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There Are Many Literacies
Class, I’d like to correct something I said about the Covid vaccine. / August 20, 2021
Teacher: Good morning class. It’s come to my attention that a number of you are confused about what you’re hearing about maybe needing a Covid “booster” shot. So I thought it would be a good idea to review what we learned earlier in the semester and hopefully clear up any confusion. Who wants to remind […]
How to Make Good Texts and Feel Good About It
Class, our word for today is “endemic” / August 18, 2021
We’re hearing the first rumblings about the likelihood that the Covid pandemic is evolving to ultimately become “endemic”. We can add it to the long list of seemingly endless new verbiage we’ve tossed out to the masses: And like the wearing of masks, and social distancing, and vaccination, the concept of “endemic” is, well […]
Sentences and Other Systems
Covid Infection Breakthroughs: 2 things scientists knew all along ? / August 12, 2021
As I’ve disclosed many times over the last year, I was one of the millions relieved and thankful to get my Covid vaccinations as soon as they were available to me. Part of my ghosting behavior this summer on this blog and other media is that I admit to being bit laid low – bewildered […]
Nobody reads my posts: until this week / May 19, 2021
Nobody reads my posts with the exception of my small circle of indulgent friends and colleagues. My life’s work has been figuring out how to present #healthinformation so that people can understand it. Not all that exciting but it’s where I like to live. So, what was I thinking when, earlier this week I […]
Simple / Complex
Covid is Like the Suez Canal / March 29, 2021
This morning CNN posted a link to an ingenious interactive tool where you try to steer a ship through the Suez Canal. You control the rudder and the power – and keep trying not to crash into the banks and create a monstrous traffic jam! Needless to say, despite my NYC street parking prowess I crashed […]