp Speed, is supposedly in control of vaccine distribution, civilian resources are being used to transport and inject the vaccine.

When I was a young lad in the flyin’ corps, the Air Force took innoculations seriously and “shot up” hundreds of airmen every day.

This was before the “gun” came into use; each injection was with a new syringe and needle. The medics had to be quick.

The Air Force had its new recruits line up — EVERYTHING was in a line — an as we moved forward, a medic had his “weapon” in hand.

The medics did not come to us; we came to the medic.

We did not sit down — no reason to sit since we were advancing at a good speed.

We did not get boo-boo bandages, either.

Wipe (alcohol) on, stick, wipe (alcohol) off and keep moving.

Same situation for small pox vaccinations.

In fact, before the vaccinations were healed, we were back for a second round of “preventive medicine.”

I told the guy in front of me that the medic would stick him in his vaccination. He didn’t like that idea. The medic missed the vaccination, but when MY turn came, his “aim” was better. I never felt the needle.

Later, working at an Air Force hospital (Orlando AFB, c 1960), we did the same thing when mass inoculations were required.

Efficient.

Fast.

Warp speed.

Minor changes

Now, being a senior citizen who moves with a “mobility scooter,” I get to sit as I wait in line for my vaccination. (Yes, Virginia, I will get vaccinated as soon as it becomes available to normally healthy geezers.)

I see no reason why military medics (“corpsmen” to sailors and Marines) should not give the injections. They are pros. (Never let a doctor give an injection; most rarely do this and are out of practice.)

Let those of us who are “mobility impaired” and in scooters or wheelchairs pass by seated medics. Those who are ambulatory may walk past standing medics.

It is FASTER if the “patient” comes to the medic than the way it is being done by civilian nurses now.

The above is NOT a knock on the nurses and technicians administering the vaccine. They are skilled and, by all accounts, doing excellent work.

This IS a knock on the process where the needle pusher goes from patient to patient, even those lucky enough to be fully mobile (e.g., other critical care staff).

Although Trump allowed Pfizer to sell Made-in-the-USA vaccine to other countries before all Americans had a chance to be vaccinated, there are (at last) two other vaccines in the pipeline.

When these become available, and all the critical personnel (medical staff, cops and fire “personnel”) are inoculated, then perhaps the POTUS will “call out the Guard” (or encourage governors to do so) for mass vaccinations “the military way.”

Step right up.

To paraphrase the Laugh-In “Sock it to me” line, “Stick it to me.”

There are those who refuse the vaccine. Cartoon by Shlomo Cohen for Israel HaYom 15 DEC 2020

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Opuscula A stupid offer I gladly DELETED

A scammer claiming to be The Bank of Missouri is offering me a MasterCard if I will pay said bank a “processing fee” of only $89.00 !

There IS a Bank of Missouri. (https://tinyurl.com/y2xyb4w6)

I have had bank cards for decades. I never paid a fee; the cards were issued by institutions with which I was doing business.

 

Screen capture of email

 

Since I was curious to know about this Bank of Missouri, I read the offer's small print.

I learned that the spam came from a marketing company in Buffalo NY.

That put me in mind of an old hot sauce commercial when a cowboy can’t believe the competitor’s sauce is “Made In New York City!”

Are there no marketing companies in Missouri? Not even St. Louis?

At the very bottom of the email, there was, in the same small print, a line that read:

To be removed from our list, simply click here or write to us at:

Naturally I “clicked here” and was taken to the web site that presented me the image below:

 

Scammer uncovered

 

Because I did not just fall off the turnip truck, I decided to look at the email’s trail, its bona fide.

The email actually was posted from support@enjund.eclaitt.org.uk.

 

Tail and trail of email

 

I looked for eclaitt.org with and without “.uk.”

I failed to find any description of WHAT the company does, but I did see its disclaimer. (http://eclaitt.org.uk/disclaimer.html)

I asked The Bank of Missouri twice over two days if it even issued MasterCards.

I know there IS a “Bank OF Missouri,” but I’m not sure anyone works there as I failed to receive a response to my twice-submitted query.

I also know the bank, the Buffalo NY marketing company, and the U.K-based organization that apparently sent the email (on the bank's or the marketing company's behalf) will not get my business; not for $89 or for any amount.

