Amid the daily avalanche of media reports about the Covid pandemic—some based on science, others on speculation and still others, perhaps the majority, on Internet conspiracies and high-octane bullshit—occasionally you run across a new angle to this topic. Such was the case with a July 22 piece in the The Atlantic magazine, that designated an …
During a recent 15-day sojourn in San Antonio, Texas, for Stew to undergo knee-replacement surgery—and for me to play his personal Florence Nightingale during his recovery—we both got the booster Pfizer shot and the annual flu vaccine at a Walgreens pharmacy. Taking both vaccines simultaneously was perfectly safe, or so we had read. That was true …
Continue reading My own curious sidebar to the coronavirus story
On Friday, about a year to the day after the World Health Organization officially upgraded the Covid-19 "disease" to a worldwide pandemic, the Mexican government's vaccination campaign rolled into San Miguel to an expectant and excited popular reception you'd expect for the arrival of the circus. The local Mexican media was abuzz and flyers went …
Continue reading Wait for the Covid vaccine is over, but followed by still more waiting
A few nights ago, while at La Frontera restaurant, an expat hangout, we were reviewing current events and gossip with some friends and someone mentioned that a local couple had actually chartered a private plane to take them back to California to get vaccinated for the coronavirus. The couple had almost hermetically closeted themselves at …
Continue reading A second Covid panic, this one over vaccinations
It's been only a year since our last two-week sojourn at the beach, except for 2020 having warped our lives, and everything around us, including our sense of time. It feels as if we'd been locked up at the ranch for eons. The drive from San Miguel to Barra de Potosi was the usual seven-hour, 350 …
El Rancho Santa Clara 