WEAR MASKS

Beacon School in Athens, Ohio is closed for a week, with 30% of its staff and 30% of its students out sick.  My daughter is still isolated from family for another day at least, in her room, well hydrated.

But what about pets running in an out of the isolation ward?

Smiling. I understand the recommendation is to wear masks, which I’m doing, and eating in my office with the door closed.  I’m not wearing my hearing aids for at least another day!

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OF NOTE from Ohio Capital Journal by Nick Evans 1/22/24  — Debate between 3 Republican contenders:

Immigration

“The debate kicked off with a discussion of immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border. It’s been a perennial issue for Republicans and one that all three candidates have made a centerpiece of their campaigns. But the rhetoric has grown sharper since Ohio’s last U.S. Senate campaign in 2022.

“During the last cycle, now-U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance, R-OH, argued cartels should be designated terrorist organizations. Now, all three Republican candidates embrace the idea.”

Does LaRose agree the U.S. should use drone strikes against them? “100%,” he said, adding, “we must define these cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and use the full force of the U.S. military and the U.S. federal government to kill them so that they can’t kill our fellow Americans.”

LaRose has also proposed deploying three military divisions to the border.

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Music of the Spheres:  (The Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas)

“If, as I believe, the urge to make a kind of music is as much a characteristic of biology as our other fundamental functions, there ought to be an explanation for it…If there were sounds to represent this process, they would have the arrangement of the Brandenburg Concertos for my ear, but I am open to wonder whether the same events are recalled by  the rhythm of insects, the long, pulsing runs of birdsong, the descants of whales, the modulated vibrations of a million locusts in migration, the tympani of gorilla breasts, termite heads, drumfish bladders.”