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Opuscula I know what you Wrote, but what Do you mean?

For several decades I had the pleasure of working in newspapers, first as a hot type printer, then as a reporter-photographer, and finally as an editor.

Depending on the size of the newspaper, I might have been all of the above.

For the most part, the pay was nothing to write home about, but most of the time the work was enjoyable … and educational. I helped create the first edition Gannett’s first TODAY newspaper, in Cocoa Florida, c1966.

Blame it on my time on mostly good newspapers and working with generally superior copy editors, but over the course of the years I became a pedant about the language.

UNFORTUNATELY, the trait remains long after I turned in my pica pole and sleeve garters. Faux pas — a/k/a “fox paws” — still catch my eye and raise my dander.

 

Real printer’s pica pole

 

Following are a few recent examples.

Israeli Blackhawk makes emergency landing with IDF chief for second time

World Israel News 3 NOV 20 https://tinyurl.com/yx9jvwo5

Israeli Blackhawk, with IDF chief, makes second emergency landing.

ACTUALLY, it was the SECOND Blackhawk that made an emergency landing while the IDF chief on board. Two helicopters, two emergency landings, one IDF chief.

Minneapolis to consider bringing in outside police officers amid shortage

Minneapolis MN Star-Tribune 10 NOV 20 https://tinyurl.com/yxaowlzf

If the mayor and City Council approve the plan, officers from the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office and Metro Transit Police would temporarily work with the city, primarily helping to respond to violent 911 calls.

Were the calls really "VIOLENT" or where they ABOUT violent crime?

Trump Reportedly Discussing 2024 Presidential Run

National Review 10 NOV 20 https://tinyurl.com/y55a3cg5

More than 71 million voters cast their ballot for Trump this election cycle, a record number of votes for a sitting president. U.S. presidents are limited to serving two terms, but the terms are not required to be consecutive.

This is correct according to the 22nd Amendment. Pity the writer failed to site the source. The Amendment was ratified on February 27, 1951 after Democrat FDR ignored Washington's precedent. https://tinyurl.com/uyfz8om

Netanyahu calls for Jewish-Arab unity at Knesset meeting on violence in Arab society

JNS 11 NOV 20 https://tinyurl.com/y2qkrs7a

The regional “revolution” in Arab-Jewish relations must extend within Israel’s borders, and “the first component is personal security—defeating crime, defeating the rule of fear,” says the Israeli premier.

Israel has a PRIME MINISTER and a PRESIDENT. It does not have a "PREMIER" (although Netanyahu would be "king for life").

Man injured at South Side rail yard sues Norfolk Southern, claiming it intentionally puts workers at risk

Chicago Tribune 17 NOV 2020 https://tinyurl.com/y68z2c28

“I don’t think anyone is alleging that they wanted to see Ernest get hurt, that they wanted to see any of the Black employees get hurt,” Herbert said. “But the fact remains that they were certainly treated with little disregard because of who they were."

I THINK the workers were DISREGARDED. "treated with little disregard" means "almost no disregard."

IDF hits targets in southern Damascus area, claims Syrian media

JNS 25 NOV 2020 https://tinyurl.com/y5lcdaut

Did the IDF REALLY claim (destroy) the Syrian media OR, is the Syrian media MAKING the claim?

"claim": "To take in a violent manner as if by right: a hurricane that claimed two lives" https://tinyurl.com/y6dkwypn

Second Temple period dice found in Beit El

27 NOV 2020 https://tinyurl.com/y4ayh3mv

An ancient die was discovered at the Khirbet Kfar Mor archaeological site in Beit El.

The headline was wrong; the body correct. "Die" is singular; "dice" is plural. Ask any crap(s) shooter.

Now, the organization’s (Times Up) website says its mission is to pursue “safe, fair and dignified work for women of all kinds."

Daily Wire https://tinyurl.com/y2rxh6jh

"women of all kinds" ?

Who are these "women of all kinds?" Straight, LGBTQ?; blondes, brunettes, red heads; tall ones, short ones, thin ones and fat ones; white, "women of color," U.S. citizens, those who have work visas, illegal immigrants? Pick an attribute.

What I'm (reasonably) sure the writer intended was "safe, fair and dignified work for *all* women." Fewer words, no ambiguity.

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