By Relying On Unsustainable Measures, We Ignored Both History And Reality In The World’s Most Vulnerable Nation In June, 1918, in a crowded apartment block in the port city of Mumbai, India – then called Bombay – a crackling chorus of coughs echoed through the halls and streets. Several young people had fallen ill withContinue reading “How The World Failed India”
Category Archives: COVID19
The Biggest Side Effect Of Vaccination: A Sense Of Relief
They Say ‘Nothing Changes’ After You’re Vaccinated, But For Me, Everything Changed It felt like a hangover. The day after I got my second Pfizer shot last Thursday at Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, I didn’t work and slept in, sleeping until almost 3 p.m. I felt like I had been pounding tequila shots all night,Continue reading “The Biggest Side Effect Of Vaccination: A Sense Of Relief”
There Has To Be An End To Masks And Distancing, And It Has To Be Soon
For Those Who Have Followed The Rules; Moving The Goalposts, And Shaming Us For Asking Why, Is Infuriating On May 6, two weeks after my second vaccine shot, I’m may find myself putting #COVIDIOT in my bio. In response to news today that Rutgers University will be mandating vaccines for students next Fall, while alsoContinue reading “There Has To Be An End To Masks And Distancing, And It Has To Be Soon”
Surviving The Longest Winter
As Clocks Move Ahead One Hour, We Can Finally Let Go Of The Darkness We Dreaded Last summer, as we were still battling the COVID-19 pandemic with no end in sight, no word on vaccines and the predictions for a winter surge looming, I noticed something that made me shudder. Daylight Savings Time was toContinue reading “Surviving The Longest Winter”
Nothing About The Public’s Response To The Pandemic Is Surprising
Americans Rarely Dabble In Collectivism. That They Would Do It This Drastically For This Long Was Always A Delusion Social media was all abuzz this weekend by the crowds that packed the streets of Tampa, and later Raymond James Stadium, for Super Bowl LV, where patrons, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis himself, watched the BigContinue reading “Nothing About The Public’s Response To The Pandemic Is Surprising”
My Unpopular Opinion: Social Distancing Contributed To The Capitol
COVID Restrictions Nearly Led Me Down A Dark Path, How Many Others Got Caught In That Trap? Back in August, I published my most popular blog entry on here, about how I nearly got sucked into the QAnon wormhole that clearly millions of other Americans, including at least two members of Congress, have gotten lostContinue reading “My Unpopular Opinion: Social Distancing Contributed To The Capitol”
I’m Surprised You’re Surprised Youth Aren’t Taking COVID-19 Seriously
Beaten Down And Brought Up In The Face Of Terrorism, Climate Change And Guns, A Virus Seems Far Less Scary I was a sophomore in high school when Dylan Kleboid and Eric Harris murdered 13 people at Columbine High School in Colorado. When I came into school on the morning of April 21, 1999, theContinue reading “I’m Surprised You’re Surprised Youth Aren’t Taking COVID-19 Seriously”
Isolation: One Big Thing We CAN Do To Stop COVID19, But Aren’t
New York Has Natural Ways To Quarantine The Sick, We’ve Used Them Before, Why Aren’t We Using Them Now? New York City has been down to under 500 new cases a day since the middle of June, and though that success seems shaky the last week or so as cases rise elsewhere in the country,Continue reading “Isolation: One Big Thing We CAN Do To Stop COVID19, But Aren’t”
The COVID Testing Debacle Shows America Isn’t Great Again, It’s Flailing
Last week, my uncle went to the hospital. He tested positive for COVID-19 after having had the virus in March and recovering. He had no symptoms and we assumed it was just a false positive or one of those “we picked up the remnants of virus” situations that we’ve been hearing about. It was. HeContinue reading “The COVID Testing Debacle Shows America Isn’t Great Again, It’s Flailing”
Relax, The Black Death Isn’t Returning
OH NOES! THE BLACK DEATH IS BREAKING OUT IN CHINA! F*CK YOU 2020! You’ve probably seen the screaming headlines by now, joining the ranks of “murder hornets” and “new pig flu” among the proverbial second shoes that will drop this year. An outbreak of the bubonic plague was reported in Northern China, leading to aContinue reading “Relax, The Black Death Isn’t Returning”
Nick Rafter Writes 