Hmm...Vaccine News in US

1. How Many Doses of the Vaccine Each State Will Receive
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I grabbed the States that I know various folks on my DW flist hail from.

2. From the NY Times Briefing...

The most ambitious vaccine campaign in U.S. history is about to begin.

This weekend, 2.9 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech are set to travel by plane and guarded truck from Michigan and Wisconsin to designated locations, mostly hospitals, in all 50 states. Pfizer said the first shipment would leave its Kalamazoo, Mich., plant, above, early Sunday morning. The first injections are expected to be given by Monday to high-risk health care workers.

FedEx and UPS will transport the vaccine throughout most of the country, and each delivery will be followed by shipments of extra dry ice a day later (the vaccine needs to be kept at minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit).

Here’s how the vaccine will get from the lab to the patient and how many vaccine doses your state will get.

The turning point in the pandemic comes after the Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer’s vaccine for emergency use on Friday night, only 11 months after the development process began. Vaccines typically take years to develop.

My main news sources are NY1, Governor's Live Briefings, Mayor's Live Briefings, and NY Times.

Day 270...sigh

Been tired a lot lately, not sure why. Also, my left shoulder is bugging me again - in December. I've decided I'm going to call it December shoulder.

Took a lovely walk this afternoon - it was in the 50s, almost 60 degrees. But overcast.



The sky as you can see has a definitive December tint to it. People were out, not many, but enough to have to work a bit to steer clear of in the Cemetery. Most everyone was wearing masks. And there were signs that people were to wear masks at all times. (I pushed mine down when no one was around me - by no one - I mean I couldn't see anyone, or they were far away by at least twenty to forty feet.)



On the way home, passed one of the local restaurants which is desperately trying to stay afloat by having "outdoor dining" - which isn't cheap to construct.




I took the picture from across the street and wasn't near anyone when I took it. Next to me was a sign on the Jewish School's fence...




Anyhow..like I said, somewhat sleepy at the moment. But I was active today.
Did the Church Zoom thing - which was a sermon and a concert on the Dedadlus /Icarus myth - where Icarus flies too close to the sun and dies. I fell asleep during the play they did. I know more than they do about the myth, I studied Greek myths in college.

This week, I have to remember to go to the Zoom book discussion on Ibrahm Kendi's "How to be an Anti-Racist" - which I bought and listened to the audio book for. (Actually I got it cheap, since I also got the Kindle E-book (on sale).) Hopefully I won't go to sleep during that too. Zoom has a tendency to make me sleepy for some reason.

Afterwards, talked to mother. And took the aforementioned walk- about 2.7 miles which isn't too bad. According to the Cemetery folks - the graveyard will be open until five PM throughout the winter months. But they don't know if the Ft. Hamilton entrance will be open. The Main Entrance always has to be open - since it's a working cemetery and for funerals. I saw about three funerals today. The funerals are about $1500. They aren't making money off of us strollers - they are just opening for us, because it is a historic landmark, and well, the pandemic. Also I think they got donations - I gave, and I'm sure others did as well.




After the walk, wrapped the gifts my mother sent me. One I kept in the Amazon Box, and I've no clue what it is - and wrapped it. The other I took out of the Amazon box, because I know what it is - and wrapped it. That's the dish set that I requested and mother bought for me. So I've pretty presents next to the Television. Everything is huge, so nothing fits under my tiny trees. The presents are bigger than the trees. It's kind of funny.
Gotta to appreciate the irony.

Television is a mixed bag. I think I'm hormonal - I've cried during three shows so far. Okay, maybe not that hormonal. I did not cry during Northern Rescue - which was sad, but so badly written - I finally gave up on it, nor did I cry during the Prom (also bad), but Grey's Anatomy got me with its listing of all the people who've died. Although, as mother put it, it's starting to become somewhat numbing. We have over 298,000 dead and counting.
That's more than the second World War, and the Vietnam War...it's also far more than the War on Terrorism. And Klaus - a very well done Christmas cartoon made me cry - it was heartwarming, about how kindness can change the world. One act of kindness spurns another - was its central theme. This is true I think.



I was thinking tonight that I kind of understand how Trump happened. ( Read more... )

I caved and bought Christmas treats from Etsy - chocolate walnut fudge, and gluten free Christmas cookies...I know. I know. I need them like I need a hole in the head. But the cookies are Gluten Free and Keto, and the fudge is gluten-free at least. Also, Christmas.

I rather adore Christmas - it's among the few holidays in which the metaphors work for me. ( Read more... )

Day #35 of the 50 Day Book Challenge..

I'm behind, I know.

The prompt is.. A book set in high school

Because I despised high school, I tended to avoid books set there.

However, I was forced to read a few here and there for school.

Vision Quest by Terry Davies it was assigned for everyone to read in one of our classes in high school or junior high - can't remember.

I only remember the book because I saw the movie soon after. The book is better.

Vision Quest is a young adult novel by Terry Davis, published in 1979.[1] In first-person, present-tense narrative, it tells the story of a few months in the life of Louden Swain, a high school wrestler in Spokane, Washington who is cutting weight and working toward the state championships. The book takes its title from the vision quest ritual of some Native American Indian tribes, of going into the wilderness alone to 'discover who you are and who your people are and how you fit into the circle of birth and growth and death and rebirth.'[2] John Irving called it "the truest novel about growing up since The Catcher in the Rye."[3]

Vision Quest was made into a 1985 movie of the same title, starring Matthew Modine and Linda Fiorentino, with a cameo appearance from Madonna as a night-club singer.

Mathew Modine was kind of miscast, I'd have cast Lou Diamond Phillips. And they kind of dropped the vision quest elements.

Here's the review by Siskel and Ebert of the movie, which again isn't like the book at all.

Watch on YouTube

My favorite book that takes place in a high school is a weird dystopian one..that few have heard of..

The Girl Who Owned a City - the city in the title is the local high school.