This article was written as a companion piece to an article by Mike Morgan under the shared title of “Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory.“ In 1980, the great English punk band, The Clash, recorded a powerful anti-war song titled “The Call-up.” While the call-up initially refers to the drafting of soldiers into the armed […]
Vaccine Miseries
This article was originally published in January of 2021. It all seemed so very hopeful when the cable channels were breathlessly reporting on the initial shipments of the Pfizer vaccine in the middle of December. Remember the reports of the big UPS and FedEx trucks pulling away from the Pfizer manufacturing plant: https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-updates-12-13-20/h_f0424176ec5cb9c89fed282b6a735ef0. In the […]
They Lost My COVID Test
This article was originally published in December of 2020. Almost two weeks ago, I thought that I might have been exposed to someone with the COVID infection. I waited for a week and then my wife, Laurene, and I went to a nearby testing site—consisting of a dozen trailers in what had been an empty […]
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